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Improvements to My List of Song Lessons
Friday, May 1st 2026
This week I finished a few quality-of-life website updates that will make a big difference when you’re browsing my list of 350+ song tutorials. There’s two big updates:
- “Songs” section now includes 50+ previously unlisted lessons — For the past few years, I’ve had several dozen song-inspired lessons that did not show up in the Songs section of this website. This was due to my own oversight when building my website’s lesson categorization many years ago. Good news: all these lessons now appear whenever browsing my Song pages.
- Various Design Tweaks to “Song” Section Lists – You’ll notice some helpful tweaks whenever browsing alphabetical lists of songs or artists, within my Song pages. You’ll now see artist name displayed when browsing by song title, and song year displayed when browsing all of my lessons for one particular artist. Also, these alphabetical lists now ignore the word “The” when it’s the first word of a song (e.g. The Chain) or artist (e.g. The Beatles).
More details about each of these changes below! They’re also summarized in the video above.
David // May 7, 2026
(1) Browse the 50+ “Unlisted” Lessons
The 50+ lessons I added to the Song lists are displayed below, if you want to look them over. All these lessons have been available on this website and YouTube, but they only showed up if you searched for them. They weren’t included in my Songs listings until today.
I’ve grouped them into four categories:
Fingerstyle (Travs Picking)
Fingerstyle (other)
Rhythm & Melodic Strumming
Riffs & Lead Guitar
(2) Design Tweaks to the “Songs” Listings
While I was at it, I added some nice polish to the Song list pages on my site to help you easily identify lessons you might be interested in. Here’s a summary.
Artist Name is Now Shown When Browsing By Song Name
When browsing by song title, I’ve added the artist name after each song name. This gives helpful context to songs you might have never heard of before.
Artist Name is Now Shown When Browsing By Song Year
When browsing by song year, I’ve added the artist name after each song name. Again, this gives helpful context to songs you might have never heard of before within a year / decade / era you’re interested in.
Song Year is Now Shown When Browsing an Artist’s Songs
When browsing by song artist, I’ve added the song year after each song name. This gives helpful context to when songs came out, which helps give an idea of older vs. newer tunes.
“The” is Ignored When Viewing Songs or Artists in ABC Order
One thing that’s always bugged me is finding songs or artists that begin the word “The” — and not being sure where to look alphabetically. Until now, I’ve listed these under “T” – which never felt right.
So I fixed it! Whenever a song or artist name begins with “The”, that initial article is ignored when it comes to sorting alphabetically.
For example, The Beatles will now appear under “B”, as shown below. A song like The Chain will appear under “C”, and so forth.
Song Columns No Longer Extend Off the Right of Your Screen
On most of my song-list pages, I’ve used a multi-column layout. Fun fact, this is inspired by The Cosmic Kitchen guitar website from the early 2000s.
These columns have worked fine, but on certain screen sizes you may have noticed some of the columns will extended off the right side of the screen. I updated the styling rules (CSS) so this no longer happens.
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