by Jay | May 29, 2025 | Blog, Front Page
What’s with all the variations on Fernando Sor’s Variations on a Theme of Mozart?” The Spanish classical guitarist Fernando Sor (1778–1839) wrote many virtuosic variations on various themes. But his most famous—and most frequently performed—set is...
by Jay | Dec 23, 2023 | Classical Guitar Basics
A New Live Session of Positively Dangerous is now open for Enrollment Last summer’s pilot course was a wonderful time! Students experienced huge improvements and breakthroughs, while I learned a great deal about what worked well and what needed improvement. I’m...
by Jay | Oct 27, 2023 | Blog, Front Page, Music
Here’s my performance-ready version of this amazing endless melody of a piece. I’ve been enjoying Derek Grippers arrangements of Kora music for classical guitar for years, and finally got a chance to try some of them out. Someone once said (I forgot who)...
by Jay | Aug 8, 2023 | Art, Blog
When you are learning a piece of music, you have to play it hundreds of times. Over, and over. And over again. The same notes, the same chords, the same fingerings. In one life, you might play the same set of notes tens of thousands of times. I haven’t done the...
