The living room guitarist

The "Un-Steely" Dan episode. Here's the start of a tune from an unusual Sunday afternoon in Philly several years ago. It started out with good intentions, but it needs my fellow living room players to keep it going. Please, come be our next guest!

Here's a tune originally started as a homework assignment. Can my fellow living room players keep going with it? Let out the music in you! Come on in here and be our next guest.

Here's a tune started as a homework assignment. Can my fellow living room players keep going with it? Let out the music in you! Come on in and be our next guest.

Remember 2005? Not exactly a year to celebrate. It needed an angry, punk rock Xmas song. Here's one. Where can my fellow living room guitar players go with this tune? Please join us as our next guest!

What would you do if you encountered a beautiful woman driving down the highway in a silver Ferrari? Write a song, of course! Can my fellow living room guitar players lend their creativity to this potential song? Come be our next guest on the show with whatever you can do with this tune.

We all make mistakes when we're learning a song. Sometimes, those mistakes can turn into something creative and fun. This episode is the start of a new tune that came from a mistake. Can you do something with it on your fretboard?

Honoring several requests received for playing tunes from a couple of previous shows complete and uninterrupted. Please bring your creativity to these songs and make them your own... and share your creation back with us. Would love to feature you and your playing.

"I Failed the 80s." If you remember the music and pop culture scene of the 80s, you can definitely help write this song. Join us in the living room, and come be a guest on the show.

Here's a new, developing tune created after a depressing week. Playing guitar and making music can be necessary therapy. Can you take the next steps with this tune to help it become a song? Would love to have you as your next guest on the show!

Here's my addition to the tune Raquel began for us in episode 14. Please add your musical creativity to it. Let's create ourselves a nice song!

Here's an easy chord progression that harkens back to the 70s. Inviting my fellow living room players to continue it with their own creativity. Submit your creation back to us. Would love to feature you as our next guest-- either with

Another wonderful guest this week, who shares a beautiful and subtle intro to a song based on a poem. Can you play this intro, add your creativity, and continue it? Please join us was our next guest! All guitar players are welcome.

Another great guest this week-- Mike from NYC joins us to share a cool guitar lick form one of his songs. Can you start with it, and create something of your own? Please come be our next guest!

John is our guest this week, sharing a wonderful interpretation of something from an earlier show. You'll become an instant fan. The Living Room Guitarist is for all players regardless of skill level or experience, who like to explore the fretboard and express themselves through music.

Finishing off a tune that I hope my fellow living roomers can experiment with and add their ideas to, so we can turn this into an arranged, complete song. Please take whatever creative liberties you'd like, and let's turn this into a complete song.

Part 2 of a 3-part episode-- hoping my fellow living room guitar players can lend their imagination and creativity to this tune to help turn it into a complete, cohesive song.

Here's an undeveloped tune-- the result of a heavy personal/emotional night. Can my fellow living room players help me arrange and structure this into an actual song?

Here's a semi bluesy-rock wannabe tune that maybe my fellow living room players can play and develop. Enjoy, and please submit your own living room tunes for your fellow living roomers to learn and help you develop into a complete song. Every player is "good enough."

The lip trill episode! A non guitar related show this week, responding to a viewer with a question about warming up her voice to sing her songs.

Resurrecting the instrument of the 80s rock ballad this episode. If you're a hobbyist "living room" guitar player, please contact me. Would love to have you as a guest on the show. Share your creative musical ideas. EVERY player is "good enough."

A really nice tune submitted by a viewer this week, looking for ideas on how to continue it. The Living Room Guitarist is an environment where everyone is "good enough!" Hobbyist guitar players can hang out, regardless of skill level or experience, and share their creative ideas for songs, riffs, progressions, etc., for the joy of making music.

Exploring an open-chord tuning this episode. Can my fellow living roomers help structure the pieces into a cohesive tune? If you're a hobbyist guitar player, please consider joining me as a guest. livingroomguitarist@gmail.com

My guest "living roomer" this week has a cool riff to share. If you're a living room guitarist, please consider coming on as a guest. You're welcome in every sense of the word.

Here's a pretty intro to what could become a song. What can my fellow living roomers do with it? Does it get your creative juices flowing? The Living Room Guitarist is about the art of guitar playing for people of any skill level who simply like playing the instrument. We're not pros, we're not looking to be stars or internet sensations. We just like hanging out in our living rooms and making music, to develop our abilities and explore our creativity-- together.

In this episode we have a tune inspired by a train ride that could become a song. What ideas do you have for it? The Living Room Guitarist is a weekly show for non professional guitar players looking to collaborate with fellow "living room" players and share their song ideas, jams, progressions and riffs with one another. Not for profit or celebrity, just because we like to play our instruments, develop our ideas and create music together.