August 11, 2023 A few new packs this week made their way into the TG Library – Acoustic Jazz, Electric Jazz, Beginning Classical Pieces, Intermediate Classical Pieces and Advanced Classical Pieces, along with Tears On ...
August 4, 2023 This week I revisited and updated one of our Original 50 TARGET lessons (TARGET was an acronym for something I can’t remember and was our first monthly subscription program) – Lindsay Buckingham’s ...
July 28, 2023 A song I wrote about 20 years ago popped up on my radar recently and I started the Update with that, Idylwild, a piece that actually has lyrics and I elaborate a ...
July 14, 2023 Today’s Update was book-ended with surf and blues, from the 1960s and back to the 1950s. Both of these were inspired by lessons I had this week with students. The rest of ...
July 7, 2023 I had an interesting revelation last night that had me rethinking my approach to just picking up the guitar and blasting into a difficult song. Coincidentally, there was an email in my ...
June 30, 2023 Halfway through the year and today’s update included a lot of playing and just a small bit of talking. The main thoughts had to do with harmonizing a melody, particularly looking at ...
June 23, 2023 I have been away the last few days and somehow managed to not get distracted too much by music and TG stuff while Nani and I played tourists in San Francisco. As ...
June 16, 2023 This week we added a couple lessons that were not really even on my radar or schedule until last week, thanks to a couple students who were working on them. I realized ...
June 9, 2023 A couple new Student Reviews, a White Stripes Electric Lesson, and some thoughts on Dropped D Tuning were the topics of the week. Max brought us a lesson on The Hardest Button ...
June 2, 2023 This week I thought it was time for a little music theory lesson or review, depending on where you are in that world. I started with a piece that I needed to ...