Posted in Musician Articles, tagged art, college, guitar, guitar lesson, poster on November 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My rhythm guitar poster!
I lowered the price on these bad boys for the holiday season. If you’ve learned a bunch of chords and want to figure out what to do with them THIS is the teacher that should be on your wall. Got a student in college who strums a bit between midterms? The perfect [...]
Posted in Musician Articles, tagged motown, novato, pandora.com, r&b on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nothing special, as anyone can create a Pandora station. But in case you want to cut straight to some killer Marvin Gaye, Barry White, Motown, etc. radio I’ve created a Pandora station that has been putting out some quality r&b. Now I gotta see if I can jam with it…
Keith’s Pandora R&B station.
Now I’m thinking [...]
Posted in Musician Articles, tagged guitar, Guitar Lessons, Marin County, novato, san francisco on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Exercise!
One word blog for the day!
One of my students got me thinking the other day. He likes playing standing up with the killer new Schecter he just bought. ONLY standing up. Sitting with this guitar makes him uncomfortable; he can’t find the right wrist position, the edge of the guitar sticks in his chest funny, [...]
Posted in Musician Articles, tagged novato, Marin County, guitar, parenting on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not a parent, so yeah, what I’m about to blog is written from someone who hasn’t been there…except that my brother was born when I was a freshman in high school, so I had plenty of diaper changes, terrible twos, french fries thrown into the air at McDonald’s when I’m trying to look cool [...]
Posted in Musician Articles, tagged guitar, Marin County, novato, san francisco on September 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’ll give it to you in this sentence; shredding is a great aspect of guitar as long as you know why you’re doing it.
Do you feel pure joy at learning to play faster, more complex riffs? If yes then fantastic, go for it. But if you’re pursuing it with the intention of being “cool” or [...]
Posted in Musician Articles on September 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
If I got a dime for every time one of my students admitted hating Green Day or Metallica I could buy…an overpriced Ticketmaster ticket to one of their shows. It makes me wonder on occasion…what does selling out mean and why do some bands get a pass go on it?
I remember when I started teaching [...]
Posted in Musician Articles, tagged guitar, Marin County, novato, pandora.com, san francisco on August 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The secret to becoming a better musician without picking up your instrument?
Here it is…
Listen to music.
DOH!
I know, it would have been much more mainstream to create a pill for it and advertise it during the Superbowl, one more to take along with your allergy pill, your ED pill and the one that makes you run [...]
Posted in Musician Articles, Weirdo, tagged guitar, Marin County, novato, san francisco on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hey, I’m thankful I’ve been able to pay a mortgage talking about guitar/being an overpaid babysitter, depending on the student. But for those of you who think my job is easy let me give you a hint of the downside…*
1. Freshly pubescent kids who haven’t realized the power of their (lack of) personal hygiene. We’re [...]
Posted in Musician Articles, tagged guitar, guitar lesson, Marin County, san francisco, shred on June 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Oh, my God…oh, my God–OH, MY GOD! I think I had one of the biggest technique breakthroughs of my life on the guitar. It only took me a little over 23 years to get!
Ya see, I’ve got some shred chops, but I’m not really a shredder. I’m a lefty playing right-handed guitar, so I’ve developed [...]
Posted in Musician Articles, tagged guitar, Marin County, novato, san francisco on May 6, 2009 | 8 Comments »
I had this student a few months back, gray-haired, nice guy, says he really wants to learn the blues. Seriously wants the blues! Doesn’t know anything about the instrument, but I’m getting this sense that he doesn’t want to learn the basics; no chords, no picking exercises. The blues, dammit! I make the call to [...]
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