July 7, 2023 I had an interesting revelation last night that had me rethinking my approach to just picking up the guitar and blasting into a difficult song. Coincidentally, there was an email in my ...
June 30, 2023 Halfway through the year and today’s update included a lot of playing and just a small bit of talking. The main thoughts had to do with harmonizing a melody, particularly looking at ...
June 23, 2023 I have been away the last few days and somehow managed to not get distracted too much by music and TG stuff while Nani and I played tourists in San Francisco. As ...
June 16, 2023 This week we added a couple lessons that were not really even on my radar or schedule until last week, thanks to a couple students who were working on them. I realized ...
June 9, 2023 A couple new Student Reviews, a White Stripes Electric Lesson, and some thoughts on Dropped D Tuning were the topics of the week. Max brought us a lesson on The Hardest Button ...
June 2, 2023 This week I thought it was time for a little music theory lesson or review, depending on where you are in that world. I started with a piece that I needed to ...
May 26, 2023 Today’s musical forays included a standard from more than 100 years ago, along with bits of other standards that crossed my path about 50 years ago, a John Renbourn tune that I ...
May 19, 2023 Runaway, a hit for Del Shannon way back in 1961, was on my mind at the start of today’s update. We recently put up a lesson from Nesh on it and last ...
May 12, 2023 Today’s Update was book-ended by a Neil Young improv and a rusty original of mine. My personal project this week was what are calling The Deep Cuts Project. Most of our folks ...
May 5, 2023 May started with the passing of one of my favorite artists, Gordon Lightfoot. He certainly had big health challenges over the last 20 years but was able to end his recording career ...