this is a new arrangement of the classic Nine Pound Hammer based on Merle Traviss version and played in the key of E.

Born in Clarkdale, Mississippi, Willie Brown (not to be confused with William Brown from Arkansas) was among the earliest blues musicians, a talented guitarist and singer whose playing had a tremendous influence on the development of Delta Blues.

Make sure youre comfortable playing the previous patterns before continuing. Good, now its starting to get interesting. This next pattern is a variation on the first; youll notice there are a couple extra notes. Well continue to call the patterns E...

The Caravan Exercise The song Caravan was written by Juan Tizol and recorded by Duke Ellington in 1937. Since then has been performed by thousands of artists in styles ranging from jazz to bluegrass, surf to rap, and everything in between. A lot of...

The following chart shows five common positions for the 7th chord, the root is noted with a diamond (note: the numbers 1-5 across the top are there to identify these forms for our purposes, they arent the proper names).