Students, Performing @ the Root Cafe

Don, Eileen and Lily performing with me. Lily is still in High School and is already out there gigging for money.

Love Teaching The Little People

Pentatonic (E Minor) Lesson for Billy

I'm showing a few basic concepts to help someone start improvising...playing lead guitar. I started with (Em7-A) ala Down By The River to get an easy feel for E minor Pentatonic and E minor. Yeah I know I look like Grizzly Adams.

The Thrill Is Gone Live @ Cook County Jail

When I teach I like to listen to the song, riff or the solo that the student is interested in and learn it note for note then write it down right then and there That way they can see how I transcribe, the way I find the details and also watch the fingering that I'm using to produce the tone and touch that's needed For that particular piece of music. I hand it to them and show them how it's fingered and how exactly to play it the way the artist plays it. Here is the intro solo to the " thrill is gone" live at the cook county jail...it's not perfect I need to go over it but basically that's the way B.B. plays it. He performs it differently on Live at Cook County Jail than he does on the studio version record...it's a beautiful intro! I did this for John "the Biker" and he fixed my Z-Amp.

Teaching Marianne on her 60's Silvertone (way cool!)

Bob's Composition

Here I'm creating a part for my students composition...now our composition. Not every student likes to learn songs by other artists. Bob seems to only want to create his own and has a lot of fun doing it. Now we are writing music together and plan on publishing.

Dallas RIP Johnny Winter