Guitar Lessons Online

Here is another in our series of lessons on classic rock riff tunes. The attached video shows how to play Green River using a Big Bill Broonzy style which consists of keeping a steady mono bass pattern (same note played consistently at the speed of quarter notes, on the beats).

A few thoughts about lessons online-

After looking all over the web for good places to take guitar lessons online I have found a few good places and a lot of useless places. In general the web has become both a great resource for many things as well as a very suspect source of much information. A good example of this is YouTube. The quality of course ranges from pretty good to pretty bad. The easy accessibility makes it a good place for anybody to post his or her take on learning the guitar. Unfortunately, many of the people trying to explain something there frequently don’t really understand the concept they’re addressing. This problem is commonly combined with a lack of good communication skills. Most viewers don’t have the time to sift through everything available to find the good stuff.

As more people are setting up instructional sites the quality is generally improving. The main thing I would look for is a site that has some kind of interactivity available. Most sites are really no better than an instructional DVD where the instructor just lectures and demonstrates how to play a tune. A really useful site would have at least a way for the student to get questions answered and possibly a way to upload videos that could be critiqued or corrected by the instructor.

We have TAB to many many classic rock songs here

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Well, take me back down where cool water flows, yeah.
Let me remenber the things I don't know,
Stopping at the log where catfish bite,
Walking along the river road at night,
Barefoot girls dancing in the moonlight.

I can hear the bullfrog calling me.
Wonder if my rope's still hanging to the tree.
Love to kick my feet 'way down the shallow water.
Shoefly, dragonfly, get back t'your mother.
Pick up a flat rock, skip it across Green River.

Up at Cody's camp I spent my days, oh,
With flat car riders and cross-tie walkers
Old Cody, Junior took me over,
Said, "You're gonna find the world is smould'ring.
And if you get lost come on home to Green River."