Pickin' & Bloggin'May 1, 20191 min readNew Video: "Waltz for Guitar"Greetings, All! A simple waltz I wrote for guitar. (= This is my first official recording with my Taylor Academy Series A12e-N. If you...
Pickin' & Bloggin'Feb 23, 20191 min readNew Video: "Forest Glade"Greetings, All! This song was an actual occurrence of getting musical inspiration from a dream. I woke up with the first 6 melody notes...
Pickin' & Bloggin'Feb 22, 20191 min readNew Tutorial: Slap-StrummingGreetings, All! I just posted a new video on a technique I call "slap-strumming", which can be used for awesome-sauce-tastical percussive...
Pickin' & Bloggin'Feb 16, 20192 min readNail care woes?Are you tired of expensive nail-finishing blocks and sanding boards that wear out after 4 uses? Are you tired of using that little metal...
Pickin' & Bloggin'Feb 16, 20192 min readTHIS wall's more important...Build the wall. / Don't build the wall. It's good. / It's bad. It's necessary. / It's mean. It's common sense. / It won't work anyway....
Pickin' & Bloggin'Feb 13, 20191 min readNew Video: "Guitar Groove"Greetings, All! This song's from quite a while back, but I never made a video of it. I blew the musical dust off this composition...
Pickin' & Bloggin'Feb 9, 20191 min readI don't even DRINK coffee...Greetings, All! Just so you know... Justin case you're interested... You can now support me and my music on Ko-fi! (pronounced "coffee")...
Pickin' & Bloggin'Feb 8, 20192 min readBridge Pins: Tiny, but HUGEGreetings, All! So, recently I met with my first guitar teacher to hang out and play some music, and he pointed out something I found...
Pickin' & Bloggin'Feb 8, 20191 min readNew Tutorial: Left-Hand StrengthGreetings, All! I just posted a new tutorial on my Facebook page about left-hand strength for the guitar player, covering why strength is...
Pickin' & Bloggin'Feb 7, 20191 min readHello, World!Greetings, All! This sentence marks the beginning of my new blog, Pickin' & Bloggin', wherein I may explore topics of interest to guitar...