Buying a guitar is an important decision that my students have often asked me about. They want to know what they should be looking for. This is an important question because no two are ever exactly alike. There is a wide variety of types, styles, (Read More)

Somewhere along the way in our development as guitar players, we start to get the idea that it would be a good idea if we learned some of those things called scales. If we are new to the guitar, and new to music, we are probably not even quite sur(Read More)

The longer I teach, the more I am impressed with one unassailable fact: most of what becoming good or great on the guitar is about has nothing to do with “musical ability”. It has everything to do with that group of qualities loosely s(Read More)

There is a good reason many guitar players don’t get results from their practicing: they don’t know what practicing is! Many players think that opening up the guitar case, taking out the guitar, and playing through their lesson materia(Read More)

I once had the opportunity to do a few gigs in a quartet featuring the great keyboardist/composer Rob Mullins. Nate Phillips, who had worked with Rob in the Jazz Crusaders, and Jeff Suttles, who had just come off tour with Janet Jackson held down (Read More)

Over the years, I’ve been asked for tips on playing the guitar by a few people.

I don’t consider myself to be a shaman

by any stretch of the imagination. I’m a messed

up cat like everyone el(Read More)

Ever since I can remember, guitar players and their fans have had a love affair with just how fast someone can play. To be honest, I really have never been able to understand the basis of this assessment of a musician’s value, because techni(Read More)