Blues-e-News April Column by Jerry Jennings

Friday, April 27th, 2012 at 6:24 pm  
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This is my April column as it appears in Blues-e-News.com Session Work: 3 Important Things to Consider I’ve often hired people to lay tracks for me on various projects. And sometimes I’ve been the hire-ee in other studios. So I have developed some opinions that I felt like writing down, and I hope you’ll enjoy…

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The Rhythmic Grid – Guitar 1 Start Out Jammin’

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 at 6:42 pm  
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In teaching people strum patterns, the main obstacle I run across is to get out of what I call the “shopping list” mode. I’ll come back to that idea in a second. A lot of beginner books will show “down” and “up” strums for the basic patterns, but somehow manage not to communicate the rhythmic…

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The Missing Ingredient – Lead Guitar Playing

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011 at 11:46 pm  
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I started playing guitar in 67, when I was 12. I was steeped in the styles of Clapton, Page, Hendrix, Farner, Blackmore… Later, during the 80s, another generation of guitarists emerged that took the guitar to another level. I was never really sold on the athletic aspect of those players as much as the “feel”…

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What led me to write “The Guitarist’s Link to Sight Reading”

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011 at 11:45 pm  
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I just watched a video by Steve Vai, that took me on a trip down memory lane. Vai had gotten his first high profile gig with Zappa after he had successfully transcribed a bunch of Zappa’s twisted melody lines (or so goes the story I heard). In this video, you can see that Vai has…

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