Ideas about Guitar, Music & Life

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Musical Philosophy

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  • Musicality before technicality
  • Cultivate good technique and stay relaxed
  • Play with people and records
  • Make your own music
  • Practice makes progress
  • Enjoy the journey!

Recent Recordings

Questions? Ideas!

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Coaching & Lessons

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Learn About Me!

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This shows the tresillo groove - on the 1, 2&, 4 of every measure. Great groove found in many types of music, either swung or straight eighths.
The Tresillo – a fundamental groove of Salsa, Rumba Flamenca and Second Line! (among many other styles of music).

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Favorites

Some lessons that folks check out a lot.

May We Enjoy Our Musical Journeys!

Guitar Courses/Lesson Series

"None but ourselves can free our minds" - Robert Nesta Marley

New Ideas + Lessons

Feb/March 2022!

January 2022!

August 2021

April 2021

March 2021?

I basically ended up taking March off, at least in terms of writing, but did end up practicing some!

February 2021

January 2021!

December 2020!

Here’s some ideas, lessons and music that I added in October and November 2020!

Classical Music

Classical Flag - a heart made of clouds with the following words as stripes, "Bach Beethoven Mozart Chopin Handel Violin Piano Orchestra Trio Good Vibes String Quartet Cello Viola Flute Adagio Andante Allegro Pianissmo Forte Liszt Bartók Britten Tárrega Sor Kreutzer Gigue Casals Segovia Gould Ma Perlman Rubenstein Mutter Timpani Oboe French Horn Guitar Lute Bass The Ninth Jesu Mahler Villa-Lobos Granados Haydn Vivaldi Staccato Love Chaconne Pavarotti Barenboim Mistislav Goldberg Heifetz Rachmaninoff Scriabin Debussy Moonlight Trumpet Piazolla Pagannini Sonata Partita Fugue Theme & Variations "

Musicality

Great ways to learn music - learn from the greats, practice makes progress, play what you sing, sing what you play, enjoy the musical journey!

Ideas

Jazz Guitar!

Recent Updates

I added some cool new full fretboard diagrams for pentatonic scales!

Recordings

Beginner’s Tips

Here’s some ideas that may help you – I try to remember them myself!

From the beginner’s guitar course:

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Practice Makes Progress!

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