Lessons and features, including our YouTube “greatest hits”, that stand alone as short-form explorations of great players, technical topics, and more.

Talking the Code is a series of live help sessions and tutorials on cutting-edge topics, pulled from our latest research and interviews.

This is how we keep viewers up to date on things we’ve been learning, including answering viewer questions with numerous hands-on playing examples.

What good is a help session if you can’t find what you’re looking for? Our broadcasts include detailed timelines of musical examples played and questions asked and answered, for easy navigation. Just click the time buttons below the video to navigate to that part of the session. Or click the name of any musical example to link to the clip page, where you can find live Soundslice tablature, downloadable tablature, and slow-motion video.

You may have noticed we like to tinker! From cabinet builds to custom hardware to VR experiments, we’re always trying something new, whether to perfect a distinctive sound, or capture heretofore unseen technical details.

In Viewer Decode, we take the best viewer submissions we receive, and break them down in a close-up examination of technique.

The keyboard is a useful tool for exploring questions of harmony, improvisation, and more. We’re also interested in the many ways that the processes of learning and playing the instrument differ from guitar. Pull up a chair, grab your drink, and join us on a journey from fretboard to keyboard and back again.

We do all our production in-house, from video editing, to custom soundtrack, to motion graphics animations. In these videos, take a look behind the curtain for details on various aspects of our production process.

Lessons and features from the Cracking the Code Studios.

We sat down with Dr. Pietro Mazzoni, director of the Motor Performance Laboratory at Columbia University, for a fascinating discussion of the science behind motor learning.

We spoke to Siv Lie, founder of the Initiative for Romani Music at NYU, about the cultural context of Romani/Gypsy music, Django’s singular influence on the genre, her research and fieldwork in France, and how Gypsy jazz has evolved post-Django.