March 1, 2024 A little Miles Davis flavored improv a la Kind Of Blue slipped out of my fingers at the start of today’s Update. The particular vamp was one of the first things I ...
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 ...
January 19, 2024 After being totally caught up in John Renbourn’s arrangement of The Earle Of Salisbury for way too long, the lesson is finally finished and I can get back to work on some ...
January 12, 2024 This week I have been obsessed with working on some John Renbourn pieces. One of which I opened the News with–The Earle Of Salisbury. I have been promising a lesson on this ...
January 5, 2024 Happy New Year Everybody! For the last week or so I have been trying to take the 3-Minute Challenge and apply it to a couple pieces I have struggled with for almost ...
December 22, 2023 The opening tunes today were some bouncy Christmas songs, one of which led to a little theory discussion later about dominant and secondary dominant chords. You can strains of Here Comes Santa ...
October 6, 2023 A couple new lessons, a cool discovery (and fix!), tips on percussive playing and ear training, and a friend’s band playing the music of Django and Stephane Grappelli next weekend for anyone ...
February 3, 2023 I spent a lot of time playing this week, probably too much as things started to hurt a little. One of my obsessions was revisiting songs from a John Renbourn book I ...
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 ...
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 ...