Category: Journal Entries

Free Guitar Lessons San Francisco — Thursday Guitar Scales Intro

Starting today, each Thursday I’ll be introducing a new, simple, and easy-to-follow guitar scale that you will be able to use in any key. These exercises will contain the most useful scales in positions that will allow you to play…

Free Guitar Lessons San Francisco — Wednesday Guitar Chords Intro

Starting today, each Wednesday I’ll be introducing a new, simple, and easy-to-follow guitar chord exercise that you can that will help you improve your guitar playing immediately. These exercises will contain new chord shapes, chord progressions, and strumming patterns as…

Free Guitar Lessons San Francisco — Monday Exercises Intro

Starting today, each Monday I’ll be introducing a new, simple, and easy-to-follow exercise that you can do in just a few minutes or seconds to improve your guitar playing immediately. Check out the intro video below!

The guitar blog is back!

  After a hiatus, the Creative Spark Guitar Instruction blog is back in business! I’ve been working on several article series and projects to share here, including free guitar lessons, troubleshooting tips, games and challenges, and fun and educational pieces.…

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween from Creative Spark Guitar Instruction! Who doesn’t love a holiday built around candy and dressing up—which is also very rock and roll. To celebrate, here are the masters of “Halloween rock”, Oingo Boingo, with “Dead Man’s Party”. The riff…

Pirate Guitar[rrrrrrr]!

Many months ago I did a post on Teye’s gorgeous guitars—unique handcrafted instruments made by a craftsman and guitarist who puts a lot of love and inspiration into his work. And now, it’s even better. He’s introduced “The Scallywag”, a…

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass & More Fun

Hopefully you made it to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass last weekend, but if you were too busy with Fleet Week, the America’s Cup World Series, watching the Giants, and all of the other obligations in life, you’d be forgiven. I managed…