MLK's Favorite Guitar Lick
It's no surprise why we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. each year - the peaceful civil rights movement he led 60 years ago gave way to a whole new approach to standing up for what is right without violence.
But what about when Dr. King was himself discouraged?
Where would he turn?
It has been noted how, as a preacher, King was often quoting or humming or requesting a hymn or negro spiri...
Play the Guitar in 5 Days? What's the Catch?
It was a Wednesday morning and I had just finished a Discovery Call with a future student when I got a text message from someone:
"play the guitar in 5 days??? what's the catch???"
No catch I texted.
You'll literally be playing the guitar... not learning to play... playing the guitar in 5 days.
He wanted to know how that was possible.
I invited him to my Closet Rockstars Mini Challenge - a ...
LEGO discovery helps with playing the guitar!
I just learned that LEGO started out making wooden toys.
It would be 14 years before the founder, Ole Kristiansen, would order his first plastic mould machine and it took another 3 years to convince his sons to make the iconic plastic bricks.
Why?
It had never been done before. Everything had always been wooden. Plastic was new, untested, even strange.
But the results were undeniable - and lego...
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