Fingerstyle Blues Songbooks

Want to learn how to play acoustic blues? There are two really good books for learning fingerstyle blues written by recording artist Steve James: Roots and Blues Fingerstyle Guitar Book and Fingerstyle Blues Songbook.  Steve James is a well known roots and blues guitarist based out of Austin, Texas, who has recorded 6 cds and produced 3 instructional DVD’s in …

Free Blues Backing Tracks

For those of you working on your blues improvisation . . . One thing that can really help beginning improvisers is an extensive library of backing tracks that sound good and are fun to play over.  This sort of thing didn’t exist when I was a young guitar player back in the dark ages prior to the invention of the …

How To Play The F Chord On Guitar

Help with the F major chord on guitar . . . I remember when I was in high school, a friend of my parents saw me playing the guitar and commented on the fact that he quit playing the guitar because he could never master the F chord. Over the years, I’ve had a lot of students get to the …

New website is finally done!

I finally finished the new website using WordPress and a WooThemes template, and made some other changes that will hopefully allow me to make more frequent updates to the content of the site.  It definitely seems like it will be a lot easier to make changes to the main structure of the site if I want to add or delete …