February 7, 2025 Hot Tuna, Rev. Gary Davis and Blind Blake were on my mind this week, and as the camera started rolling I felt a little Death Don’t Have No Mercy coming on. It ...
January 31, 2025 A few new lessons this week- Nesh brought us another tune from Passenger, Golden Leaves, and Doctor My Eyes by Jackson Browne. I finally got around to Stephen Stills’ iconic Carry On, ...
January 24, 2025 Cat Stevens and Chord Solos were on my mind this week. I tend to go on binges of listening to a specific artist or artists. This week it was Cat Stevens and ...
January 17, 2025 Just a little playing and a short tutorial on fingerpicking were on today’s agenda. I started the Update with some of my tune Tickle Me, then had a couple short announcements, and ...
January 3, 2025 Heading into the New Year I thought I would put together some thoughts on alternate tunings, particularly D-based ones. The hope is to show that it does not have to be as ...
December 20, 2024 This week we discovered that our lessons at Totally Guitars now include closed captions, an upgrade from our server that we are thrilled with. Only lessons since 2022 include them automatically but ...
December 13, 2024 This week we published a Free Lesson on Carol Of The Bells, a not-too-difficult look at the main themes with some variations. That traditional Ukrainian melody kicked off today’s Update, leading into ...
December 6, 2024 Last week I played a bit of some of the songs from our new strumming packs (Neil’s Top Strumming Songs Volumes 1 & 2) and a few of my students wanted to ...
November 30, 2024 Thanksgiving week was a huge blast around the Hogan house, so the only News I have is that we released a couple new strumming packs, based on some of my recent lists. ...