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 ...
September 17, 2022 A day later than usual, this week’s update is a look back at our International Guitar Camp that just wrapped up yesterday. Our long-time camper Lynn joined me to talk about the ...
September 9, 2022 Back at home for a few days before IGC and the recent John Denver lesson on Sunshine On My Shoulders was running through my head at the start of the Update. The ...
August 26, 2022 This weekend the family is spending a few days at the beach, just south of Santa Cruz, here in Northern California. It is amazing how prepping for a few days away with ...
August 19, 2022 Lately I have been playing and practicing a lot of pieces I might call ‘war horses’, basically instrumentals I consider advanced and complex. There are some reasons and excuses offered up in ...
August 12, 2022 Today I opened with a short practice session where I am relearning a passage I have played the same way for over 40 years. I recently took a new look at it ...