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 ...
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 ...
January 26, 2024 Our 3-Minute Challenge inspired me to take a look at many of the pieces I have played over the years and see what kind of shape they were in. As expected, 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 ...
December 15, 2023 Lately there have been some great requests for lessons on the Forum, and I check them all out. A couple recent requests became topics for discussion this week. One started a foray ...