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Cherokee Shuffle on Mandolin

A quick take on one of my favorite bluegrass standards.

Woodshed Wednesday: Basic Strumming Exercises

This week’s edition of Woodshed Wednesday is for beginning guitar students. One of the most basic concepts on the guitar is often the first hurdle for beginners: Consistent strumming. Physically speaking, strumming the guitar is a fairly natural motion, yet most students have trouble when rhythm is introduced. This lesson will help you get over that hurdle and realize that the physical motion of strumming can actually make rhythmic patterns easier.

“Sigur 1 (Untitled)” for Solo Guitar

Here’s a solo guitar arrangement of one of my favorite Sigur Ros songs. I’m using a Line 6 DL-4 to record and loop multiple layers of guitar, emulating the orchestration of the original Sigur Ros recording. Enjoy!

Woodshed Wednesday: “Blackberry Blossom” Mandolin Lesson

For this week’s Woodshed Wednesday, we’ll be trading the guitar for the mandolin and look at a popular bluegrass tune, “Blackberry Blossom.”

Be Still My Love

“Be Still My Love” is #34 of Guy’s 100 Songs in 100 Days.

This one is special to me. I wrote the guitar part last year sometime and wasn’t sure what to do with it. Guy heard me playing it one time, loved it, and we finally had a chance to turn it into a song. I needn’t explain more, just watch the video and enjoy!

Guy’s 100 Songs in 100 Days

My good friend and Stellar Ego frontman Guy Prandstatter is on a mission to write 100 songs in 100 days to inspire others to make a difference.

Woodshed Wednesday: Harp-like Scales for Guitar

For this week’s Woodshed Wednesday, we’re going to take a different approach to playing scales. Typically, guitarists play scales in a linear fashion–play two or three notes on one string and then continue on the next string. Today, let’s try playing scales across the strings, like you would arpeggiate a chord. Done properly we can create lush, harp-like ringing, legato scales.

When We Were Six

Calley Bliss and I will be performing a last minute show this Saturday, January 14, at Brooklyn’s Goodbye Blue Monday. We’ll be playing music we’ve been writing for our latest project, When We Were Six. Our last show was in July, just before Calley took an opportunity that pulled her out of the city. Chances [...]

2012

I’m excited about 2012. Jill and I visited family and friends in St. Louis over the holidays and had a wonderfully exhausting time. We capped off the trip with a 17 hour drive with our cats, Grandma’s piano, and Grandpa’s rocking chair in tow, all successfully unloaded at 4am in chilly Brooklyn.

Christmas Music

It’s that time of year again! As many of you may know, I’ve recorded a few Christmas albums in the past. There’s nothing new to the catalog this year, but in case you haven’t downloaded these in the past and need to add something to your playlist this year, here are some options. They’re all destined to be classics, so you might as well be among the first of your friends to own them, right?

Listen While You Read

<a href="http://music.cameronmizell.com/album/tributary">Tributary by Cameron Mizell</a>

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