I hit 20,000 hits today

considering how I’ve let this blog wane, it still gets 50 or so hits a day. i really should write more on this blog

21 Essential guitar Intros that Every Self-Respecting Player Should Know

I’m dovetailing this onto Gary’s post about the same topic.
From my experience these are some songs that I learned years ago and pull out from time to time to reminisce and reflect on my musical influences.
· Stone In Love – Journey – Simple and hard at the same time it’s only 3 [...]

Who says old guys can’t rock the house?

Any thought that I had about old guys loosing their rocker edge was put to rest last night. We double dated last night with a drummer friend and his wife to the Viejas Casino to see Foreigner. They have is listed as “Concerts in the Park, but it may be more fitting to say “Concerts [...]

The Baroque Guitar

In the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural epoch, extending
approximately from 1600 to 1750. It was exemplified by drama,
ornamentation and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance,
and music.
By the beginning of the 17h century the guitar was
becoming more respectable and many fine composer/players began writing
music for it.
The Baroque guitar is the direct ancestor of the [...]

The Renaissance Guitar

The history of the classical guitar during the Renaissance period (from the French word Renaissance, meaning “rebirth”) was a cultural movement in Europe that spanned from roughly the 14th through to the early 17th century.
By this period, all the musical instruments that the Moors had brought to Spain had disseminated throughout all of Europe. This [...]