When you get on a bit in years you suddenly start seeing one or two friends who have gone at life really hard start to fall apart. Its sad - because its so often the nicest souls who leave us first.

A device in music where a section is resolved with the major tonic chord rather than the minor. I don't think I used it in its true sense - and it only happens once or twice in the piece - in the early part. I came across it when playing rennai...

This is an arrangement of a tune called Rainbow Wood by the guitarist John Anderson. He featured it in his tutor book and I've added a second guitar part, a bass and a choir ( !) to the piece. My guitar group like the solo so I hope they will e...

What we do in our hours when the meter isn't running is often more valuable to us than what we get paid to do. This months useful (?) tip.

The Fortune Teller. Mystic Meg ( shows how old I am !) the astrologer - they've got it made - foreseeing the future - a great gift.The only thing is - if it had any bad bits in - I'd want to change them - can you do that ?

An old fashioned ballad - lamenting I'm not sure what - same old stories, tales, memories, songs - no idea really.

A re-mix of a song from late 2023. About protecting those around you - particularly the young and old. Gaza, Ukraine, any area of conflict seems to suffer the most and looking after your loved ones is really out of your control.At this t...

As about as  politically incorrect as you can get.. The room where a bloke has his stuff - things to repair, things he has no idea how to repair ( but hopes he'll work it out one day) the cigars he's trying to smoke on the quiet and the bo...

Its Friday - Do you need a reason ? Enjoy the weekend .

I don't have one - but the charity shops in the UK are just excellent. The Sue Ryder charity shop is just one of them - but currently my favourite, with the Dogs Trust running a close second.A good time to get the winter wardrobe sorted ...

This has become my favourite Villa Lobos Prelude over the years - played on Roberts 2nd Hybrid guitar- made whilst he was doing his Deliveroo job in Nuremberg and making the guitar in his "spare?" time. Described as a Homage to Soci...

My idea of a Django/ Villa Lobos meet up in the Paris of late 1920's probably never took place - but here is the use of their two musical styles - a bit of nonsense.

The piece is played on Roberts 2nd Hybrid guitar built when he was living in Nuremberg and working for Deliveroo. The guitar has a strutting structure of carbon fibre and is maple with a spruce sound board - effectively a white guitar with ebon...

The diet some of the families in Gaza are having to live on is little more than Living on Air. There is a ( not well supported ) belief that a human can live on air and light alone:Breatharians ?The breatharian ...

The piece is described by Turibio Santos in his book Heitor Villa Lobos and the guitar as a homage to Bach - and the second section certainly is..I just think there is a bit of Django Reinhardt in there particularly in the chords and arp...

Lifting some chords from Prelude No.3 by Villa Lobos this piece is a light tune - Fridays here!

The second of the 5 Villa Lobos " Preludes" recorded over the summer - A lot of finger squeak - too late for me to change a habit of a lifetime !  Also on Roberts Hybrid guitar - which has these wonderful witter planetary tuning peg...

Most of your average Joe's ( I include myself in that !) think the employers of the world want blood from their employees - Most of the employers think their employees just don't give enough.

In the late 1960's, when I started to learn the Spanish guitar - as my teacher called it - the 5 preludes by Villa Lobos were concert pieces recorded by the great English players - John Williams, Julian Bream. I have played them for a long time...

Timing is everything - who you meet , who you fall for, where you end up - totally reliant on the time and place. It could even come down to a matter of seconds - right place - right time. That life changing episode you don't even realise is ha...

After days of courses, meetings, training and safeguarding off we go again tomorrow .. I'm looking forward to a new term some new enthusiastic pupils and not too much IT training. I don't think the last would happen - wishful thinking on my par...

In the UK this is indicative of some form of privilege. The wikipedia bit:A grace-and-favour home is a residential property owned by a 

There you go .. what a weird expression that is - what does it mean ?It seems to be slightly dismissive, lets move on, type of phrase.The AI bit on google tells me:The phrase "there you go" is an idiom used in variou...

The second piece I played during the signing of the register in August 1985 was originally called Song for Sarah -  I didn't include Malcolm as it felt a bit weird at the time. For the 40th anniversary I re-named the piece Song for Malcolm...

In August 1985 I was asked to play at a wedding. In August 2025 I played at the couple's 40th wedding anniversary - the Ruby Wedding. It was a lovely occasion with children, grandchildren and friends of old all in attendance. The pi...