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There is a fire inside of you.  You may not realize it, but it is there.  The fact that you are breathing and reading this right now is ...

A trap which many guitarists have fallen into is the belief that in order to be "good" they must be able to play and sound li...

As we travel our paths thru life as musicians it is important to keep the North Star and various stellar constellations  in our vision to g...

LIGHT AND DARKNESS (click on photo to enlarge) My little brother who is a film maker is currently on a round-the-world trip filmin...

"Find out what it is you do that people like, and do more of that."  Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown   ...

In the process of learning to communicate via music, there are two primary activities which must be experienced.  These two activities can ...

Hand written by the master - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart As guitarists, it is all too easy to overlook the wonders of the fundamentals of music...

Dr. Harvey Floyd A long long time ago one of the many things I studied in universities was theology.  Now understand that I was not your ty...

Let me ask you a VERY important question.  You are a guitarist, but DO YOU LISTEN TO MUSIC LIKE A MUSIC PRODUCER LISTENS TO MUSIC? Too...

The world of music and music education abounds with exercises.  Scales, arpeggios, sight singing, ear training, chord voicing, etc., etc., ...

You only get to live one time - once - that's it.  When you are 90 years old and looking back, will you wish you had played it safe,...

You pick up your guitar.  Ho-hum.  You play the same chords, the same songs, the same licks that you always do.  Inspiration has run away ...

So you open the door to the world's music room and before your eyes is a vast and endless hall which stretches out into eternity.  For...

Looking back over the last four decades of my study of music and the guitar, I can see the mixture of academics and art. On the academic...

Albert Einstein was right.  Time is relative.  It speeds up or slows down depending on how fast one thing is moving relative to something ...

So we look at where we are on our instruments, then we look at where we'd like to be.  The gulf between our current position and the t...