January 20, 2023 We keep losing musical greats as the creative artists of the 70s get into their 80s. Recently it was Jeff Beck, and just a day or two ago David Crosby. So I ...
January 13, 2023 This week I spent a little time with Muriel Anderson and we did a live show from TG Central as part of her ongoing series Monday Live. You can catch the replay ...
January 6, 2023 Starting the year off, I had some suggestions for students at recent lessons that inspired the beginning of this week’s Update. Generally, play the hardest parts of songs a lot more times ...
December 16, 2022 Not a lot of News this week but quite a bit of improvising with Seasonal Favorites. I started with some ramblings on a tune I worked on in a friend’s studio yesterday ...
November 11, 2022 A suggestion came up recently that I should do a complete lesson on Death Don’t Have No Mercy by Rev. Gary Davis. This seemed like a great idea, especially considering I was ...
September 30, 2022 We have been listening to a lot of jazz around here recently, partly inspired by a new album from a friend of mine, Jim Witzel, with more on him in the update. ...
August 19, 2022 Lately I have been playing and practicing a lot of pieces I might call ‘war horses’, basically instrumentals I consider advanced and complex. There are some reasons and excuses offered up in ...
July 29, 2022 I looked at the calendar this morning and was surprised that it said ‘Friday, July 29’, mainly because of all the commotion around here the last couple days. With all the action ...
May 27, 2022 Last week a song came up in a message from a student. Dan was having a little trouble with Lindsey Buckingham’s Big Love (surprise, surprise!). It is a song I had considered ...