Hopefully things will calm down here enough so that I can do more of these reviews, too. There are two more Guitar Noise members CDs – a jazz standards done on classical guitar by Art Hodges (no relation) and Steinar Gregertsen’s tribute to Jimi Hendrix, done on slide and lap steels – that are just as amazing in different ways.

I can’t help but feeling that I’m pretty lucky to fill my day to day work with such great music.

Peace

Thank you so much for taking the time to do this, and for supporting me. I know you are a busy guy and I am honored that you took time out to support the music.

Thank you my friend!

And thanks for the advice. There are certainly many tablature sites out there and between them and the books available (funny how they are, overall, the best choice for any serious guitar student but are usually not even on any guitarist’s radar) you have a lot of resources.

Working out as much as one can by ear, which was by and large how all of our guitar heroes learned to play, is still one’s best option, but most people nowadays think about that even less than books, if that’s possible! That’s a joke, by the way.

Using one’s ear does involve practice and there’s no time like now to get started on it. Eventually you’re going to want to play something that doesn’t have either tablature or music notation anywhere for it, so it can’t hurt to get in practice ahead of time.

Peace

Hope this helps

The trick would be having enough people interested. Not to sound mercenary, but I would have to pay for my travel out there plus for the expense of running it. Some of operating costs can certainly be worked out (the last time I held one in Chicago it took place at the home of a former student of mine), so it would probably be a matter of logistics (in terms of schedule) and travel.

This isn’t to say “no,” it’s simply to say, “possibly, but there would be organizational work involved.” Right at the moment, I am in no position to even think about it until I get my desk cleared of the current deadlines.

So let’s keep in touch about it, okay?

Peace

Best of luck with them this year!

Peace

Thank you for writing and thank you as well for your kind words concerning my lessons at Guitar Noise.

Currently I do not have DVD lessons (for sale or otherwise), but it is something that both Paul (Paul Hackett, the gentleman who created, owns and runs Guitar Noise) and I are exploring the possibilities of doing. The big stumbling block making certain that we pay the various copyright royalties that would be involved for creating such a project.

Another thing that’s been holding up looking into DVDs is that I’m currently working on two book projects. Actually, one is (finally) done – The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Playing Rock Guitar will be published by Alpha (Penguin) Books and be available the first week of March.

Right now, I am in the process of writing and recording the brand new Complete Idiot’s Guide to Guitar, which will hopefully be out this fall, probably late October or early November. Needless to say, these have been (and still are) a lot of work that has pretty much eaten up all the spare time available.

But once this last project is done, then we’ll get back to looking at the possibilities of DVD lessons.

Also, once the books are done I will have more time to devote to Guitar Noise lessons. One of the first ones that should be posted will (hopefully) be Fire and Rain, which might make you happy!

Thank you again for making the time to write and I look forward to chatting with you again.

Peace