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March 27, 2026 Continuing my John Prine kick from last week – this week we added a lesson on a bunch of intros to his songs, which was then added to our John Prine Package, along with a Fly On The Wall lesson. I played some bits of a couple of his songs, which led […]

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March 20, 2026 John Prine was on my mind this week, and on my recent playlists at home. Re-listening to a lot of his stuff, and a request from a student, led to a lesson on his last recorded song, I Remember Everything. It is a great example of his basic approach to fingerpicking and […]

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March 13, 2026 A random improv started today’s Update, followed by some discussion on time signatures and strumming techniques. The time signature thoughts cited Nights In White Satin, Lucky Man and Stormy Monday. The technique primer was on using rest strokes to hit bass notes cleanly. The progression to Mr. Bojangles was used as an […]

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March 6, 2026 I spent some time this week revisiting the early Loggins & Messina albums and realized I had not gotten to a couple lessons that I had planned on years ago. The remedy was to finish up Long Tail Cat and Whiskey, two of Kenny Loggins great tunes. They are live now and […]

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February 27, 2026 Today’s Update was quite different from recent, if not most ones. It was inspired by a comment from a student just this morning who had recently been taken by an old, original piece of mine, Sweet Child. This was a tune I recorded for my 1992 album Yesterday’s News. I started with […]

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February 20, 2026 A little Grateful Dead, some Neil Young and a few classic riffs were on my mind today, but the main thing I wanted to get to was a few thoughts on practicing, particularly with a metronome. At the top I went into some of last week’s TG Live where we went into […]

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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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