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Totally Guitars Weekly Update December 20, 2024Category: TG Blogs
A short improv in A Minor started today’s update and a stab at an instrumental version of one of this week’s new lessons wrapped it up. In between there were some thoughts on graduation season, ...
John Fahey was on my mind this week, along with a couple dozen other things that cross the airwaves in today’s update. He was a huge influence on me as a teenager, which also made ...
This morning I had a couple interesting lessons which led to topics I addresses in today’s update. One was holding notes to keep voices independent in John Renbourn’s Judy, and the other was about the ...
After a week of traveling I am back at TG Central and toiling away at my favorite pastime, working with students and sketching out new lessons. The latest from me was a journey through some ...
Continuing a thread from last week, a few of my students came in this week with theory questions and I thought I would use this week’s update to elaborate on a lesson with Larry where ...
A little theory never hurt anyone, right? I hope everybody takes some time to watch this week’s FOTW lesson with Wiley. He barely touched his guitar and we talked theory for an hour… Intervals, triads, ...
This week I revisited a record that made a big impression on me in the late 1970s, Finger Style Guitar Solos by Guy Van Duser. Guy’s sound and arrangements owe a lot to Chet Atkins ...
This week I made a quick trip to Phoenix to host a meeting of The Guitar League. A small group got together Tuesday night at a Marriott Hotel and I think they all got something ...
Channeling Sweet Baby James at the top of the update, partially inspired by the Josh Turner thread on the Forum this week, led into a short talk about 12-bar blues, along the lines of Steamroller ...
Today I had some eclectic tunes run through my head, and then attempted to run through them with quite a range of results. I seem to remember The Last Steam Engine Train, Tickle Me, Paprika, ...
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