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Hi all. I started with the L&M program almost 10 years ago and got to around section 14. However I was derailed by a series of events including a broken wrist followed by some sprained fingers just as I was regaining enough wrist strength to play, and then life craziness with kids' activities and also realizing I was getting pretty out of shape and deciding to spend what used to be my guitar time on exercise. Now that I'm mostly housebound for a while I figured it would be a good time to dust the guitars and DVDs off and start up again.

Well I wasn't going to post this.. but since it's Palm Sunday.. and we're heading to Easter Weekend (I'm working instead of playing.. thanks Covid) .. and the fact that @Steve Krenz live lessons Tues Apr 7 is on learn a Hymn.. it became "fair game" to post Song background.. I needed to play this in my church choir Mar 14 and was just starting to learn it (church got shutdown, so never continued with it). This I think was my 4th attempt. I missed the 3rd verse as well.. opps. and yes I was a bit stuffy, but it sounds like I'd be better singing country with my vocals.. I think I'm close to 'in tune' but hey I'm a deaf guy so it's as close as I can come. Come to the Water by John Foley, S.J. from my OPC Journey Songs book we use for church and it's 2/2 'cut time' but Medium tempo, prayerful ( = ca. 50) Yikes.. 2/2 at 50bpm played 'prayerfully' ??? recording background. rented Zoom H5 handheld recorder placed on the dashboard of the car with it's XY mic's, used cheap Strat knock-off, into a battery powered Traynor TVM-50 50w busker amp in my trunk, I'm wedged into the passenger seat for 'normal lunch' practice. (note on the Zoom H5,, I wanted a new "mixer" for recording at home and Neil's choice the Scarlett 2i2 is a great choice, but I also wanted a portable choice too. so I rented the Zoom H5, I think it sounds a whole lot better with it's mic's over a cell phone recording, and I did do a very quick test at home as a desktop mixer and I think it can do double duty as handheld and as a 2 input desk mixer.. and appears to pass the JamKazam latency test for future online jam,,,, so when it goes on sale and the stores open again.. think I'll buy one.) obviously straight up recording "dry" as we've got certain rules to abide by in church (no Jimi Hendrix playing), no over dubes no multi tracks, etc. So it's as they would have heard.. except in church there would have been a 2nd guitar, keyboard and about 10 kids.. so instead you hear me alone.. Lucky you

Hello All, I hope you are keeping as well as you can, if you are on lockdown at home or have any free time please join in with our April Recording Challenge. Participants and other listeners are invited to give some supportive and constructive feedback on the submissions because that is how we learn and grow. 🎸Here is how the Challenge works. The challenge is to record a song which fits the subject (although you are free to post any song even if it does not fit the subject). The names of people who post a song that fits the Challenge subject are put into "Random Picker" and the person which the picker chooses will be contacted by me and asked if they would like to pick the topic for the next Challenge. It is not about being the best it is about joining in and getting your playing heard. 🎤 👭👩🏽‍🦰Recording Challenge 79 - Songs either written or recorded by a woman 🧟‍♀️🙋‍♀️ This months Recording Challenge topic was chosen by Watson43, he said "Here in the U.S. we just finished celebrating National Women's Month. How about if we all submit songs either written or performed by a women? " 1) Wim VD1 playing "Danny Boy" 2) Watson43 playing "True Colours " 3) Simira playing "I will always love you " 4) Nutty1 playing "La Isla Bonita" 5) Bradley C Bilbro playing "Everytime" 6) Grappler50 playing "Jolene" on a mandolin Please click this link Jolene 7) Skip Russel playing "Long Ago and Far Away" 8. gotto playing "Zombie"

@CalgaryIanWelcome back Ian! Alway nice to have another Canadian on board. You made it further than most on this course, so with a little refreshing and practice you should be up to speed pretty quickly. Regards Neil

Count me in!

Well done @Wim VD1. You play with great touch and emotion. Steve would be proud of you.

i never hated my playing. i am amazed about what i can do now and inspired to learn to do more. i knew my playing was improving when someone on the phone with me thought i was playing a professionally recorded song in the background but it was me playing live.

@Nutty 1, @Wim VD1, @IanD Thank you all for your kind comments. Ian, yes it is nylon, its a Yamaha NTX500 crossover. Also thanks to everyone you 'liked' my post too. Keep Safe everyone. Mira😊

@Simira @Nutty 1 Great theme! Wife and I watched the movie 'Yesterday' yesterday on Amazon Prime. A lovely rom-com packed full of Beatles songs and references. Ian

@WATSON43 I love it! Great song and performed very well. Ian

@Karabo, good to hear from you. I think there are a lot of people are using music to help "cope through these difficult times." For some of us it's listening to it. For others of us, many of us on here, it's picking up that guitar and trying to create some. Please keep us up-to-date on how you are progressing.

I have really fell off from this course. But due to this COVID-19 pandemic happening and having a lockdown commencing in South Africa soon. I feel that going back to the course will help me cope through these difficult times. I have recently completed session 6 and I am very excited to get going with session 7.

Donated my course to a young lady that plays bass and wanted to learn guitar but have LMG lesson book on desktop. I'm only using Steve's scales lessons, primarily a strummer/vocalist, "some" guitar flat picking, learning the mandolin on another site, and slowly relearning piano. Yes, there are other guitar sites with "lessons," which is usually, "learn these tunes or licks," …..but …….the LMG should be the "go to" for anyone desiring to learn the "core," of guitar playing to especially include the scales lesson.

@Stefan Hi, Stefan, at this stage, having learned the key signatures, you should be also able to identify all the relative major/relative minor pairs (B major -> G# minor, Eb minor -> Gb major, and so on). I made my own flash cards for this. It's also time (I think) to start learning, in some way, the circle of fifths (here's my recommendation). Steve does not take up this topic directly; he covers an absolute minimum of music theory in the course itself, probably to make it seem less intimidating. Session 9 introduces intervals. This subject, too, is diluted: all the exercises deal with intervals above a pitch; none ask about intervals below a given pitch; and the student is not required to locate any of them on the staff. I see what Steve is doing: he's preparing the student to spell chords in the shortest (ahem) interval possible. But Session 13 is a long time to wait to understand what a triad is. Around this point in the course, I suspect, each of us decides just what our relationship with music theory should be. As for me, I've completed all the theory topics in the course and more. It's worth it. Carry on!