January 17, 2025 Just a little playing and a short tutorial on fingerpicking were on today’s agenda. I started the Update with some of my tune Tickle Me, then had a couple short announcements, and ...
January 3, 2025 Heading into the New Year I thought I would put together some thoughts on alternate tunings, particularly D-based ones. The hope is to show that it does not have to be as ...
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 ...