A tenor sax video this time! This is me covering Elton John’s Your Song.
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Dec, 2025
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Dec, 2025
The Entertainer (Chet Atkins) | Guitar Cover | Tom Fletcher
Here is a video of me playing a guitar version of The Entertainer (Scott Joplin), largely based on Chet Atkins version.
I’m playing a Vintage Sultan guitar; one I picked up a few years ago for a fantastic price! Such a nice guitar to play!
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Dec, 2025
What happens if you play guitar LEFT HANDED for 2500 hours?
As a right handed guitarist this is what I wanted to find out…
So as an experiment I set myself a target to play guitar left handed every day, documenting my progress and after 3 1/2 years I reached this target!
Here is the resulting video I made for YouTube!
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Availability – New Feature
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Aug, 2020
Youtube – It’s Not My Thing! Teacher vs Student Complaint
This situation rears its ugly head from time to time; the frustration of the beginner learning so-called easy songs, chords and scales – when all you want to do is rock out!
You don’t care about these songs, why would you bother practising them if you don’t like them? Surely you aren’t learning anything?
Let me explain…
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May, 2020
Tutorials – Guitar – Beginner – #1 Chord Changes (with exercises & metronome)
For guitarists in the early stages of playing, one of the problematic things that’ll hold them back is changing from one chord to another chord in a song. I’ll find that my student has gone away and learned where to put their fingers for the chords they need, but then tend to stall because the changes are not as fluent as they need to be. Something I find often in these cases is that the guitarist will do a thing I call “chord building”; slowly putting fingers on one at a time in a slow motion change.
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May, 2020
WMT Q&A – Should I learn parts of songs or the whole song for chord changes?
This question came to me from Reddit;
“I’m learning B6sus right now. Do you think learning a bunch of parts of songs is a good idea so you learn a bunch of different chord changes, or is learning whole songs better and just working on them until you can play the same chords changes from those few songs at a decent speed?”
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May, 2020
WMT Q&A – How do you motivate yourself to practise during COVID?
I’ve had a question from my newest YouTube subscriber.
“How do you motivate yourself to practice when you hate playing by yourself, but have no other choice? Thanks to Covid, and multiple band breakups and having to move to a new town, I’m stuck by myself and I loathe playing by myself either for practice or performing. There’s a special family feeling to playing with other people in a band, or even playing live although doing that alone still sucks compared to being able to do it with a band, and now not having it has made me not want to pick up my guitar for weeks. How do I beat this melancholy? What would you do if you had to be me in this situation?”
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May, 2020
YouTube – Toms Tips #3 – Setting Goals
One of the things I find can bottleneck anyone’s progress on an instrument is not having clearly defined goals to work towards. And it might be the case at times that one of my students, or someone who’s just started lessons with me HAS set goals for themselves, but these goals might be unrealistic taking into account their experience at that time. Now, it’s a good thing to have a vision of where you want to be and what you’d like to do with an instrument; but if all your goals are set too high, with no planning for the work you’ll need in between, these “goals” might be better described merely as dreams, or even as fantasy. So i’d like to share the method I encourage my students to adopt, and the one I use myself.
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May, 2020
WMT – Play Up! #1 – Skipping Thirds Exercise (with Backing Track)
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I’ve had a couple of suggestions already in private messages, so in response i’ve got an excerise that i’ll be doing on guitar today.