November 21, 2025 This week’s path, or detour if you like, headed back into the past as John Renbourn was on my mind. Ten years after we lost him he popped up big time when ...
May 30, 2025 Continuing with my Dropped D adventures, I went through some of what was mentioned last week (Ladye Nothinge, and Embryonic Journey) and added some John Denver and John Fahey to the mix. ...
May 23, 2025 I have had Dropped-D Tuning on my radar lately, mostly due to an upcoming lesson that I talk about near the end of today’s Update, and I play some of Ladye Nothinge’s ...
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 ...