In addition to his work as a composing and performing musician, John Miller has close to forty years experience as a music teacher, having begun teaching privately while still in high school. He is available for private instruction in finger-picked Folk guitar, Country Blues guitar, Brazilian guitar, Music theory and chord voicing and composition. John offers private lessons in Bellingham and Seattle (see contact information), and can do lessons through the mail, as well. He currently offers audio-only Country Blues guitar lessons through the Country Blues website.
John has extensive experience teaching groups, with many years service teaching at such music camps as Puget Sound Guitar Workshop, Georgia Strait Workshop, BC Swing Camp, the California Coast Music Camp, the Port Townsend Country Blues Workshop, Augusta National Heritage’s Bluesweek and the European Blues Association’s Bluesweek.
John has also done a series of instructional DVDs for Stefan Grossman’s Guitar Workshop, as part of the 800 series focusing on Country Blues guitar greats. John has done separate DVDs on the music of:
 Mississippi John Hurt (two volumes) |
 Elizabeth Cotten |
 Bo Carter |
 Furry Lewis |
 Robert Wilkins |
 Memphis Blues Guitar |
 Texas Blues Guitar |
 Introduction to Chord Theory & Chord Voicing: 2 DVD Set |
Country Blues/Jazz Standards/Original Compositions: Transcriptions by Artist
Here is a list of transcriptions that I have done that are not available on my instructional DVDs. Cost of a lesson for a song I've already transcribed is $55 postpaid, in the USA, $60 international. Cost of a lesson that requires me to do a new transcription is $65 postpaid in the U.S.A. and $70 international. A lesson consists of TAB plus a CD on which I talk through the song in detail, including left and right hand efficiencies of motion, fingering and picking tips, etc. Payment must be made in advance either online at www.paypal.com (use my email address, john@johnmillerguitar.com) or by check sent to my address:
- John M. Miller
- 3115 Firwood Avenue
- Bellingham, WA 98225
Contact me in advance via email before ordering any lesson that will require a new transcription of a song not included on the list below. Turn-around time on lessons is generally less than a week, if I'm not traveling. I will add songs to the lists below as I perform new transcriptions and keep the lists updated.
Country Blues
- Baby Tate--Hey Mama Hey Pretty Girl
- Big Bill Broonzy--Hey Hey Baby, Bull Cow Blues, Long Tall Mama
- Blind Blake--Playing Policy Blues, One Time Blues, Doin' A Stretch, Black Dog Blues
- Blind Boy Fuller--Weeping Willow Blues, Untrue Blues, I Crave My Pigmeat
- Blind Lemon Jefferson--One Dime Blues, Shucking Sugar, Black Horse Blues
- Blind Willie McTell--Drive Away Blues
- Bo Carter--Honey, I Get The Blues, Who's Been Here?, Your Biscuits Are Big Enough For Me, Cigarette Blues, Get Back Old Devil, The Law Gonna Step on You, Sue Cow, Old Shoe Blues
- Buddy Boy Hawkins--Snatch It Back Blues
- Buddy Moss--New Lovin' Blues, Unkind Woman, Oh Lordy Mama, Insane Blues
- Carl Martin--Old Time Blues
- Charley Jordan--Hunkie Tunkie Blues, Keep It Clean, Big Four Blues
- Clifford Gibson--Bad Luck Dice
- Curley Weaver--Some Rainy Day, Trixie
- Dick Justice--Brownskin Blues
- Ed Bell--Mean Conductor Blues, Hambone Blues
- Edward Thompson--West Virginia Blues
- Etta Baker--Dew Drop
- Funny Papa Smith--Tell It To The Judge, Pt. 1
- Gabriel Brown -- Going My Way
- Henry Johnson--Crow Jane
- John Jackson--Steamboat Whistle Blues
- John Miller--arr. Bull Doze Blues, Titanic, I Never Cried, arr. Try Me One More Time, Muskrat Ramble, When We All Get Home/Ginny's Frolic, Wild About My Lovin', Motherless Child
- Joseph Spence--Face To Face That I Shall Know Him
- Lane Hardin--Hard Time Blues
- Libba Cotten--When I Get Home, 'Til We Meet Again, Jesus Is Tenderly Calling, Sweet Bye and Bye, What A Friend We Have in Jesus, Look and Live My Brother
- Lightnin' Hopkins--Crawlin' Black Snake
- Luke Jordan--Church Bell Blues, Won't You Be Kind?
- Mance Lipscomb--Goin' Down Slow, Silver City Bound, If I Miss the Train, 'Bout A Spoonful, Charlie James, One Thin Dime, Ain't You Sorry?
- Mississippi John Hurt--Nobody Cares For Me, Got the Blues Can't Be Satisfied , Keep On Knocking, Stackerlee, Coffee Blues, Blessed Be The Name Of The Lord, Cow Hooking Blues, Salty Dog, Trouble I've Had It All My Days, Casey Jones
- Peg Leg Howell--Low-Down Rounder Blues
- Rev. Gary Davis--Cocaine Blues, Candyman, Devil's Dream, I Decided To Go Down
- Sam McGee--Franklin Blues
- Scrapper Blackwell--Goin' Where The Monon Crosses the Yellow Dog, Trouble Blues
- Shirley Griffith--Meet Me In The Bottom, River Line Blues, Saturday Blues
- Son House--Depot Blues
- Tarheel Slim--No Time At All
- Tommy Johnson--Canned Heat Blues, Lonesome Home Blues
- Tommy McClennan--New Highway 51 Blues
- Walter Roland--Guitar Rag
- William Moore--Old Country Rock, One Way Gal
- Yank Rachell--Matchbox Blues
Jazz Standards
- Blue Moon
- Brazil
- My Foolish Heart
- Patricia
- The Nearness of You
- This Could Be the Start of Something Big
John Miller Originals
- Amor de mi Vida
- Don't Wake Me Up I Might Stop Dreaming
- Jalapenos
- The Singing Moon
- Souvenir de Caracas