June 21, 2024 This week there was a lot more playing and only a bit of News to talk about. A list of the tunes I remember touching on will be at the end. As ...
June 7, 2024 This week’s events and TG additions were driven by, or at least inspired by requests and suggestions from students. I was asked by a couple students about what we had at TG ...
March 22, 2024 Music inspired by Pat Metheny, Alan Parsons, Townes Van Zandt, John Prine, and even Stevie Wonder crossed my strings today throughout the Update. And speaking of strings, they were brand new and ...
March 15, 2024 Recently I talked a bit about swing time, which many people confuse with syncopation. Today I talked more about syncopation, what it is, how it is independent of swing, and then opened ...
February 2, 2024 Not much in the way of headlines or news this week, but a lot of tunes. Due to a recent lesson I have had Can’t Help Falling In Love running through my ...
December 8, 2023 A classic Christmas Carol somehow materialized as I started today’s Update, which led into a bit of Ferry Cross The Mersey, one of this week’s new lessons. The other new lesson was ...
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 ...
September 22, 2023 This was ‘Recover From IGC’ week here at TG Central, which meant a little more than the usual exhaustion that follows camp. Details are in the Update. It also included bits of ...
April 28, 2023 Peter Frampton was the subject of the week around here. Thanks to a request on the Forum last week, I realized we had managed to neglect his songs for our first 14 ...
January 27, 2023 This week continued with Dan Hicks songs and associated songs. I used to perform Moody Richard (The Innocent Bystander) with my friend Rich Olson many years ago. This week it made the ...