Passable Peanut Noodles
Published: Fri, 09/23/22
The Dauphin and his sister are learning to ride the city bus this week. Ms. Fretboard is out of town and, despite having chain-read at least three…
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With No Additional Procrastination
Published: Fri, 09/16/22
The absence of video lessons devoted To fingerstyle clarity, substance and style For over two months now. Since it's been a while We'd like to e…
Gloriously Profound Clank
Published: Fri, 09/09/22
The late, lamented National Guitar Workshop's main campus was in New England, on the grounds of a small prep school that was, of course, closed in the…
Functional Music
Published: Fri, 09/02/22
the idiom, as it were: you can go out, if you're lucky enough to live near the right kind of venue, and hear a bebop quartet or quintet use…
Afternoon Is For Chumps
Published: Fri, 08/26/22
As the gleaming, efficient machinery that is the Fretboard Confidential infrastructure slowly creaks back into action, a phenomenon unsurprisingly…
Disco, Hair Metal, Creeping Ambition
Published: Fri, 08/19/22
We're always trying to find more space for books in our house. Lately some of the overflow has wound up in my studio, which I can sort of justify…
Interlude For Iambic Tetrameter In Drop D Tuning
Published: Fri, 08/05/22
I've been and traveled with my tribe To climates cooler, now we're back And roasting on the Te as rack Until we e it, via air For eastern…
E Natural Blues
Published: Fri, 07/22/22
The heat is jive The newsletter Is taking five But here to fill The void onscreen Straight from 2017 Are si short lessons Helpfully E plaining how The…
From The Archives: The Chet Convention
Published: Fri, 07/15/22
––––– Jerry, Merle and Chet Published: Thu, 07/18/19 I met John Knowles, C.G.P., when I was maybe 23 years old, so we've known each other a long time.
No Part Of The Buffalo Goes Unused
Published: Fri, 07/01/22
so it's safe to say that, if nothing else, this is probably a cool idea. But lately I've been having second thoughts about how much help the audience…