Videos
Funky D9 Call and Response
Here's a simple but funky lil' progression/riff that you can use that incorporates a "call and response" idea....
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Master the Notes on the Neck Exercise-
Here's a really powerful exercise I learned when I was at Musicians Institute to help you learn and master the notes on the neck. Even if you think you know the notes on all strings- do you really know them? I mean to where...
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Dirty Power Trio with Kirk Covington and Ben Sheppard
This footage is from my performance at the Crown of the Continent Guitar Festival in Montana a few years ago. I performed with my trio featuring Kirk Covington (Tribal Tech) on drums and Ben Sheppard on bass.
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What's Pho Lunch Play-along
Here's an example of one of my play-along trax from "STRIPPED DOWN VOL 1" entitled "What's Pho Lunch?" This was taken from the album "Magazine Street" by New Orleans drummer Doug Belote, which I produced and wrote much of the...
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Outro improv solo on "Kiss on my List" with Daryl Hall and John Oates
Live in Paris, France 2019- a little moment at the segue from "Kiss is on my list" to "Private Eyes" where I stretch out for a few bars. I apologize to the kind Parisians in the front row that bore the full wrath of a Soldano...
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Raining in the Desert
This little ditty is called "Raining in the Desert" - The idea for this song actually started taking shape years ago, as some songs tend to do.
I remember being on tour and riding through the desert somewhere looking out of...
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My first wah wah pedal
Just got my favorite Wah pedal back in fighting shape- got this for my 16th Christmas present! It’s beat to hell and sounds great...
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Scream on drugs
IF meth wrote a song, it would be arrogant, I hope to of captured an essence of being METH...I wanna thank you for everything, cause that's what I'm gonna take....
A poor man's program, I have a few songs on youtube....
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Standing in the rain
Haven't we all felt like we were on the outside of love, wanting in...
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You'll remember me
Written about my daughters passing, and her amazing husband.
This is a poor recording, I've have had very little to work with in recording programs and musicians. Please be kind...thank you...
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Your wings
When my daughter passed away, I found pictures on her phone. Instead of losing my mind and doing drugs or drinking. I wrote songs, made videos on what I could afford and let it go......
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La. Jukebox TV show- live set 2001
This was a live 3 song set I did in 2001 for a TV show called La. Jukebox. I think besides the regular host Aaron Neville was co-hosting this episode at the time. The tunes we did are "Ain't my Fault", "Bayou Chicken" and...
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Bionic Toast
A very good friend of mine asked me to set up ready for sale this amazing 1981 limited edition Tele with 18kt gold hardware.
So I sat down and wrote this little tune this morning to noodle over. Totally over playing and way...
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The Making of "Dirty Power"
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Le Combo rehearsal jam
A little clip from a rehearsal (at a safe distance) with a new trio project called
"LE COMBO" featuring Toss Panos (Steve Vai, Steve Lukather, Robben Ford) on drums, Jorgen Carlsson on bass (Govt Mule) and yours truly on...
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The story behind "New Orleans Funk Guitar Styles"
This is a little video that tells the history of the book "New Orleans Funk Guitar Styles." I wrote about 20 years ago (yikes)! and it's still in print and still sells all over the world.
I talk about what inspired me to...
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Guitar solo on Sara Smile- with Daryl Hall and John Oates San Diego
Here's a little improv on the classic Sara Smile taken from a show in San Diego, California.
For you guitar geeks it's my Epiphone Sheraton through a 1967 Fender Bassman. Just some delay and octave pedal for first half, no...
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Sitting in with Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony, Jason Bonham and Vic Johnson
Not long after Sammy Hagar appeared on "Live From Daryl's House" Sammy called and asked if I would like to come to Biloxi and sit in with his band "The Circle" featuring Sammy, Michael Anthony, Vic Johnson and Jason Bonham....
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Guitar Books From "Back in the Day"
Here's a list of books that I studied when I got serious about guitar...
I found all of these to be helpful and useful to me in some way so here's a link to them if you can find them (some of these may be out of print)
In...
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A nice chord sub for min7th voicings and a fun progression to jam on
Here's a "hip" chord sub you can use for min7 chords and a fun progression to practice with-
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Creating Rhythm Parts- Pt. 1
Here's a little concept that will help you create some rhythm parts, hooks and fills and make your rhythm playing more interesting....
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Motivation and what a great teacher can/should do
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Guilded Splinters guitar solo w/the Neville Brothers NYC
This clip was taken from the television show called "Sessions at West 54th" that ran for a few years. It was most likely from 1999 or 2000. It was a great show, fantastic guests... The host at this time was John Hiatt- and me...
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In The Studio-
A few days ago I got a call from my friend Jon Cleary (himself a great guitar player) who asked me if I could go over to his studio and lay down some guitar tracks on a few songs for his upcoming record. I've worked on Jon's...
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