Published: Mon, 01/06/25
Updated: Mon, 01/06/25
The Fingerstyle Five membership's winter quarter starts this Thursday. As I discussed in Saturday's YouTube master class (5 Ways To Get Better In…
Published: Sun, 01/05/25
Updated: Sun, 01/05/25
A replay of yesterday's Blues Master Class will be available on YouTube all this week. Use the link below to check out my five recommendations for how…
Published: Sat, 01/04/25
Updated: Sat, 01/04/25
Five Ways To Get Better In 2025 starts in one hour! To paraphrase Inigo Montoya, I have been in the e plaining business for so long, I'm not sure I…
Published: Fri, 01/03/25
Updated: Fri, 01/03/25
This New Year's Eve, my friend Billy introduced me, Ms. Fretboard and a few other folks to a ritual called The Log Of Regret. It's a bit of a…
Published: Fri, 12/27/24
Updated: Sat, 12/28/24
The holidays are still afootAnd so, I'm simply going to putA link to the new videoOn Youtube for you down below: Triplet Pentatonic Turnarounds More…
Published: Fri, 12/20/24
Updated: Fri, 12/20/24
On my birthday, we swung into Spec's to rummage up a couple of bottles of wine and before we walked out, Ms. Fretboard, knowing my silent film…
Published: Fri, 12/13/24
Updated: Fri, 12/13/24
I can't remember how I discovered the great jazz pianist Ray Bryant; it may have been as simple as chancing upon his classic 1950s LP Alone With The…
Published: Fri, 12/06/24
Updated: Fri, 12/06/24
A couple of weeks after Roy Book Binder was in town, I got a package in the mail. It was a hardcover copy of Dick Waterman: A Life In The Blues, Tammy…
Published: Fri, 11/29/24
It has an ever-shifting date,This holiday, here in the StatesThe secret, then, is to remember:Final Thursday in November That is when Thanksgiving…
Published: Fri, 11/22/24
Most of the time I don't think about the fact that it's totally up to me whether anything gets done at all. I've been freelancing since I was twenty-…