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Epilog After an extra week of visiting friends and family, I’m back home. Thanks for reading and for your kind words and support. I hope you enjoyed my little dispatches as much I as I did scratching them out at night. As a postscript, I want to share perhaps the most vital lesson imparted to us at the gathering. It came near the end, during the student showcase, from my dear friend Reg. I must paraphrase, but in essence he said: Take your music to someone. Take it to the elderly, to children, to the infirm, to the lonely. Someone needs your music and your personal touch. Don’t wait until you think you’re good enough; that day might never come. Joy awaits. Go. Play. Live.

@Texaspackerfan Danny I have put 2 rhythm guitar tracks in the GG4 folder on Box.com. In my DAW I panned one a bit to the left and the other a bit to the right. It is up to you if you use them both or not, I would be interested in hearing what you think.

Glad you came back to the forum Mustafa, keep us updated on your guitar journey!

This was a hit for the Shirelles in 1960, but I did it in the style of Carol King (who co-wrote the song). Please enjoy.

@colder Thank you so much for your comment. life is difficult man. İ have changed my style of playing and that gave me a bit of energy. İnstead of practicing difficult flamenco pieces i began to play some pop songs that i love and used to listen in my adolescence with my best friend. now i can play 1 hour daily and having little fun and that is good.İ hope someday i can play music to my mother and father. Thank you again

Colts owner spends over $5 million at guitar auction The darn guy kept outbidding me! 🙂

Check out my "new" "tailgate" practice New (old used for $100) Traynor TVM50 battery amp comes in at 30lbs, and didn't feel like lugging to the tree like last year... http://traynoramps.com/legacy/discontinued/product/tvm50/ Note black Strat shaped device 🤔

BTW, I can not confirm nor deny if it was Doug that had the winning bid🤣

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🎶🎶 great job Mandy! The mic problem didn’t effect the recording so not to worry. Great choice of song too. 👍👍👍

Here is my entry "Nights in White Satin" by Justin Haywood, performed by The Moody Blues. It is a tale of posh bed sheets, wasted stationary and a love that is lost causing pain which no one understands. You know like when you get that sinking feeling .......I had a bit of a microphone problem during this song. Looks like I can not have the boom arm out too much on my mic stand.🤣🤓😂

Layla was originally recorded in 1970, but I guess the love of Eric Clapton for Pattie Boyd that inspired this song originates from the 1960's, so it still fits the challenge 😀. Wim.

Absolutely beautiful Mark, as always you have the right touch, it sounds great to me.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Thanks for keeping things Mandy! I didn’t want to do anything too obvious so it’s a little obscure,; the title track from “Wave” by Antonio Carlos Jobim. This is one of the most difficult pieces for me to play, my timing is never right and I almost always stumble, but I play it anyway, every chance I get. One of these days I’ll get it right. (Or maybe not.) 🤗 Mark

Thanks GH! That make sense. Greg does a great job. I brought my acoustic last year and after he cleaned off the 'fried chicken grease' (his comment) it plays like a brand new guitar that's set up perfectly. I'm so looking forward to next week! Heading out tomorrow. Dale

@Mustafa, may I add my welcome to the Guitar Gathering family! My friend Neil has offered wise advice. Yes, you are in a challenging situation at the moment, and my heart goes out to you. Life can pull us in different directions at once. You wrote: “Now I can not even pick the guitar and I feel it is a waste of time, I feel that instead of spending hours practicing I should do something useful to other people. I am out of motivation and sometimes I feel that it is immoral to waste time practicing guitar for hours.” Congratulations, you have the courage to admit what many of us, myself included — even accomplished musicians! — have felt at times. It’s what you wrote at the beginning that matters: “I love guitar so much and I used to practice many hours a day.” Now, let’s get rid of that useless “used to” and we have: “I love guitar so much.” Here’s where I concede my space to author Richard Pressman (The War of Art). I've never seen it expressed any better: “Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It’s a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got.”