The big news this week is that I am thrilled that we were able to get Bob McAlpine on board as a contributor here at TG. His first lesson went live earlier this week and ...
Today’s intro music was an improv on a couple Neil Young themes, which brought up a mention of a relative of mine who does a Sunday morning radio show at KTUH, University Of Hawaii and ...
This week has been a ragtime re-re-revival week for me. Every few years I get reinspired to revisit the roots of my favorite guitar style. A few years ago it was fueled by Bethena and ...
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 ...
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 ...
This morning I had a couple interesting lessons which led to topics I addresses in today’s update. One was holding notes to keep voices independent in John Renbourn’s Judy, and the other was about the ...
A little flat picking to lead off today’s update, including some songs with the capo way up the neck as inspired by this week’s Fly On The Wall video where Bill was working on John ...
Today I spent most of the video running through bits and pieces of things I may play on the radio this afternoon, starting with an old standby, The Last Steam Engine Train. That is an ...
This was a busy week around TG Central. We had Muriel Anderson staying with us for a few days on her annual trip through California and managed to get a little video shot which should ...
Happy New Year TGers! I hope everybody had a nice holiday season and the adjustment back to the real world goes as smoothly and gently as possible. Today’s update started with a little random improv ...