I didn’t put a video up last week because it was Christmas, so I’m sticking this one up now with the intention of doing another one at the end of the week like usual.

I only discovered there are two different versions of the song out there on Sunday, so I obviously haven’t practiced this one much, but it’s not very tough. It’s a straight cookie-cutter solo. All the licks fit right inside the bar, so it’s easy to practice.

Anyways, here it is:

This video started as a quick excuse to show off a quick, simple way to block your floating bridge so that you can execute unison bends or other similar things. It  went by so fast that I decided to do a complete (albeit brief) lesson on the Yardbirds’ song “Heart Full of Soul”.

Enjoy.

I was going to do a video/lesson about tempo, note values, and why bragging about those things is stupid, but then I heard “The Middle” on the radio and thought “Man, that’s a fun solo, I’ll just do that!”

So here it is:

My co-workers and I have been working on Boston’s “Foreplay/Long Time” recently, so I thought I’d share the solos.

I didn’t include the third (and longest) solo because a lot of it is just atmosphere and vibe. If anybody wants to see it, I can throw it up. But I think this is good for now.

One of my students mentioned that he’d like to learn Eric Johnson’s “Cliffs of Dover”. I had tinkered around with a few parts from it years and years ago, but I never really committed to learning it note for note. I figured that not only was it was a good opportunity to do so, but it was also a good pick for a video this week.

Also, sorry about the clippy audio. I was really digging the sound of my freshly repaired middle pickup and I had the amp a little louder than normal.