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TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsLindsay Ell Introduces The How to Solo Handbook - Guitar Lessons, Interview & PerformanceLindsay Ell's rare combination of skills as a master guitarist, profound singer-songwriter, dynamic performer, and passionate educator power this fast-track, hands-on How to Solo Handbook. Leveraging years of experience and a deep passion for music education, Lindsay distills her unique teaching methods and TrueFire’s learning technologies to provide guitar students with an accelerated, immersive learning experience.“Okay, so you play guitar already and are now anxious to learn how to solo—awesome! I love soloing so much that it’s something I work on every day of my life. I’m excited to share with you the magical bu...
2024-06-1444 min
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsMaton Guitars with Patrick Evans, David Steedman, & Joe RobinsonQ&A featuring Maton Guitars! This session includes TrueFire's own Joe Robinson talking about his signature Maton model; Maton's Head of Product Development and R&D, Patrick Evans; and Maton's General Manager, David Steedman. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.Joe Robinson:Joe Robinson, at 29 years of age, has earned a reputation as one of the worlds great guitar players and a brilliant singer/songwriter.Born and raised in the Australian bush, Joe has lived in Nashville, Tennessee for the last decade and has...
2021-01-011h 24
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsTwo-Rock Featuring Matt Schofield, Josh Smith, and Jeff McErlainMatt Schofield, Josh Smith, and Jeff McErlain talk about their Two-Rock Amplifiers, give tone tips, and perform. For more TrueFire Live sessions, check out https://truefire.com/liveAbout Matt:Though he holds a British passport and is an inductee of the British Blues Hall of Fame, Matt Schofield has been making his mark globally as one of the top players in the new class of six string wunderkinds.The Los Angeles Daily News wrote, In Schofield, the UK has produced the best Blues guitarist from any country in decades head and shoulders above...
2020-12-312h 22
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsFireside Festival II - Online Music Festival Presented by TrueFireTrueFire presents an online music festival featuring 14 of its top educators: Shane Theriot, Johnny Hiland, Vinny Raniolo, Matt Schofield, Brooks Robertson, Kid Andersen, Robben Ford, Tommy Emmanuel, David Henriksson, Stephen Mougin, Steve Jenkins, Joe Robinson, Andy McKee, and Andy Timmons. Check out https://truefire.com/live for more TrueFire Live sessions!
2020-12-304h 46
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsUniversal Audio with Corey CongilioCorey Congilio talks with Universal Audio's own James Santiago and Tore Mogensen about Universal Audio's recording interfaces and software. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Corey Congilio:Since picking up the guitar at age thirteen, Corey Congilio has been steadily forming a solid musical foundation built upon honesty, integrity and respect for his art form. Born and raised in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, Corey was exposed to music from his father, mother and guitar playing uncles. This exposure to music of all types at an early...
2020-12-281h 29
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsPRS Demo with Bryan Ewald - Episode 03PRS Guitarist Bryan Ewald discusses all things PRS, including the SE T60E Acoustic Guitar. Check out https://truefire.com/live for more TrueFire Live sessions.
2020-12-171h 06
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsAriane Cap & Andrew Ford Bass Guitar Lessons, Performances & InterviewsAriane Cap & Andrew Ford talk about their guitar lessons available on TrueFire, perform, and answer questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Ariane:Born and raised in Innsbruck, Austria, Ariane has been musically active since the age of five, playing classical piano and the recorder. She entered the Conservatory of the Land Tirol at age 6, where she studied the piano and the flute until the age of 18. She started playing in local rock, pop and dance bands and picked up the electric bass and soon...
2020-12-162h 02
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsRob Garland & Andy Aledort Guitar Lessons, Performances & InterviewsRob Garland & Andy Aledort talk about their guitar lessons available on TrueFire, perform, and answer questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Rob:Growing up in England I worked in a diverse array of bands and performed on the London college circuit. Later I played hundreds of gigs at numerous festivals (The Big Muddy Blues Festival, Blues In The District, Washington Blues, etc). and at clubs around the U.S. with my group, Rob Garland & The Blue Monks, opening for artists such as B.B...
2020-12-152h 06TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsPRS Demo with Bryan Ewald - Episode 02PRS Guitarist Bryan Ewald discusses all things PRS, including the S2 Singlecut 594 Electric Guitar. Check out https://truefire.com/live for more TrueFire Live sessions.
2020-12-141h 12
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsFireside Festival - Online Music Festival Presented by TrueFireTrueFire presents an online music festival featuring 14 of its top educators: Kelly Richey, Kirk Fletcher, Doug Munro, Eric Lambert, Rusty Cooley, Carl Burnett, Peter Mulvey, David Becker, Andrea Quartarone, Robert Renman, Andy Aledort, Scott Sharrard, Ellis Paul, and Sean McGowan.Check out https://truefire.com/live for more TrueFire Live sessions!
2020-12-114h 50
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsSheryl Bailey & Jon Herington Guitar Lessons, Performances & InterviewsSheryl Bailey & Jon Herington talk about their guitar lessons available on TrueFire, perform, and answer questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Sheryl:The Downbeat Critics Poll voted Sheryl a Rising Star (2013-2016) and One of the new greats of her chosen instrument Phillip Booth, Downbeat MagazineAs a leader, she has toured the US, Canada, Finland, Austria, Italy, Australia, Hong Kong, China, Japan, and the UK with her many projects: The Sheryl Bailey 3, The Sheryl Bailey 4, The Electric Ladyland Project, Acoustic Muse...
2020-12-102h 18
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsPresented by PRS: David Grissom, Corey Congilio, and Tony McManus Guitar Lessons, Performances, & InterviewsDavid Grissom, Corey Congilio, and Tony McManus talk about their guitar lessons available on TrueFire, perform, and answer questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About David:David Grissom has toured and recorded with artists such as John Mellencamp, Joe Ely, Storyville, The Allman Brothers Band, The Dixie Chicks, Chris Isaak, Robben Ford, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Ringo Starr, Buddy Guy, and John Mayall, . His songs have been recorded by Trisha Yearwood, Lee Ann Womack, John Mayall, Shannon Curfman and Storyville among others..David joined Texas...
2020-12-092h 29TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsPRS Demo with Bryan Ewald - Interview & PerformancePRS Guitarist Bryan Ewald discusses all things PRS, including the Sonzera 20 Watt Combo Amp. Check out https://truefire.com/live for more TrueFire Live sessions.
2020-12-081h 01
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsAndy Wood Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewAndy Wood talks about his soloing guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Andy:ANDY WOOD is recognized as part of the forefront of this generation’s top influential guitarists.Currently touring as a solo guitarist and mandolinist along with working on a host of additional musical projects, Andy is also performing live with his own band promoting CAUGHT BETWEEN THE TRUTH AND A LIE, the double album which showcases his vast musical influences and ab...
2020-12-071h 08
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsJason Loughlin Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewJason Loughlin talks about his guitar lessons available on TrueFire, perform, and answer questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Jason:Jason Loughlin's creative guitar playing has supported artists such as Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Amos Lee, Sam Outlaw, Brandi Carlile, Rachael Yamagata, The Secret Sisters, Valerie June, Keb Mo, Jennifer Nettles, Brent Cobb, Shannon McNally, Jack Ingram, Marshall Crenshaw, Dale Watson, Jim Heath, Nellie McKay, Lesley Gore, The Sweetback Sisters, James Burton and Mike Viola. In 2011, Jason released his debut album...
2020-12-061h 03
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsRev Robert Jones & Jeff McErlain Blues Guitar Lessons, Performances, & InterviewsReverend Robert Jones & Jeff McErlain talk about their blues guitar lessons available on TrueFire, perform, and answer questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Reverend Jones:Rev. Robert Jones, Sr. is a native Detroiter and an inspirational storyteller and musician celebrating the history, humor, and power of American Roots music. His deep love for traditional African American and American traditional music is shared in live performances that interweave timeless stories with original and traditional songs.For more than thirty years Robert has entertained...
2020-12-051h 18
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsMuriel Anderson, Cathy Fink, & Marcy Marxer Lessons, Performances, & InterviewsMuriel Anderson, Cathy Fink, & Marcy Marxer talk about their guitar, banjo, and ukulele lessons available on TrueFire, perform, and answer questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Muriel:Considered one of the USA's foremost guitarists and harp-guitarists, Muriel Anderson is also a gifted educator. She is the first woman to have won the National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship. She is host and originator of the "Muriel Anderson's ALL STAR GUITAR NIGHT" as well as founder of the Music for Life Alliance, to support music education in...
2020-12-042h 03
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsBrad Carlton - Celebrating 50 Years of Guitar Instruction: Performance & InterviewBrad Carlton talks about his guitar lessons available on TrueFire, perform, and answer questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Brad:February 5th, 1970 -That was the day I began my lifelong career of guitar education. Since then, I've discovered my passion truly lies in inspiring my students to realize their musical dreams. I am a self-taught musician, and throughout my 50+ years of teaching I've been a student of how people learn. My role as a coach is to teach you how to know and hear...
2020-10-2720 min
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsAdam Levy, Mimi Fox, and Stu Hamm Guitar & Bass Lessons, Performances, & InterviewsAdam Levy, Mimi Fox, and Stu Hamm talk about their guitar and bass lessons available on TrueFire, perform, and answer questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Adam: To call Adam Levy a "well-traveled musician" would be a hell of an understatement. During a six-year stint touring as a member of Norah Jones' Handsome Band, Levy went round the world several times and maxed out the pages of his passportand then a second onewith country stamps and visas. He first played with Jones at the...
2020-10-262h 30
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsFrank Vignola + Anita Camarella & Davide Facchini Guitar Lessons, Performances, & InterviewsFrank Vignola, and Anita Camarella & Davide Facchini talk about their guitar lessons available on TrueFire, perform, and answer questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Frank:Frank Vignola is one of the most extraordinary guitarists performing before the public today. His stunning virtuosity has made him the guitarist of choice for many of the world's top musicians, including Ringo Starr, Madonna, Donald Fagen, Wynton Marsalis, Tommy Emmanuel, the Boston Pops, the New York Pops, and guitar legend Les Paul, who named Vignola to his "Five...
2020-10-141h 23
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsJosh Smith, Jennifer Batten, & Charlie Apicella Guitar Lessons, Performances, & InterviewsJosh Smith, Jennifer Batten, & Charlie Apicella talk about their guitar lessons available on TrueFire, perform, and answer questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Josh:Josh Smith was born October 7, 1979 in Middletown, Connecticut. Before he was 1, his family relocated to Florida, eventually settling in Pembroke Pines, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale. At age 3, he received his first guitar and at 6, he started taking guitar lessons.Josh was exposed to the blues at an early age. He listened to a variety of artists, such...
2020-10-132h 17
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsMassimo Varini, Ariel Posen, Vicki Genfan Guitar Lessons, Performances, & InterviewsMassimo Varini, Ariel Posen, and Vicki Genfan talk about their guitar lessons available on TrueFire, perform, and answer questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Massimo:Composer, arranger, producer, Grammy-winner, renown educator, monster acoustic and electric guitarist, Massimo Varini is a modern day Renaissance man of music.Fittingly a native Italian, Massimo's credits span 55-million records sold, Four Grammy's (for his recording with the Top Italian Artist Laura Pausini), more than 38million YouTube video views, multiple Top 10 listings in the charts, a signature...
2020-10-122h 20
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsTim Lerch + John Knowles Guitar Lessons, Performances, & InterviewsTim Lerch and John Knowles C.G.P. talk about their guitar lessons available on TrueFire, perform, and answer questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Tim:World renowned for his Solo Guitar playing and his approach to Jazz and Blues, Tim is also member of the legendary Northwest Gypsy Jazz Group Pearl Django. Tim is also one half of a very popular Guitar Duo with Jamie Findlay. In between gigs with PD and Jamie, Tim tries to play as many Solo Guitar performances as...
2020-10-111h 22
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsMatt Schofield - Blues Speak Rhythm & In The Jam Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewMatt Schofield talks about his blues rhythm and In The Jam guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Matt:Though he holds a British passport and is an inductee of the British Blues Hall of Fame, Matt Schofield has been making his mark globally as one of the top players in the new class of six string wunderkinds.The Los Angeles Daily News wrote, In Schofield, the UK has produced the best Blues guitarist from...
2020-10-101h 54
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsCarter Arrington - Tactical Improv Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewCarter Arrington talks about his improv guitar guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Carter:In the creative world, we sometimes accept the notion that individuality must be sacrificed for success, or that professionalism is a substitute for passion. Though all of these qualities have great importance, they are far from mutually exclusive and all can be present when one exercises care in their field. Carter Arrington's lifetime of professional live performance and academic training has made...
2020-10-091h 30
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsTim Lerch - Jazz Blues Pathways Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewTim Lerch talks about his Jazz Blues guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Tim:World renowned for his Solo Guitar playing and his approach to Jazz and Blues, Tim is also member of the legendary Northwest Gypsy Jazz Group Pearl Django. Tim is also one half of a very popular Guitar Duo with Jamie Findlay. In between gigs with PD and Jamie, Tim tries to play as many Solo Guitar performances as he can fit into...
2020-10-081h 41
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsSean McGowan - Jazz Blues Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewSean McGowan talks about his jazz blues guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Sean:Sean McGowan is a fingerstyle jazz guitarist who combines many diverse musical influences with unconventional techniques to create a broad palette of textures within his compositions and arrangements for solo guitar. His first recording, "River Coffee" won the Best Independent Release of the Year Award (2002) from Acoustic Guitar magazine and music from the recording has been featured on BBCs Great Guitars" radio...
2020-10-071h 32
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsRobben Ford - Jazz Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewRobben Ford talks about his jazz guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Robben:Named one of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of the 20th Century" by Musician magazine and recipient of Guitar Player magazine's Lifetime Achievement Legend award, Robben Ford's innovative and soulful musicality triggered a revolution in electric blues guitar styling.A five-time Grammy nominee, bandleader and prolific composer, Robben has collaborated with artists as diverse as Joni Mitchell, Jimmy Witherspoon, Miles Davis, George Harrison...
2020-10-061h 26
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsJeff McErlain - Soloing Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewJeff McErlain talks about his soloing guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Jeff:Jeff McErlain is one of the rare musicians who can teach as well as he plays. This is borne out by Jeff being one of the most in demand guitar instructors as well as performing and recording with Robben Ford.Jeffs unique curriculum and method of teaching is perfect for the player who has been working at the guitar for a...
2020-10-051h 28
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsWolf Marshall - Jazz Improv Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewWolf Marshall talks about his Unboxed Jazz Improv guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Wolf:Wolf Marshall is a unique hybrid. He's internationally acclaimed as both a guitarist and educator. Through his many products and publications, Wolf has gained an enormous worldwide following and status usually accorded only to "famed players" in "name bands," and has been listened to on his recordings by more aspiring fretboard enthusiasts than most so-called guitar heroes.Wolf has...
2020-10-041h 26
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsMassimo Varini - Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewMassimo talks about his guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Massimo:Composer, arranger, producer, Grammy-winner, renown educator, monster acoustic and electric guitarist, Massimo Varini is a modern day Renaissance man of music.Fittingly a native Italian, Massimo's credits span 55-million records sold, Four Grammy's (for his recording with the Top Italian Artist Laura Pausini), more than 38million YouTube video views, multiple Top 10 listings in the charts, a signature PRS guitar and Martin Guitar, dozens...
2020-10-031h 14
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsRob Garland - Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewRob Garland talks about his guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Rob:Growing up in England I worked in a diverse array of bands and performed on the London college circuit. Later I played hundreds of gigs at numerous festivals (The Big Muddy Blues Festival, Blues In The District, Washington Blues, etc). and at clubs around the U.S. with my group, Rob Garland & The Blue Monks, opening for artists such as B.B. King, Chuck...
2020-10-021h 03
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsPeter Mulvey - String Traveler Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewPeter Mulvey talks about his String Traveler guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Peter:Peter Mulvey has been a songwriter, road-dog, raconteur and almost-poet since before he can remember. Raised working-class Catholic on the Northwest side of Milwaukee, he took a semester in Ireland, and immediately began cutting classes to busk on Grafton Street in Dublin and hitchhike through the country, finding whatever gigs he could. Back stateside, he spent a couple years gigging in the...
2020-09-181h 35
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsFrank Vignola - Jazz Soloing Fakebook Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewFrank Vignola talks about his Jazz Soloing Fakebook guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Frank:Frank Vignola is one of the most extraordinary guitarists performing before the public today. His stunning virtuosity has made him the guitarist of choice for many of the world's top musicians, including Ringo Starr, Madonna, Donald Fagen, Wynton Marsalis, Tommy Emmanuel, the Boston Pops, the New York Pops, and guitar legend Les Paul, who named Vignola to his "Five Most Admired...
2020-09-171h 36TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsAndy Wood - Mandolin & Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewAndy Wood talks about his mandolin and guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Andy:ANDY WOOD is recognized as part of the forefront of this generation’s top influential guitarists.Currently touring as a solo guitarist and mandolinist along with working on a host of additional musical projects, Andy is also performing live with his own band promoting CAUGHT BETWEEN THE TRUTH AND A LIE, the double album which showcases his vast musical influences an...
2020-09-171h 07
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsScott Sharrard - Souther Roots Licks & Creative Approaches Guitar Lessons, Performance & InterviewScott Sharrard talks about his Souther Roots Licks & Creative Approaches guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Scott:Scott Sharrard is best known as lead guitarist and bandleader to the late Gregg Allman. But his personal artistic journey – which includes singing, songwriting, producing and arranging – began long before he first teamed up with the rock icon.It’s a mission that resumes with “Saving Grace,” Sharrard’s fifth [or sixth?] album -- and his first since Allman...
2020-09-051h 17
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsClive Carroll - Acoustic Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewClive Carroll talks about his acoustic guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Clive:Guitar phenomenon Clive Carroll’s masterful compositions, coupled with his versatility and unparalleled technical virtuosity, have rendered him one of today’s most admired and respected guitarists.Born in England, Clive began his musical journey in Chelmsford, Essex. His parents had a taste for American country and old time music and it wasn’t long before Clive was playing in the family...
2020-08-231h 06
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsGareth Pearson - Acoustic Grooves & Country Blues Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewGareth Pearson talks about his Acoustic Grooves & Country Blues guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Gareth:Gareth Pearson is referred to as "The Welsh Tornado", which is particularly appropriate, seeing as this special talent combines fingerstyle pyrotechnics with explosive lead runs making Pearson one of the most exciting acoustic musicians gigging today.Gareth's distinctive style can be heard through his creative and innovative arrangements of Michael Jackson, Radiohead, and Bruno Mars, to his own...
2020-08-2137 min
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsSteve Jenkins - Bass Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewSteve Jenkins talks about his bass guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Steve:Steve Jenkins is part of the new wave of modern electric bass players. In addition to his mind-blowing technical prowess, his musicianship has allowed him to fit into a diverse range of musical situations that have run the gamut from face-melting prog-metal to experimental microtonal jazz-funk to dubbed-out electronica bass lines to classic sounding r&b grooves--sometimes all within the framework of one...
2020-08-1956 min
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsCorey Congilio - Blues Soloing & Acoustic Soloing Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewCorey Congilio talks about his blues soloing and acoustic soloing guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Corey:Since picking up the guitar at age thirteen, Corey Congilio has been steadily forming a solid musical foundation built upon honesty, integrity and respect for his art form. Born and raised in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, Corey was exposed to music from his father, mother and guitar playing uncles. This exposure to music of all types at an early age...
2020-08-171h 17
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsGreg Martin - Kentucky Backcountry Blues Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewGreg Martin talks about his Kentucky Backcountry Blues guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Greg:Greg Martin is a master of homecooked Southern-style Rock, Blues, Country and Rockabilly guitar. Along with his band, The Kentucky HeadHunters, he has helped reshape the face of country music. To date the HeadHunters have released six albums, winning countless awards and Grammies. In 1992, Greg Martin filled in for injured Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist, Ed King. The HeadHunters have also collaborated with...
2020-08-151h 17TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsTim Lerch - Solo Jazz Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewTim Lerch talks about his solo jazz guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Tim:World renowned for his Solo Guitar playing and his approach to Jazz and Blues, Tim is also member of the legendary Northwest Gypsy Jazz Group Pearl Django. Tim is also one half of a very popular Guitar Duo with Jamie Findlay. In between gigs with PD and Jamie, Tim tries to play as many Solo Guitar performances as he can fit into...
2020-08-131h 13
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsAriane Cap - Bass Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewAriane Cap talk about her bass guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Ariane:Born and raised in Innsbruck, Austria, Ariane has been musically active since the age of five, playing classical piano and the recorder. She entered the Conservatory of the Land Tirol at age 6, where she studied the piano and the flute until the age of 18. She started playing in local rock, pop and dance bands and picked up the electric bass and soon added...
2020-08-111h 05
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsDavid Henriksson - Elektrik Blues Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewDavid Henriksson talks about his blues electric guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About David:Swedish guitarist David Henriksson moved to Nashville in 2017 and has since played with 12 artists who topped the Billboard charts and 3 Grammy winning artists. He’s performed multiple times at iconic venues such as Ryman Auditorium and Grand Ole Opry House. David also is a featured educator at TrueFire and a writer featured at guitar.com. He’ll tell you more details as you...
2020-08-091h 25
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsKid Andersen - Blues Licks Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewKid Andersen talks about his blues licks guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Kid:Chris “Kid” Andersen was born in Telemark, Norway in 1980. A blues fan since childhood, Andersen fell in love with the music of Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, Junior Watson, and the Kings (B.B., Albert and Freddie). By the time he was 18, he was backing all the American blues stars who came through Norway, including Homesick James, Nappy Brown and Willie “Big Eyes” Smith. H...
2020-08-071h 09
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsJohn Knowles, C.G.P. - Fingerstyle Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewJohn Knowles talks about his fingerstyle guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About John:John Knowles has worked with the finest fingerstyle and classical guitarists including Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed, Lenny Breau, Tommy Emmanuel, and the Romero Family. His music has been recorded by Chet, Jerry, Tommy, the Romero Family and James Galway. His Gorilla Song (co-written with his son Jay) is an international hit with recordings by Raffi and XUXA. Guitarists around the world learn from...
2020-08-051h 09
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsBill Dickens - Bass Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewBill "The Buddha" Dickens talks about his bass guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Bill:Bill Dickens has enjoyed a legendary career: The list of credits do not fit on one page; he has been a highly prized bass player in the studio and on stage for many years. Janet Jackson, The Meters, Ramsey Lewis, and many more have tapped his extraordinary bass style for their albums. Bill has appeared live with Chaka Kahn, Bernie Worrell...
2020-08-031h 18TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsRobben Ford - Soloing & Songwriting Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewRobben Ford talks about his soloing guitar lessons, as well as his songwriting lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Robben:Named one of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of the 20th Century" by Musician magazine and recipient of Guitar Player magazine's Lifetime Achievement Legend award, Robben Ford's innovative and soulful musicality triggered a revolution in electric blues guitar styling.A five-time Grammy nominee, bandleader and prolific composer, Robben has collaborated with artists as diverse as Joni Mitchell...
2020-08-011h 24
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsJosh Smith - Improv Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewJosh Smith talks about his Improv guitar lessons and In The Jam available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Josh:Josh Smith was born October 7, 1979 in Middletown, Connecticut. Before he was 1, his family relocated to Florida, eventually settling in Pembroke Pines, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale. At age 3, he received his first guitar and at 6, he started taking guitar lessons.Josh was exposed to the blues at an early age. He listened to a variety of artists...
2020-07-301h 31TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsFrank Vignola: Jazz Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewFrank Vignola talks about his jazz guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Frank:Frank Vignola is one of the most extraordinary guitarists performing before the public today. His stunning virtuosity has made him the guitarist of choice for many of the world's top musicians, including Ringo Starr, Madonna, Donald Fagen, Wynton Marsalis, Tommy Emmanuel, the Boston Pops, the New York Pops, and guitar legend Les Paul, who named Vignola to his "Five Most Admired Guitarists List"...
2020-07-281h 49
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsBlair Dunlop - Songsmith Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewBlair Dunlop talks about his Songsmith guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Blair:Blair Dunlop, the award-winning British singer, songwriter and guitarist, has now released 3 albums 2 ep’s and toured widely around the globe. All of this in a short 4-year career is astounding alone but what sets Blair apart from his peers is the lyrical and musical maturity with which he writes. His third album ‘Gilded’ was released in May 2016 on his own label – Gilded Wings –...
2020-06-071h 32
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsRyan Madora - Bass Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewRyan Madora discusses her bass guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Ryan:Ryan has had the privilege of working with some of Nashville's most talented artists and producers, including Robben Ford, Bobby Bones and The Raging Idiots, Pat McLaughlin, Tenille Arts, Kyshona Armstrong, Alicia Michilli, Nicole Boggs, Fred Mollin, Lamont Dozier, Daphne Willis, and many others.She is currently touring with guitar virtuoso Robben Ford in support of his new record, Purple House. In...
2020-06-061h 02
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsAriel Posen - Electric Storyteller Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewAriel Posen discusses his Electric Storyteller guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Ariel:A lifelong musician, there are few roles Ariel Posen hasn't played.Although born in Winnipeg, Posen spent much of his childhood on the road, traveling from show to show with his musician parents. He began playing guitar at 9 years old, kicking off a career that eventually found him traveling the globe for his own gigs, including shows as a member of...
2020-06-051h 20
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsMark Whitfield - Jazz Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewMark Whitfield discusses his Soul of Jazz guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Mark:Mark Whitfield graduated from Boston's prestigious Berklee College of Music in the spring of 1987. Shortly thereafter, he returned to his to his native New York to embark on a career as a jazz guitarist that afforded him the opportunity to collaborate with legendary artists including Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, Herbie Hancock, Carmen McRae, Gladys Knight, Burt Bacharach, Jimmy...
2020-06-041h 07
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsRev. Robert Jones - Blue Traditions Guitar Lessons, Performance, & InterviewRev. Robert Jones discusses his Blues Traditions guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Rev. Jones:Rev. Robert Jones, Sr. is a native Detroiter and an inspirational storyteller and musician celebrating the history, humor, and power of American Roots music. His deep love for traditional African American and American traditional music is shared in live performances that interweave timeless stories with original and traditional songs.For more than thirty years Robert has entertained and educated...
2020-06-031h 21
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsJoe Robinson - Electric Guitar Lessons, Performances, & InterviewJoe Robinson discusses his electric and fingerstyle guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Joe:Joe Robinson, at 28 years of age, has earned a reputation as one of the worlds greatest guitar players and a brilliant singer/songwriter.Born and raised in the Australian bush, Joe has lived in Nashville, Tennessee for the last decade and has performed or recorded with a long list of celebrated music icons including Rodney Crowell, Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill...
2020-06-031h 41TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsScott Sharrard - Southern Roots Guitar Lessons, Performances, & InterviewScott Sharrard discusses his Southern Roots guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Scott: Scott Sharrard is best known as lead guitarist and bandleader to the late Gregg Allman. But his personal artistic journey – which includes singing, songwriting, producing and arranging – began long before he first teamed up with the rock icon.It’s a mission that resumes with “Saving Grace,” Sharrard’s fifth [or sixth?] album -- and his first since Allman’s death.“Gregg had a pure...
2020-05-241h 26
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsAdam Levy: Jazz Guitar Lessons, Performances, & InterviewAdam Levy discusses his jazz guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Adam: To call Adam Levy a "well-traveled musician" would be a hell of an understatement. During a six-year stint touring as a member of Norah Jones' Handsome Band, Levy went round the world several times and maxed out the pages of his passportand then a second onewith country stamps and visas. He first played with Jones at the very beginning of the singer's career and went on...
2020-05-231h 24TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsAndy Wood - ShapeShifter Guitar Lessons, Performances, & InterviewAndy Wood discusses his "ShapeShifter" guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Andy: ANDY WOOD is recognized as part of the forefront of this generation’s top influential guitarists.Currently touring as a solo guitarist and mandolinist along with working on a host of additional musical projects, Andy is also performing live with his own band promoting CAUGHT BETWEEN THE TRUTH AND A LIE, the double album which showcases his vast musical influences and abilities.An...
2020-05-2259 min
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsMimi Fox - Jazz Guitar Courses, Performances, & InterviewMimi Fox discusses her jazz guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Mimi: Internationally renowned guitarist, composer and recording artist Mimi Fox has been named a winner in 6 consecutive Downbeat Magazine international critic's polls and has been recognized by writers and colleagues alike as one of the most eloquent jazz guitarists on today's scene. In one of many feature stories, Guitar Player Magazine hailed Mimi as "a prodigious talent who has not only mastered the traditional forms but has...
2020-05-211h 16TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsJason Loughlin - Surf Guitar Lessons, Performances, & InterviewJason Loughlin discusses his surf guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Jason: Jason Loughlin's creative guitar playing has supported artists such as Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Amos Lee, Sam Outlaw, Brandi Carlile, Rachael Yamagata, The Secret Sisters, Valerie June, Keb Mo, Jennifer Nettles, Brent Cobb, Shannon McNally, Jack Ingram, Marshall Crenshaw, Dale Watson, Jim Heath, Nellie McKay, Lesley Gore, The Sweetback Sisters, James Burton and Mike Viola. In 2011, Jason released his debut album Peach Crate...
2020-05-201h 16
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsPeter Mazza - Harmonic Supernova for Jazz GuitarPeter Mazza discusses his harmonic jazz guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Peter: Peter Mazza is an exciting jazz guitarist recognized for his creative and virtuoso interpretations of jazz standards as well as his passionate and thoughtful compositions. Blending clean and fluent lines with colorful chord voicings and driving pulse, he creates imaginative ensemble arrangements as well as lush solo guitar pieces.Born and raised in New York City, he attended La Guardia High School of...
2020-05-191h 09
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsRedd Volkaert - Redd Hot Guitar LicksRedd Volkaert discusses his electric guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Redd: Born in Canada, Redd Volkaert began guitar at age ten. After many club gigs and traveling around Canada, he moved to the U.S. He spent time in California and Nashville, but eventually found his home in Austin, Texas.Redd is best known to country audiences as the lead guitarist for Merle Haggard's band The Strangers since 1997. He launched his solo career with the...
2020-05-181h 02
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsCorey Congilio - Bar Room Grooves Guitar Lessons, Performances, & InterviewCorey Congilio discusses his bar room blues guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Corey Congilio: Since picking up the guitar at age thirteen, Corey Congilio has been steadily forming a solid musical foundation built upon honesty, integrity and respect for his art form. Born and raised in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, Corey was exposed to music from his father, mother and guitar playing uncles. This exposure to music of all types at an early age, helped to lay a...
2020-02-221h 13
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsBrooks Robertson - Finger Picking Guitar Lessons, Performances, & InterviewBrooks Robertson discusses his finger picking guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Brooks Robertson: Brooks Robertson just doesn't need much more than two thumbs, eight fingers and six strings on a wooden box to carry his listeners away.
Hailed by prominent exponents of his instrument like Nokie Edwards, Thom Bresh, John Jorgenson and Mason Williams, the young fingerstyle guitarist embodies the creative vision of a postmodern world: It's the music that counts. Brooks utilizes his superb tech...
2020-02-201h 13
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsFareed Haque - Jazz Guitar Lessons, Performances, InterviewFareed Haque discusses his jazz guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Fareed Haque: Guitar virtuoso and master educator Fareed Haque has worked with Sting, Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Holland, Joe Henderson, Joe Zawinul, Ramsey Lewis, Nigel Kennedy, Bob James, David Sanborn, many symphony orchestras and dozens of other well-known artists. He's performed all of the major guitar concertos and has had numerous modern works dedicated to him. Fareed currently holds an associate professorship in jazz and classical guitar studies...
2019-11-191h 24
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsRedd Volkaert - Redd Hot Guitar LicksRedd Volkaert discusses his country guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Redd Volkaert: Born in Canada, Redd Volkaert began guitar at age ten. After many club gigs and traveling around Canada, he moved to the U.S. He spent time in California and Nashville, but eventually found his home in Austin, Texas.Redd is best known to country audiences as the lead guitarist for Merle Haggard's band The Strangers since 1997. He launched his solo career with...
2019-10-141h 02
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsMatt Schofield - Blues Speak: Playing the ChangesMatt Schofield discusses his blues guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Matt Schofield: Though he holds a British passport and is an inductee of the British Blues Hall of Fame, Matt Schofield has been making his mark globally as one of the top players in the new class of six string wunderkinds.The Los Angeles Daily News wrote, In Schofield, the UK has produced the best Blues guitarist from any country in decades head and shoulders...
2019-09-241h 19
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsAndy Timmons - Guitar Lessons, Q&A, and PerformancesAndy Timmons discusses his latest guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Andy Timmons: As guitarist for pop-metal band Danger Danger, he toured the world opening for Kiss and Alice Cooper, sold over a million records worldwide, and had two #1 videos on MTV, plus amassing a discography that includes 7 solo releases that range from blazing guitar instrumentals, to blues, and even a Beatles/Elvis Costello-inspired collection of pop tunes.As a session player, he's been highly featured...
2019-08-131h 31
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsChris Buono - Sight Reading Guitar Lessons, Q&A, and PerformanceChris Buono discusses his sight-reading guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Chris Buono: Chris Buono makes music with a guitar and lots of pedals. As a leader Chris heads the genre-bending organ trio cB3 featuring Ben Stivers and Tobias Ralph. Chris is the founder and co-writer for the progressive math funk project RedRightReturn that includes Tippan Phasuk, Justin Stanton, Evan Marien and Alex Silvergold. Both cB3 and RedRightReturn are releasing debut albums in 2019. Chris also plays with cult...
2019-07-301h 13
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsRob Garland - Guitar Lessons, Q&A, and PerformancesRob Garland discusses his guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Rob Garland: Rob Garland graduated from Christ Church College in the U.-with a Bachelors degree in Music/Radio Film & Television. After moving to the U.-in 1999 he studied with jazz great Jimmy Bruno. Growing up in England Rob worked in a diverse array of bands, performed on the London college circuit and later played hundreds of gigs at festivals and clubs in the U.-with...
2019-07-221h 03
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsWilly Porter - Singer-Songwriter Guitar Lessons, Q&A, and PerformancesWilly Porter discusses his singer-songwriter guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Willy Porter: Willy Porter continues on a musical and personal odyssey spanning over two decades, 11 albums, and multiple continents. His journey has been defined by an inquisitive love for humanity and the language that describes what we all hold to be true. Porter’s songs weave a universal perspective about the questions, struggles, and triumphs of human existence. His live shows are guitar-driven grit, soul, silence and mu...
2019-07-1752 min
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsJeff McErlain - Blues Guitar Lessons, Q&A, and PerformancesJeff McErlain discusses his blues guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Jeff McErlain: Jeff McErlain is a nyc based guitarist, instructor, and producer. Jeff has performed with Robben Ford, David Grissom, Matt Schofield, Ric Fierabracci, Keith Carlock and others. He is a top selling TrueFire instructor with over 20 instructional courses, an online classroom, and students around the world. He has contributed to Premier Guitar and Guitar Player Magazines. He has taught at the National Guitar Workshop, Crown Guitar...
2019-07-081h 02
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsKid Andersen - Blues Refinery Guitar Lessons, Q&A, and PerformancesKid Andersen discusses his Blues Refinery guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Kid Andersen: Chris “Kid” Andersen was born in Telemark, Norway in 1980. A blues fan since childhood, Andersen fell in love with the music of Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, Junior Watson, and the Kings (B.B., Albert and Freddie). By the time he was 18, he was backing all the American blues stars who came through Norway, including Homesick James, Nappy Brown and Willie “Big Eyes” Smith. He moved to...
2019-07-011h 13
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsKirk Fletcher - TrueHeart Blues Rhythm - Guitar Lessons, Q&A, and PerformancesKirk Fletcher discusses his blues guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Kirk Fletcher: Kirk Fletcher has a reputation as a bonafide can’t-miss performer. His soulful playing and singing never fails to elicit chills, and his unique approach to Rhythm & Blues music is both refreshingly modern and completely authentic.Widely considered one of the best blues guitarists in the world, he has commanded the respect and acclaim of critics, peers and fans across the globe. He is...
2019-06-241h 01
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsSean McGowan - Jazz Guitar Lessons, Q&A, and PerformancesSean McGowan discusses his jazz guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Sean McGowan: Sean McGowan is a fingerstyle jazz guitarist who combines many diverse musical influences with unconventional techniques to create a broad palette of textures within his compositions and arrangements for solo guitar. His first recording, "River Coffee" won the Best Independent Release of the Year Award (2002) from Acoustic Guitar magazine and music from the recording has been featured on BBC’s “Great Guitars" radio program, Maine Publ...
2019-06-171h 21
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsReverend Robert Jones - Blues Guitar Lessons, Q&A, and PerformancesReverend Robert Jones discusses his latest blues guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Reverend Robert Jones: Rev. Robert Jones, Sr. is a native Detroiter and an inspirational storyteller and musician celebrating the history, humor, and power of American Roots music. His deep love for traditional African American and American traditional music is shared in live performances that interweave timeless stories with original and traditional songs.For more than thirty years Robert has entertained and educated audiences...
2019-06-101h 20
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsAlex Skolnick - Unbound Guitar Lessons, Q&A, and PerformancesAlex Skolnick discusses his latest guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Alex Skolnick: Alex Skolnick is both an original member of Bay Area thrashers Testament (which he joined at age sixteen) and a respected New York improviser of multiple styles.Emerging as one of the original melodic thrash guitarists (alongside Marty Friedman), Alex later moved to New York and earned a BfA in Jazz from The New School, studying with such prestigious artists as George Garzone...
2019-06-091h 10
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsHenry Johnson - Jazz Guitar Lessons, Q&A, and PerformancesHenry Johnson discusses his latest jazz guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Henry Johnson: The Chicago-born guitarist began playing at age twelve. While spending some formative time in Memphis, he started playing gospel music at age thirteen. By age fourteen, Johnson was playing in R&B groups. Although Johnson's parents brought him up hearing the music of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Joe Williams, and other artists of that era, it was not until 1967 that Johnson was formally introduced...
2019-06-081h 10
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsRobben Ford - Uptempo Blues Guitar Lessons, Q&A, and PerformancesRobben Ford discusses his latest guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Robben Ford: Named one of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of the 20th Century" by Musician magazine and recipient of Guitar Player magazine's Lifetime Achievement Legend award, Robben Ford's innovative and soulful musicality triggered a revolution in electric blues guitar styling.A five-time Grammy nominee, bandleader and prolific composer, Robben has collaborated with artists as diverse as Joni Mitchell, Jimmy Witherspoon, Miles Davis, George Harrison, Larry Carlton...
2019-06-071h 00
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsCarl Verheyen - Guitar Lessons, Q&A, and PerformancesCarl Verheyen discusses his latest guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Carl Verheyen: In his 40-plus years of playing the instrument, Carl Verheyen has created a wildly successful, multi-faceted career. He is a critically-acclaimed musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger, producer and educator with 12 CDs and two live DVDs released worldwide. Carl is commonly regarded as a guitar virtuoso and tone master capable of playing any style of music with remarkable mastery and conviction. He has been one of LA's...
2019-06-061h 30
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsSheryl Bailey - Bebop Guitar Lessons, Q&A, and PerformancesIn this episode of TrueFire Live, we sit down with bebop guitarist extraordinaire, Sheryl Bailey, to discuss her latest jazz guitar courses. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.The Downbeat Critics Poll voted Sheryl a Rising Star (2013-2016) and One of the new greats of her chosen instrument Phillip Booth, Downbeat MagazineAs a leader, she has toured the US, Canada, Finland, Austria, Italy, Australia, Hong Kong, China, Japan, and the UK with her many projects: The Sheryl Bailey 3, The Sheryl Bailey 4, The Electric Ladyland Project...
2019-06-051h 16
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsStu Hamm - Bass Guitar Lessons, Q&A, and PerformancesIn this episode of TrueFire Live, we sit down with blues guitarist extraordinaire, Josh Smith, to discuss his guitar masterclass course, Blue Highways. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Stu Hamm: Stu Hamm attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he met guitarist Steve Vai and, through him, met Joe Satriani. Hamm played bass on Vai's debut solo album, Flex-Able, which was released in 1984. Hamm has performed and recorded with Steve Vai, Frank Gambale, Joe Satriani and many other well-respected guitarists. It was playing live...
2019-06-041h 17
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsJosh Smith - Blue Highways - Blues Guitar Lessons, Q&A, and PerformancesIn this episode of TrueFire Live, we sit down with blues guitarist extraordinaire, Josh Smith, to discuss his guitar masterclass course, Blue Highways. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Josh Smith: Josh Smith was born October 7, 1979 in Middletown, Connecticut. Before he was 1, his family relocated to Florida, eventually settling in Pembroke Pines, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale. At age 3, he received his first guitar and at 6, he started taking guitar lessons.Josh was exposed to the blues at an early age. He listened to a...
2019-06-031h 05
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsCarl Burnett - Groove Guitar Lessons, Q&A, and PerformancesIn this episode of TrueFire Live, we sit down with funk guitarist extraordinaire, Carl Burnett, to discuss his guitar course on the wah-wah pedal and funk guitar. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Carl Burnett: A great guitarist who flourishes without the fuel driven by ego is a rarity, but Carl Burnett is one such player. Carl manages to be on everyone’s A-list without the attitude that generally accompanies that realm. A guitarist with a dizzying list of credits who has played and recorded with the li...
2019-06-031h 08
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsLuther Dickinson - Modern Mississippi Slide Guitar Lessons, Q&A, and PerformancesIn this episode of TrueFire Live, we sit down with slide guitarist extraordinaire, Luther Dickinson, to discuss his guitar course on Mississippi Slide guitar. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Luther Dickinson: Luther Dickinson is the lead guitarist and vocalist for the North Mississippi Allstars and the son of record producer Jim Dickinson. He was born in West Tennessee to Mary Lindsay and Jim Dickinson, a Memphis record producer. Dickinson grew up playing concerts and gaining recording experience with his father and brother, Cody. The family moved...
2019-06-031h 16
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsNed Luberecki - Bluegrass Banjo Lessons, Q&A, and PerformancesIn this episode of TrueFire Live, we sit down with Ned Luberecki to discuss his upcoming bluegrass banjo course. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live. About Ned: Ned Luberecki is the banjo player for The Becky Buller Band and also tours with Stephen Mougin (of the Sam Bush Band) as Nedski & Mojo. Ned was formerly the banjoist for Chris Jones and the Night Drivers, The Rarely Herd, Larry Cordle & Lonesome Standard Time, The Gary Ferguson Band, Radio Flyer, Paul Adkins and the Borderline Band and in 2018, Ned was...
2019-05-301h 13
TrueFire Live: Guitar Lessons + Q&AsEllis Paul - Open D Tuning Guitar Lessons, Q&A, and PerformancesIn this episode of TrueFire Live, we sit down with singer-songwriter extraordinaire, Ellis Paul, to discuss his upcoming guitar course on Open D Tuning. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live. You can also pre-order the guitar lessons on our website.About Ellis Paul: Ellis Paul is a songwriter, teacher, author, and illustrator. Since 1990, he has toured extensively playing festivals, colleges, and clubs on the North American music circuit and in Europe. He has performed over 5,000 shows.Twenty albums of his own music were recorded for both Rounder and...
2019-05-291h 08
TrueFire's GuitabularyOpen-Ended Open TuningRichard Gartner unveils a very cool and very player-friendly open tuning called "Dadgad" (D,A,D,G,A,D). It allows you to improvise via the use of pattern picking and using shapes. Richard's "Dadgad Bluerag" is a fun, in-your-face 16-bar song that employs all the versatility found in the tuning. This lesson includes Power Tab and is featured on the following CD compilations: HOW TO PLAY GUITAR: Anthology , ACOUSTIC U.
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2010-02-1700 minTrueFire's GuitabularyExpanding Open TuningsAccompanying his wife on a recent song, Celtic bluesman Martin Simpson needed to find the appropriate tuning. He ended up with the exotic B-Flat-sus2 (B-Flat, F, B-Flat, F, B-Flat, C). He serves up a helping of his solo from the song "Raglan Road," which will give you some jumping-off points for further explorations of your own into open tuning. This lesson includes Power Tab and is featured on the following CD compilations: ACOUSTIC U.
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2010-02-1000 minTrueFire's GuitabularySneaky Fingering SecretsTo play alternating bass lines, you need to commit certain fingers to sustaining bass notes, while leaving other fingers free to fret melody notes. This typically involves unorthodox fingerings. This lesson includes Power Tab and is featured on the following CD compilations: ACOUSTIC U.
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2010-02-0300 minTrueFire's GuitabularyRiley Puckett's 'John Henry'How'd you like to learn a song that paved the way for blues and country slide playing? In an earlier lesson, John looked at Josh White's version of "John Henry," which relied on finger slides. Puckett's rendition calls upon a slide and is more a guitar solo. Bottom line: This one's fun to play. This lesson includes Power Tab and is featured on the following CD compilations: ACOUSTIC U.
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2010-01-2700 minTrueFire's GuitabularyParlor Guitar & Country BluesThe blues can be traced to many things - slave chants, chain gangs and such - but you don't hear much about the influence of late 19th Century parlor guitar. John establishes the connection with 'Country Fool,' a tune written by Bo Carter, who had a major impact on the Delta blues players. The country-blues piece is in altered tuning and is based on the chord progression from 'Spanish Fandango'. The rolling, finger-picked style has real charm. It's a great song to add to your solo steel-string repertoire. This lesson includes Power Tab and is featured on the following...
2010-01-2000 minTrueFire's GuitabularyFunky Butt, Dancing FingersBill has adapted a bottleneck muting technique to standard playing. It'll enhance your fingerpicking articulation and dynamics and help get rid of unwanted notes. Essentially, each of the top four strings is played and muted with its own finger. Start slow, build up to speed. This lesson includes Power Tab and is featured on the following CD compilations: 280 Killer GUITAR LICKS, ACOUSTIC U.
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2010-01-1300 minTrueFire's GuitabularySafe SlideBob Brozman is master of bottleneck slide guitar and various open tunings for the blues. Here's a primer for all of us that are ready to incorporate slide technique into our repertoire. Tunings, tone, technique and five exercises are included in this detailed lesson. This lesson includes Power Tab and is featured on the following CD compilations: HOW TO PLAY GUITAR: Anthology , BLUES U, ACOUSTIC U.
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2010-01-0600 minTrueFire's GuitabularyBottleneck SecretsLike all great blues players, John Mooney derives mojo from his fingers, not his gear. Mooney can fill a hall with soulful slide sounds, whether he’s fronting a band with a Strat cranked through a Super Reverb, or doing a solo set on an unmiked National resonator. Here, Mooney shares some cool slide tips and hot riffs. But before you get started, Mooney has a simple way to avoid the common problem of slide slippage. “I superglue a piece of cork to the inside of my slide so it stops halfway up my pinky and stays there,” says Mooney. This l...
2009-12-3000 minTrueFire's GuitabularyChris Whitley's Twisted BluesChris Whitley is a heck of a blues player, but he isn't what you would call a traditionalist. Jeff McErlain shows you one of Chris' more "twisted" blues pieces, played on open-tuned Dobro. Chris describes it as "Bukka White meets Thelonius Monk"...need we say more? This lesson includes Power Tab and is featured on the following CD compilations: ACOUSTIC U.
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2009-12-2300 minTrueFire's GuitabularyChromatic FingerstyleCustomizing turnarounds is what makes them your own, and you can never have enough nifty ones. In this lesson, Mark issues a couple of "must know" variations on a classic blues move. Transpose 'em to other keys and stick with the fretted notes - skip the open strings - so you can move freely up and down the neck. Then tweak 'em to your heart's content. This lesson includes Power Tab and is featured on the following CD compilations: ACOUSTIC U.
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