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Niedt August Tip

The Niedt tip for August goes over reading harmonics in notation. As to be expected, Niedt is thoro...

Niedt Tip Harmonics

Niedt has a video tip for this month covering harmonics. On the page is listed a contents for the v...

Niedt Summer Lessons

Douglas Niedt has information posted about master classes and summer lessons. He teaches in Kansas ...

Fazios Music Online Store Open

Around St. Louis, Fazio's Music has been a place to go for guitars and music related equipment. For...

Niedt Tip for November

Douglas Niedt has part 2 of his scales tip from October posted. Scales using ami--your pick hand in...

Pat Metheny Lesson

Jazzguitar.be posted a Pat Metheny lesson. There's a series of licks shown in music and tab with a ...

Movable Chord Shapes

Here's a pdf for common movable chord shapes. You have shapes rooted on the E, A, and D strings wit...

Where Are My Posts

I really slacked off in posts lately. Some projects have been keeping me busy. One project related...

Beginner Lesson Little Lamb

Someone is interested in lessons and I made this in preparation for them. This takes the familiar m...

Amazing Grace Jazz

On jazzguitar.be, there is a posting of Amazing Grace. The song is presented in music and tab and i...

Django Reinhardt Biography

The jazzguitar.be site posted a Django biography a few days ago. The biography on the site are nice...

Free Music for August

The learnclassicalguitar.com site has posted it's free music for August. Waltz in D by Carulli is t...

Archtop LED Mod Video

Putting together a video was easier than I expected. Well, easy for the product I made. This nicel...

Inspiration Ted Nugent

My brother loaned me a copy of Nugent's book God, Guns, and Rock-n-Roll. So, I started poking arou...

Complete Rodrigo y Gabriela Video

A long time ago, I posted a Rob & Gab vid, showing how to play they song Tamacun. Just happened to ...

United Breaks Guitars

Here's a sad story with a song to give a little punch behind it. ON a short tour, I man flew United...

Chord Tab Search Widget Update

I updated the chord/tab search widget that's on the sidebar. I didn't realize it was a year old. F...

Google Calendar

I've been playing around with Google Calendar and have a dedicated calendar for lessons. Just have ...

Oops

Been a little distracted and forgot to post some things up here. Found some links, vids, and whatev...

Finding Purpose to Playing

With the economy and things like it is, a few people have halted guitar lessons. That started me th...

Carcassi Prelude Lesson

Cacassi's Prelude in Am is a good piece for guitarists interested in fingerstyle, beginners who want...

Inspiration Dave Brubeck

Not purely guitar related here, but this is one of my favorite jazz pieces performed live. Blue Ron...

Updated Open Chord Chart

Updated the open chord chart that's listed on the resources page. Used the Lilypond chord library a...

Scalar Mode Update

I updated the scalar mode utility. Added are 6th chords progressions for the church modes and some ...

Jazz Improv Part One

The jazzguitar.be site has posted the first of a three part series on jazz improv. This is a very i...

Sor Studies Site

There's a relatively new site up dedicated to 18th century performance. Now there's a couple vids a...

Niedt Tip for December

Niedt's tip for December is a Christmas related. He gives three versions of a carol with a backgrou...

Minor Pentatonic Jam

Have a new student who started that knows quite a bit. That's fun for me because it give me more di...

Douglas Niedt Technique for August

Niedt's tip for August is the second part covering vibrato that started in July. A few days late pos...

Bach Accordions and Animation

I (re)started working on Bach's Prelude No 1 in C from the Well Tempered Clavier book 1. Despite a ...

E Dorian Jam pt 2

Here's a pdf and midi file created with LilyPond for the note the other day (http://www.walzguitar.c...

Scalar Modes utility updated with jazz chords

Small update on the scalar mode page. There's been some unannounced updates related to this. But, ...

Billy Gibbons Lesson

I'm fascinated with 'lesson' video which are more 'look at what I can do' instead of actually being ...

Inspiration and Lesson Rodrigo Y Gabriela

Rand across this video and it reminded me of the Juan Martin video I posted recently. Here Rod and ...

Updated Vista News Gadget

Changed the display a little to avoid scroll bars and added a refresh function with the next update ...

Chord and Tab Search Widget

Here's a simple javascript widget for guitar related sites. It's a customizable multi-search for so...

Tip of the Month from Niedt

Related to the previous note, on the Niedt site is a tip of the month which you can sign up for. Th...

Tango Rhythms 2 Milonga

The milonga is a type of tango rhythm. The milonga is a little more sophisticated than the marcato ...

Metro Area Luthier

I wanted to get classical guitar 'set up' so I started looking for a luthier that was nearby. I fou...

Site Stetina Practice Tips

The Stetina site has lots of guitar information. It's more rock and metal oriented. The practice t...

Free Nine Inch Nails

Not necessarily guitar related, but Nine Inch Nails has their new album for free download. This see...

Lesson Spots Open

This is related to potential and current guitar students. I have spots open on Monday and Tuesday. ...

Updated Scale Mode Page

Added more scale modes to the Scalar Mode page (http://walzguitar.com/modes/). Now, the seven diato...