https://www.tonyventura.com/blog daily 0.75 2025-09-27 https://www.tonyventura.com/blog/introduction-to-musical-modes monthly 0.5 2024-09-04 https://www.tonyventura.com/blog/start-from-the-end monthly 0.5 2024-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fae73006300280599bf0fc6/1618225432556-93X1MFT7UWYW7E7NOTKH/Lets-start-from-the-end.png Blog - Start from the end… Starting from the end in mind provides greater motivation for learning the core elements - scales, reading, chords, improvisation, and much more. https://www.tonyventura.com/blog/a-hrefhttpswwwtonyventuracommy-blog20141224how-to-map-the-apogee-gio-footpedal-to-mainstage-3-stompboxhow-to-map-an-apogee-gio-stompbox-button-to-a-mainstage-3-stompbox-effecta monthly 0.5 2024-08-15 https://www.tonyventura.com/blog/fire-on-the-mountain-quick-improvisation-example monthly 0.5 2024-01-22 https://www.tonyventura.com/blog/a-hrefhttpswwwtonyventuracommy-blog201429scales-chord-studies-show-i-focus-on-memorizationscales-amp-chord-studies-show-i-focus-on-memorizationa monthly 0.5 2024-08-15 https://www.tonyventura.com/blog/a-hrefhttpswwwtonyventuracommy-blog201429thank-you-pat-martino-convert-to-minor-areathank-you-pat-martino-convert-to-minor-areaa monthly 0.5 2024-08-15 https://www.tonyventura.com/blog/category/Workflow monthly 0.5 https://www.tonyventura.com/blog/tag/workflow monthly 0.5 https://www.tonyventura.com/blog/tag/technique monthly 0.5 https://www.tonyventura.com/blog/tag/improvisation monthly 0.5 https://www.tonyventura.com/blog/tag/gear monthly 0.5 https://www.tonyventura.com/home daily 1.0 2026-02-12 https://www.tonyventura.com/music daily 0.75 2025-09-27 https://www.tonyventura.com/gallery daily 0.75 2025-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fae73006300280599bf0fc6/1605272565845-QD84AIPL1T2P54VP44JT/cv.jpg Gallery My dad, Charlie Ventura, world famous tenor saxophonist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fae73006300280599bf0fc6/1605272565862-3E2FQMIOBZMJRCORFTTD/cv3.jpg Gallery Charlie Ventura & Bill Harris ‎– Live At The Three Deuces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fae73006300280599bf0fc6/1605272565900-98826F7F1JW3HQU64Z9D/dave_phil_tony_glider.jpg Gallery I'm sitting in the rear seat, partially hidden. The glider is a L-13 Blaník, a two-seater trainer glider. We are at the Air Sailing glider port in Reno, NV. Time frame is in the mid 1980's. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fae73006300280599bf0fc6/1605272565898-FPDOHF2GXBUJ87KFRRZP/glider1.jpg Gallery On a glider tow at Desert Soaring in Boulder City, Nevada. Early 1980's. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fae73006300280599bf0fc6/1605272566731-LL0HN4P9NDU8KFI9REP3/glider2.jpg Gallery Coming in for a landing in a glider at Desert Soaring in Boulder City, Nevada. Early 1980's. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fae73006300280599bf0fc6/1605272566722-Z827X33JFMV18M45A793/glider3.jpg Gallery On a glider tow at Desert Soaring in Boulder City, Nevada. Early 1980's. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fae73006300280599bf0fc6/1605272566771-B3OYSOY0ORNL34M6WF8C/landing.jpg Gallery Looking at runway 17/35 at Air Sailing in Reno, NV. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fae73006300280599bf0fc6/1605272566774-LHKSF31FNQ9F2R1M5UKH/joe_bobonconga_tony.jpg Gallery The Penetrations rock band in the 1960's. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fae73006300280599bf0fc6/1605272567172-KTKVNO2SLOH1V6YENVJS/pic.jpg Gallery Flying in a Cessna 152 in the early 1980's. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fae73006300280599bf0fc6/1605272567848-VPQDVFQKLYF5L5HST0SG/tony_grant_all.jpg Gallery The Tony Grant Stars of Tomorrow show. Time frame is the mid 1960's. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fae73006300280599bf0fc6/1605272567150-O6FE6HDX1YS6RK753094/tonight_show.jpg Gallery Playing guitar with Ben Vereen on The Tonight Show. The television photo captured when I was taking a guitar solo on one of my original songs, “Love Can See You” that Ben sang on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fae73006300280599bf0fc6/1605272567850-HJKMMBRE60MUHSSQKH51/tony_grant_penetrations.jpg Gallery The Penetrations performing in Atlantic City, NJ in the 1960's on the Tony Grant Stars of Tomorrow show. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fae73006300280599bf0fc6/1605272567847-K56MPV7GZRTXZ97YPI45/tony_ronThomas.jpg Gallery Playing guitar with Ron Thomas at Vincent's Jazz Cafe in West Chester, PA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fae73006300280599bf0fc6/1605272567848-Y4P81OMI7JSGTSJGYKQ1/TONY_VINCENTS_GOOD.jpg Gallery Playing guitar at Vincent's Jazz Cafe in West Chester, PA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fae73006300280599bf0fc6/1605272567951-8X0GV94RZS04LZGTM3EH/vm_backstage_lot.jpg Gallery In our zoot suits, in Hollywood, CA for a Ben Vereen TV special. From left to right- Tony Ventura, Marc Dicciani, Mike Boone, and Dave Loeb. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fae73006300280599bf0fc6/1605272568843-5DKZKY3R2O2ST2U0I5HO/vm_ben_fence.jpg Gallery Hanging out with the Vereen Machine [Ben Vereen's band] in the early 1980's. Location unknown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fae73006300280599bf0fc6/1605272568866-XPBTI1QSDX0IQA5V2WA4/WilmYMCA0006.jpeg Gallery I was a member of the Wilmington [Delaware] YMCA Judo club. I'm standing, 3rd from the right. 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