I had the fortune of spending a few days in Clarksdale Mississippi last week. Blues fans will know Clarksdale as "birthplace of the blues" and home to "The Crossroads", the junction between highway 61 and highway 49, where legend has it Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil so he could learn to play the blues.

To spare you the trouble of going through the whole selling-your-soul bit, here's a quick and easy little blues riff played by Robert Johnson that you can learn with the help of an mp3 and tab.

For all you singer-songwriters out there... here's a suggestion for a great not-so-well-known cover... The Zombies' "The Way I Feel Inside". This would be a great way to show off your vocal prowess (listen to "The Way I Feel Inside" at YouTube). I'm not permitted to tell you (or link to) the guitar chords, but if you study this YouTube video of a guy covering the song on acoustic guitar you may be able to pick them up yourself.

For those of you who aren't familiar with The Zombies, I *really* highly recommend Odessey and Oracle.

Weezer has made the single "Memories" from their upcoming album Hurley available for free download. The mp3 is available for direct download from Spinner.com - no registration is required.

If you've always been a little bit curious about the "tapping" technique, guitarist Kristopher Dahl has a YouTube video outlining the basics of guitar tapping. Not a ton of substance here, but it does a good job of displaying the fundamental technique used in tapping.