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 ...
May 5, 2023 May started with the passing of one of my favorite artists, Gordon Lightfoot. He certainly had big health challenges over the last 20 years but was able to end his recording career ...
August 19, 2022 Lately I have been playing and practicing a lot of pieces I might call ‘war horses’, basically instrumentals I consider advanced and complex. There are some reasons and excuses offered up in ...
August 5, 2022 Recently I have been doing some housecleaning, or at least reorganizing here at TG, which brought a lot of things to my attention. One of the outcomes in this is revisiting some ...
June 17, 2022 Big weekend ahead, for a few reasons I mention in the Update: Family birthdays, famous musician’s birthdays, Father’s Day (although health issues at TG Central will keep that pretty quiet, and semi-quarantined), ...
A few weeks of meetings of the Neil Young Appreciation Society will be coming to a close next week but I hope some of you have been enjoying our Journey Through The Past of the ...
It is hot and smoky in Northern California and we are prepping TG Central for some evacuated relatives from the Santa Cruz Mountains, which has led to a little blip in lesson production, hopefully back ...
Today I started with a few lessons that people have had questions about lately and I would like some help with suggestions as to what might be added to make the lessons clearer. A couple ...
As June winds down I am happy to say that one of my personal goals is running along nicely. That is the plan of coming out with some mega-lessons (at least in my mind) that ...
The last few weeks the main song running through my mind, and dropping into many recent Weekly Updates, has been Walk Away Renée, enough to justify 2 lessons on it. I think I can finally ...