It is hot and smoky in Northern California and we are prepping TG Central for some evacuated relatives from the Santa Cruz Mountains, which has led to a little blip in lesson production, hopefully back ...
The big news this week is that I am thrilled that we were able to get Bob McAlpine on board as a contributor here at TG. His first lesson went live earlier this week and ...
Stevie Wonder has been getting a bit of airplay around TG Central lately, but more on that next week. It just led to a little attempt at one of his signature riffs. We will see ...
A couple weeks ago we were listening to a radio show a relative does on KTUH in Honolulu, Sunday mornings at 9:00 on the West Coast. He played something that grabbed my attention and more ...
A lot of Golden Oldies running through my head today, this week and next, as far as lessons. It was Gypsy Woman that sent me down the path to my opening improvs. The 1970 hit ...
For a couple weeks now I have been working with some students on Beatles arrangements, partly drive by a CD I made about 30 years ago, A Beatles Collection, which is still available at various ...
Today’s headline is about Doug Young, who is back on board as a regular instructor/contributor, as you may have figured out with this week’s lesson on his DADGAD arrangement of I Will by The Beatles. ...
Today I started with a few lessons that people have had questions about lately and I would like some help with suggestions as to what might be added to make the lessons clearer. A couple ...
As June winds down I am happy to say that one of my personal goals is running along nicely. That is the plan of coming out with some mega-lessons (at least in my mind) that ...
The last few weeks the main song running through my mind, and dropping into many recent Weekly Updates, has been Walk Away Renée, enough to justify 2 lessons on it. I think I can finally ...