Join me for Battle Of The Blues this year by picking your favorite tracks and leaving them in the comments below. It's that time of year again! Guitar Center is doing their annual "search for the next great undiscovered blues... something or other." If you haven't known me that long, you may not know that…
Over the weekend I had the opportunity to go and see several guitar player and teacher friends I've haven't seen in many years... and met many new ones. Musician's Institute is a legendary music school in Hollywood, and while I've never attended there, many of my friends and fellow guitar players have attended and/or taught…
I saw a story today about a new iPad app called "On The Music Path" (http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/on-the-music-path-ipad-app-offers-users-in-depth-one-on-one-lessons-taught-by-master-musicians-including-jackson-browne-ravi-shankar-and-richard-thompson-120766969.html) that provides music lessons from famous rock stars and musicians: Imagine taking in-depth, one-on-one guitar lessons from Jackson Browne or Richard Thompson. These are among the rarefied experiences offered by On The Music Path, a new iPad app designed…
This is actually not mine. This post comes from a student, Richard, in Brea. He wrote this and was kind enough to let me repost it here. I think he did a great job of defining why we live for and love the music that we do... Can you teach someone to love the Blues? …
One of the elements of blues music I try to emphasize is the fact that it's kind of like puzzle pieces that you can put together into just about any style of song that you want. The traditional 12 bar blues, while it seems like it might be stifling given the fact that the chords…
