Lance beaumont

Most musicians start with dreams of grandeur when it comes to making a living playing the guitar. We all believe we will be accepting a Grammy Award for our album or song of the year. The truth is most of us will never reach that goal. You should not stop striving for it, though. I [...]

I just acquired a 2012 Hill Signature Spruce guitar. This guitar is one of the newer evolutions in guitar construction. It is a double-top, Spruce over Cedar, latticed braced, elevated fingerboard canon. Double-top guitar construction was developed in the 1980s by Dammann. Utilizing Nomex between two guitar tops gives the luthier the opportunity to fashion [...]

I have been thinking about the words responsibility & opportunity for a few weeks. Too often we operate under the banner of responsibility. Responsibility is not an inviting word, it does not lead me to go above and beyond what I am responsible for. For example, since I bought a house I am suppose to [...]

Here is a great cartoon depicting the state of standardized testing in the US and the rapidly declining arts/culture education.    

I love quotes. I write them down everywhere. Here is a great quote from Theodore Roosevelt I picked up from nomeatathlete.com. “It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man [...]

“A worker’s appetite works for him, for his hunger urges him on.” Proverbs 16:26 Staying focused on your goals is extremely difficult in the age of always “on”. Being derailed from your to-dos and even loosing clarity as it relates to your goals happens far too easily. Currently I am involved in a lengthy research [...]