I first heard Lenny when I was in my early 20's - relatively late in the life of a guitar player. The exact circumstances are lost in my foggy memory, but I ...

When was the first time you heard magic in music? When did you experience the real root of your love for music? Mine was hearing 'Black Dog' by Led Zeppelin ...

First of all, everyone 'always plays the same things'. Even the greats rely on licks once in awhile. Some people make a career out of them. But if you're pla...

When my wife and I moved from the Greater Toronto area to the little city of Casper, WY, I searched for extra work to help pay the bills. I ended up landing ...

The older I get, the less I seem drawn to practicing my instrument. It's not from falling out of love with the guitar; there are lots of factors that contrib...

When I started playing guitar I was eleven years old. Six years of piano before that gave me a bit of a head start in terms of theory knowledge and finger de...

I love mistakes. In music anyway. In real life they can cause anything from mild annoyance to a life-threatening issue. But in music (more importantly, impro...

Making a living playing your instrument is a pretty great way to pay the bills, to be sure. But how many of us end up taking gigs that we are not particularl...

Despite the inflammatory title, I should preface this by saying that I am one of the biggest Led Zeppelin fans I know. Perhaps the biggest. When I received m...

Who remembers what the world was like pre-Internet? I used to. But it's slowly fading from memory. So much information is readily available to us now and it'...

There's an almost infinite world of music out there waiting to be discovered. And with the advent of streaming/downloading technologies a large chunk of it i...