The last two days have been exciting to say the least. Yesterday was a rare day off from teaching, so in the morning I rearranged my living room into a video studio, and filmed my new video guitar lesson "Five Classic Blues Guitar Riffs". It looks like I'm making one of my well-known "guitar faces" in the thumbnail below...
Then in the afternoon I took part in the planning of an exciting new music exam syllabus. I can't say too much about it for now, but it'll be big news later this year.
Finally, I went to a jazz gig in the evening, to see the amazing Jim Mullen Organ Trio, as a guest of TS, one of my oldest friends, and a fine, respected musician himself. No bass player, just guitar, organ and drums. While I love the sound of a double bass, or bass guitar in a jazz band, I didn't miss it in this line-up, as Mike Gorman the organist played very solid bass lines as well as comping chords and taking incredibly fast solos. I was happy to see Matt Skelton on drums, having seen him play with Claire Martin last month. Jim Mullen himself is always an entertaining guitarist to watch, with his unorthodox technique.
On to today (Saturday). A few lessons this morning. My first student is only nine years old, but already he's learning Muddy Waters and Howling Wolf riffs, helped by my video lesson above of course.
I was happy to watch the views and likes soar up for my new video, and I also uploaded it to Facebook, so it's getting a good circulation. I really must find time to film some more of these.
Finally, here I am, typing in my very first blog post, and I've just added it to my website. No website generators for me; drawing on knowledge from my past life I use my web development skills to create my website entirely by myself.
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