April 15, 2012 books learning technique New book by Jean-Francois Desrosby I just read "Guitarists: Unlock your potential" by Jean-Francois Desrosby. I'm still digesting the information, but it's a...
March 10, 2012 inspiration technique Brigitte Zaczec on Baroque lute I just found this very nice video of Brigitte Zaczek on baroque lute. I'd never heard of her before but was intrigued because of her la...
November 4, 2011 learning masterclass technique Los Romeros workshop (part 2): Etudes and repertoire I'm not going to be able to offer a whole lot of detail directly from a workshop I took no notes on, but I will offer a few highlights t...
August 5, 2011 practicing technique More thoughts on Effortless Mastery Life has been busy recently, unfortunately full of real-world work, and not a whole lot of time for music. As I often do in these times, I...
July 15, 2011 masterclass technique William Kanengiser masterclass notes, part 4 The final performer at the William Kanengiser masterclass I've been writing about played the fourth movement of Castelnuovo-Tedesco'...
June 17, 2011 attitude inspiration technique Unforgiving After doing some maintenance on my guitar this week, I put on a new set of strings, of a type I hadn't used before. I'm not going to...
April 29, 2011 listening technique Sustained notes within a line This has come up a few times for me recently, and while it's not an original idea, I thought I'd share it for those who don't kn...