August 29, 2025 This week I was inspired to look back at some original pieces that have been neglected for too long. At the top of today’s Update I played A Little Jolt and Paprika– ...
June 27, 2025, Today’s Update started with some improvising in the key of D. This led me to talking about chord progressions that use secondary dominant chords, which related to the progression I started with. ...
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 ...
December 31, 2022 So it is New Year’s Eve and dark and storming here in Northern California (please excuse the mood lighting). This week I started revisiting some of Dan Hicks catchy swing tunes, which ...
October 14, 2022 This week we added a lesson on a classic tune made famous by Frank Sinatra in 1965, It Was A Very Good Year. The haunting song was written a few years earlier ...
March 11, 2022 I had a lesson the other day with a student who wanted to work on George Harrison’s early song I Need You, for The Beatles’ 1965 album and movie Help! I felt ...
February 25, 2022 Today I had some songs running through my head that used some interesting chord voicings, which led me to a few theory tips. I started with sliding a C chord up and ...
Become a better guitar player with online lessons from Totally Guitars! Totally Guitars News Podcast I hope everybody had a chance, or took the time to check out our Dan Hicks listening challenge this week. ...
Learn How To Play Guitar with online lessons from Totally Guitars! Totally Guitars News Podcast Continuing the recent pattern, not much playing today due to the still lingering injury, mostly announcements, questions, answers, opinions, clarifications, ...