Stage Craft
Stagecraft involves everything you do in front of an audience besides playing the music. It makes a large impact on the audience and contributes greatly to their musical experience. It does not, however, receive much [...]
Inspiration: Listening to Bach with The Great Necks
The Great Necks are a fantastic guitar trio made up of Adam Levin, Scott Borg, and Matthew Rohde. They just completed their first album last year and it includes a recording of this amazing Toccata [...]
The Guitalele
by Dave Belcher The "Guitalele"? The guitar is but one member of a very large and extended family. Distant cousins of today's guitar stretch back at least 3,000 years -- though closer family resemblances date [...]
Inspiration: Listening to Scarlatti with Rene Izquierdo
Over at CGC Academy we've been treated to some wonderful new masterclass lessons on Brouwer's Etudes Simples with Cuban vituoso guitarist Rene Izquierdo. If you haven't gotten enough inspiration yet, here's some more! This is [...]
Member Spotlight: Steve Battazzo
One of the things that makes the community at CGC Academy so special is how willing so many of our members are to put themselves out there and share performances, works in progress, and to [...]