June 28, 2024 What do George Harrison, Michel Legrand, Leon Russell, Rodgers & Hart, and even yours truly, have in common with Randy California and Jimmy Page? The answer may be obvious when you hear ...
June 21, 2024 This week there was a lot more playing and only a bit of News to talk about. A list of the tunes I remember touching on will be at the end. As ...
June 14, 2024 This week I spent a little time with some guitar players in the Phoenix Guitar League. One of the main topics of conversation was harmonics, and particularly artificial harmonics. This is a ...
June 7, 2024 This week’s events and TG additions were driven by, or at least inspired by requests and suggestions from students. I was asked by a couple students about what we had at TG ...
May 31, 2024 Today’s Update started with some musings on one of our new lessons this week. Nesh brought us Willie Nelson’s version of Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain and For A Long Time ...
May 24, 2024 This week I was still ruminating on Rolling Stones and quite a few of them made their way into today’s Update, along with a couple Dylan tunes. One of those demonstrates a ...
May 17, 2024 A couple Rolling Stones tunes were running through my head today, and I realized I don’t think I have done any instrumental arrangements of their tunes. I will pursue this a bit ...
May 10, 2024 This week was a bit disrupted as the Hogan family welcomed our first grandson into the fold. Iokepa Anthony Hogan Frausto joined the clan on Monday, May 6 and all are doing ...
May 3, 2024 Just getting back into the swing of things after a really fun International Guitar Camp last weekend. I talked a bit about some of the events at camp, mentioned our recent new ...
April 19, 2024 Just a couple things on my mind today made it into the News – a bit of another Alan Parsons tune that is under construction, suggestions about adding YouTube videos to lesson ...