September 23, 2022 The re-entry to the real world is almost complete as our 2022 International Guitar Camp is now in the rear view mirror. Plans for next year are underway, but we managed to ...
September 9, 2022 Back at home for a few days before IGC and the recent John Denver lesson on Sunshine On My Shoulders was running through my head at the start of the Update. The ...
August 26, 2022 This weekend the family is spending a few days at the beach, just south of Santa Cruz, here in Northern California. It is amazing how prepping for a few days away with ...
August 12, 2022 Today I opened with a short practice session where I am relearning a passage I have played the same way for over 40 years. I recently took a new look at it ...
August 5, 2022 Recently I have been doing some housecleaning, or at least reorganizing here at TG, which brought a lot of things to my attention. One of the outcomes in this is revisiting some ...
June 17, 2022 Big weekend ahead, for a few reasons I mention in the Update: Family birthdays, famous musician’s birthdays, Father’s Day (although health issues at TG Central will keep that pretty quiet, and semi-quarantined), ...
June 10, 2022 Continuing with last week’s opening style, today I started with another old piece of mine that has not been officially released anywhere yet. One Step Beyond was probably the first piece I ...
June 3, 2022 Today a tune I wrote about 20 years ago popped into my head as the camera started rolling. I can never be sure how things like that will shake out, but it ...
May 20, 2022 Today’s opening riffs were taken from recent students’ problems that I figured were issues for many guitar students – sliding into notes to embellish a riff. There are some good tips offered ...
May 6, 2022 As I was heading to the studio to shoot the News a little jazz was playing around the house, coincidentally a tune I recorded back in the early 1990s. I had to ...