February 4, 2022 Today I started with some improvising in A Minor, which led to a discussion on descending bass lines in minor keys. There are numerous songs that do this and I mentioned a ...
January 28, 2022 John Renbourn’s Snap A Little Owl popped into my head just as I started the camera and I figured I might as well see what kind of shape it was in. As ...
January 21, 2022 After a few computer issues I was able to finish the promised lesson on my solo arrangement of Long, Long Time. I also spent more time than usual this week playing and ...
January 14, 2022 I had a lot of fun with this week’s new lessons. Song For Juli is one that has intrigued me for almost 50 years since I first got Jesse Colin Young’s album ...
January 7, 2022 I have still have Get Back, the Beatles recent documentary playing in the background around here, although I think it has just about run its course. It inspired most of our recent ...
December 17, 2021 Bits and pieces of Father Christmas, White Christmas, The Long And Winding Road, and even Wish You Were Here (Swedish pop from the 1990s, courtesy of Blackmore’s Night) were the musical parts ...
December 10, 2021 Today I started with a bit of Art Of Dying and played a bit of Penny Lane along the way. I am still pretty wrapped up in the Beatles Get Back documentary ...
December 3, 2021 I recently watched the Get Back documentary by Peter Jackson on the January, 1969 sessions The Beatles did working on the album that became ‘Let It Be’, which turned out to be ...
November 19, 2021 I am still working on lessons from Abbey Road. This week it was She Came In Through The Bathroom Window, which I attempted to play instrumentally at the top of today’s News. ...
November 12, 2021 Today is Neil Young’s birthday, he is now 76 and still making relevant music. I have really been enjoying revisiting his mid-1970s albums, which are included on Archives Volume II, another 10-CD ...