May 13, 2022 Today the keys of Bm and D grabbed my wanderings at the top of the video. A little later I stumbled through a couple ragtime pieces that I used to have in ...
March 18, 2022 Well, Spring seems to be on its way here in Northern California and TG Central is now hosting a couple families. We have baby hummingbirds with their beaks just starting to poke ...
January 21, 2022 After a few computer issues I was able to finish the promised lesson on my solo arrangement of Long, Long Time. I also spent more time than usual this week playing and ...
April 16, 2021 One of the subjects that popped up this week, particularly in a chat with Vanessa, but also referred to on the Forum this week, is how hard it can sometimes be for ...
April 9, 2021 This morning a song ran through the house that stuck in my head and I started the Update with it and turned it into a ‘Name That Tune’ contest. If anybody can ...
This week I put together a little musical education presentation for a group of 5th grade students at my wife’s school. I thought I would start what may become a regular series with some very ...
John Prine was on my mind today, of course. I really enjoyed listening to his first album again this morning, probably the first time in 30-40 years to go all the way through, top to ...
As we head into IGC week a lot of exciting things are happening here at TG. The rebuild continues, and adds a few bumps in the road as you may have noticed. We should have ...
This week I had a lot of fun finally getting around to a lesson that had been on my mind for years, a solo arrangement of Your Mother Should Know from the Beatles’ album Magical ...
It has been a few weeks since the last update and I am still reeling and recovering from the whirlwind that really started back in July with IGC Europe. Today’s update included some random improvs ...