Steve Krenz

Hmmm.... I'll have to research this a bit. - Steve

David, I will try to discuss and illustrate this on the next live lesson next week. Great question. - Steve

Mr. Handsome, Start using the Jam Along CD's as soon as you can. They are meant to go along with the concepts that you are learning in the course. Once you can play the song with a degree of competence then start working with the Jam Along Tracks to get used to playing along with the tempo. You can also check out the Song Hits course I did. The songs in the Song Hits course were meant to go along with each sessions material in the Learn & Master Guitar Course as well. You can see the Song Hits course here... https://www.learnandmaster.com/songhits/ Hope this helps. Learn all you can! - Steve

Wlm, Both are helpful to know but, for me, the 7th chord arpeggios are more useful in actual playing situations - particularly in a jazz style. Hope this helps! - Steve

Neil, I'm so glad that the YouTube feed went well. I know that I , (as the channel owner) was able to put links over in the chat on YouTube. But I'll dig around and see if I can figure out how to get links to work for others. - Steve

Live Lesson: January 28, 2018 Jazz Guitar Arpeggios Here are some of my most helpful tips for playing arpeggios in a Jazz setting as well as some advanced level Jazz chord melody concepts. DOWNLOAD THE JAZZ ARPEGGIOS HERE... Jazz Arpeggios.pdf DOWNLOAD THE PHIL KEAGGY FINGER FLEXIBILITY EXERCISES HERE... Phil Keaggy Flexibility Exercise.pdf Learn all you can! - Steve

Ok, here is the link to the show we did with Greg last week...

Yes, I like his material. I think he is in Nashville. I'd like to connect with him. Glad you're learning! - Steve

Hey gang, Here is the official registration list for the Guitar Gathering 2018 conference! Woohoo! Things are coming together. Here is the updated registration list as of April 6. 51 Registered Clarke B. from Sisters, OR Diane B. (DianeB) from Newark, DE David C. from Castaic, CA Andy C. (cookie) from Houston, TX John D. from Fremont, CA Steven D. from Gladstone, MI Rick E. from Minooka, IL Dwayne F. from Caddo Mills, TX Paulette F. from Winter Springs, FL Lucio & Henriette F. from Sheboygan, WI Robert H. from Canton, OH Fred H. from Commerce, TX Collin H. from Lancaster, CA Worth H. from Spring City, PA William H. from Marion, NC George H. from Jacksonville, NC Mark J. from Minneapolis, MN Carolyn K. from Des Moines, IA Paul K. from Collierville, TN Keith K. from Alpharetta, GA Martin K. from Salt Lake City, UT Nancy L. from Brevard, NC Douglas L. from Hamilton, OH Patricia L. from Alto, MI Jim L. from Antioch, TN Amanda M. from Healdsburg, CA Brian M. from Milwaukee, WI Charles M. from Ft. Collins, CO Albert M. from Earleville, MD Thomas M. from State College, PA Paul O. (opie) from Arlington, TX Greg O. (gotto) from Battleground, WA Troy P. from West Linn, OR William Q. from London, UK Joan R. from Tamiment, PA Lynn R. from Eagan, MN Dale R. from Gastonia, NC Rick R. from Belle Isle, FL Leor R. from Tulsa, OK James S. from San Juan Capistrano, CA Barbara S. (k9kaos) from Jacksonville, FL Ernest S. from Romeo, MI Richard S. from Monroe Township, NJ Brian S. from Olathe, KS Matthew S. from South Jordan, UT Gregg S. from Windsor, Ontario Michael T. from Fredericksburg, VA Reg W. from Georgetown, IN David W. from Asheville, NC Ken W. from Jacksonville, FL *Moderators note; this event has taken place. List retained here for reference purposes. NeilES335

Great questions and answers. Any more questions for Greg? - Steve

Ha, It's in the challenging things that we improve. Never shrink back from a challenge. You conquer them just like you conquered the easier things. One line at a time. One practice session at a time. Until, one day, what once looked impossible is now not so hard. You'll get it. Keep going. - Steve

That looks like the perfect size! Work with her when you can and the skills will come. The more skills you can get into a child before the teen years the farther along they will be. If you can get enough basic skills into them before the teen years then they will play the rest of their lives. - Steve

RK, I'm not familiar with it but let us know how it works for you. - Steve

Tuesday January 23rd, 2018 Topic: Guitar Care with Greg Voros 7pm Central Time US You can watch the lesson HERE. It's the first Live Lesson of the year and I cant think of a better way to start off than with Greg Voros (head of the legendary repair department at Gruhn Guitars) to start us off. Greg will be discussion how you can take the best care of your instrument and maintain it so that it is at it's best playability. If you have any questions for Greg about guitar care, maintenance, or building, please ask them in this thread and we'll try to get to as many of them as we can. There will be music, laughs, giveaways and more. I look forward to seeing you there! Our Ustream channel is here... http://www.ustream.tv/gibson-learn-and-master-live-lessons - Steve

Yes, I heartily recommend this as well. A fantastic resource. - Steve

We got the links updated. If you've purchased any of the Fretboard Workout courses (Jazz & Major Scale Mastery 1&2) and are needing the PDF you should have received an email a few days ago with the new links. If you need anything or still can't locate them email me at Service at MightyOakMusic.com Thanks and sorry about the hassle. - Steve

Great resources. Thanks guys. - Steve

Guys, I think I know what the problem is. I had several bits of media on the guitargathering.com site including both of those pdfs. The guitargathering.com site is currently offline while we are troubleshooting a problem. I didn't realize that it would make those links not work. I'll upload the PDFs to this site. Sorry about the hassle. They should be up by tomorrow. - Steve

Hey all, We've had some people ask about our "bad-word filter" and why do we need it. What about free speech? Are we censoring people? The short answer: Yes. Rule #1: This board exists to help people learn guitar with information and encouragement. Here's my thoughts on this... FOUL LANGUAGE I used to cuss like a sailor. (My parents would be mortified to know that in middle school and high school, I had very foul language. But I could turn it on and off depending on the situation.) But I vividly remember the moment in my first year of college that I had just said some expletive to some friend of mine in the course of normal daily conversation. The thought crossed my mind. "What's wrong with you? Can't you even express yourself without using bad language?" And from that moment on I stopped - without fanfare or effort. It was like a switch that was turned off in my vocabulary. And, in all but the rarest of circumstances, I've never casually cussed since then. Having said all that, I feel this discussion board should be free of rampant foul language. I've found that other discussion boards are just littered with foul language which turns me off and I'm glad ours tends to not go that direction. Rampant foul language turns people off - especially new comers. We're here to help people. There are plenty of other guitar boards around filled with people ranting about this or that, putting down other people with every imaginable word. That's not us. (Please refer to Rule #1 above) So, yes, we do have a bad word filter - just like we had on the previous boards. I installed it myself and it was quite an interesting read. CENSORSHIP I am infinitely more concerned that the person who is struggling in learning how to play guitar can come here and find encouragement and support from the people here, rather than finding a few people cluttering the boards with rants about this or that. I'm not in the free speech business. I'm in the helping guitar player's learn business. This is not a "free speech" haven. It's a guitar forum. I don't mind getting off topic. Some of my best interactions on the forum have been on off-topic threads. Just don't get divisive, and mean to people. Heated debates, I have no problem with. But, if it is nothing but people arguing back and forth, particularly on an issue that has nothing to do with music, and folks are getting mad then I am going to step in. If you have a problem with how the board is run, then talk to the guy whose life work is poured into this community and who pays all of the bills and takes all the good and bad for this whole party. I know him pretty well and he will vehemently protect what the purpose of this forum is for - this place exists to help people. (Please refer to Rule #1 above) CLOSING THOUGHTS I have always seen this place as the proverbial water cooler at the gym - a place where folks, all united in a common love for music and guitar, can come, talk about struggles in learning, get encouragement from each other and support to get back into the gym of learning. Along the way, we may talk about other topics, and get wonderfully intertwined a bit in each others lives from the quirky to the amazingly profound. My goal is to help people as they are learning. If yours is too, then I welcome you and need you. If you're not interested in helping people, and see nothing here but a place to vent your frustrations with life, then move on. I wish you well. - Steve

Hello all, It's 1:20am in the morning and I couldn't sleep so I'm at the computer hanging out and answering questions on the discussion board. It's been a long time since the board was a wonderfully fun, engaging, friend-filled place that I could go on any time of day or night and find activity and friends. Too long. For the first time in a long time, the discussion board is, once again, an exciting place. And, I'm so ready to finally move on from the limitations and neglect of the Legacy board - to finally have something of our own, to build and enjoy. While this new board has a ton of new bells and whistles, I realize that the real heart of the board is not in all of that - but that it's in you - the people. Just good people trying to learn guitar and enjoy each other's company and the support and encouragement it brings. Learning can be a lonely endeavor - each day, you, your guitar, and the current mountain you're working on meet to struggle and eventually conquer. It helps to have a group around to cheer you on and help. That's what our community has always been about. I hope that this community begins to thrive, find it's own rhythm, and humor - it's own cast of characters. I want this to be a place of encouragement, information and support for the old timers as well as the new folks passing through. My hope is that the fun and camaraderie of this place will reach many people who aren't here yet. There's a lot of learning guitarists out there that need what we have here. The online learning world is full of hecklers, charlatans and cynics. We desperately need more educators, coaches and cheer-leaders. That's what our little guitar family has always had and I'm so, so proud to be a part of it. - Steve

Wow. That's a lot!

Wow, great list. Thanks Diane. - Steve

A youtube link after written or copied in a post remains as written until you actually submit your reply. And then it seems to turn into the YouTube screen. But, it has something to do with the link because your initial link didn't transfer over. But when I put your link into a search bar, got to YouTube, then copied the link from YouTube and put it in the next post it opened up to the full YouTube screen. Still researching what is going on there. - Steve