Thanks so much you guys - I just finished this "Truck Drivin' Guitar" too. We should have both new lessons ready for download this week... and again, I really really appreciate the suggestions!
TRUCK DRIVIN GUITAR LESSON - FEATURING GUITARIST GENE MOLES OF RED SIMPSON This installment features the guitar mastery of Truck Guitar virtuoso Gene Moles. Note for Note transcriptions from the Red Simpson catalog “Truck Drivin' Man”, “The Highway Patrol” and “Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves”. Three of Gene Moles great solos are covered in depth - and each are explained slowly with manageable recaps to play along with… before putting in 4th gear! Luther Perkins style rhythms are explained as well as Gene’s doubling up rhythm style that drives and puts a “Truckdriver” imprint on each track. Great, essential Country guitar stylings! Intermediate/Advanced
ROLY POLY NOTE FOR NOTE A Note for Note transcription from the hit track on the Little Willies debut record. Triple stops, country swing essentials, swing guitar lines. pedal steel voicings, Les Paul-isms and more. This lesson includes an overview of country swing rhythm guitar. A super fun lesson that can be applied in the context of a thousand other songs. Intermediate/Advanced
ha ha ha! Mozart is a really tough one- but I'll keep it in mind ...
By the way, I saw a request for this...
Pie Party SAMPLE CLIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=uftyuaxHtcc
Note for Note transcription from Dream Dictionary. Les Paul meets Chet Atkins in this little tour de force of phrases. Doublestops, harmonics, and triplestops are all melodically played, and explicitly explained. Intermediate / Advanced
Jim just recorded some lessons and I've just completed formatting them so I wanted to give the forum a heads up first. We're really happy with the way that these turned out.
-Will
TRUCK DRIVIN GUITAR LESSON - FEATURING GUITARIST GENE MOLES OF RED SIMPSON Intermediate/Advanced
This installment features the guitar mastery of Truck Guitar virtuoso Gene Moles. Note for Note transcriptions from the Red Simpson catalog “Truck Drivin' Man”, “The Highway Patrol” and “Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves”. Three of Gene Moles great solos are covered in depth - and each are explained slowly with manageable recaps to play along with… before putting in 4th gear! Luther Perkins style rhythms are explained as well as Gene’s doubling up rhythm style that drives and puts a “Truckdriver” imprint on each track. Great, essential Country guitar stylings!
ROLY POLY NOTE FOR NOTE Intermediate/Advanced
A Note for Note transcription from the hit track on the Little Willies debut record. Triple stops, country swing essentials, swing guitar lines. pedal steel voicings, Les Paul-isms and more. This lesson includes an overview of country swing rhythm guitar. A super fun lessonthat can be applied in the context of a thousand other songs.
JIG- Good news -"Suppose" is offered and up on the lessons site. Honestly, I had to check myself - it's easy to let one slip by.
Suppose SAMPLE CLIP Easy Download (scroll down) http://jimcampilongo.com/lessons/ By popular demand! A Note for Note transcription of Jim's solo acoustic debut on "Dream Dictionary". Americana doublestops, arpeggios, pull offs, hammer ons and more are are clearly explained so the student can internalize the song and play it easily. A nice song to add to the repertoire. Intermediate / Advanced
"Cock and Bull"? That's a crazy one! But thanks for asking my friend. You aren't the first and I really appreciate your inquiry. Have a great day! -Jim
My suggestion would be "It's Not You, It's Me" from The Little Willies 2006 album.
Why? Well, I think in that song in particular, you provide a backup to the vocal melody that's a song in itself.
There's a lot of dynamic shifts, melody concepts, and playing techniques that can be extracted from that lesson that illustrate how to play with a singer in a way that's not just backing, but complimentary and commensurate.
I think of the song as a duet between voice and guitar, and I think it would be a great lesson. I often listen to the song and find myself tuning out Norah Jones's voice -- now that's saying something about the understated power of your playing on that track!
My other suggestion would be Pie Party - but it's already out there! Other than that, I would be thrilled for you to explore Blind Lemon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, or someone from that universe of the blues.
Thanks so much for providing the lessons -- they got be back to playing guitar after a nine year hiatus.
I would love to see a lesson on the art of substituting chords.
Arpeggios as Exercises, Understanding Progressions and Voice Leading, Panhandle Rag, All Blues and I Got Rhythm Changes are wonderful lessons but they need a ”chord substitution lesson” buddy.
You could offer them all in a bundle called ”The Jim Campilongo Method of Improvisation”
Very much looking forward to Sergio vs the Moth, Botro the Robot, Bustin' Up, Pingpong, and Splitsville (especially Sergio vs the Moth). Anyone else???
Dear Jim I do really like your versions of "cry me a river" (instrumental & vocal). It would be great to offer, particularly, the instrumental version (in contrast to the also great version of Barney Kessel).
Also, "cock and bull..." Would be a great one as lesson.
I support also all requests re " good-bye pork pie hat" although I do not even know your version but I am sure it will great. Best HJB
Thank you HJB for your gracious email and request. I have a version on "Goodbye Porkpie..." that's based on the McLaughlin version and it's a tune I've always wanted to play. But the Jeff Beck version looms over me (and everyone, I think!)- like an actor trying to play Stanley Kowalski after Brando- if you know what I mean. But I love the song and I appreciate the requests. I'll see what I can work up...
I am doing your Roly Poly lesson at the moment and at the end of the last solo's instructions you mention that all of the solos were improvised and you point out one lick that could be included in a "formal" lesson. I think a good idea for a lesson would be a Western Swing Lead Concepts lesson with some useful phrases and licks as the one mentioned and an explanation of your concepts of western swing soloing all in the context of a standard western swing tune. What do you think?
Comments
I'm in ;-)
"Blues for Roy"
"Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves"
TRUCK DRIVIN GUITAR LESSON - FEATURING GUITARIST GENE MOLES OF RED SIMPSON
This installment features the guitar mastery of Truck Guitar virtuoso Gene Moles. Note for Note transcriptions from the Red Simpson catalog “Truck Drivin' Man”, “The Highway Patrol” and “Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves”. Three of Gene Moles great solos are covered in depth - and each are explained slowly with manageable recaps to play along with… before putting in 4th gear! Luther Perkins style rhythms are explained as well as Gene’s doubling up rhythm style that drives and puts a “Truckdriver” imprint on each track. Great, essential Country guitar stylings!
Intermediate/Advanced
ROLY POLY NOTE FOR NOTE
A Note for Note transcription from the hit track on the Little Willies debut record. Triple stops, country swing essentials, swing guitar lines. pedal steel voicings, Les Paul-isms and more. This lesson includes an overview of country swing rhythm guitar. A super fun lesson that can be applied in the context of a thousand other songs.
Intermediate/Advanced
By the way, I saw a request for this...
Pie Party SAMPLE CLIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=uftyuaxHtcc
Note for Note transcription from Dream Dictionary. Les Paul meets Chet Atkins in this little tour de force of phrases. Doublestops, harmonics, and triplestops are all melodically played, and explicitly explained.
Intermediate / Advanced
Jim just recorded some lessons and I've just completed formatting them so I wanted to give the forum a heads up first. We're really happy with the way that these turned out.
-Will
TRUCK DRIVIN GUITAR LESSON - FEATURING GUITARIST GENE MOLES OF RED SIMPSON
Intermediate/Advanced
This installment features the guitar mastery of Truck Guitar virtuoso Gene Moles. Note for Note transcriptions from the Red Simpson catalog “Truck Drivin' Man”, “The Highway Patrol” and “Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves”. Three of Gene Moles great solos are covered in depth - and each are explained slowly with manageable recaps to play along with… before putting in 4th gear! Luther Perkins style rhythms are explained as well as Gene’s doubling up rhythm style that drives and puts a “Truckdriver” imprint on each track. Great, essential Country guitar stylings!
ROLY POLY NOTE FOR NOTE
Intermediate/Advanced
A Note for Note transcription from the hit track on the Little Willies debut record. Triple stops, country swing essentials, swing guitar lines. pedal steel voicings, Les Paul-isms and more. This lesson includes an overview of country swing rhythm guitar. A super fun lessonthat can be applied in the context of a thousand other songs.
my suggestions:
-another acoustic song ("suppose" is a great and fun lesson)
-Cock and Bull story!!!!!
Saludos
JIG (Juan)
Suppose SAMPLE CLIP
By popular demand! A Note for Note transcription of Jim's solo acoustic debut on "Dream Dictionary". Americana doublestops, arpeggios, pull offs, hammer ons and more are are clearly explained so the student can internalize the song and play it easily. A nice song to add to the repertoire. Intermediate / Advanced
"Cock and Bull"? That's a crazy one! But thanks for asking my friend. You aren't the first and I really appreciate your inquiry. Have a great day! -Jim
My suggestion would be "It's Not You, It's Me" from The Little Willies 2006 album.
Why? Well, I think in that song in particular, you provide a backup to the vocal melody that's a song in itself.
There's a lot of dynamic shifts, melody concepts, and playing techniques that can be extracted from that lesson that illustrate how to play with a singer in a way that's not just backing, but complimentary and commensurate.
I think of the song as a duet between voice and guitar, and I think it would be a great lesson. I often listen to the song and find myself tuning out Norah Jones's voice -- now that's saying something about the understated power of your playing on that track!
My other suggestion would be Pie Party - but it's already out there! Other than that, I would be thrilled for you to explore Blind Lemon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, or someone from that universe of the blues.
Thanks so much for providing the lessons -- they got be back to playing guitar after a nine year hiatus.
-LA Martin
I would love to see a lesson on the art of substituting chords.
Arpeggios as Exercises, Understanding Progressions and Voice Leading, Panhandle Rag, All Blues and I Got Rhythm Changes are wonderful lessons but they need a ”chord substitution lesson” buddy.
You could offer them all in a bundle called ”The Jim Campilongo Method of Improvisation”
How about walking bass lines over chord progressions?
Thanks,
Nick
Very much looking forward to Sergio vs the Moth, Botro the Robot, Bustin' Up, Pingpong, and Splitsville (especially Sergio vs the Moth). Anyone else???
Thanks!
b
I do really like your versions of "cry me a river" (instrumental & vocal). It would be great to offer, particularly, the instrumental version (in contrast to the also great version of Barney Kessel).
Also, "cock and bull..." Would be a great one as lesson.
I support also all requests re " good-bye pork pie hat" although I do not even know your version but I am sure it will great.
Best
HJB
Have a great day- Jim
How about a Roy Lanham tune? Im sure there is one that you like, maybe Lanham Boogie, Kerry Dance, or Lost Weekend? Thanks for taking suggestions!
Mitch
I am doing your Roly Poly lesson at the moment and at the end of the last solo's instructions you mention that all of the solos were improvised and you point out one lick that could be included in a "formal" lesson. I think a good idea for a lesson would be a Western Swing Lead Concepts lesson with some useful phrases and licks as the one mentioned and an explanation of your concepts of western swing soloing all in the context of a standard western swing tune. What do you think?
Thanks,
Ralph