One of the most interesting things about John Mayer is that he changes things up every now and then. Early in his career, he was categorized as a pop artist, and then he switched things up by touring with Pino Palledino and Steve Jordan as the John Mayer Trio playing mostly blues-oriented music. On his current tour, he seems to be merging his pop tastes with his blues … [Read more...]
SRV’s Lenny on a Ukelele
The other day, I was browsing UkeleleHunt.com, a site devoted to the ukelele, and noticed the following video of a cover of Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Lenny" by Jason Arimoto. If you enjoyed the "Lenny" video, check out some of Jason's other videos on his YouTube channel. There are some great videos of him playing covers of "Little Wing" and "Daughters," as well as some … [Read more...]
Air Guitar Championships
Rob Weychert, aka Windhammer, recently blogged about his experience of becoming the Philadelphia regional champ of the U.S. Air Guitar Championship: Parading around on that stage in front of all those people, playing an invisible instrument without a (pardon the pun) shred of self-consciousness, I came to realize that I wasn’t even thinking about what I was doing. It was … [Read more...]
Mike Rayburn
I was listening to Music Business Radio this past Sunday night, and the featured guest was guitarist/comedian Mike Rayburn. He was giving some great advice about being a successful independent musician, but my interest was really piqued when I learned he was also a classically trained guitarist. He's quite funny, and manages to successfully merge comedy and music. But, what I … [Read more...]
How to Break Out of the Pentatonic Box
I recently came across this great video by Joe Cefalu of Shred Academy about breaking out of the pentatonic box. Enjoy! … [Read more...]