Here's a quick tour and tutorial that I've made about my pedalboard. For any of you aspiring performing musicians, there are many varied and unique challenges that live performance will present. A pedalboard offers some practical solutions to some common issues like:

• Every time I turn my guitar up loud enough to hear, it starts to feedback.
• How can I take a guitar solo if I'm playing and performing on solo guitar.
• My guitar sounds great when I play unplugged, but it sounds thin and brittle when I plug in.

This video will address some of those issues and more. Hope you enjoy the tour!

Travis picking is a common name for a style of finger style picking where the thumb alternates between the bass notes and your pointer and index fingers play alternating treble notes. It's a great pattern to learn if you're interested in finger style guitar, and can be modified to fit many different genres. For those of you familiar with slack-key guitar, the basic movement is very similar. Here's a short video to illustrate the technique.



The Boxer (Paul Simon) - Beginner | Full Sheet Music PDF | MP3

This is Travis Picking at its simplest, alternating thumb notes and treble notes.

e|-----------------|-----------------|
B|---1-------1-----|---1-------1-----|
G|-------0-------0-|-------0-------0-|
D|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|
A|-3---------------|-3---------------|
E|---------3-------|---------3-------|


Dust In The Wind (Kansas) - Beginner | Full Sheet Music PDF | MP3

This Kansas riff adds a pinch into the beginning of the riff.

e|---------------|---------------|-----------------|
B|-1-------1-----|-0-------0-----|-3-------3-------|
G|-----0-------0-|-----0-------0-|-----0-------0---|
D|---2-------2---|---2-------2---|---2-------2-----|
A|-3-----3-------|-3-----3-------|-3-----3---------|
E|---------------|---------------|-----------------|


Windy And Warm (Chet Atkins) - Advanced | Full Sheet Music PDF | MP3

Chet Atkins was a masterful user of this technique. Learn this to impress your friends.

e|----|-----------------------|------------------------|-----------------------|
B|----|-------1----3h-1-------|--3b---3----1-----------|-------1----3h-1-------|
G|-0h-|--2----2----------2----|-------2-------2-----0h-|--2----2----------2----|
D|----|-------2----------2----|-------2----------2-----|-------2----------2----|
A|----|--0--------------------|--0---------------------|--0--------------------|
E|----|------------0----------|------------0-----------|------------0----------|

e|-------3--------------|
B|--3/5----5\3p1--------|
G|----------------2h-0--|
D|----------------------|
A|--0-------------------|
E|---------0------------|