Here you go! Happy New Year 🥳

I love reading up on how the best songwriters approached the guitar. Because very few of them approached it the same!  Take Joni Mitchell, for example. She  "All in all, there are upwards of 50 unique tunings in Mitchell's repertoire," wrote a Joni expert earlier this year.  50 tunings!?!? I find that remarkable. Not just because Joni is a musical genius - because she is! But I find it remarkab...

It's hard to imagine, where today endless information is available in our pockets, a time when a beginner guitarist would need to travel hours on a city bus just to find a guy who, rumor had it, knew how to play a specific chord.  But, according to this 1990 interview, that's just what Paul McCartney did! McCartney said, "We used to travel miles for a new chord-literally-in Liverpool. We used t...

If you've followed our progress over the past year one of the things you may have noticed is how we train our students with an end-date in mind.  Our goal at Stupid Simple™ Guitar is to be your last teacher ever... as you become your own guitar teacher.  How does that happen?  A few ways.  We'll dive into them in more depth at our free workshop This Wendesday, but here's a brief summary.  Lear...