As many of you know, the last month has been quite a challenge for me health wise. The short history started on October 11th with a fever (that I figured was the flu coming on) ...
Well I am sorry to have been away again due to some serious unplanned events, which I gave you some info on in a thread a couple weeks ago. Today’s update starts off with the ...
Ken Burns was on my mind at the top of today’s update, well his new documentary on Country Music specifically. I was not familiar with the term ‘Carter Scratch’ but had explained the technique hundreds ...
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve been able to get the Update rolling again, just a couple of minor setbacks after a short trip to Seattle but hopefully things are back on track. In ...
I Got A Feeling, as done by Pentangle in the 60’s, is an example of a jazzy 12-bar blues based on All Blues by Miles Davis. That was on my mind at the start of ...
A short improv in A Minor started today’s update and a stab at an instrumental version of one of this week’s new lessons wrapped it up. In between there were some thoughts on graduation season, ...
Today I had some eclectic tunes run through my head, and then attempted to run through them with quite a range of results. I seem to remember The Last Steam Engine Train, Tickle Me, Paprika, ...
Well, another Halloween has come and gone, except that we are running a Halloween Special on Lesson Packs through the weekend. Be sure to check them out if you are into the a la carte ...
Things are slowly settling back into the usual routine around here now, after a somewhat surreal trip to a distant planet, or at least about as far as one can go from California on this ...
After a couple weeks away I figured I would do more of a recap of our trip to Europe, particularly to include a report on our first IGC over the Atlantic, held at The Samaya ...