July 31, 2026 Jerry Garcia was on my mind when the camera got to rolling, so a few of his melodies started today’s Update. We got another Ella Langley lesson from Nesh–Be Her, to go ...
July 24, 2026 A student recently wanted to learn Do You Know The Way To San Jose, which brought the song back into my orbit and…what a great piece of music by Burt Bacharach and ...
July 17, 2027 Last week it was Simon & Garfunkel and this week it was The Eagles that were in heavy rotation around TG Central. A little bit of Desperado to start, some Jethro Tull ...
July 10, 2026 This week I revisited a bunch of Paul Simon’s songs, partly because a couple students were working on his songs. That inspired today’s opening improv, and a couple others later. You should ...
July 3, 2026 Due to changing circumstances on the home front, I am moving and purging a lot of stuff. This means over 60 years of musical memories in books and instruments. In honor of ...
June 26, 2026 This week I spent a little time revisiting some of my Gordon Lightfoot albums, which inspired a new lesson on Rainy Day People. The lesson includes a short solo, really chord solo, ...
June 19, 2026 A bit of my personal philosophy and thoughts on teaching technique and strategy was on the agenda today. The approach, sometimes referred to as The Hogan Guitar Method around here, is based ...
June 12, 2026 This week I had a couple students working with 3-string triads on the top strings (1st, 2nd & 3rd), and I thought to combine ideas on the three families (E, A & ...
June 5, 2026 This week I planned to do more playing than talking but ran into an unforeseen obstacle when I picked up the guitar this morning to test out some Hot Tuna and Jorma ...
May 29, 2026 Since last week’s Update was mostly a personal journal of the recent weeks I thought today I would answer some recent questions from students and the TG Community. The topic of the ...