September 9, 2022 Back at home for a few days before IGC and the recent John Denver lesson on Sunshine On My Shoulders was running through my head at the start of the Update. The ...
August 26, 2022 This weekend the family is spending a few days at the beach, just south of Santa Cruz, here in Northern California. It is amazing how prepping for a few days away with ...
August 19, 2022 Lately I have been playing and practicing a lot of pieces I might call ‘war horses’, basically instrumentals I consider advanced and complex. There are some reasons and excuses offered up in ...
August 12, 2022 Today I opened with a short practice session where I am relearning a passage I have played the same way for over 40 years. I recently took a new look at it ...
August 5, 2022 Recently I have been doing some housecleaning, or at least reorganizing here at TG, which brought a lot of things to my attention. One of the outcomes in this is revisiting some ...
July 29, 2022 I looked at the calendar this morning and was surprised that it said ‘Friday, July 29’, mainly because of all the commotion around here the last couple days. With all the action ...
Welcome to the TG Blog and here is the News from July 22 – July 22, 2022 Just a couple days ago I was part of a very unusual wedding. I played a little guitar ...
July 15, 2022 Blues popped into my head as I started the camera today, specifically 12-bars in E, and generally a framework for James Taylor’s Steamroller Blues. I am looking at that tune and another, ...
July 8, 2022 Last week’s sign off led us into the 4th of July Weekend and mine turned out to be quite eventful. It started with an Al Stewart/Dave Nachmanoff show (opening for Don McLean), ...
July 1, 2022 Here we are into the second half of 2022 and things are still on the move at Totally Guitars. I was able to pull myself away from blog reorganization (more on that ...