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 ...
April 29, 2022 I started the camera today and something in G was trying to get out of the guitar. I hope you like the opening improv. My plan for today was to talk a ...
April 22, 2022, We are entering the week of our 13th anniversary. Today’s update included a couple improvs, a couple birthday wishes, and a gardening interruption. Enjoy, Neil