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 ...
May 12, 2023 Today’s Update was book-ended by a Neil Young improv and a rusty original of mine. My personal project this week was what are calling The Deep Cuts Project. Most of our folks ...
May 5, 2023 May started with the passing of one of my favorite artists, Gordon Lightfoot. He certainly had big health challenges over the last 20 years but was able to end his recording career ...
April 28, 2023 Peter Frampton was the subject of the week around here. Thanks to a request on the Forum last week, I realized we had managed to neglect his songs for our first 14 ...
April 21, 2023 I got a request recently to do a lesson on my arrangement of I’ll Be Back by the Beatles. I used that as the opening to today’s Update, and eventually took a ...
April 14, 2023 A couple improvs to open and close today’s Update. At the top I was in a quiet, introspective mood and by the end it was blues in E, even something you could ...