September 6, 2024 This week we brought out a couple tunes from the 1960s- It’s My Party by Leslie Gore and More Today Than Yesterday by Spiral Starecase. This inspired me to start with a ...
August 30, 2024 The response to last week’s instrumentals I ran through was so positive that I figured it was time to get to my list of heavily recommended instrumentals. Of course, we added a ...
August 23, 2024 John Renbourn has been on my mind a lot lately, obviously triggered by this week’s lesson on Cruel Sister from Pentangle’s album. I was inspired to get back to practicing some of ...
August 16, 2024 Just this morning I joined a small band of teachers at my daughter’s school (she teaches 4thgrade there). They were doing a few sing-alongs with the whole school and one of the ...
August 9, 2024 Continuing with my lists of favorite songs for students to work on, this week I mentioned some of my top intermediate fingerpicking lessons. These are mostly a bit more complex and varied ...
August 2, 2024 This week Nesh brought a new artist into the TG Library: Danny Vera and his song Roller Coaster. Danny is well known in The Netherlands, where Nesh grew up and still lives, ...
July 26, 2024 Getting back into lesson production this week, a song was brought to my attention by a student recently that was very interesting: Neil Diamond’s reworking of I’m A Believer. This appeared on ...
July 19, 2024 I recently took some unplanned time off playing and practicing, due to an ugly finger injury, but a few days ago got back into the swing of things. I had a lot ...
July 12, 2024 This week we rolled out some great new lesson packs. These are sets of 5-6 songs by a classic band. The new artist packs featured The Alan Parsons Project and REO Speedwagon, ...
July 5, 2024 This week I had tunes in the key of E running through my head, both major and minor. Listen closely and you might hear and you should recognize Jorma Kaukonen, Doc Watson, ...