Steve Krenz
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Tuesday July 24th, 2018
Topic: Simple Guitar Tricks for Colorful Chords
Did you know that by moving your fingers around the fretboard in a specific way that you can create incredible sounding chords? It's as easy as a simple shift.
Here's a great lesson to show this simple trick. Hopefully your chord playing will never be the same!
There are two PDFs that go along with this lesson. Just click on them to download. Here they are...
Make sure to subscribe to our Guitar Gathering YouTube Channel HERE
Learn all you can!
- Steve
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Wow, This is wonderful!
Congratulations!!! I'm sure you started this thinking it would look one way but now that you're done the journey has gone a different but wonderful direction.
I'm so proud of the work you've put in. Now, there's much music inside of you, ready and able to come out.
Honored to be a small part of the journey with you.
Thanks for being a great part of our guitar family. You've got much to give to others still working on their skills. Keep learning and pouring out to others.
- Steve
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Frydaddy,
No problem. Just send me an email at Service at MightyOakMusic.com and I can look up your account and resend them to you.
- Steve
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On 7/8/2018 at 7:48 PM, DANIELGUITAR88 said:
Hello Steve,
I would like to request if you could do a level 2 program for the speed and agility exercises. It is one of the most helpful things for my playing, and I feel many will benefit off it as well.
I start every practice day off with it as part of my routine! Maybe we can start a suggestion thread for the next one ? I realize it's a big time investment, but if you ever have one down the pipeline...I will DEFINITELY be on it!
Blessings,
DanDan,
Ha! I'll put that on my list of things to get to.
I'm so glad it's been helpful for you.
Keep it up. It's a great way to keep your fingers fresh and ready to create. - Steve
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13 hours ago, DANIELGUITAR88 said:
I just started level 2 workout one the other day! excited for what's to come! So I mastered level 1 seeing the note in my minds eye and verbalizing aloud...but for some reason with the new scales in level 2...it takes me a second to name the note, but I can play all the shapes and patterns NO PROBLEM...should I keep going or live in workout 1 for a while until my mind's eye can start seeing the note names??? thanks Steve...also see my reply in the above comment...I forgot to quote or tag you in that!
Daniel, It sounds like you are making great progress. I wouldn't worry too much about the verbalizing of the notes. As long as you understand what they are and your mind is keeping up with what your fingers are playing - that's the main thing. Continue working through Level 2 and you should be just fine.
Let me know if you have any more questions along the way.
- Steve
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Joel,
I saw your registration this morning. What a joy to have you with us! It should be an amazing time.
I'll be sending out information as we get closer.
I look forward to meeting you!
- Steve
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Doug, No problem. I'm sure Neil will be around.
Good luck on getting your cable fixed!
- Steve
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Tuesday July 10th, 2018
Topic: Fingerstyle with Casper Esmann!
7pm Central Time US
You can watch the lesson HERE.
Our Guitar Gathering conference is in the books and it's time to get back to live lessons and we've got a great one!
I've long admired 25 year old Casper Esmann's amazing artistry and arranging. A brilliant Fingerstyle guitarist from Denmark, has taken the guitar world by storm. He's in the US for a rare tour and I'm honored he could be part of our show.
His website is here... https://www.esmannmusic.com/
A few videos....
Casper and Tommy Emmanuel...
Should be an amazing night!
Make plans to join us!Great Music, laughs, giveaways and more!
Watch on our Guitar Gathering YouTube Channel HERE
- Steve
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Great advice from everyone on this.
In addition to all that was suggested let me add...
1) Neck Radius - you might want to experiment with a guitar with a thicker neck. For me, a thin - necked guitar feels great at the beginning but aches at the end of a long night of playing. So, a thicker neck starts to feel really comfortable at the end of a long night of playing.
2) Stretch Before You Play. - Simple hand stretches or shaking out your hands is always a good idea before playing.
3) Check Your Strap. - Make sure your strap is at a comfortable height so that your hand, wrist and arm aren't at a stressed position. Also, make sure your strap has enough padding and is wide enough so that you aren't putting unneeded pressure on your shoulder.
4) Temperature Shifts - Experiment with the ice packs or hands underneath warm water to relax them. Find which works for you.
5) Check your Hand Position. - Make sure you are using a good hand position. Keep that wrist low with a little bit of air space between the palm and the neck.
Hope this helps. Let us know how it turns out for you.
- Steve
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Daniel,
Ideally, you would leave your index finger in place forcing you to stretch your pinky to get where it needs to go. If you raise up your index finger and shift your hand to a more comfortable position then that defeats the purpose of the exercise.
I'm more concerned that the index finger and hand stays in the right position (forcing the pinky to stretch) than I am about whether the index finger is actually on the fingerboard.
The idea is to get the hand to stretch.
Hope this helps. It sound like you are doing great work. Keep going!
- Steve
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Perfect!
- Steve
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"Playing guitar is what separates us from the apes."
I love this!
- Steve
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Great advice!
- Steve
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Thanks for the question. I apologize I'm just now getting to this.
Yes, saying the note names is a mental juggling game. I wouldn't worry too much about it. The main idea is that you can play them and when you play each note you know what note you are playing.
In other words, as you are playing the note, in your minds eye you are saying "C" or "E" or whatever. Verbalizing or physically saying the note names is just a way to demonstrate that your mind knows the names of the notes that you are playing.
So, it's less about physically saying the name and more about knowing the note name when you play it.
Hope this helps!
Keep up the great work.
- Steve
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Matonajin,
Great question. Yes, sometimes it's nerves but in this case I think perhaps the culprit could be.... Syncing up to an external group.
When you're at the house, it's just you playing. You don't have to worry about playing along with anyone or anything - you just play. But when you're with a group, you need to take some one else's tempo, rhythm, and flow of the music - instead of just doing whatever you want.
It's a different skill - trying to sync up to something else.
Playing along with tracks (YouTube or others) might be helpful. Just type in "Blues Backing Tracks" and try to play along with the track. Don't even look at the chords, just try to keep up by listening.
The Blues is a standard 12-bar form with only slight variations so this might be a good place to start.
Let me know how it turns out.
- Steve
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Wow, thank you guys for being the guinea pigs on this information. This will eventually get sifted out and hopefully become something that will be useful for folks.
- Steve
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Wow, what a joy to stumble on this thread!
Paulette and I have been recovering and digging out from the amazing conference. The more I reflect on it, the more I'm convinced it was the best one we've ever had.
Our minds and hearts are filled with ideas for next year and we are, once again, blown away and humbled to be among such a wonderful collection of people from all over.
Thank you all for an amazing week of getting to know you and playing music.
- Steve
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Tuesday June 12th, 2018
Topic: Ask Your Guitar Questions & Albert King's Guitar!
7pm Central Time US
You can watch the lesson HERE.
It's time for a relaxed Guitar Questions and Answers night but we've got one surprise for you. Greg Voros will stop by and show us Albert King's amazing Flying V guitar!
Ask your questions below and I'll try to get to as many of them as I can.
Make plans to join us!Great Music, laughs, giveaways and more!
Watch on our Guitar Gathering YouTube Channel HERE
- Steve
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Tuesday June 5th, 2018
Topic: Flatpicking Champion Adam Wright!
7pm Central Time US
You can watch the lesson HERE.
Very excited to welcome, Flatpicking Guitar champion Adam Wright to Live Lessons!
An amazing player that has won multiple times at the Winfield Flatpicking championship, Adam is a wonderful blend of musicianship and effortless technique.
He is also going to be joining us teaching flatpicking at our Guitar Gathering conference.
Here are a few videos...
Make plans to join us!
Great Music, laughs, giveaways and more!
Watch on our Guitar Gathering YouTube Channel HERE
- Steve
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Hey gang,
So sorry about the delay in getting a chance to response to all of these. We've been out of town and many other issues going on.
But finally I've got some quiet time to listen carefully to all of these and thoroughly enjoyed them.
Here they are...
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Very cool!
- Steve
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Hey Gang,
I added the links to the pages I'll be referring tonight in the top post on this page.
See you tonight.
- Steve
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Tuesday May 22nd, 2018
Topic: Classic Blues Riffs & "Tom Sawyer" by RUSH!
7pm Central Time US
You can watch the lesson HERE.
I'm excited to be back at live lessons and we've got a good one!
I'll be showing a few of my favorite Blues riffs and we'll be learning the main parts of the classic Rock song "Tom Sawyer" by the legendary RUSH!
Here are the PDFs for tonight...
Print them out and we'll go through them in the lesson. Learn all you can!
Here's a little "Tom Sawyer" to get you in the mood...
Great Music, laughs, giveaways and more!
Watch on our Guitar Gathering YouTube Channel HERE
- Steve
Finished Session 20 and the L&M course today!
in Gibson's Learn & Master Guitar
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Couldn't have said it better myself!
- Steve