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 ...
January 5, 2024 Happy New Year Everybody! For the last week or so I have been trying to take the 3-Minute Challenge and apply it to a couple pieces I have struggled with for almost ...
December 29, 2023 Just a little news and a couple tunes to end the year. We have a winner from our second week of the 3-Minute Challenge. It is ncrump93 who will join our Silver ...
December 22, 2023 The opening tunes today were some bouncy Christmas songs, one of which led to a little theory discussion later about dominant and secondary dominant chords. You can strains of Here Comes Santa ...
December 15, 2023 Lately there have been some great requests for lessons on the Forum, and I check them all out. A couple recent requests became topics for discussion this week. One started a foray ...
December 8, 2023 A classic Christmas Carol somehow materialized as I started today’s Update, which led into a bit of Ferry Cross The Mersey, one of this week’s new lessons. The other new lesson was ...
December 1, 2023 I hope everybody is back into their real-world routine after last week’s feast. A great time was had at the Hogan household, apart from a couple broken nails, putting lesson creation into ...
November 24, 2023 Just a little News this week, but snippets of a bunch of Christmas songs as they popped into my head. I realize I need to take my own advice and start brushing ...
A lot of News this week… November 17, 2023 A lot of News this week and a little less playing than usual, although I opened with some thoughts on The Earl Of Salisbury, as popularized ...
November 10, 2023 This week I stumbled into the new Beatles tune, Now And Then, and figured I had to put together a lesson on it. It is a slightly unusual progression, or really just ...