https://youtu.be/NXTMdjIEu7A July 11, 2025, Recently I have been having a good time revisiting songs by Elton John, partially inspired by a couple students working on old songs of his (i.e. ones that came out when I was in high school). Today's Update started with some improvising on Love Song , wri...

This Elton kick of mine was triggered by a student working on a few of his tunes. There are a couple more in the queue but here is what we came up with for Rocket Man. https://youtu.be/Kdio6uFYAsE In this acoustic guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play Rocket Man by Elton John — a spacey, emotional...

In 1973 Elton John released Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, which seemed groundbreaking in my high school eyes. I recently had a student working on a few of his songs and I figured I had to put together a lesson for our TG World on Bennie And The Jets. https://youtu.be/FbqvDxbBl5U In this acoustic guitar...

Beverly Craven is a new artist in the TG Library, and thanks to Nesh we now have a lesson on her hit Promise Me. https://youtu.be/WwiXg298XAU Beverley Craven is a British singer-songwriter best known for her 1991 hit single 'Promise Me'. It appears on her self titled debut album, for which she wrote...

https://youtu.be/8eW0lURXFHI June 27, 2025, Today’s Update started with some improvising in the key of D. This led me to talking about chord progressions that use secondary dominant chords, which related to the progression I started with. It was a string of sub-dominant chords. Each chord was follow...

At the beginning of June 2025 the whole Hogan family spent some time together in Hawaii. We started on Oahu and reconnected with almost all Nani's relatives there, then moved to The Big Island. Slack-Key legend John Keawe was gracious enough to drop by on Saturday the 14th and spend a short time pla...

Adding to our Roy Orbison library, we now have Only The Lonely. https://youtu.be/4cr-cp1HoRM Only The Lonely is a 1960 song by Roy Orbison and became his first major hit. The absolute key of the recording is F, and besides this key we take a look at how to play it in E, D (including Dropped D Tuning...

Another Roy Orbison tune is now in the TG Library, check out You Got It . https://youtu.be/xgd9Tjw3Uws You Got It is a song from American singer Roy Orbison's 22nd studio album 'Mystery Girl' (1989), and was released posthumously in January 1989 after his death in December 1988. We take a look at th...

https://youtu.be/13l-fIv9bls June 20, 2025 This was the week that was supposed to be the Hogan Ohana return to the real world after the family trip to Nani's ancestral home. Last week I mentioned how the trip started with a 17-hour flight delay, getting us into Oahu in the wee hours of Saturday morn...

Hey Gang, Nesh has put together a lesson on When I Need You by Albert Hammond . https://youtu.be/1vfC7QeZsSc When I Need You is a beautiful ballad co-written and recorded by singer-songwriter-producer Albert Hammond and appears on his 1976 album of the same name.  It has been covered by many artists...