June 27, 2025, Today’s Update started with some improvising in the key of D. This led me to talking about chord progressions that use secondary dominant chords, which related to the progression I started with. ...
November 15, 2024 Neil Young had a birthday this week so I had some of his songs and albums on my mind heading into the TG news. I think I mentioned most of them by ...
October 4, 2024 It is October and high time to get started refreshing your Christmas tunes, more on that later… I had some Beatles songs running through my head today, and eventually did get to ...
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 ...