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🎸 Minor Blues, By Yourself! Plus – Minor Key Handbook Now Available
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NOW AVAILABLE My friends! Today, I'm happy to share a brand new 8-page PDF guide that dives into minor keys. My aim is to give you everything you need to know when jamming or playing songs in any minor key — from chord families to common progressions, minor CAGED shapes, plus a list of all my song lessons in minor keys. Here's a video tour if you want a quick overview of the handbook. I do plan on making more videos diving into these topics, in time — but for now, I trust this will get you started! If you just want to dive into songs, I've got you covered — view all my song lessons in minor keys and have some fun! ​ IN CASE YOU MISSED IT... In the spirit of minor keys, I want to share lesson #447 from my back catalog — where I show a beginner-friendly blues groove in the Key of A minor. This one lets you combine bluesy bass-lines with strummed chords, played in a 12 bar blues format. Don't miss all my bonus content for this lesson! This includes a print-friendly guide (with tabs), as well as a brand new video jam track that you can use while practicing. I also have a zoomed playthrough, where I show everything I teach with tabs on screen – played a few different ways. View my free lesson, plus all this bonus content, on my lesson #447 webpage »​ Thanks all, and I hope you enjoy! Catch you in the next one. David Browse all my lessons at songnotes.net​
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Song Notes by David Pots
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.
In today’s new lesson, I teach melody deep-dive for Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah — showing you a way to play the melody notes and chords at the same time. This makes for an incredibly satisfying way to play this amazing song, as it allows you to capture the recognizable melody line in a way that sounds bigger & more full thanks to the strummed chords. Click to view my video lesson Don't miss the additional content I have for this lesson! This includes a zoomed playthrough video, a play-along...
Hey there, my friends! I’ve been very busy the last two weeks with a ton of helpful updates to FretMonster, my interactive fretboard tool, which are finally ready to share. Let's start with a brand new video tour of FretMonster, which shows off all the new features: I also put together a free PDF handbook to give you a proper print-friendly introduction to the tool. This started as one page, then became two, and each of the last few mornings I woke up with additional content I wanted to add....
Reader — this week marks 10 years since my family and I moved from Maryland to Austin, Texas. In that time, I’ve discovered so much incredible music that grew out of the blossoming Austin scene in the 1970s. Willie, Jerry Jeff, Guy Clark, and so many others. With that in mind, here’s a brand-new lesson for one of my all-time favorites... and one of the anthems of Texas country. Don't miss the handful of other Austin-inspired lessons further below! Thanks and enjoy ✌️ // David LESSON #593...