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Recently completed several studio projects; Several tracks with Elliot Schneider - tracking the rhythm & lead guitar and backup vocal on "If Looks Could Kill" and "Children are Not Your Salvation".

Also following up the work I did with the Bluecatshaving written and soloed on the title track of their album "Perfect Example"I collaborated with the band's lead singer and blues harp player, Tony Battelle, on the track "Knockn" from their upcoming album release; "Earthquake Mama".

mn - 1/29/11

Modes: 101 iPhone App Now Available

The first Fretography^® iPhone App is now available for download in the iTunes App Store.

There's also a new blog for news and info about the app and future apps fretapps.blogspot.com. The FretApps™ blog focuses on the application itself, covering user questions and info on updates and bug fixes (should they arise.)

The Fretography Blog

Check out the Fretography blog. A knowledge source of music theory for the guitar.

Fretography^®
Guitarpixel^®

- Fretography and Guitarpixel are now both registered trade marks!
- Announcing New Fretography Blog!

(Warning!! Sales spiel below!)

I'm happy to announce that I've been granted two trademarks by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Fretography^® is a way of mapping the fretboard based on widely accepted principles of music theory. While there are plenty of sources for fretboard diagrams available, Fretography goes beyond most methods by comprehensively mapping the diatonic system as a whole. The essential fingering patterns are seen as geometric zones which are named for their diatonic significance. The study of chords, scales, modes and more is enhanced by mapping them in in a contextually related way - not as isolated patterns.

Also - - - Check out the new Fretography Blog. Each entry features a tutorial focusing on a specific aspect of the fret-mapping system.

Balboa Guitars

I now offer lessons and repairs by appointment at Balboa Guitars.

3942 Balboa Street in San Francisco. Just two blocks north of Golden Gate Park between 39th and 41st Avenues.

Call (415) 221-3920

For lesson rates and policies, go to the GuitarPixel Lesson Page.

Fretography^® - Book 1 and 2 now at Lulu.com

My first book, Fretography^® is now availiable at lulu.com as a download and a nicely bound soft cover book. Most of my students have been working with this book, which comes free with a series of lessons.

Book 2 in the series, Superzones Etcetera is now also available!

NPR's Car Talk Features 'Old Bel'

A song I wrote back in 1983, Old Bel, was aired on National Public Radio's 'Car Talk' on April 23rd (program #200517)

The song is an affectionate ode to my beat-up old '69 Plymouth Belvedere, my first car. An Mp3 file and the song lyrics are accessible from the Sounds page of this site.

Jim Eaves - January 28th 1944 - December 4th 2003

A great musician passed away on December 4th 2003. Jim Eaves was one of my mentors. I first met Jim when we were both playing at the Dugout on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village in 1976.

Amazed by his skill and style on the guitar I was eager to learn as much from him as I could, and he willingly obliged. Jim was always a generous man. Always there to talk about music - and anything else - with an 18 year old just getting started in life. He will be missed.

GuitarPixel logo products!

In the time honored tradition of shameless capitalism you can now purchase GuitarPixel.com products available from CafeShops.com which produces them on a per order basis.
All profits go to my mechanic.
Idle Thoughts
The old truck tells me
I need repair this cold day -
Ignitor broken.

In the background is my beloved '84 Nissan King Cab pickup truck.... ...to which I am deeply in debt.