July 11, 2025, Recently I have been having a good time revisiting songs by Elton John, partially inspired by a couple students working on old songs of his (i.e. ones that came out when I ...
June 27, 2025, Today’s Update started with some improvising in the key of D. This led me to talking about chord progressions that use secondary dominant chords, which related to the progression I started with. ...
June 20, 2025 This was the week that was supposed to be the Hogan Ohana return to the real world after the family trip to Nani’s ancestral home. Last week I mentioned how the trip ...
June 13, 2025 Welcome to the Hogan Ohana Aloha Trip. Nani and I planned a trip for the whole family to Hawaii, which is why there was no update last week (17-hour delay on the ...
May 30, 2025 Continuing with my Dropped D adventures, I went through some of what was mentioned last week (Ladye Nothinge, and Embryonic Journey) and added some John Denver and John Fahey to the mix. ...
May 23, 2025 I have had Dropped-D Tuning on my radar lately, mostly due to an upcoming lesson that I talk about near the end of today’s Update, and I play some of Ladye Nothinge’s ...
May 15, 2025 Coming in a day early this week due to a trip I have to make tonight. We are heading to Morro Bay and staying in Los Osos, a place I have a ...
May 9, 2025 This week we had a couple nods to the world of jazz. We brought my old friend Jim Bruno back in the fold with his lesson on Misty, the way he or ...
May 2, 2025 Last weekend we held our Spring International Guitar Camp (IGC), and had a blast. Today’s Update started with a day-by-day recap, followed by a short lesson, or possibly another way of thinking ...
April 18, 2025 A really fun tune derailed my train this week as I got infatuated with arranging Itchycoo Park for solo guitar. The song is pretty infectious and gets stuck in your head. It ...