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Posts in 2020

  • Docsify your exercise library

    Sunday, May 24, 2020 in Guitar

    I’ve recently been stealing a bunch of ideas from Josh at FretboardAnatomy and others to completely revamp my practice system. As described in my page on practice, my practice system comprises just two things: An exercise library (on the …

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  • Frying Pan Published

    Sunday, April 19, 2020 in Guitar

    I’ve moved over and rewritten the basic blues and single-octave minor pentatonic stuff from the old site. The exercises are a lot of fun. I’m having fun with them myself! Enjoy!

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  • Triads Published

    Thursday, April 16, 2020 in Guitar

    I’ve been making tremendous progress in moving over content from the old site. Before moving the individual blog posts, I wanted to move the “Resource” section over to OMFG. What was “Learning the fretboard” is now …

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  • Fretboard Mastery Published

    Sunday, April 12, 2020 in Guitar

    I’ve finally happy with my treatise on how to learn the notes on the fretboard. I’ve been working on that document over three different forms of this website, and have spent countless hours working on it. I’m quite happy with how it …

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  • Diatonic theory updates

    Thursday, April 09, 2020 in Guitar

    I just pushed a massive rewrite of the diatonic theory page. The new Docsy theme with it’s orientation toward documentation (vs. a typical blog) really helped. Stupid as it sounds, it was a bit of an epiphany to realize I wanted to publish both …

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  • Shop Pics

    Wednesday, April 08, 2020 in Workshop

    I’m planning to publish more shop stuff in the future, but I needed at least one post in this category to get going. So here are some pictures of my machine tools. Here’s a photo of my rebuilt 1947 10” Montgomery Ward Powermatic …

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  • Wanikani

    Wednesday, April 08, 2020 in Other

    A post on something other than guitar for a change! I first started trying to learn Japanese when Dad moved us to Japan in 1975. [As an aside, I just discovered that Mark Hamill graduated from the same DoD high school in Yokosuka where I attended 8th …

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  • Beginner Content

    Wednesday, April 08, 2020 in Guitar

    I’ve started populating the guitar section of the site with some beginner content. First up is a rewrite of an old post on basic theory to learn the notes on the fretboard [TODO: ADD LINK]. Next is a post that puts that theory to practice …

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  • Site plans and features

    Wednesday, April 08, 2020 in News

    Here are some of the changes and features of the new site: Organization Firstly, I expect to have categories of information in my blog. I will only publish “sitewide” news to the news section. Use the navigation on the left to view …

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  • New Site

    Tuesday, March 10, 2020 in News

    Time for a refresh. I’m going to retire the old site and start using this site exclusively going forward. It provides better content organization and allows me to post on any topic (not just guitar). It’s way easier to maintain …

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