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I laid down a few tracks using Audacity and decided to play "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You" by Van Morrison. Here is the Youtube post and you can see it here: Please give it a good critique. There were four tracks - bass, acoustic rhythm, electric rhythm and lead on the Gibson ES-150D. I recorded the video using Powerdirector 16. I hope you enjoy it and hopefully we can all learn too. ~Ron Service.

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 May Recording Challenge. 🤩🙃😲Emotions😭😎🤣 This Months Recording Challenge was chosen by gotto he said "I think “Emotions “ is a pretty broad theme for musical play. Love, sadness, hope, happiness, loneliness, passion, fears,stress, joy. " Or any others 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. Entries 1, Wim VD1 playing "Malagueña" 2. Skip Russel playing "Ashokan Farewell) 3. Ron Service playing "Have I Told You Lately" 4. Nutty1 playing "Out of Reach" 5. ak0693 playing "Autumn Rain" Please see ak0693 post on page 2 as it is a link to download the track. 6. NeilES335 playing "Black Orpheus" 7. gotto playing "If it Makes You Happy" 8. rockinrickard playing his own original song https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wAgdKldoZoXoEIXuigymdfd-OTRTubwy/view

@Skip Russell @Ron Service @Wim VD1 You boys are really uping the level here on the Recording Challenge... well done!

Thanks @NeilES335 and @Nutty 1 for your gracious comments .

Hi everyone - Adam Rafferty is offering his new beginning fingerstyle course free for the next two days. I took a look at the course, and even though it is billed as introductory, I think even intermediate players could benefit from some of the material. And hey, it's free! Topics include: Guitar Basics Basic Chords “Fingerstyle Essentials” Right Hand Exercises Learn to play the “Boom Chick” Blues in E Learn to Play "Ain't No Sunshine" - the Percussion, Bass and Chord Groove How to Create a Fingerstyle Guitar Arrangement: “Silent Night” Advanced Fingerstyle - "Shelter Island” Advanced Fingerstyle -"Silent Night” Something FUN 🙂 The 4 Levels of Thumb Picking (Boom-Chick) Advanced "Groove Slap" Technique in 12/8 The link to sign up for the course is below: Click HERE to grab the course FREE on Udemy Here’s the coupon code: LEARNGUITAR1

Thursday May 14 TOMORROW, PRS Guitars goes live with a Virtual Clinic starring PRS Factory Representative Mike Robb and featuring a special guest appearance by Paul Reed Smith himself. We'll be there to talk about our hand-selected Wood Library and Private Stock models, as well as new PRS Guitars for 2020 and more! It’s an event unlike any other, and it’s only right here, TOMORROW, at 5:00 PM CT! Join Zoom Meeting https://bit.ly/2Lpu1Hy Meeting ID: 852 3662 9401 Password: 941454

Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People. An excellent, free 53-page PDF introduction to theory by Toby Rush. You can choose the pages the want. Blank staff paper, wide ruled and narrow ruled (PDFs). The circle of fifths (gif). My updated (Sept 2019) worksheet for learning chord construction (PDF, 2 pages). I asked my theory teacher to review my first version, and he suggested a few improvements. Advanced students might take issue with some nomenclature, but there's no pleasing everyone. Vaughn Cube errata. If you have an early edition of the Vaughn Cube for Music Theory (mine is 2008), you probably discovered some typos. I’ve collected them here (PDF, 1 page). I presume they are corrected in the latest edition. Jazz Theory, by Stuart Smith. (PDF, 89 pages) Not for rookies. You just might want to wait until Session 17! The online version is here. 8 Practice Hacks, by Noa Kageyama. (PDF, 22 pages) Straight talk to stay on track. Update (7/7/20): I deleted the old Skills House files on modes and jazz chord progressions because Steve now has updated versions in the Downloads section. Added 8 Practice Hacks. Wide Staff.pdf Narrow Staff.pdf Chord Construction Worksheet v2.pdf Errata Vaughn Cube Lesson Book.pdf 8 Practice Hacks.pdf Jazz Theory.pdf