Painless Guitar Lessons

05/11/2026

One of my favorite Kinks songs, Sunny Afternoon. Started out playing it on my Les Paul then switched to my National dobro that felt so much more appropriate & organic. Taught this one many times over the years.❤️🎼

05/14/2025

Here’s an original finger style song i wrote, with a running bass line over the melody. Took me a while to get it to flow the way I wanted but is now really fun to play. I call it “Stomp”…Hope u like it. ❤️🎼

02/25/2025

08/12/2022

Here's a little tutorial i did celebrating Mike Nesmith's ''Tapioca Tundra'' being used on a recent episode of ''Better Call Saul'' during its final season. I chose to go more with his original demo version, but threw in the intro from The Monkees version for the interesting picking going on there. A really quirky, fun song to play...hope u enjoy!

04/28/2022

One of my favorite Monkees songs. Also, I wanted a video of my daughter, Rachel and i playing together while she's still pregnant with TWIN GIRLS! Great example of throwing in parts of the bass guitar bits into the chord structure. Her amazing vocal harmonies drive the whole thing...hope u enjoy.

08/01/2021

Wanted an excuse to use my old '65 Fender electric 12 string on something and chose this ultra DEEP cut from The Monkees. I was the target audience for this show as a kid and they were the main reason i ever picked up a guitar in the first place. Especially Mike Nesmith's work. One of the maybe 2 jazz influenced songs by the group. Love how the main intro/verse hook includes a Dmaj7 chord with an A root on top to an Em7 with a B root. Gives SUCH a lush overtone to a relatively simple exchange. Check it out...Don't Call on Me, hope u enjoy!

10/13/2020

This song has been calling out to me recently, to the point where i had to reacquaint myself with it. Everytime i hear it, it transports me back to Fall, 1974 when i was playing the grooves of their Mother Lode LP. I can smell the Autumn leaves...Intricate chord progressions and hard as hell to sing, but worth the effort and was very cathartic for me in the end. Hope it is for some of you, too. Especially relevant in these unusually turbulent times we all live in...we've ALL seen brighter days. Hopefully we will again, someday. Kenny Loggins at his song writing best!