July 21, 2023 The big news this week is we are hosting an instructional Webinar tomorrow, Saturday, July 22 at noon Pacific time. Most of you should have gotten a couple emails over the last ...
July 14, 2023 Today’s Update was book-ended with surf and blues, from the 1960s and back to the 1950s. Both of these were inspired by lessons I had this week with students. The rest of ...
July 7, 2023 I had an interesting revelation last night that had me rethinking my approach to just picking up the guitar and blasting into a difficult song. Coincidentally, there was an email in my ...
June 30, 2023 Halfway through the year and today’s update included a lot of playing and just a small bit of talking. The main thoughts had to do with harmonizing a melody, particularly looking at ...
June 23, 2023 I have been away the last few days and somehow managed to not get distracted too much by music and TG stuff while Nani and I played tourists in San Francisco. As ...
June 16, 2023 This week we added a couple lessons that were not really even on my radar or schedule until last week, thanks to a couple students who were working on them. I realized ...
June 9, 2023 A couple new Student Reviews, a White Stripes Electric Lesson, and some thoughts on Dropped D Tuning were the topics of the week. Max brought us a lesson on The Hardest Button ...
June 2, 2023 This week I thought it was time for a little music theory lesson or review, depending on where you are in that world. I started with a piece that I needed to ...
May 26, 2023 Today’s musical forays included a standard from more than 100 years ago, along with bits of other standards that crossed my path about 50 years ago, a John Renbourn tune that I ...
May 19, 2023 Runaway, a hit for Del Shannon way back in 1961, was on my mind at the start of today’s update. We recently put up a lesson from Nesh on it and last ...