Taylor Swift: cardigan | fingerstyle guitar
Photo by Ilyuza Mingazova | Unsplash

cardigan

I’ve always liked Taylor Swift. In fact, she’s responsible for most of my physical lesson business. In the mid 2000’s, mostly boys (and very few girls) played guitar. That suddenly changed around 2007 when Taylor Swift became the biggest star in the world. Ever since then, my lesson roster has been at least 70% girls/women.

The entire guitar industry was caught in Taylor Swift’s wake. Taylor Guitars saw an uptick in sales having no associating other than the name. [They eventually partnered and released the Baby Taylor Swift guitar.]

I had to adjust…