THE PHONE!

So, I just came home from a long day of teaching. I sat down to watch Criminal Minds and I nodded off. While visions of guitars and sweet melodies floated by, Eric Clapton came to me in my dream and said I had to get the Fender MyTouch phone! When I woke up, I found I had T-Mobile and I was due for an upgrade! Eric was right!

So I now have it and I love it. I never had a touch phone before. My old phone was two years old, very hard to text ( two years ago we didn't text as much). And I've found a lot of ways to use it in my guitar lessons.

I was at a student's house, he wanted to learn Back In Black but couldn't remember how the intro sounded. I played it for him. Then, I spoke into my Fender Fone and brought up a YT vid of AC/DC. Then, I went to Ultimate-Guitar.com , found the tab for him and emailed it to him. Wandgo bango! In the old days (last week) it would have taken two lessons to do that.

I also update my calendar through my Gmail account and it instantly appears on my phone. No syncing, no installation.

I have a tuner with a freq analyzer which is very accurate. And the chord dictionary plays the chord so you can hear it.

I can't wait to find other ways to use it. I told my wife I didn't care if it was a good phone or not, it just looked too cool to not get!

Name for my new guitar!

Good morning and Happy Holidays! I want you guys to know that I found a name for my new, Martin D18 guitar! It was really hard since everyone submitted some great names! I want to thank everyone that submitted names, even Andrea who made up a couple even though she's not quite Spanish! I agonized for weeks and then the name came in that I think fits my new guitar the best.

Congratulations to Ryan Hynes for submitting "La Loba", She Wolf. If you could see her and play her you'd know why it fits. Ryan gets an all expense paid trip to his nearest mailbox to pick up his NapvervilleGuitarLessons logo t-shirt, Xtra large, one-size-fits everybody.

Help me name my new guitar!

Hi, Everyone.
I just got a new Martin D18 for my birthday! The only thing better than new strings is a new guitar, and I got one!

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I name my guitars with feminine Spanish names. For example, my D35 is named Adoncia,  and means sweet. And she is.

The reason I do this is because the guitar as we know it today, was mainly developed in Spain since the 15th century. The vihuela looked like a guitar and was almost tuned the way we tune our guitars. And the word guitar comes from the Spanish guitarra, which is feminine.

So help me name my new guitar. You can post a suggestions heres. Or go to www.facebook.com/napervilleguitarlessons and leave a post. Or to the facebook group "Help me name my new guitar". Or just send a message to me at tschaf@aol.com

I'll send a Naperville Guitar Lessons logo t-shirt to the name that I think is the best.

Thanks, Terry