Fretboard Confidential

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Live Streaming Tonight's Show

Published: Sat, 01/06/24

Just like the real show, there'll be a (virtual) tip jar, and if I play something you just have to hear again, chances are it's available on Bandcamp.

Exigencies Of Time And Space

Published: Fri, 01/05/24

Remembering the lyrics is invariably the hardest part of the whole e pedition, so I figure with three or four weeks of regular attention, I should be…

Coming Attractions

Published: Tue, 01/02/24

Item #1: I only occasionally mention when I have a local show in Austin because that information is not all that helpful if you live in Paris or…

"I Have Some Ideas"

Published: Fri, 12/15/23

Growing up, my best friend Peter was also a guitar player, and on a recent visit to the East coast we finally got to hang out again after, we figured…

Kenny Burrell Chords workshop TOMORROW!

Published: Fri, 11/10/23

If you'd like to learn how to comp while you improvise, play chord-melody blues licks up the neck, turn Freddie Green voicings into syncopated jazz-…

Kenny Burrell Chords Workshop

Published: Wed, 11/08/23

Growing up, I had nine years of classical violin lessons. I sat in the school orchestra, learned a few concerto movements, played some baroque chamber…

Ones And Zeros

Published: Fri, 11/03/23

It takes an absurdly sprawling and diverse assortment of digital hoodle-de-doo to operate the global pedagogical empire that is Fretboard…

Playoff Season

Published: Fri, 10/20/23

It's playoff season here in the U.S., where after a lifetime of more or less baseball indifference, I have gotten sucked into the American league…

Right And Wrong 10-A

Published: Thu, 10/19/23

I was going to start out with one of those super-mystical questions about the meaning of the fingerboard: Can there be a right and wrong way to learn…

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