David Hodge is a teacher / musician / songwriter living in the Great Barrington, Massachusetts area. He teaches guitar privately as well and also teaches group guitar classes at the Berkshire Community College's Great Barrington Campus. He's also on the faculty of the Berkshire Music School in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. While he makes his living as a guitar teacher, David is probably best known for his work as the Managing Editor and Senior Writer for , one of the Internet's most popular free guitar tutorial sites. You can read hundreds of his lessons and guitar columns there. David has also been very busy writing guitar tutorial books these past years. He is author of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Guitar" (Alpha, October 2010), "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing Rock Guitar (Alpha, March 2010) and "The Complete Idiot's Guide To Learning Bass Guitar" (Alpha, September 2006) and "The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Art of Songwriting (Alpha, August 2011) He is a frequent contributor to Acoustic Guitar Magazine and is currently finishing up his first full-length book for them, "Rhythm and Strumming Basics," which will hopefully be out before the end of 2011. "Songs & Sandwiches - David Hodge and Friends Live at the Monterey General Store," a compilation of songs taken from three 2007 concerts at this wonderfully intimate Berkshire music venue, came out in January 2008 and is available at .