Wonderful Tonight Wonderful Tonight is far and away Eric Clapton’s most famous song — and one of the most romantic songs ever written. I’ve had this arrangement in my back pocket for 20 years. I had been developing and playing it at wedding ceremonies for […]
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Motion Sickness As a guitar teacher, I’m fortunate to be in front of some really cool, music obsessed young people on a daily basis. My student Hannah tips me off to new music all the time, and routinely discovers artists years before they go mainstream. […]
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Morning Morning is the central theme from August: Osage County — a highly underrated soundtrack by Gustavo Santaolalla. Much like Brokeback Mountain, the film’s score has Santaolalla exploring uniquely American themes. You might also like to play… Gustavo Santaolalla: Brokeback Mountain 1 | fingerstyle guitar […]
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The Last of the Mohicans While the film and soundtrack are timeless — the music production was fairly chaotic for The Last of the Mohicans. Director Michael Mann had initially requested that Trevor Jones (composer) provide an electronic score for the film. That surprises me […]
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The Ludlows Legends of the Fall (1994) is an epic American historical drama, directed by Edward Zwick and starring Brad Pitt. The film is about three brothers and their father living on the plains of Montana in the early 20th century and how their lives […]
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Cover Me Up Cover Me Up was the song that first introduced me to incredible singer/songwriter Jason Isbell. Forget the writing – the raw honesty of the song, and power of Isbell’s voice is what captured me. It’s just brutal in every good sense of […]
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cardigan I’ve always liked Taylor Swift. In fact, she’s responsible for most of my physical lesson business. In the mid 2000’s, mostly boys (and very few girls) played guitar. That suddenly changed around 2007 when Taylor Swift became the biggest star in the world. Ever […]
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The Water Lets You In Bloodline (2015-2017) is a Netflix original thriller-drama. The series co-stars one of my all-time favorite actors, Ben Mendelsohn. The theme song, The Water Lets You In, is a deep-bayou Americana riff by the defunct LA band, Book of Fears. I LOVE […]
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Finding the Master “At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man (Robert Johnson) made no attempt to sugarcoat what he was trying to say, or play. It was hard-core, more than anything I had ever heard. After a few […]
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Anne with an E Anne with an E is a Canadian historical drama series for Netflix. The series is an adaptation of the novel, Anne of Green Gables. Set in the late 1890s on Prince Edward island, Anne with an E is a coming-of-age story about a 13-year-old […]
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The Call of the Wild The Call of the Wild is a 2020 adventure film based on the Jack London’s 1903 novel (of the same name). The film stars Harrison Ford and is set in the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. The story follows a dog […]
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More Hearts Than Mine More Hearts Than Mine is a charming and perfect song; both lyrically and melodically. Excellent debut work from singer songwriter Ingrid Andress. I’ve been teaching this song to my guitar students for a week now and thought a fingerstyle version might […]
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