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My friend Moondoggy, who is a rather large iguana, likes to soak up the sun. His favorite singer is, of course, Sheryl Crow.

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In Clapton’s song; ‘Old Love,’ he uses his thumb on the sixth string, presumably to get a more resonant sound through doubling the low ‘A.’

It’s been said that Clapton has very large and, no doubt very strong hands. If your hands are smaller or if you haven’t played as long as Eric (and who has?) I don’t recommend trying to duplicate this thumb technique.

Here is an alternate way. In this tabs diagram are the main chords in the opening of the song, where the black numbers are the tabs and the red are the fingers. You basically use  bar chords and the fingering, in the first chord adds a chord note. Later when you slide back up to the am chord, make a quick switch back to the first fingerings.

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    This is a fascinating lecture by John Mayer on performing and song writing

 John Mayer: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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My friend Fritz turned me on to a really cool widget. You can see it about two thirds of the way down on the sidebar. It streams podcasts. When you go to the website to get the widget, you can modify it to have any podcasts you want in it. Fritz said he googled and searched for a solid day to find one so that he could have other podcasts on his blog.

I have the New Music Radio podcast loaded up in mine. It takes a little while to ‘buffer,’ but then it’s good to go.

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Judith Owen has just released her new album Mopping Up Karma. Creatures of Habit is featured on New Music Radio

and Fritz has an interview with Judith posted in podcast on the radio blog.

Judith tells a rather fascinating story behind Mopping Up Karma which had its inception on Capital Records. She tells of how she had to rescue this project and give it a home on a new label and digital downloads. It’s the story of the gross mis-management that has been going on with the major labels.

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Here is a two octave blues scale in TABS. Most books have a major pentatonic scale pattern in more than one octave, but the blues scale is very handy for playing lots of cool jams. The blues scale is based on the minor pentatonic scale with a ‘flated fifth’ added. In this TABS, the red fret numbers are where you would shift up always with the first finger. The blue numbers are for going down and the blue 8 is a second finger.

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A YouTube member requested this short tutorial;

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Nothing like those classic rock songs…

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I found a cool new music social networking site called BandPump. I think it will be big. It has all the necessary ingredients; You can set-up a profile and link to your website and, of course, you can upload some of your tunes. You also get points for being active and referring others.

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   My good friend Fritz Kundler, DJ for New Music Radio brings another new music release and interview with rocker Vince Falzone. He has posted the interview to be listened to on New Music Release Online and, as always, this new music release can be heard on the broadcast.  You can count on Fritz and New Music Radio to bring you a great new music release.

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