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 ...
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 ...
A lot of News this week… November 17, 2023 A lot of News this week and a little less playing than usual, although I opened with some thoughts on The Earl Of Salisbury, as popularized ...
November 10, 2023 This week I stumbled into the new Beatles tune, Now And Then, and figured I had to put together a lesson on it. It is a slightly unusual progression, or really just ...
November 3, 2023 This week I finished a couple instrumental fingerpicking lessons, one of which I started over 6 years ago, and another that I have messed around with for about 40 years before it ...
October 27, 2023 I am almost feeling back in the swing of things now. I did manage to get to work on a couple upcoming lessons, and even got back in the teaching studio for ...
October 20, 2023 This week we just returned from a week in Hawaii and I am still resetting back to the real world. I did manage to finish up a lesson on Treetop Flyer by ...
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 29, 2023 This week I got back to some of the normal TG stuff, a couple Student Reviews and a couple new lessons. The update started with some improvising based on one of the ...