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Gospel Style Blues Guitar Lesson – Solo Composition (No Accompaniment Needed) – EP248

gospel blues guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a gospel style blues composition that's played solo guitar (no accompaniment needed). You'll be using the "call and response" technique which is what allows you to play this on your own. I'll break down everything and show you how to play it note for note and explain where those notes come from so that you can start to create your own compositions like this one. Also, there were no open strings in this so you can easily transpose it to any … [Read more...]

Howard Carroll – Guitar Player for the Dixie Hummingbirds

July 27, 2015 by Brian 14 Comments

Dixie Hummingbirds - Guitar Lesson

As I’m starting to blog each week now, one of the things that I want to do is introduce you to guitar players that you may not have heard of. One of the advantages of having large community of guitar enthusiasts here at ActiveMelody is that site members introduce me to lots of obscure guitar players, and I always end up learning something new. Last week I got a call from a long-time site member named Russell, and he told me about a guitar player named Howard Carroll who played for the Dixie … [Read more...]

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