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 ...
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 ...
February 23, 2024 We have scheduled a couple exciting things for the very near future. The first is that it is about time for another live event. On Saturday March 2 we will host a ...
December 15, 2023 Lately there have been some great requests for lessons on the Forum, and I check them all out. A couple recent requests became topics for discussion this week. One started a foray ...
October 27, 2023 I am almost feeling back in the swing of things now. I did manage to get to work on a couple upcoming lessons, and even got back in the teaching studio for ...
July 14, 2023 Today’s Update was book-ended with surf and blues, from the 1960s and back to the 1950s. Both of these were inspired by lessons I had this week with students. The rest of ...
July 7, 2023 I had an interesting revelation last night that had me rethinking my approach to just picking up the guitar and blasting into a difficult song. Coincidentally, there was an email in my ...
May 26, 2023 Today’s musical forays included a standard from more than 100 years ago, along with bits of other standards that crossed my path about 50 years ago, a John Renbourn tune that I ...
May 19, 2023 Runaway, a hit for Del Shannon way back in 1961, was on my mind at the start of today’s update. We recently put up a lesson from Nesh on it and last ...
May 12, 2023 Today’s Update was book-ended by a Neil Young improv and a rusty original of mine. My personal project this week was what are calling The Deep Cuts Project. Most of our folks ...