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New Workshop: Soloing From Scratch

Published: Wed, 10/12/22

How to play consistent, coordinated rhythms with the thumb and fingers How to build and maintain a vocabulary of blues licks How to create compelling,…

Learning To Improvise

Published: Fri, 10/07/22

The Birth of Bebop than I can summarize here, but the salient point for me was the overall notion of how important it was not only to the bebop…

Freeze!

Published: Fri, 09/30/22

The thing about music is, you're dealing with everything at once – melody, harmony and rhythm – while time is going by. So to really understand what…

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…

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…

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