December 20, 2024 This week we discovered that our lessons at Totally Guitars now include closed captions, an upgrade from our server that we are thrilled with. Only lessons since 2022 include them automatically but ...
December 13, 2024 This week we published a Free Lesson on Carol Of The Bells, a not-too-difficult look at the main themes with some variations. That traditional Ukrainian melody kicked off today’s Update, leading into ...
December 6, 2024 Last week I played a bit of some of the songs from our new strumming packs (Neil’s Top Strumming Songs Volumes 1 & 2) and a few of my students wanted to ...
November 30, 2024 Thanksgiving week was a huge blast around the Hogan house, so the only News I have is that we released a couple new strumming packs, based on some of my recent lists. ...
November 22, 2024 Our latest lesson was Singin’ Call by Stephen Stills, and since I still had my guitar in the D5 Tuning (DADDAD) today’s Update opened with some improvising and pieces of other Stills’ ...
November 15, 2024 Neil Young had a birthday this week so I had some of his songs and albums on my mind heading into the TG news. I think I mentioned most of them by ...
November 8, 2024 This week I had a chance to offer some particular advice to a couple students, which turned into keeping a log with the status of everything they had ever played. That became ...
We put out a couple interesting lessons this week, a slightly obscure Eagles’ tune and another big hit from David Gates and Bread. The Bread tune is Make It With You, featuring a lot of ...
October 25, 2024 The Five Man Electrical Band hit Signs, from 1971 was running through my head as I started the camera so it turned into the introductory music today. Along the way I also ...
October 18, 2024 You may have heard that I have been asked to play for a few hours at an event here in Los Gatos next Saturday, October 26. It has been many years since ...