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The challenge : to be able to transfer our musical ideas directly from our heads and onto our guitars. I created these interactive training videos to help the process

http://www.fingerpickingguitar.org/ear-to-instrument-training/

 In this exercise I’ve taken the developed blues chord progression from a previous post and added a guide-tone line.

The first time around I play the guide-tone line with accompanying chords. The second time around I’m only playing the chords leaving space for somebody else to play the guide-tones. Fancy a jam on a 12 bar blues ? The TAB is given beneath the video…

My original blues progression developed giving me some different chords to suggest different guide-tone lines

http://www.fingerpickingguitar.org/fingerstyle-guitar-blues-progression-2/

One of the most satisfying feelings when playing live is to have the awareness of the sound filling the room. In a quiet room it's almost like a meditative experience. With that in mind, when I wrote this song "Tibo" I was trying to evoke that experience. It's named after an establishment where I do a regular gig, "Cafe Tibo"

http://www.fingerpickingguitar.org/tibo/