I write guitar articles at two blogs: Deft Digits Guitar Lessons and From the Woodshed. Below are my best posts from each.

I teach guitar lessons in Seattle and via webcam. Deft Digits is my teaching website and blog.
- The Mother of All Major Scale Exercises – Part 4 of 4 2/14/12
- The Mother of All Major Scale Exercises – Part 3 of 4 2/2/12
- How to Memorize and Use the Cycle of Fourths 1/30/12
- The Mother of All Major Scale Exercises – Part 2 of 4 1/18/12
- The Mother of All Major Scale Exercises – Part 1 of 4 1/10/12
- The World’s Most-Used Guitar Scale: A Minor Pentatonic 1/6/12
- Grip Strength Training for Guitarists 1/4/12
- Discover a Guitarist: Nels Cline 12/20/11
- Practice What You Love 12/16/11
- The CAGED System 12/12/11
- The Magic Guitar Position 12/8/11
- 31 Ideas for a Guitarist in a Rut 11/21/11
- 3 Books Every Intermediate Guitarist Should Own 11/7/11
- Intro to Jazz Guitar Clinic 10/14/11
- Discover a Guitarist: Stevie Ray Vaughan 9/17/11
- Why Learn Music Theory? 8/22/11
- The Easiest Intro to Music Theory 8/17/11
- How to Find Major and Minor Chords All Over the Guitar 8/8/11
- 8 Essential Open Chords and How to Use Them 7/27/11
- Know Every Note on the Guitar in 9 Days 7/17/11
- Listen to Everything 7/13/11
- How to Hold a Guitar Pick 7/3/11
- Always Take Notes 6/24/11
- 3 Easy Ways to Sound Great on Guitar 6/16/11
Elsewhere
Guest articles I’ve written for other blogs.
- How To Teach Guitar Lessons Using Skype (Start Teaching Guitar) 12/6/11
- Double Lydian Concept: How a Mistake Led to a Practice Room Breakthrough (Matt Warnock Guitar) 10/15/11
- Joe Walker reviews 12 Dunlop Jazz Picks (Guitar Noize) 10/3/11
- My Life and Music – Part 2 (Little Rock Jams) 6/13/11
- My Life and Music – Part 1 (Little Rock Jams) 6/8/11

I started From the Woodshed in 2007 when I quit my job to practice guitar for a year, and I’ve kept it going as a practice journal ever since.
- My Approach to Composition 11/17/11
- Learning Sweep Arpeggios 9/4/11
- Rob's Totally Awesome Guitar Teaching Handbook 8/25/11
- How I Use Pentatonic Scales in Everything I Play 8/18/11
- 10 Types of Jazz Chords 8/12/11
- Seattle Guitar Lessons: Deft Digits 6/14/11
- Reflections on a Master of Music 6/11/11
- How to Choose a Jazz Fake Book 6/1/11
- Pop Chord Progressions 5/26/11
- So Long, San Diego 5/24/11
- SDSU Oral Exam: Jazz Repertoire Selections 5/19/11
- SDSU Oral Exam: Analyzing My Own Composition 5/16/11
- SDSU Oral Exam: Analyzing My Own Solo 5/12/11
- Albums in My Blood 5/9/11
- Songs for Interval Recognition 5/5/11
- Playing for Free (Re: A Request for Action and Change) 5/2/11
- I'm Learning Italian 4/29/11
- I'm Moving to Seattle! 3/24/11
- My Recital: A Review 3/19/11
- Recital Time! 3/3/11
- The Kármán Line 3/1/11
- Recruitment Bonanza 2/26/11
- Wacky Misadventure 2/16/11
- Brass Shout Chorus 2/14/11
- SDSU Recital Audition 2/12/11
- Add the Room to Your Band 2/3/11
- Sax Soli 2/2/11
- First Lessons as a Bandleader 1/29/11
- The Gratuitous Stairway Solo 1/26/11
- Build Your Own Clone: Optical Compressor 1/24/11
- Star-Spangled Banner Arrangement 1/20/11
- An Analysis of "Dolphin Dance" 12/23/10
- The "Black Dog" Solo 12/17/10
- Cupping Hands at Concerts 12/15/10
- "Hocus Pocus" Composed Solo 12/13/10
- Defending Their Turf 12/9/10
- Playing Out with Conviction 12/6/10
- How to Practice Music: Six Essential Activities 12/3/10
- SDSU Jazz Combo 2 Challenges 12/1/10
- Upper Structure Triads 11/29/10
- Horace Silver: "Peace" and "Silver's Serenade" 11/27/10
- Weird Metronome 11/24/10
- Shelle Blue 11/22/10
- The Original Deluxe Aggravation 11/19/10
- The Six Pillars of Musical Development 11/17/10
- My Working Recital Set List 11/16/10
- Out Doin' Good Again 11/12/10
- Visualizing Chord-Scales on the Cycle of Fourths 11/10/10
- SDSU Jazz Studies Jury Scales 11/8/10
- SDSU Jazz Seminar Periodic Journal 3 11/3/10
- John McLaughlin's Solo on "Very Early" 10/28/10
- SDSU Jazz Seminar Periodic Journal 2 10/24/10
- SDSU Jazz Seminar Periodic Journal 1 9/23/10
- Gypsy Jazz at My Wedding 9/22/10
- National Guitar Workshop 2010, Day 6: Shred-Off, Final Thoughts 9/21/10
- National Guitar Workshop 2010, Day 5: Jody Fisher's Class, Paul Gilbert Clinic 9/20/10
- National Guitar Workshop 2010, Day 4: Pat Martino Clinic 9/8/10
- National Guitar Workshop 2010, Day 3: Tom Dempsey's Class, Driving Pat Martino 7/28/10
- National Guitar Workshop 2010, Day 2: Jody Fisher's Class, Second Faculty Concert 7/18/10
- National Guitar Workshop 2010, Day 1: Orientation, First Faculty Concert 7/13/10
- Miss Information 7/7/10
- Real Book III Rankings Index 7/2/10
- Every Key Is Sacred 6/30/10
- Real Book II Rankings Index 6/28/10
- Counting Tunes at Jam Sessions 6/23/10
- Ultimate Music Challenge Results 6/22/10
- Ultimate Music Challenge 6/18/10
- Webstrings 6/14/10
- Summer Goals 2010 6/11/10
- Junior Rounding Third 6/5/10
- Jazz Education Research Prospectus 5/7/10
- Piano Scale Fingerings 4/26/10
- How Many Scales Are There? 2/8/10
- Bob Magnusson's Monster Arpeggio Workout 2/1/10
- The Fake Book Index 1/29/10
- Second Semester Underway 1/27/10
- Benedetto Clinic 1/25/10
- SDSU Graduate Music History Remedial Assignment 12/24/09
- History of Jazz Guitar 12/22/09
- Kneebody Clinic 12/20/09
- Winter Goals 12/14/09
- Perfect Pitch: How Insensitive 12/12/09
- Real Book Rankings Index 11/20/09
- Mobile Ear Training 11/13/09
- Kneebody: The Future of Jazz 11/4/09
- I'm Learning the Mandolin 11/3/09
- My First Fugal Exposition 11/2/09
- Theme and Variation 10/30/09
- I'm a Full-Time Musician Again 10/28/09
- My First Motet 10/28/09
- First Show with Dazed and Confused 10/16/09
- Learning Standards Again 9/21/09
- First Weeks of Music School 9/18/09
- I'm Going to Music School 9/2/09
- I'm in a Led Zeppelin Tribute Band 8/30/09
- Careers in Jazz 8/28/09
- Les Paul 8/26/09
- Suck It Up 8/17/09
- Rhythmic Recognition 8/11/09
- The Real Frank Zappa Book 7/24/09
- Sight Reading on a Lake 7/21/09
- Dominant Scale Choices 7/14/09
- Minor ii-V-i Navigation 7/1/09
- Harmonic Minor Modes and 7th Chords 6/25/09
- Warming Up at Work 6/15/09
- Giant ii-V-I Comping Exercise 6/12/09
- Diminished Resolutions 6/4/09
- Condensed Practice Routine 5/18/09
- Plucking Behind the Pick 5/8/09
- Learning Giant Steps 4/13/09
- Mouth Exercises 3/18/09
- SDSU Jazz Audition Training 3/15/09
- New Picking Technique 3/9/09
- Circle of Fourths Watch 1/22/09
- Memorizing Keys 1/22/09
- Mother of All Major Scale Exercises - Part II 1/12/09
- Mother of All Major Scale Exercises - Part I 1/8/09
- Finding the Semitones 11/26/08
- Wack Rhythms 11/10/08
- Rubber Pick 10/14/08
- Pentatonics over Jazz Chords 8/5/08
- Sleep, Dreams, Creativity 7/17/08
- Practice While Hiking 6/30/08
- Triad Trainer 6/24/08
- Pentatonic Slides 6/17/08
- Ring Finger Mute 6/4/08
- Scholarship Video 5/30/08
- Warmup Ideas 5/28/08
- Melodic Sequences 5/19/08
- Does Deep Breathing Ease Back Pain? 5/14/08
- Gramps 1918-2008 5/1/08
- Texas Flood - Take 3 4/16/08
- How to Memorize Intervals 4/10/08
- 24-Hour Guitar Workout Marathon 4/4/08
- Avoiding Distractions 4/4/08
- I Quit 4/1/08
- Nels Cline 3/31/08
- Fretting Efficiency 3/29/08
- Frustration 3/24/08
- Speed Milestone: 112bpm! 3/19/08
- Tone at Low Volume 3/5/08
- It's All Just Noise in the End 3/4/08
- Dealing with Sight Reading Mistakes 2/22/08
- Strange Uses for Pentatonic Scales 2/19/08
- The Other Pentatonic Scale 2/12/08
- Old Goals 2/11/08
- Practice Posture 2/8/08
- Strength Training 2/7/08
- Dueling Metronomes 1/29/08
- Metronome Regression 1/26/08
- Choosing Audition Pieces 1/25/08
- Beyond Conventional Extensions 1/16/08
- Pentatonic Sweeps 1/15/08
- Easy Comping 1/12/08
- The Sobering Results of Recording Myself 1/11/08
- My Own Style 1/10/08
- Learning Chord Changes in Chunks 1/9/08
- Polypolyrhythms 12/29/07
- Pinky Locking Up 12/23/07
- Where Do Arpeggios Come From? 12/22/07
- Single-Note Picking vs. Strumming 12/17/07
- Why Don't I Love Jazz Guitar? 12/14/07
- Dodging Tendinitis 12/13/07
- Über Arpeggios 12/12/07
- New Priority: Learn Standards 12/10/07
- 7-9-11-13 Arpeggios 12/9/07
- Arpeggios over Chord Changes 12/7/07
- Visiting LA Music Academy 12/6/07
- Syncing Hands 12/4/07
- String Bending Trickery 12/2/07
- Discovering Guitarists 12/1/07
- Linking Chords and Arpeggios 11/30/07
- Music for Dreaming 11/29/07
- Memorizing Thirds 11/27/07
- Visualizing the Entire Fretboard 11/21/07
- Jimmy Bruno: No Nonsense Jazz Guitar: Picking 11/18/07
- Attempting Steve Vai's 30-Hour Guitar Workout: Day Three 11/8/07
- Attempting Steve Vai's 30-Hour Guitar Workout: Day Two 11/7/07
- Attempting Steve Vai's 30-Hour Guitar Workout: Day One 11/6/07
- Jimmy Bruno: No Nonsense Jazz Guitar: 7th Chords 11/5/07
- Don't Look Down 11/1/07
- Motivational Artwork 10/31/07
- Single String Sight Reading 10/30/07
- CAGED vs. Three Note Per String 10/29/07
- Use Different Picks 10/26/07
- Every Note Is Bent 10/25/07
- Slick Bend/Slide Move 10/24/07
- Strat Spring Dampening 10/23/07
- Chords by Fourths 10/22/07
- Moisturizing Calluses 10/18/07
- TV Exercises 10/17/07
- Train Whistles 10/17/07
- Cleaning the Strings and Fretboard 10/15/07
- Classifying Picking Mistakes 10/9/07
- Constructing Jazz Scales from Chord Tones 10/6/07