November 25, 2022 This holiday week was completely different than any other year in Hogan family history. Details are in the Update, along with some improvs on Christmas tunes. Most of this was inspired by ...
November 18, 2022 Rev. Gary Davis, Hot Tuna, and even Peter, Paul & Mary crept into today’s Update, mostly with respect to upcoming plans. Some of this is part of a request from last week ...
November 11, 2022 A suggestion came up recently that I should do a complete lesson on Death Don’t Have No Mercy by Rev. Gary Davis. This seemed like a great idea, especially considering I was ...
November 4, 2022 Beatles arrangements started today’s Update. I got a request from a student to put up an arrangement of In My Life that was not as difficult as one I did a few ...
October 28, 2022 Melody, melody, melody… this is what was my focus this week. It even got a bit out of control and prevented me from finishing a lesson that was on the schedule (not ...
October 21, 2022 This week I finally got to a lesson I had planned on many years ago, but got sidetracked (imagine that!) and it fell off the map. A recent request from a student ...
October 14, 2022 This week we added a lesson on a classic tune made famous by Frank Sinatra in 1965, It Was A Very Good Year. The haunting song was written a few years earlier ...
October 7, 2022 This week’s new lesson was Neil Young’s One Of These Days, from his 1992 album Harvest Moon. Like many of his songs, it is in Double Dropped D Tuning, which adds lots ...
September 30, 2022 We have been listening to a lot of jazz around here recently, partly inspired by a new album from a friend of mine, Jim Witzel, with more on him in the update. ...
September 23, 2022 The re-entry to the real world is almost complete as our 2022 International Guitar Camp is now in the rear view mirror. Plans for next year are underway, but we managed to ...