Strat's Music Studio

So it’s been a couple of months since I started teaching guitar lessons. So far, so good. I’ve been lucky -- all my kids are there because they really want to learn to play the guitar. True, I am lucky, too, in that thus far they all have innate talent. I haven't run into the stump-dumb nosepicker... Sign in to see full entry.

In answer to a question posed to me by my adoptive sister, Krisles, I have to say, "So far; so good." I started teaching youngsters guitar about a month ago at our local Fine Arts Center. As I told both the kids and their parents, we aren't going to make them all rock stars in three easy lessons.... Sign in to see full entry.

So I start teaching beginning guitar today at our local Fine Arts Center. This is a new experience for me, and undoubtedly will provide much material for this here blog page. I've never done this before; be gentle; it's my first time. More later. Sign in to see full entry.

Mike Mo cranked into a high octane riff, that Marshall JCM 800 stack screaming like a wounded banshee. I came in right behind him on the dual guitar lead break, my trusty old Carvin Blues Tube roaring right under Mike’s ballpeen hammer-like riffs. In front of us, Brother E was soaring all over the... Sign in to see full entry.

Guitar great Jeff Healey left us yesterday after a long battle with cancer. He was 41. For those of you who might not know him, his was a prodigious career, a lot of work in a relatively short amount of time. He hit the mainstream pretty early, scoring a Grammy in the early 90s with a cover of John... Sign in to see full entry.