Learning and Lessons

February 13, 2026 Tomorrow, Saturday Feb 14, 2026, we are starting up TG Live for the new year. The topic is creating instrumental arrangements, and you can Register Here. I will be going over some of the things I think about and consider as I arrange things. One of the most important things is to […]

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February 6, 2026 Lately I have been using a thumbpick for a lot of songs, due to a broken thumb nail a few months ago. I remembered that there are a few songs I usually like to use it for, even if my nail is intact. Windy And Warm is not generally one of those […]

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January 30, 2026 We have a winner for the third week of our 3-Minute Challenge – PhotoMichael has a set of strings from the Santa Cruz Guitar Company on their way. We also have a new lesson on Lost In Love by Air Supply. On Saturday February 14 we have our next episode of TG […]

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January 23, 2026 A little improvising opened and closed this week’s Update, starting with a couple tunes you should recognize and ending with some random noodling. Along the way there was news about our latest lesson – the solo arrangement of I’ll Be Back by The Beatles, thoughts about a few movies, a mention of […]

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January 16, 2026 After a couple weeks of teasing a new lesson I managed to finish The Windmills Of Your Mind from The Thomas Crown Affair. It became a slightly bigger project when I realized I should start with an accompaniment version before moving on to the solo version. I also decided I needed to […]

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January 9, 2026 Heading in to the New Year I have had duets on my mind. Part of this is due to our recent lesson on Snap A Little Owl by John Renbourn and Stefan Grossman, That had me revisiting other duets of theirs and an old one of my own. This Update opened with […]

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December 31, 2025 It has been a fun year at TG, and I hope everybody is enjoying the Holiday Season. Today I started with a couple tunes you should recognize, and catch the connection. I also ended with a couple of my seasonal favorites. In between there were just a few thoughts about practicing and […]

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December 19, 2025 We are getting further behind in Holiday prep every day, so not much new on my guitar front this week. Although, we did get a new Bee Gees lesson from Nesh – How Deep Is Your Love. I did take the opportunity in today’s video to play a few of my favorite […]

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December 12, 2025 This week I started with a few bits of some Christmas instrumentals, talked about our special deal on the Christmas Sing-Along Bonus Pack (15 accompaniments and 6 solos), talked about reconnecting with Mike Walker and his new book of John Renbourn pieces, threw in a little theory and broke down a couple […]

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December 5, 2025 Sorry I missed everybody last week, Thanksgiving lasted a few days at TG Central. This week I figured it was time for a bit of a dive into music theory. I have done parts of this before but I have a way of learning triads that might help some of you out […]

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November 21, 2025 This week’s path, or detour if you like, headed back into the past as John Renbourn was on my mind. Ten years after we lost him he popped up big time when a student I rarely see came in to work on Sandwood Down To Kyle, a piece from his Ship Of […]

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November 14, 2025 Just like last week, I got derailed from my planned direction and detoured into some Al Stewart related things. The trigger here was a recent Forum post suggesting that I do a lesson on his tune The Palace Of Versailles from the 1978 album Time Passages. It got me playing some of […]

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November 7, 2025 This week an unexpected project grabbed me and I had to drop everything and go where it led me. I became obsessed with The Weight by Robbie Robertson and The Band, and particularly a solo guitar version. At first it seemed ridiculous to even attempt, but as it played out I had […]

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October 31, 2025 This week I got sidetracked into catching up with lessons on some Tom Petty songs that I had been meaning to get to for years. Just a couple loose ends and now Wildflowers and Mary Jane’s Last Dance are in the TG Library. Most of his songs are relatively easy to play […]

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