I was fortunate enough to have taken a lesson from Ted in L.A. long,
long ago in a galaxy... etc.

Ted was a prime example of the kind of mind-blowing genius who somehow
remained humble and generous. Ted reminds me of a great story told
by the late, great jazz pianist Oscar Peterson.

Oscar said when he was a kid learning the piano, his dad played him a
recording of Art Tatum. He tells how he started crying and begged his
father to tell him this was not one but two people playing the piano
at once!

Ted's book, Chord Chemistry is the most important guitar book ever
written: thousands of chords in only two positions. Most chord
encyclopedia repeat every chord 12 times. Chord Chemistry has the most
important ear training exercises for a guitarist who really wants to
understand harmony.

Here's a video taped at a wedding in 1989 where Ted plays a medley of
beautiful standards.

It's thanks to video tape technology from the last century that we can
hear this and to Youtube, the technology of today that we can still
see and hear it today.