WorkshopLive Proudly Announces Livecast: Live Video Webcasts
Tune in to see your favorite teachers share their tips and tricks and field your questions. It’s live and it’s free! Just announced, don’t miss jazz guitarist Tom Dempsey and bassist Tim Ferguson live at www.workshoplive.com/live on Thursday, February 21st. Together, they’ll host two shows starting at 7:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time. Read More…

Become a Part of the WorkshopLive Community
You already know that WorkshopLive connects you to some of the world’s greatest music teachers, but if you want to get connected to other musicians go to our Myspace page at myspace.com/workshoplive. If you want to see tons of our coolest videos, be sure to check out our YouTube page at youtube.com/workshoplive. Also, be sure to visit our forum at forums.workshoplive.com. Here, you can ask any question, and are guaranteed to get an answer from other musicians like yourself, WorkshopLive employees or even our own WorkshopLive teachers. Read more...

Great Books and DVDs Discounted!
From now until the end of February, pick up any Susan Mazer book or DVD from National Guitar Workshop Publications and receive 10% off the list price. This sale includes the best-selling book, Guitar for the Absolute Beginner. Read more...

NGW Shred-Off Competition Announces Sponsors
NGW is pleased to announce the expansion of our Rock Summit offerings. Each NGW Rock Summit will hold a Shred-Off competition sponsored by Parker Guitars and Digitech. Hosted by faculty member Dave Martone, this event has been widely popular. Read more...

DayJams St. Paul Open House!
Calling all young rockers in St. Paul, MN! Come and JAM with alumni DayJammers and staff at the DayJams Open House on Friday, February 22nd, from 5–7 P.M. at Mounds Park Academy, 2051 Larpenteur Avenue East, St. Paul, MN 55109. Click here for more details...

Take the Joe Satriani Survey!
Joe Satriani, one of our favorite NGW guest artists, is coming to WorkshopLive! He wants to know what you’d like to learn. Please follow this link to take the survey and tell Satch what’s up! He thanks you, and we thank you. Take the Survey

Dear Reader,

Thanks for joining us for our 11th issue of Tuned In. We’ve been getting great feedback from you, and would love to hear more. What would you like to see in the newsletters? What’s your favorite part? The WhatsNewz videos? The Theory Corner? The videos at the bottom of the page? The WLTV episodes? My pithy little Letters from the Editor? (gotta be…right?) Let us know! Click here to send me a note.

In the meantime, I hope you’ll join us for our next live streaming event on the evening of Thursday, February 21st. If you play jazz, would like to play jazz, or have ever wondered how those jazzers do what they do, tune in! There’s more about this elsewhere in this issue. We’ll see you there! Until then,

Keep swingin’!

An Introduction to Polyrhythms: Pete Sweeney Excerpt
Want to spice up your rhythm chops? In this issue of the Theory Corner, we’ll take a look at an excerpt from drum maestro Pete Sweeney’s book, The Complete Drumset Method: Intermediate Drumset, available through Alfred Publishing. He’ll introduce quarter- and half-note triplets, which can be used to create polyrhythms. He’ll offer some great tips so you’ll be playing in no time. These ideas aren’t just for percussionists—come on in and learn how to mix up the rhythmic monotony! Read on...

In this issue of Licks and Tricks, we’ll be looking at a slow tune that uses plenty of triplets. To explore triplets further, check out the current issue of the Theory Corner for an excerpt from Pete Sweeney’s book, The Complete Drumset Method: Intermediate Drumset, available through Alfred Publishing. Read more...

WorkshopLive Teacher Glenn Riley is out every weekend with his band The Reagan Years, in and around the state of Maryland. Here is one of his original works, “Caught in the Act.”

Don't just sit there, go listen to some live music! Click here for the latest update of who's On The Road...