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 ...
April 7, 2023 A little Ralph McTell started today’s Update. I’m sure you can guess what song was on my mind, of course due to our now working video uploader. I hope more of our ...
March 31, 2023 After more than a year, we have big news about Totally Guitars – One of our most popular features, going back to the cave man days of 2009, was our Student Review ...
March 24, 2023 This week’s big news was an addition, or completion of our lesson on These Days by Jackson Browne. The ‘Campfire’ version has been up for at least 10 years and I had ...
March 17, 2023 This morning I was listening to an album that was a huge influence on me as a teenager – After The Ball by John Fahey. This led to me opening today’s Update ...
March 10, 2023 Here we are in the second week of March and I have been enjoying revisiting some old lessons that never got finished. Today I started with a bit of a Dave Van ...