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🎸⚾️ Fingerstyle Fun with Morgan Wallen — plus "Centerfield" for Opening Day
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HAPPY OPENING DAY! Click to watch free video lesson To all the baseball fans out there... I wanted to re-share this lesson I made last spring, in case you missed it. I break down the opening riff to Centerfield by John Fogerty, with my usual step-by-step guidance. I also have a sing & strum lesson available for this song, if you want to learn to play the full song, from start to finish. Such a fun song! Step-by-step practice notes, audio practice tracks, and zoomed-in video play-alongs (showing the exercises I used to learn the intro riff) are available on my lesson #591 webpage. BRAND NEW! Click to watch free video lesson I'm also excited to share a brand new Morgan Wallen lesson, diving into the fingerstyle heard in his 2025 song I'm a Little Crazy. Simple chords, very tricky fingerpicking options... but fear not! I'll walk you through several options, starting simple and adding the layers of complexity. This one goes out to Song Notes member Chuck, who requested this song after hearing its recent cover from Bella Emry during American Idol auditions. Step-by-step practice notes and zoomed-in video play-alongs (showing the five different levels I teach) are available on my lesson #618 webpage. WHILE YOU'RE HERE... After years of continuous requests, I've finally started recording a step-by-step course for Travis Picking Essentials. It'll walk you through the basics of Travis-style fingerpicking, starting with the basics and building from there... with plenty of exercises along the way. If there's a specific question you have in mind on this topic, please reply to this email and let me know! Even if it's not a question, and just a certain area you'd love to see me focus on... I'd absolutely love to hear it. Even if you'd like a sneak-peek at the course before it goes live – simply reply and let me know! Audience feedback is something I value greatly... especially from those excited to learn. Storytime from 1988 My best baseball story: through sheer luck of having my name pulled, I won a contest to be the Honorary Bat Boy for the Baltimore Orioles when I was little! Plenty of fun memories at Memorial Stadium before Camden Yards was built, and this was no doubt the best of them. Free tickets to a double-header, got to walk through the tunnels leading to the players' benches, and even got a few autographs. One of my friends at the game even saw me on the big screen, not knowing I was there. Fun memory! The shirt was way too big. Until next week, David |
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Learn to play guitar with weekly video lessons & print-friendly guides! Learn your favorite songs & techniques with step-by-step tutorials that actually explain how to get from here to there.
Must-Know Guitarist Tech Tip! Click to watch free video lesson Happy Monday, my friends — brand new lesson today featuring an incredibly helpful tip: adjusting the key of any YouTube video. Specifically, I’ll show you how to use the free Chrome plugin Transpose – which lets you easily transpose any video to a different key (as well as fine tune the pitch, adjust the speed down, create loops, etc). This started with a question I received from Song Notes member Randy, who asked: I have been...
LESSON #616Refine Your Rhythm & Never Lose the Beat! Click to watch free video lesson » If you asked me to give you one strumming lesson that’ll make the most difference your playing, it’s this one. It’s an exercise I put together over the years during my own practice – and finally I’ve made a proper lesson showing you how to do it. I’m calling it the pyramid drill – which seems fitting because of the ascend-then-descend structure, similar to what you find in many workout routines. This drill...
YOU ASKED, I LISTENED! Click to view "My Favorites" At long last! You can finally save & organize your favorite lessons over on my Song Notes website. This is a feature that's been regularly requested by members over the years, and I'm pumped to announce it's ready! HOW IT WORKS From any lesson page, click the Add to My Favorites link. For your convenience, it's always positioned just below the lesson title. That will immediately add it to your Favorites list. You can keep on learning the...