March 15, 2024 Recently I talked a bit about swing time, which many people confuse with syncopation. Today I talked more about syncopation, what it is, how it is independent of swing, and then opened ...
March 8, 2024 A couple things happened in lessons with students that became subjects for today’s News. One was a question about swing time, which led to some improvising over 12-bar blues after examples from ...
March 1, 2024 A little Miles Davis flavored improv a la Kind Of Blue slipped out of my fingers at the start of today’s Update. The particular vamp was one of the first things I ...
February 23, 2024 We have scheduled a couple exciting things for the very near future. The first is that it is about time for another live event. On Saturday March 2 we will host a ...
February 16, 2024 I was traveling last weekend and am sorry not to have gotten to my Weekly Update. This week I had Dropped D tunes on my mind and started with a couple originals ...
February 2, 2024 Not much in the way of headlines or news this week, but a lot of tunes. Due to a recent lesson I have had Can’t Help Falling In Love running through my ...
January 26, 2024 Our 3-Minute Challenge inspired me to take a look at many of the pieces I have played over the years and see what kind of shape they were in. As expected, a ...
January 19, 2024 After being totally caught up in John Renbourn’s arrangement of The Earle Of Salisbury for way too long, the lesson is finally finished and I can get back to work on some ...
January 12, 2024 This week I have been obsessed with working on some John Renbourn pieces. One of which I opened the News with–The Earle Of Salisbury. I have been promising a lesson on this ...
January 5, 2024 Happy New Year Everybody! For the last week or so I have been trying to take the 3-Minute Challenge and apply it to a couple pieces I have struggled with for almost ...