We have been on the road for almost two weeks now, visiting a cousin in Kalamata, on a quiet coast in Greece, after seeing a bit of the hustle and bustle of Athens, and settled ...
Today I spent most of the Update just playing, starting with a bit of Misty inspired by Max’s lesson on it that was released this week. This also led into a short talk about barre ...
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve been able to get the Update rolling again, just a couple of minor setbacks after a short trip to Seattle but hopefully things are back on track. In ...
I Got A Feeling, as done by Pentangle in the 60’s, is an example of a jazzy 12-bar blues based on All Blues by Miles Davis. That was on my mind at the start of ...
A short improv in A Minor started today’s update and a stab at an instrumental version of one of this week’s new lessons wrapped it up. In between there were some thoughts on graduation season, ...
John Fahey was on my mind this week, along with a couple dozen other things that cross the airwaves in today’s update. He was a huge influence on me as a teenager, which also made ...
This morning I had a couple interesting lessons which led to topics I addresses in today’s update. One was holding notes to keep voices independent in John Renbourn’s Judy, and the other was about the ...
After a week of traveling I am back at TG Central and toiling away at my favorite pastime, working with students and sketching out new lessons. The latest from me was a journey through some ...
Continuing a thread from last week, a few of my students came in this week with theory questions and I thought I would use this week’s update to elaborate on a lesson with Larry where ...
A little theory never hurt anyone, right? I hope everybody takes some time to watch this week’s FOTW lesson with Wiley. He barely touched his guitar and we talked theory for an hour… Intervals, triads, ...