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Steve and moderators, and everyone in this guitar family. Thank you for making and ensuring that this is a helpful positive place to come and share in learning. Thank You for ALL you do for ALL of us. We all know there are plenty of OTHER places on the internet and such where people can go if they want to spend their time arguing anything and everything. This is not one of those places.

Hello All. 👋 The September Recording Challenge Topic comes to us from Fretless and is 🎸 "Solo"🎤 Fretless said "I would call the topic "Solo," by which I mean try playing (and recording) just you playing your guitar with no backing track. That could be an exercise from L&MG, a song you like, a fingerpicked or jazzy masterpiece with a melody embedded, or just a single note exercise or melody. If you wish to sing too, feel free." This is a challenge that anyone at any stage in their guitar journey can do. So get practicing and recording and join in the fun!😎 1. Randy120 doing a "Grand Pacific Sound Check" 2. Nutty1 playing "Scarborough Fair" 3. Wim VD1 playing "Brothers in Arms" 4. Fretless playing "Ode to Joy" 5. Skip Russel playing "Fly me to the moon" 6. rockinrickard playing "My Girl"

Thanks, Joao, The tab for Yoni's arrangement is freely available at the B&G website: https://knowledge.bngguitars.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016009631-TABS-for-Dire-Straits-Brothers-in-Arms-Solo-Fingerstyle-by-Yoni-Schlesinger Wim.

@TeleRooo, thank you for the kind words. But I think @Steve Krenz and @DianeB and @NeilES335 will agree, all the members on here are so well behaved, it makes our job very easy. It's a rare occasion that one of us has to step in. I deleted one post a week or so ago and that is the first time in months. This IS a "helpful positive place to come and share in learning" because of Steve's "guitar family"

I picked up a deal on a used Boss Katana 50 on Facebook Marketplace today. Others here have raved about these amps, and I've recommended them based on reputation alone, but I finally pulled the trigger on one today and wow, should have done this a while ago. Those familiar with my background know I've pretty much converted from a tube amp guy to a digital modeling guy and have been playing through a Line 6 Helix LT modeler for the past couple of years (still love my Tube amp when I can be loud). Lately, for home practice, I've been playing through my PC using Helix Native modeling while my Helix LT pedalboard was left at our band rehearsal space. However, my PC is aging and was not particularly powerful start with. Also my practice room set up required it to both stream my backing tracks and process the guitar signal chain. I guess the PC's age is catching up, but recently latency and drop out were becoming frequent and infuriating so I'm stoked about this Katana coming along at a price I couldn't pass up. I've only scratched the surface of the amps capability, but on the clean setting with the gain pretty low and a touch of reverb, it delivers the Fender-y clean I'm looking for. Crank the gain on the clean setting and you find that "amp about to blow up" classic rock break up. I already have a full pedalboard and will mainly use that with the clean tone of the amp, but the onboard effects are pretty impressive. All in all I think the amp lives up to the hype and would definitely be my recommendation for someone looking for a versatile, fairly simple amp that works for bed room level but also good for a jam or gig.

@SimiraThat’s where I started working on it. I even got a question answered by Knowles in that session about the part that he had to work hardest on. (The bridge where two fingers swap positions back and forth while another stays in place)

I wanted to learn a solo arrangement of Brothers In Arms ever since I heard this song covered by Yoni Schlesinger in a promotion video for B&G Guitars. I hesitated to record it on acoustic or on electric guitar, but finally decided for acoustic. It's a great song to learn, with many nice licks and a beautiful chord progression. Wim. https://soundcloud.com/wim-van-damme-401299565/brothers-in-arms-solo-acoustic

Found something I recorded 5 years ago. Chicken in the Rain by John Knowles.