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, ...
June 28, 2024 What do George Harrison, Michel Legrand, Leon Russell, Rodgers & Hart, and even yours truly, have in common with Randy California and Jimmy Page? The answer may be obvious when you hear ...
June 21, 2024 This week there was a lot more playing and only a bit of News to talk about. A list of the tunes I remember touching on will be at the end. As ...
June 14, 2024 This week I spent a little time with some guitar players in the Phoenix Guitar League. One of the main topics of conversation was harmonics, and particularly artificial harmonics. This is a ...
June 7, 2024 This week’s events and TG additions were driven by, or at least inspired by requests and suggestions from students. I was asked by a couple students about what we had at TG ...
May 31, 2024 Today’s Update started with some musings on one of our new lessons this week. Nesh brought us Willie Nelson’s version of Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain and For A Long Time ...
May 24, 2024 This week I was still ruminating on Rolling Stones and quite a few of them made their way into today’s Update, along with a couple Dylan tunes. One of those demonstrates a ...