Learning guitar can be a struggle at times for the aspiring picker. The process of playing guitar involves a kind of multi-tasking. For the more advanced player this may not be evident, because so many of the tasks have become automatic. On the other hand, the beginner constantly needs to…
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Ukulele Fever Recently I have been taking on students who want to study ukulele. About nine or ten years ago , I noticed that the ukulele was starting to get the attention of young people. You would find it in pop tunes, such as Train’s “Hey, Soul Sister”. Pop artists,…
Axis of Awesome One of my teenage students once introduced me to a YouTube video about the “four-chord song”. This was performed by a comedy-pop group called the “Axis of Awesome”. The premise was that you only need four chords to write a hit song. In fact, it is a…