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 ...
April 12, 2024 I mentioned last week at the end that frequently things pop up that I had not seen coming, or had planned to get into the lesson library. This week the Alan Parsons ...
April 5, 2024 A bit of a golden oldie started off today’s Update. For some reason I had a very old fake book on my mind which brought up Sweet Georgia Brown from the memory ...
March 29, 2024 A couple new, and unexpected lessons crossed our path and joined the TG Library this week. Last week it was I’ll Be Here In The Morning by Townes Van Zandt that cut ...
March 22, 2024 Music inspired by Pat Metheny, Alan Parsons, Townes Van Zandt, John Prine, and even Stevie Wonder crossed my strings today throughout the Update. And speaking of strings, they were brand new and ...
March 15, 2024 Recently I talked a bit about swing time, which many people confuse with syncopation. Today I talked more about syncopation, what it is, how it is independent of swing, and then opened ...
March 8, 2024 A couple things happened in lessons with students that became subjects for today’s News. One was a question about swing time, which led to some improvising over 12-bar blues after examples from ...