Wow, its been a loooong time since I last wrote. Lots of updates, but I will start small: music!

I’ve been having quite a bit of fun exploring various new music ideas. These are documented on the flash player on this page. I hope you enjoy the new tunes and ideas. I’ve been working on modes, chord vocabulary, and expression techniques including trying to play more slowly! (I find it harder, but more satisfying, to play slow)

When I first picked up the guitar years ago, I took a couple weeks of lessons to learn basic chords and I also learned four songs: a phish, a zeppelin, and an Alman Bros tune. Since then, I’ve been on my own mainly.

Now that I’m focusing on getting proper theory down, I thought it would be quite useful to have a teacher again. And my teacher Sammy is one cool, crazy cat. I’ll be posting more new tunes as the semester rolls on. These days, I’m having a lot of fun with diatonic modes and exploring non-conventional pentatonic applications.