Watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwsJJAqMyfA to see Neil Young actually play it. I'm trying to do my best to approximate what he's doing in this

The beginning of my video on playing the first song, using Bob Dylan's classic. I just kept talking and talking, so I had to break it up into three l

Oh, and interestingly, the "standard algorithm" isn't really standard after all. Talk to folks from other countries sometime and ask them to multiply

I finally kept it short! All done in one video. There are only a few new ideas here. I also have a video where I sing the whole song, which might b

The second part of the lesson. For those who want to know, the things I'm calling "D" chords are D Dsus2/C G/B Gm/Bflat. Then the other ones are Fsu

This is part 2 of my response to "Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth." For some reason, Part 1 is not showing up as an option for me to use as a r

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1psrZd0294

The last in the series. This one focuses on the key, where the vocal should appear, and about stressing certain beats above others.

E is the note on the fourth string when it is fretted at the second fret.

The last part of the guitar part alone. A slightly more advanced rhthym pattern and a discussion of how to play on off-beats.

This video is intended as the very first song on the mandolin. It is a very, very simple version of Steve Earle's Copperhead Road. It might be of us

As promised, a lesson on Neil Young's "My My Hey Hey." I'm teaching it on a 12-string, but of course, you don't need a 12 string to play it.

And, of course, I'm generalizing.

To the 4 people who rated this video, all I can say, is what's wrong with you? You should go look at some of my other videos. They suck even more th

And I'm way too lazy to do it right anyway.

I got a request from wvclaylady to make a video for the very specific purpose of stringing a mandolin. As always, I went on and on, and the video is

The second part of the lesson, where it gets more interesting.

The second part wherein we get into some notes.

In this lesson, I'm trying to explain how to use the terrific information avaible on the internet to learn the song of your choice. I use Lucinda Wil

A relatively short lesson for RedlandsmaN87. I know that my voice kind of gets drowned out when I'm playing with the video. I hope that doesn't matt