March 22, 2024 Music inspired by Pat Metheny, Alan Parsons, Townes Van Zandt, John Prine, and even Stevie Wonder crossed my strings today throughout the Update. And speaking of strings, they were brand new and ...
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 ...