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Come in — let's find your first song.
For people who once loved music, set the guitar down for years, and are ready to find their way back — and for anyone picking one up for the first time.
There's no course to enrol in and nothing to keep up with. You choose a song, I hand you an illustrated music field guide, and we take it slowly from there.
one
Pick a song you love
Not the hardest one. The one you'd hum washing up.
two
Open the field guide
Tuning, chord shapes, my notes — printed, folded, taken outside.
three
Play it slowly
The practice room lets you loop and slow down the tricky bit.
The song I'd begin with
Both Sides Now
Joni Mitchell
This is the song I come back to when I need to remember why I started. It's forgiving, it's slow, and it will teach you more about listening than about playing. Take it in small pieces and let the chords ring longer than feels comfortable.
Includes the illustrated music field guide and the interactive practice room.
Learn This Song →What I'm working on next
Not ready yet — no lesson to buy, just what's on my music stand.
Big Yellow Taxi
in the works
Books, field guides & lessons
Everything in one place — song lessons with illustrated field guides, tuning guides, and the books and journals.
Have a browse →Come and talk music on Substack
Songs, stories and what I'm playing lately — over on Substack, where the conversation actually happens.
☕ Come and sit down →If it's your voice that stops you
For the singer who knows the song — but freezes when it is time to be heard. The Find Your Voice book and journal is a slower way in, if the guitar isn't the part that frightens you.
Read about the book →free — the prairie letter
A letter from me, now and then.
Every letter carries a song worth learning, a tuning or chord idea to try, and something worth keeping — a line, a photograph from the fields, a small piece of my practice page.
No schedule, no noise. I write when there's something worth sending.
Whenever you're ready. The song will wait for you.