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  1. While working on the tune "Springtime" in Session 3, I found an error in both the standard notation and associated TAB: Measure 5: the 2nd eighth note is shown as a G and the TAB shows fret 6 on the 4th string. This note should be an E, and the TAB should be fret 2 on the 4th string. I checked against the video to see what Steve is actually playing. Hopefully, this will help others working on the tune. This C#m7 is the same chord form we learned in a previous lesson on chord forms and picking exercises. These lessons do build on each other nicely. Please don't consider this a complaint. Instead it is simply a "heads up". These kinds of things are a good test to see if we are paying attention and caring enough in our detail to recognize. As long as Steve plays it as he intended, there should be no problem because we can see and hear what he is doing. This is a very nice little tune and well worth the time spent learning it. Tony
  2. Thanks NeilES335. I can guess at least one of your guitars. My approach to this fingerstyle course is that I really want to learn how to do some specific things. I can play fingerstyle - other people's tunes, but I want to make my own music. Steve seems to address this by encouraging us to make these Sessions our own by constantly experimenting with the material beyond the specifics of the lessons. Tony
  3. At Session 3, Steve says that this session is probably the most important. It deals with intervals of 3rds, 6ths, and 10ths. Though I have played these a fair amount, I have never really delved into them the way that Steve does here. So, every day, as a warmup, I pick a note at random, find it all over the fretboard (a valuable exercise from Ted Greene's "Chord Chemistry"), and then use that note as the root of the scale for the day to play the 3rds, 6ths, and 10ths all over the fretboard at every string set suitable to the interval. I have only been doing that a few days and already I am getting a good handle on it. So now it is time to start picking out melodies, as Steve suggests, and experiment with applying the intervals to them as he demonstrates along with the tips for doing so. I am also paying particular attention to the pieces that Steve created (Teri's Song" and "Springtime" because there is a lot in these that is helpful for making up my own music. I have not even gotten to the advanced workshop yet. The things I a doing are not difficult, but instead very worthwhile to explore in depth before moving on. I want to thoroughly be comfortable with these intervals because they really are at the heart of arranging tunes, which is the subject of the next session and the incentive for me to study this course. I plan to spend a lot of time with that session, arranging a lot of tunes as "extra credit", just as I am doing now with melodies. Tony
  4. Thanks Plantsman13. Congrats on the new T-0014. As I recall, that is a "traditional" model. I watched an H&D video in which Mark talked about the different models. He said that the traditional models have a flat top, where the other models have an arch to the top, so the tone of the respective instruments is different, with the traditional model having a more traditional sound. Tony
  5. I tried it out of curiosity, and it worked! I was happy about that. Prior to that, I was using VLC, which can treat a DVD copied entirely to local disk, as a DVD, even to the point that you can select an entry in the DVD menu and it will go to that. You tell VLC to run the first .ifo file. Come to think of it, I wonder if Video Surgeon has that ability. I should try that too. Thanks, Tony
  6. Thanks Wim. I have the main course and have perused it, but felt that I have been playing long enough, and am familiar enough with the material taught in that course, to dive right into the fingerstyle course. If I find that there is an area I need to review, I can go into the main course and study that. I have played fingerstyle for quite some time, have played professionally in a trio that played supper clubs, Holiday Inns, and that sort of thing back in the late 1970s. I can read music as well as figure it out by ear off recordings, and know enough music theory to understand and communicate with other musicians. For most situations I find myself in, basic diatonic theory is plenty. Before starting the fingerstyle course, I looked through it, watched parts of several DVDs, and decided that there was nothing in it that would baffle me. What I am looking for is to fill in those areas that I need work on. When self-teaching, we tend to rush through, or give little notice to, certain areas, while focusing on those areas specific to what we need to know to do some specific thing right now. As an example, I am spending time with DVD 3 on intervals of 3rds, 6ths, and 10ths even though I have played these many times in one context or another. Steve provides a couple of his own creations as example tunes to learn. He presents these intervals, approaching them in ways I never considered. These are easy enough to play, but they open up a whole world of experimentation for creating my own tunes. To me, it is worth not rushing on to the next DVD so as to create some of my own music similar to what Steve did. The more we know before going into a course such as the fingerstyle course, the more we will get out of it. If I had just finished the main course, I would probably spend my time struggling with getting my fingers to play the material in the fingerstyle course and with understanding what Steve is talking about (in a sense, pretty much treading water). Since my fingers can play this material with a bit of practice, and the subjects Steve talks about are familiar, I have the "bandwidth" to really dig in and experiment with the material, making it my own. That can take just as long or even longer, than going through it as a relative beginner. I think this course is worth going through more than once. Tony
  7. After reading the OP's review, I purchased this software today. As a sort of tag-along, I got the discounted Song Surgeon too. I have been using Transcribe! for a number of years, and in recent years, that software has provided the ability to also use videos. However, compared to Video Surgeon, it is cumbersome to use for video. Video Surgeon has several features that are quite nice too, such as the zoom feature, the ability to download youtube and other videos directly instead of having to use other software and, sometimes, having to do conversions. I copied the Fingerstyle Guitar course DVDs to my Microsoft Surface, and am directly accessing the .vob files from Video Surgeon. That works quite well. There are alternatives, but this works well for me. I don't want to do take the extra step of converting to.mp4 if I don't need to. I can easily set up several loops for a .vob file and save that to a file that I set up Windows to bring up Video Surgeon when I click on the saved project file. Very smooth and easy to keep track of where I left off and what I want to review. As for Song Surgeon, I briefly tried it and it seems to work fine. I can't compare it to Transcribe! because I have not put in the time, and probably won't unless there is some overriding reason to do so. I am way too familiar with how I like to use Transcribe!. Oh, by the way, I am new here and this is my first post. I am working through the Learn and Master fingerstyle course, currently finishing DVD 3. I have been in it for two or three weeks. My main guitar is a custom 2005 Huss and Dalton 00. Tony

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