April 10th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 607, “Does Tone Come From The Hands?”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Fender Telecaster
05:21 - Hellooo, friends!
06:00 - Playing: Coming up with some Michael Jackson tunes
08:10 - "Killer Chorus" / Michael Jackson and greats making great noises
09:25 - "How do you come up with flow of ideas?"
11:25 - Paul McCartney
11:52 - Lesson: Get a motif going and then start fucking with it / Putting melodies to it
13:30 - "If you don't practice improvising, how are you ever going to get better at it?" / Pre-Internet practice
14:59 - Lesson: Weakness tentativeness
15:38 - "How much tone is in the hands?" = 95%, the other 5% in gear is important!  :|
16:36 - The most interesting video - Tonal shading of 10 different individual guitar players
18:41 - Danny Dugmore story about David Grissom and tone from the hands / Gear settings are in the ear
22:56 - Summation / Play the Middle Way (not too much and not too little)


Notes
The age old question that we are all SOOOO sick of finally gets definitely answered Cleveland style.

I even did one of those super dumb thumbnail pictures to match my clickbait video title…cuz it seemed appropriate