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Danny Boy
Oct 21, 2025
39m 36s
Mailbag: Melodic Minor
Oct 21, 2025
31m 30s
Bach on Sunday: WTC Book I, Fugue in E minor
Oct 21, 2025
9m 08s
Guided Practice, All-Interval Tetrachord
Oct 21, 2025
34m 34s
"Hot House" part II
Oct 21, 2025
31m 41s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 10/21/25 |  Danny Boy | Happy Saint Patrick's Day. Here's I am working on "Danny Boy," and talking about the history of the song via my friend Jacob Garchik. If you haven't seen the George Benson version, check that out here. The video gets pretty long as I go into explanations of how I get the guitar voicings from the Percy Grainger arrangement. That arrangement is attached, and I'd encourage you to make your own arrangements of this lovely melody, which can be instructive about how to harmonize a diatonic melody without getting too fancy. | 39m 36s | ||||||
| 10/21/25 |  Mailbag: Melodic Minor | A deep dive into Melodic Minor from a recent member question. We cover uses of this sound as a tonic and dominant in improvisation, a brief look at Raag Charukeshi (a related Indian raga), and then some exercises for getting it under your fingers. | 31m 30s | ||||||
| 10/21/25 |  Bach on Sunday: WTC Book I, Fugue in E minor | Today I look at a two part fugue from the Well Tempered Clavier. This one is especially well suited to the guitar. Two guitarists could play it together without any alterations of the sheet music (attached). I demonstrate this with an overdubbed recording. | 9m 08s | ||||||
| 10/21/25 |  Guided Practice, All-Interval Tetrachord | Today's shape turns out to be All-Interval tetrachord 0137. In the video I go through what this means, and look at some of the sounds that we can get out of this shape in various transpositions and voicings. Sheet from 351 Shapes attached. | 34m 34s | ||||||
| 10/21/25 |  "Hot House" part II | In this video I go through the fingerings that I've found for this somewhat tricky melody. I also talk about the language used in the lines, and how this relates to octatonic scales and expansions of the dominant chord developed by improvisors in the bebop era. My transcription for the tune is attached. | 31m 41s | ||||||
| 10/21/25 |  "Hot House" and the mysterious minor ii-V | This is part 1 of two long videos about the bebop classic tune "Hot House," by Tadd Dameron. In this episode we don't actually get into the tune itself, but work on the background by taking a close look at the underlying harmony, which comes from "What is this thing called love" by Cole Porter. I go through the original piano sheet music for this tune (attached) and then a long discussion about what to do on the common chord progression known as a "minor ii-V" such as Gmi7b5 C7 Fmi. Readings from Dizzy Gillespie's autobiography reveal how he thought about it. The Emily Remler version that I talk about is here. | 34m 40s | ||||||
| 10/20/25 |  Anatomy of a Groove: Dog Star pt. 4, "Lush Life" | Here's a part of live concert in Brooklyn where we combine the Dog Star groove with Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life." Check out the whole concert for free here. We made a vinyl album out of this series of concerts that's a little different from the video that you can find here. This is the end of the Dog Star series - I hope you've enjoyed it. Let me know if you'd like more of these behind-the-scenes looks at my compositional process. Next week I'll be beginning a new series looking at some standards. | 16m 08s | ||||||
| 10/20/25 |  Anatomy of a Groove: "Dog Star" 3 | Here's a second version of the Dog Star groove, after we had been playing it live for a while and it had turned into a different tune. Although there is a studio version of this tune, I opted for this video so that you can see the drummer. This is a "live" album recorded during the early days of the Covid lockdown in 2020, where I sang scratch tracks for the entire concert and then the band recorded to these tracks individually. A bit of an original scratch track is at the beginning of the whole video. | 14m 14s | ||||||
| 10/20/25 |  Anatomy of a Groove: "Dog Star" 2 | Here's the groove we talked about yesterday in it's first incarnation, at a recording session at the old Systems Two Studios, one of my favorite places in the world that is sorely missed. The full video can be seen here, along with other tunes from that session that led to the debut album for the band Trickster. | 16m 36s | ||||||
| 10/20/25 |  Anatomy of a Groove: "Dog Star" | This is my first post about composition, a much-requested topic, but one that can quickly go down long rabbit holes. I try to limit the topic by talking about just the drum part from one of my tunes. This one has to do with the possibilty of people in the band feeling a groove different ways, and the idea that maybe this is ok or even desirable. In this post, I'm teaching the groove as I would to a band member - further videos will show this groove in its full context. | 25m 26s | ||||||
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| 10/20/25 |  Bach: Cello Suite in C minor, "Sarabande" | Here's a look at an amazing melody by JSB, from Cello Suite no. 5 in C minor. | 13m 30s | ||||||
| 10/20/25 |  Guided Practice: Shape of the Day | Looking at the shape for Feb 26 from the book 351 shapes. | 23m 46s | ||||||
| 10/20/25 |  "Epistrophy" and the Ukelele | Here's a parenthetical episode while we're working on Charlie Christian stuff. Something I discovered recently while messing around with the ukulele. | 14m 26s | ||||||
| 10/20/25 |  Bach: BWV 1005 | This episode is a recording of me playing the four movements of J.S. Bach's violin sonata in C major. Two movements on acoustic guitar, and two movements on electric. | 22m 46s | ||||||
| 10/20/25 |  Bach on Sunday: Chorale 98 | A look at a Bach chorale, with improvisation. | 11m 11s | ||||||
| 10/8/25 |  Meet your heroes | Random thoughts on the way to work | 18m 28s | ||||||
| 10/8/25 |  Guided Practice, sight reading, intervallic playing | A guided practice using only one scale, progressing from easy to difficult | 25m 38s | ||||||
| 10/8/25 |  Charlie Christian 06: Stompin' chorus 3, 2nd half | This series of videos takes a close look at one of the greatest improvisations of all time, Charlie Christian's solo on "Stompin' at the Savoy" from May of 1941, live at Minton's playhouse. It's focused on the guitar, but other instruments may also dig it. | 31m 54s | ||||||
| 10/6/25 |  Charlie Christian 02: Stompin' chorus 1, 1st half | This series of videos takes a close look at one of the greatest improvisations of all time, Charlie Christian's solo on "Stompin' at the Savoy" from May of 1941, live at Minton's playhouse. It's focused on the guitar, but other instruments may also dig it. | 31m 28s | ||||||
| 10/6/25 |  Charlie Christian 03: Stompin' chorus 1, 2nd half | This series of videos takes a close look at one of the greatest improvisations of all time, Charlie Christian's solo on "Stompin' at the Savoy" from May of 1941, live at Minton's playhouse. It's focused on the guitar, but other instruments may also dig it. | 25m 44s | ||||||
| 10/6/25 |  Charlie Christian 04: Stompin' Chorus 2 | This series of videos takes a close look at one of the greatest improvisations of all time, Charlie Christian's solo on "Stompin' at the Savoy" from May of 1941, live at Minton's playhouse. It's focused on the guitar, but other instruments may also dig it. | 33m 34s | ||||||
| 10/6/25 |  Charlie Christian 05: Stompin' chorus 3, 1st half | This series of videos takes a close look at one of the greatest improvisations of all time, Charlie Christian's solo on "Stompin' at the Savoy" from May of 1941, live at Minton's playhouse. It's focused on the guitar, but other instruments may also dig it. | 21m 48s | ||||||
| 10/6/25 |  Charlie Christian 01: History, context, listening | Today we start a new series - one of the most famous improvisations of all time, Charlie Christian's solo on "Stompin' at the Savoy," recorded live at Minton's Playhouse in May of 1941. In this episode I give a brief biography of Charlie Christian (with some recommended reading), and we listen to the solo. I also talk about the history and context of the Gibson ES150, a very important instrument in the history of the electric guitar. | 31m 28s | ||||||
| 10/5/25 |  New Tool! Sight Reading Trainer | The perks of membership keep coming! I finally got this thing working - "Fly Shit" is a thing built in MAX/MSP that generates sight reading material based on all kinds of settings. Make it as easy or hard as you want, customize to the range and tempo, melodic and rhythmic material, and never run out of sight reading material again. This is something that I wish I had when I was younger, because sight reading on guitar is hard, and many of us suck at it.Right now, you can download this version here and use it right away if you have MAX/MSP. If the display doesn't look right, you will need to download an additional package called "BACH" that includes the score display and the pitch circle. I'm working on making a standalone version that works like a regular app, but it's not as easy as I thought.If you don't have MAX (it is expensive), I'll be doing some guided practice sessions here for sight reading, where you just follow along and I'll do different levels of difficulty. Guitar players, we need to get our reading together, and I think this can help! | 27m 22s | ||||||
| 10/5/25 |  On Organization and Creativity | Some disorganized thoughts in response to a member question about how to "get organized." Got a really special post coming tomorrow, make sure to check it out. The Octavia Butler quote I was trying to remember in this video is:“First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.” | 24m 48s | ||||||
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Chart Positions
2 placements across 2 markets.
Chart Positions
2 placements across 2 markets.