Boy!What wonderful and thoughtful advice! Thank you so much. A couple of you older fellows I know by your posts, and I'm just so glad I heard from y...

I've never heard anything i like better than Leo Kottke 6 and 12 String Guitar. Yep. That's my Number 1.

I understand that Davey Graham "invented" DADGAD so he could better play with oud players. Oud beng a north African instrument . . .

Baritone guitars are not necessarily tuned down to a B, as mentioned above. A is common, as is G. Depends on the artist.Don Ross is an amazing acous...

Check out You'll spend years there if learning jazz is your thing. There is an excellent links section, as well.

If it were my site, I'd prepare a nice big, free lesson on a juicy topic, like acoustic jazz/blues with a walking base (a favourite style of mine). O...

Try You can print various free music paper from there. May I suggest the one that has both standard notation and tab on the same sheet.

Figure out those scales on your own. It's dead easy.Write them on tab paper AND in standard notation. Harmonize your scales. Write that down, too. ...

No doubt.But, ya know, it brings up the whole issue of the proliferation of learning resources - particularly on the internet, but in print media as w...

Good answer, Noteboat.My first violin teacher plumped up her theory with little historical asides like yours. It made stuff that could have been unbe...

Work them out yourself. Write them down. They'll stick in your head that way.

For the past couple of years, I've been working through Walter Piston's classic: "Harmony." I do small logical chunks every day or so. Second-hand c...

Theory is important, for a variety of reasons. But it's important to balance your intake of theory with actual free playing. A head full of theory c...