Steve Krenz

Welcome Anon! Glad you're here. I enjoyed reading your learning journey. Sorry about all of the grinding. There's usually a fair bit of that with real learning, but I'm glad you're starting to see the payoff. Honored to be a small part of your learning journey. Keep working my friend. Your music matters. I look forward to getting to know you better. - Steve

Wow, what an interesting sound.

Triple, Interesting. I never real thought of it as "Tension and Release". In Blues it's very common for the first 4 bars to establish a phrase, the second 4 bars to re-state the phrase, then the 3rd phrase to either re-state it again or vary and resolve it in some way. But you can also just play a simple few note idea that is repeated throughout the chorus of the blues. Here's a great moment with the great Jack Pearson playing "Everyday I've got the Blues" that illustrates some of this....

Thanks Doug. Hope you have a great weekend!

Hey gang, First of all, I apologize. We've been under a bit of a spam attack since April 1st. It's required hourly attention for the past several days. The only time it gets out of control again is when I'm asleep for the night. But we're slowly getting a handle on it. Along the way, we've changed quite a bit on the back end. It shouldn't affect anything if you're already a member. But if you suddenly notice you can't log in, or post, or something. Please let me know. Just email me at Service at guitargathering dot com and I'll run it down. Thanks for your patience with all of this. It's getting better each day. I appreciate you all. - Steve

Nice. I've always liked the Grand Auditorium size. I bet it plays like a dream. Congratulations! I look forward to hearing it! -Steve

I'm not familiar with this one but I will check it out! -Steve

Great ideas from a great instructor. David always puts out great things. - Steve

Naming an instrumental song has always been pretty easy for me because it has no reference. You can name it anything! For example, I was working on the Fingerstyle course and had just written out this short song that I was using as an example. It needed a name so I yelled across the office hallway to one of the video editors in the next office... "Grant, what's your daughters name?" He yelled back... "Carolina". The song has been "Carolina" ever since. Another example, was a song that I did in the key of G for our Fingerstyle retreat last year. After working it out a bit with the working title of "Song in G". I went downstairs with great trepidation and played it for my wife. She said it reminded her of the Sunday drives she would take as a child. The song was then forever titled "Sunday Drive".

Fantastic play by play as always. I love your pictures. We're often too busy to grab many shots so it's wonderful to see these. Hope you made it back safely. We are catching up on our sleep and basking in the afterglow of the fantastic time we had. Love you guys. - Steve

I fixed it. It might be something in the program. - Steve