https://youtu.be/zI1iwqW170c September 20, 2024 As I look back and review some of the things we did at TG's International Guitar Camp last week, a couple things come to mind that I thought I'd share with this audience. One of the workshops I gave was essentially ear training but using a classic Dyla...

https://youtu.be/UHF387OIEi4 Friday September 13, 2024 We just wrapped up our 2024 Fall IGC and took a little time to chat with some of the campers. We were at the Green Mountain Retreat in the Santa Cruz Mountains, just outside of Los Gatos, in Northern California. We have been holding the IGC sinc...

https://youtu.be/Hkw7k40D3xY September 6, 2024 This week we brought out a couple tunes from the 1960s- It's My Party by Leslie Gore and More Today Than Yesterday by Spiral Starecase. This inspired me to start with a little of the melody to More Today Than Yesterday, which led to a breakdown of some ...

A couple students have been kicking around the idea of collaborating on a classic tune from a 1960s one-hit-wonder, Spiral Starecase. Their tune, More Today Than Yesterday is an upbeat, feel good masterpiece. https://youtu.be/cRUCrB2qgVY Spiral Starecase would have to be considered a one-hit-wonder,...

Reaching way back for this one gang... Leslie Gore's It's My Party . https://youtu.be/GHLWYuULaIY It's My Party is a song by American singer-songwriter Lesley Gore, and appears on her debut studio album 'I'll Cry If I Want To' (1963). It was released as the lead single and at only 16 years old it be...

https://youtu.be/YJpA1mn7-ds August 30, 2024 The response to last week's instrumentals I ran through was so positive that I figured it was time to get to my list of heavily recommended instrumentals. Of course, we added a couple new lessons- Baby I'm-A Want You by Bread and John Renbourn's Lord Fran...

Folks, The recent lesson on Cruel Sister pushed me into another song from the same album that John Renbourn kept in his set list for the next 40years - Lord Franklin . I have included John's 'lesson' on it with my TG lesson, which should help you figure it out... https://youtu.be/4VVd_7PSEtA Lord Fr...

I think I hear John as well but the album lists Bert as playing acoustic guitar and John just playing sitar.. John's playing is usually a bit cleaner than Bert's in general, and this is very clean. It is likely that John overdubbed the sitar. Another clue is that John plays both acoustic and overdub...

Hey Gang, Nesh has put together a lesson on another great tune from the pen of David Gates and Bread - Baby I'm-A Want You. https://youtu.be/SeuxX6nQrRk Baby I'm-A Want You is a song by American soft rock band Bread. It was released as a single in 1971 and became the title track for the album of the...

https://youtu.be/cw6VE-jOpIQ August 23, 2024 John Renbourn has been on my mind a lot lately, obviously triggered by this week’s lesson on Cruel Sister from Pentangle’s album. I was inspired to get back to practicing some of his more technical pieces, particularly ones I have not done lessons on yet....