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, ...
This week I revisited a record that made a big impression on me in the late 1970s, Finger Style Guitar Solos by Guy Van Duser. Guy’s sound and arrangements owe a lot to Chet Atkins ...
This week I made a quick trip to Phoenix to host a meeting of The Guitar League. A small group got together Tuesday night at a Marriott Hotel and I think they all got something ...
Channeling Sweet Baby James at the top of the update, partially inspired by the Josh Turner thread on the Forum this week, led into a short talk about 12-bar blues, along the lines of Steamroller ...
Today I had some eclectic tunes run through my head, and then attempted to run through them with quite a range of results. I seem to remember The Last Steam Engine Train, Tickle Me, Paprika, ...
A little flat picking to lead off today’s update, including some songs with the capo way up the neck as inspired by this week’s Fly On The Wall video where Bill was working on John ...
This week the sun has finally come back to Northern California but I am sorry for those in the MidWest with the big storms that have been rolling through. As we get into St. Patrick’s ...
This update had quite a bit of playing in it, and not too much information. I need to brush up on a couple pieces for a service I am doing tomorrow and ran through quick ...
After a weekend of traveling, (through some countryside that is flooding badly at the moment – The Russian River in Sonoma County) we are back at TG Central and grinding away with students and arrangements. ...