Freebo
From Bonnie Raitt, Ringo Starr, Neil Young
FREEBO is an award-winning singer/songwriter (2008 Posi Award for “Best Song”in The Most Uniting Category, The '07 Los Angeles Music Awards “Best Folk Artist”, Winner '07 South Florida Songwriting Contest, finalist in 2009 The Great American Songwriting Contest), but he is probably best known as a Folk-Rock-Blues Icon. For 30 years, Freebo played bass on recordings and toured with some of the great artists of our time--people like Bonnie Raitt (10 years), John Mayall ... (more)
Freebo currently offers 26 guitar lessons at JamPlay, with 26 lessons in our Artist Series.
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Freebo Artist Series
Freebo, acclaimed bassist, guitar player and songwriter walks you through the craft of writing and playing songs.
Introducing Freebo
In the first lesson of his artist series, Freebo introduces himself as both a person and musician. He moves on to talk about his guitar, choice of strings and even throws in a bit of philosophy.
31:15 Runtime
3.0 Difficulty
Tuning Your Guitar
Freebo jumps into his first official lesson on the basics of the guitar. Before anything else, you must learn how to tune your guitar. Walk through the process with Freebo in this lesson.
15:53 Runtime
1.0 Difficulty
Basic Theory
Freebo touches on some basic theory in this lesson, including the very helpful I-IV-V progression. He uses a keyboard for visual reference.
33:51 Runtime
2.0 Difficulty
Introduction to Songwriting
Freebo starts talking about basic songwriting in this lesson. He uses an original song, "She's My D.O.G." as an example, which is a simple I-IV-V progression in the key of E.
18:30 Runtime
2.0 Difficulty
Basic Song Structure
Freebo talks about basic song structure in this lesson, covering the verse, chorus and bridge. He uses his original song, "If Not Now When" as an example.
24:45 Runtime
2.5 Difficulty
Relative Minors
Freebo continues his discussion on songwriting with a lesson on relative minor chords.
17:00 Runtime
2.5 Difficulty
Chord Inversions
In his newest lesson, Freebo talks about chord inversions.
28:38 Runtime
2.5 Difficulty
Seventh Chords
Freebo talks all about seventh chords in this lesson.
22:17 Runtime
2.5 Difficulty
The Pentatonic Scale
In this lesson, Freebo gets bluesy and takes a close look at the pentatonic scale.
24:32 Runtime
2.5 Difficulty
Circle of Fifths
Freebo takes some time to talk about the circle of fifths.
13:18 Runtime
2.5 Difficulty
Alternative Chord Progressions
Freebo uses his original song, "My Personal GPS," to demonstrate concepts such as blues riffs, slash chords, and secondary dominant chords.
24:55 Runtime
3.0 Difficulty
The Songwriting Process
To help explain his songwriting process, Freebo talks about his thoughts and choices behind one of his original songs - "When There's No Place Like Home".
32:46 Runtime
2.5 Difficulty
Picking Techniques
Freebo talks about some picking techniques using an original song called "To The Light" as an example.
30:35 Runtime
2.5 Difficulty
Pedaling
In lesson 14, Freebo uses an original song, "How Do I Say Goodbye," to talk about pedaling.
26:00 Runtime
2.5 Difficulty
Trouble
In this lesson, Freebo teaches an original song called "Trouble." This catchy tune provides a great opportunity to practice more right hand technique.
30:02 Runtime
2.5 Difficulty
Time Signatures
Freebo takes some time to talk about time signatures in this lesson. He uses two songs as examples and also touches a little more on groove.
39:16 Runtime
2.5 Difficulty
Right Hand Groove
Freebo talks about right hand rhythm and groove using two original songs as examples: "The Beauty Of Life" and "Sometimes It's For Nothin'."
37:43 Runtime
2.5 Difficulty
The Rule of Two
Freebo takes some time to talk about the "rule of two" and how it can be useful in songwriting. He uses a couple song examples to show how it works, including one of his originals, "We Are All One People."
32:36 Runtime
2.0 Difficulty
Alternate Tunings: Drop D
In this lesson, Freebo talks about drop D tuning using his original song, "A Soldier At War" as an example.
16:42 Runtime
2.5 Difficulty
Alternate Tunings: Double Drop D
Freebo continues his discussion on alternate tunings with a lesson on double drop D tuning. He uses an original song called "More Like You" as an example.
18:04 Runtime
2.0 Difficulty
Partial Capo
Freebo talks about partial capos and shares some cool ideas for using them. He uses his original song, "She Loves My Dog More Than Me" as an example.
32:08 Runtime
2.0 Difficulty
It Goes By Fast
Freebo talks about his original song "It Goes By Fast". He uses this song to talk about his songwriting process.
25:56 Runtime
2.5 Difficulty
Before the Separation
Freebo continues his partial capo and songwriting discussion using one of his original tunes, "Before the Separation," as an example.
23:08 Runtime
2.0 Difficulty
Something to Believe
Freebo continues the topic of the partial capo and songwriting by using his tune "Something to Believe" from the album of the same name.
16:17 Runtime
2.5 Difficulty
On The Parallel Together
Freebo continues his discussion on partial capos in relation to songwriting using two of his original songs - "On the Parallel Together" and " That's What Love Is."
22:24 Runtime
2.5 Difficulty
Standing Ovation
Freebo leaves us with one last lesson in this series; he performs a beautiful song called "Standing Ovation". He also concludes his discussion on songwriting and partial capos, and gives his final thoughts on the series.
26:26 Runtime
2.5 Difficulty
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