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Mickey Baker’s Jazz Guitar Book

Watch this analysis of a chord from Book 1 of  Mickey Baker’s famous book Mickey Baker’s Complete Course in Jazz Guitar: Book 1 (Ashley Publications).  It’s one of the chords that greet the reader in the first lesson. Learn about this rootless chord that actually looks like it should be called something else! The explanation […]

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ROCKETBOOK Reusable Notebooks

Being old-school I like to write on actual paper. I believe it helps you to think when you have a piece of paper in your hands.  Well actually, with Pilot’s Rocketbook Reusable Notebooks you can have that natural feel and still captured content on your phone or tablet.  Another plus, is that with Rocket’s scanner […]

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Do your guitar strings have the blues?

String companies now make pure nickel blues guitar strings made form solid nickel windings.  DR and other string companies market these as Blues strings. Nickel has different magnetic and hardness properties than stainless steels. Stainless steel is a more common material for strings. Nickel strings have a more mellow sound. But is this mellow sound […]

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Customize a Whiteboard for Teaching Music

I recently customized a whiteboard for teaching music. The good old-fashioned whiteboard is still widely used and is really useful for teaching music to more than one student. If you customize a whiteboard, it can become a much more effective and efficient way to teach. How to Customize a Whiteboard to Teach Music To write […]