by Jay | Nov 1, 2021 | Blog, Classical Guitar Basics, Guitar Lessons, Teaching Blog Post, Teaching Videos
10th Year Anniversary Edition:I’m revisiting some of my best old posts on playing guitar. Enjoy! If you really want others to enjoy what you play, you need to be enjoying yourself. They call it self-expression, but how can you fully express yourself if you...
by Jay | Oct 9, 2021 | Blog, Classical Guitar Basics, Classical Guitar Technique, Teaching Blog Post
10th Year Anniversary Edition:I’m revisiting some of my best old posts on playing guitar. Enjoy! Playing classical guitar is technically demanding. There are a lot of hurdles even if you want to play a relatively simple piece well enough for it to be...
by Jay | Jan 7, 2021 | Blog, Classical Guitar Basics, Classical Guitar Lessons, Classical Guitar Technique, Teaching Blog Post
10th Year Anniversary Edition:I’m revisiting some of my best old posts on playing guitar. Enjoy! I’ve been thinking about about the difference between what I say here on this blog, and how I actually teach most of the time. In a guitar lesson, we’re...
by Jay | Oct 22, 2020 | Blog, Classical Guitar Arrangements, Compositions, Email List, Front Page Slider, Music
Archipelago for Guitar Not too long ago, I had the idea to weave a storyline into the performance of a series of guitar pieces. Each piece I wrote seemed to have its own musical ecosystem, so I called them “islands.” Narrating a tale while tuning the...
by Jay | Mar 5, 2020 | Art, Blog, Front Page Slider
The many benefits of bookmarks for all your books: Bookmarks are Beautiful. Bookmarks are Fun. Bookmarks are Elegant. Bookmarks inspire you to read more good books and keep your place in them with pleasure, for years at a time. Bookmarks never run out of batteries....
by Jay | Oct 23, 2019 | Art, Blog
A Tour of the Island of Milonga I love using video to wander around within a painting. In this painting of the island of Milonga I wanted to create the sense of being in a guitarist’s paradise, a world where the music I grew up listening to and playing is...
