Steve Krenz
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Tuesday December 4th, 2018
7pm Central
Topic: Learn a Christmas Song!
Tis the season to learn a Christmas song! I'll be teaching a classic. I'm working on getting the music together now.
Plus, I'll be giving tips on what to look for when purchasing a guitar.
Here are the songs we'll be referencing tonight. These are simple, triad-based arrangements by Bill Cooley.
Christmas Songs with Triad.pdf
Watch it live at 7pm Central tonight HERE
Great music, giveaways and more. See you there!
Make sure to subscribe to our Guitar Gathering YouTube Channel HERELearn all you can!
- Steve
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Tuesday November 20th, 2018
7pm Central
Topic: Guitar Artistry with Johnny Hiland!
"I think Johnny Hiland is the most versatile guitar player I've ever heard.
From Bill Monroe to Eddie Van Halen, he can play it all!" - Ricky Skaggs
The man, the myth, the legend - Johnny Hiland will be back with us tonight!
Nominated by Vintage Guitar Magazine as Best Country Guitarist, Johnny Hiland is a great friend and phenomenal player!
Great music, laughs, giveaways and more!
Here are a few videos to get you familiar with him...
Watch it live at 7pm Central tonight HERE
Great music, giveaways and more. See you there!
Make sure to subscribe to our Guitar Gathering YouTube Channel HERELearn all you can!
- Steve
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Yes, they were great. I didn't know quite what to expect but it ended up being fascinating.
I look forward to having them back again next semester.
- Steve
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Yes, the patterns on the guitar are endless.
If I follow you correctly, you're saying to play...
6th String: A (5th Fret) (1st finger) to C (8th Fret) (3rd or 4th finger)
5th String: E (7th Fret) (1st finger) to G (10th fret) (3rd or 4th finger)
4th String: A (7th Fret) (1st Finger) to C (10th fret) (3rd or 4th finger)
3rd String: E (9th Fret) (1st Finger) to G (12th fret) (3rd or 4th finger)
2nd String: A (10th Fret) (1st Finger) to C (13th fret) (3rd or 4th finger)
1st String: E (12th Fret) (1st Finger) to G (15th fret) (3rd or 4th finger)
You'll find patterns like this all over the guitar.
The trick is to then turn patterns like this into workable finger patterns and licks.
Keep Learning!
- Steve
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Tuesday November 13th, 2018
Topic: Classical Guitar with the Belmont Guitar Ensemble!
Watch it live at 7pm Central tonight HEREGreat music, giveaways and more. See you there!
Make sure to subscribe to our Guitar Gathering YouTube Channel HERELearn all you can!
- Steve
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Tuesday October 2nd, 2018
Topic: Cosmic Country with Daniel Donato!
Watch it live at 7pm Central tonight HERE
Great music, giveaways and more. See you there!
Make sure to subscribe to our Guitar Gathering YouTube Channel HERELearn all you can!
- Steve
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Shadowboxer,
Wow! So sorry to hear about all that you've had to go through. I hope your home was OK.
Glad you're safe.
- Steve
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Tuesday September 25th, 2018
Topic: Capo Madness!
Watch it live at 7pm Central tonight HERE
Great music, giveaways and more. See you there!
Make sure to subscribe to our Guitar Gathering YouTube Channel HERELearn all you can!
- Steve
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Tuesday September 11th, 2018
Topic: The Best Sounding Chords for Guitar
Certain chord shapes make the guitar really sound it's best. We'll cover some of these tonight.
Download the PDF for the lesson... The Best Sounding Chords - G.pdf
Watch it live at 7pm Central tonight HERE
Great music, giveaways and more. See you there!
Make sure to subscribe to our Guitar Gathering YouTube Channel HERELearn all you can!
- Steve
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Hey gang,
Getting ready to release the next fretboard workout on Money Chords!!
But needing a few testimonials for the webpage. Any fretboard workout success stories out there?
I'd love to hear about your progress with them!
Hope all is well.
- Steve
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Bryan,
Yes, I'm so glad that our musical worlds have crossed paths and look forward to having him involved in the future.
- Steve
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Tuesday August 28th, 2018
Topic: Guitar Artistry with Bill Cooley
"... one of Nashville's most respected sidemen." - Guitar Player Magazine
We are honored to have with us, the legendary Bill Cooley. www.billcooleymusic.com/
Bill has toured and recorded with Merle Haggard, Reba McEntire, Alan Jackson, Hal Ketchum, Kathy Matea and countless others.
Bill's beautiful touch and signature acoustic guitar sound have made him the soundtrack to countless songs.
A wonderful kind man and brilliant educator.
Here are a few videos of Bill...
It should be an amazing time of music, laughs, giveaways and more!
Make sure to subscribe to our Guitar Gathering YouTube Channel HERE
Learn all you can!
- Steve
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Fantastic question!
The answer is YES and NO!
Let me explain.
YES, when building 4 note chords (triad plus the seventh), the chord built on the seventh step of the scale would be a m7b5. (For example, in C, the chord on the seventh step would be a Bm7b5.)
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NO, these particular chord shapes used for that exercise, just happen to NOT include the 5th of each chord. So, you'll notice that each of those chord shapes used in that exercise don't include the 5th of each of those chords.
So, back to your question. "Shouldn't the last one be a Bm7b5 instead of a Bm7?" Yes, the chord built on the seventh step of the scale has the b5 in it, but these particular voicings don't include the 5th.
So, I had a choice when writing it out, should I write the chord name as a "Bm7b5" but show the form that doesn't include the 5th? I decided that would be confusing. So, I just wrote it as what it truly was, a Bm7.
Hope this helps!
- Steve
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Tuesday August 7th, 2018
Topic: A Great Jazz Guitar Trick: Patterns and the Power of 3!
You can watch the lesson HERE.
Ready to learn a great jazz guitar trick?
The ear recognizes patterns - patterns in chords, patterns in notes. You can use patterns to create incredible sounding progressions just by moving identical chord shapes to different parts of the neck - particularly three frets apart.
Here's a great lesson on a wonderful concept of patterns and their use in threes. I know it sounds odd but, trust me, it's a handy tool to use. With some incredible musical results from just a bit of guitar sleight of hand.
Here's a simple PDF of some of the concepts we'll be covering...
Watch on our Guitar Gathering YouTube Channel HERE- Steve
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Randy,
So sorry to hear about this setback. Hopefully there won't be any permanent damage.
Here are a few thoughts.
Relax. You may not have chosen this but now you're strapped into this ride and there's little that worrying can do about it. Worrying won't make it better or shorter - just more miserable.
Do what you're told. Do what the doc says. If he says "no use for a month" then don't sneak a quick play in here and there. In this big world of ours there's short term damage and long-term damage. A finger fracture is painful and a hassle but it is short term damage. BUT, not letting it heal properly can easily take it into long term damage and it will be something you'll be wrestling with 3 years from now.
Keep thinking about guitar. There's tons that you can do without having to actually play. Work on theory stuff, song-writing or chord knowledge. The main thing is to keep your mind still in the guitar and learning game. Your mind is the real organ that affects your playing. Keep it engaged during these off weeks.
You'll be back playing soon enough.
- Steve
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Couldn't have said it better myself!
- Steve
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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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Looking forward to having you all!
- Steve