I have a student working on chord melodies so here’s a traditional gospel tune I arranged for one of his lessons.
Blessed Assurance - Knapp TAB (pdf)
From Wiki:
“Blessed Assurance” is a well-known Christian hymn. The lyrics were written in 1873 by blind hymn writer Fanny J. Crosby to the music written in 1873 by […]

Allmusic.com’s info about Jimmy Raney: Allmusic-Jimmy Raney
I’ve been working on some of Jimmy Raney’s fingerings, and overall technique from a video I found on Youtube.

Below is a link to the licks I lifted from the video. They are in tab with fingerings indicated.
Jimmy Raney - There Will Never Be Another You.pdf

My good friend and colleague Mark Shark has a new book. It is literally his life’s work. I have many fond memories of hanging and working out the transcriptions for this book. There is so much unexplored harmonic territory waiting on those pages. It’s another world once you twist those keys and this […]

rising-sun-sample.mp3
last-train-home.mp3
Album info on wiki
song-for-bilbao.mp3
Album info on wiki

A shot from the new Tuesday night hang, Club 705.

blue-bossa

My wife says I’m a poster child for California. She maybe right. So I’m sharing a few shots of home because I do love it here.

Palos Verdes Sunset. Surfing and hanging in P.V. changed me a little. Walking a dirt path surrounded by wildflowers ending in groomed 5ft waves with no one […]

Sometimes my gigs decide what I’m going to work on and/or listen to daily. For the past 2 weeks the gigs called for heavy ’surf guitar’ and in the process of researching my role I found a some gems, my favorite of which is Duane Eddy. Have a listen.
 
Rebel Rouser

Have You Heard III
The guitar solo. The ‘junk”that every Meth fan wants. Ahh the chromatic little ’shifty bits’. All kidding aside I worked on this for a long time and with some help from one of the best set of ears on the planet (Neil Laferty - http://neillaferty.com/) I think it’s legit.

Have You Heard II
More of the “Have you Heard” by PMG (After the solo)