StevieSnacks Blues Guitar Lessons
StevieSnacks.com is a blues guitar lesson website, where I create free and premium blues guitar lessons. The site is pretty tightly focused on the aggressive Texas blues guitar style, most often associated with the late Stevie Ray Vaughan, the primary influence on my own playing.
The site started as a hobby in October 2007 as I started publishing free, short guitar lessons on YouTube. I began selling longer, premium lessons in January of 2008, I have been producing both free and premium lessons ever since. I left my job in August of 2009.
Watching StevieSnacks grow from a hobby to a business has been one of the greatest adventures of my life. I’ve had the opportunity to correspond with a lot of incredible people. The thanks and encouragement that StevieSnacks viewers have given me is more than one person should ever need or deserve.
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OldToneZone.com
OldToneZone is a hobby site where I occasionally post guitar gear videos and lessons. I post pictures and videos from any guitar related events I attend here, and any guitar gear stuff that’s not part of StevieSnacks.
The biggest attraction of the site is the Overdrive Pedal Comparinator, a web application I wrote in Ruby On Rails that allows you to A/B compare samples from a variety of pedals.
The site will feature more gear lessons in the future. My goal is to build up a library of videos to help guitarists understand the basics of tone, amps, effects pedals, pickups etc..
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NoLongerDriven.com
NoLongerDriven is a Christian blog where I post intensely personal reflections and observations. Although I was raised in the church, and have been a Christian nearly my whole life, much of what I did was based on my own ability to be a good person.
At the age of 30, my life as a driven perfectionist in constant need for validation began to unravel. NoLongerDriven is the story of how I came to be at peace with being nobody.
While my beliefs are very much at the core of who I am, I do not write about them on any of my other sites. This is not because I’m ashamed of what I believe, but because I find people more willing to listen if you let your beliefs influence your actions more than your words.
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