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 14, 2024 This week I spent a little time with some guitar players in the Phoenix Guitar League. One of the main topics of conversation was harmonics, and particularly artificial harmonics. This is a ...
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 ...
May 31, 2024 Today’s Update started with some musings on one of our new lessons this week. Nesh brought us Willie Nelson’s version of Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain and For A Long Time ...
May 10, 2024 This week was a bit disrupted as the Hogan family welcomed our first grandson into the fold. Iokepa Anthony Hogan Frausto joined the clan on Monday, May 6 and all are doing ...
May 3, 2024 Just getting back into the swing of things after a really fun International Guitar Camp last weekend. I talked a bit about some of the events at camp, mentioned our recent new ...
April 12, 2024 I mentioned last week at the end that frequently things pop up that I had not seen coming, or had planned to get into the lesson library. This week the Alan Parsons ...
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 8, 2024 A couple things happened in lessons with students that became subjects for today’s News. One was a question about swing time, which led to some improvising over 12-bar blues after examples from ...
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 ...