This blog is devoted to all the students that are learning to play guitar with the book, “I’ve Always Wanted to PLAY GUITAR” by Rich Hawthorne and Mike McKenna.  Our hope with this blog is to provide additional practice tips for each lesson in our book, helpful videos to demonstrate the material, and most of all to encourage you to stick with it!  Mike and I have always thought of ourselves as students of the guitar, even though we have been playing for over 30 years!  You really never stop being a student, there’s more music then there is time.  That’s ok, though, it’s what keeps  learning music fun and exciting, and its never boring.  Music does take practice.  Check this blog often, we want to be your companions on your musical journey.

Rich Hawthorne