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Bryan, I retrieved both video's. Here are the links for all who are interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfEkKNW6R3U&t=479s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWOa0vfv5FY Just tried to play "Right or Ronk" focusing on the 2&4 using the metronome at half speed. Not easy to start, but it works once I'm locked in. I'll practice some more days and record it again. Thanks for this great info. I definitely learned something today 🙂 Wim.

This has been a fun summer for my band. It began with an invitation last October to bring the group to my high school class of ‘ 69’s 70th birthday party and morphed into 6 other outdoor gigs throughout the summer months. We played the birthday party gig a week ago and finish up playing at a street party charity event this weekend. Our 4th of July gig for a closed neighborhood was particularly special. No fireworks this year because of the NW drought conditions, so the fireworks money went to the band…$1200. Hope others here had a chance to get out also and play or watch some music this year . This pic of the party, a great venue, is at The Summit Lodge in SW Washington. Me in blue. Our first encore! Greg

Doug, The best straight-up advice I've received when using a metronome is to NOT CHASE THE CLICKS. It is a tool to MEASURE time...not much else. Jason Isbell's lyric in Last of My Kind cites 'everyone else claps on the 1 and the 3' makes me appreciate the backbeat (often snare) falling on the 2 and the 4. :-0 As for live, a recent story surrounding the passing of Charlie Watts, recalled Keith Richards intentionally altering the beat during a song, only to be amazed how quickly Charlie got the beat back under control. Richards always claimed he had worked with one of the best, in Charlie, when it came to keeping everyone on the beat and it made his life on stage so much easier. IMHO, if everyone is not synced on the beat, an overall 'disjointed feeling' is generated, whether it is live or recorded, and the listener is left feeling uncomfortable. Bryan

@Wim VD1 D. Hamburger and Eric Skye have posted You Tube presentations, in the past, focusing on using a metronome focusing on the 2 & 4 to maximize groove. E. Skye's was in a 30 Day Challenge format (very casual and chock full of great ideas each day) and D. Hamburger was in a Fretboard Confidential presentation. Both sources are free. Bryan

@Plantsman13, thanks. It is this kind of feedback that pushes me to improve. Maybe I should not record this kind of solo arrangements to a click/metronome any longer. I have the feeling that this takes away some of the natural groove. Wim.

Well not sure where to put this . we sort of have 2 threads running at the Same time.. the "Recording Challenge" and the "Open Mic" subject threads. Open Mic was setup as a non-subject based recording where the Recording Challenge thread was subject based, which has sort of fled it's original subject theme this year.. which makes for a small dilemma: which thread do you post a recording.. anyways I picked here. Taken me a while to get this one done. the Main rhythm track took a while to get down with a lot less mistakes (mistakes are free of charge and gives music it's 'organic' feeling). knew the lead and subsequent vocal tracks would go quicker. once again we're using @Steve Krenz LMG Song Hits to provide the base of this song. This time I was hitting up Day Tripper by the Beatles as presented by Steve in Session 7 his course. I've added back the 3rd verse and I've added the B solo back into the song as well (the B solo riff keeps my fingers confused) Technical stuff.. the Base rhythm track was played on all things .. My Les Paul (I wanted to get away from always using the Sheraton) in the lead pickup . the Lead track was played on my MIA Strat on the bridge/lead pickup and last there was supplemental rhythm track played on what else.. the Epiphone Sheraton a Beatles type of guitar again keeping with me .. "you choose your poison"... first track is just the instrumental and the second track is how it would be heard at any party my relatives or wife's friends had enough to drink and beg me to play. (some day I'll invest in an auto-tune plugin) with Vocal

@Wim VD1 Great job. Very clean and well played. Don't take this wrong, but I would love to hear you inject some of 'your soul' into it to develop a groove with dynamics, not just a lot of well played notes.