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@Cindy, I won't pretend to know what happened to those posts. Maybe there was a protocol in place that deleted posts from the Beta period. I don't remember hearing of such policy. I have several items to discuss with @Steve Krenz and I'll bring this up. We plan to chat after the 1st. I hope this won't deter you from becoming active here again. Your input is valued especially, as others have mentioned, your knowledge about theory. That's an area I need a LOT of help with.

Cindy, I can only speak for myself officially. But I feel confident @NeilES335 and @DianeB concur. None of us are fans of unwarranted censorship. I have not deleted one of your posts. I can think of no reason Neil or Diane would have. Looking at the activity log there is your post in this thread and the one Sunday regarding file sharing site at Yahoo. These are the first posts of yours since March. Those two in March are the first since May of last year. You were so very active at the old site and are a valuable resource, especially when it comes to theory. Ask Doug said, " too bad Cindy doesn't hang around any more, she had theory mastered". When I saw these posts this week, I thought to myself that I was hopeful that you would become active again. And I hope that you do.

@jvernacchio, it's great to have you back in our community. You can, as Doug suggested, get a DVD player to plug into your USB port on your laptop. I realize it's an additional expense but the USB DVD players are really cheap. What you can do then is "rip" the DVD to your hard drive and once you've done that you won't need to deal with the DVD's or the player anymore. I have ripped mine and now play the mp4 files with a player called Video Surgeon. It allows me to loop sections and slow down the video. I ripped my DVD's with software called WinX DVD Ripper. Yeah, it's a bit of a time investment initially. But I now never need to hunt for the DVD's and I've also transferred the files to my Tablet for when I travel. If you don't want to get the DVD player you should be able to find some kid to rip the DVD's for you. It's too bad your daughters aren't older. One of their boyfriends could do it for you!😉😆

@Nutty 1 thank you for posting your playing. I don't know what to add beyond what @Fretless said. I've been around this forum for a while and am also "so impressed at seeing your steady and continual improvement". Great playing and singing and, no, the delay did not at all sound "too weird". Thanks again for sharing this.

Absolutely it counts. You had the nerve to get up in front of people to perform. There is no argument here. It counts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations on your first gig.

Wim, so would I! 🤣 Ron

As she said, Neil, it's in her sig. MikeM's file sharing site for Guitar Gathering and LMG resources.

Come on forum members!!!!! Submit your entries! Now almost 1,900 member and only 2 submissions! Thank you @Fretless and @dan0725 for submitting yours. Dan is one of our newest members and joined in! @Randy120 and @Eracer_Team-DougH provided you with Jingle Bells lessons from complimentary sources. I provided you with the link to Kelley Ritchie's lesson on O Little Town of Bethlehem and the tabs. And, of course, most importantly we had Steve's hugely educational Live Lessons on December 3 and December 10! Lessons complete with tabs. So you have lots of learning materials to choose from. Remember, the topic this month is Christmas but it is a monthly challenge. Mandy will take your submission until December 31. Right, Mandy? And it is for all levels of learning. It's called "Challenge" but it is no contest. We just want to hear you play and see how you are doing. The only challenge is that whoever Mandy picks will choose next months topic.

Thanks, @Randy120 and @Eracer_Team-DougH I am also currently working on Jingle Bells, a "bluesy" version, from yet another source. It's really fun and I'm trying to get in the spirit of the season!

Ning, thanks for this information. But before I go on I must warn you about something. I know that you are new here. But we do not allow political, religious or otherwise controversial material on this forum. Any suggestion that one can have too many guitars will just not be tolerated here! 😉😆 Seriously, I need to look at a whole house humidifier. Like Barb @K9kaos I have a small room humidifier in my music/guitar/office room. It struggles to get the humidity up to 40%. Here in Nebraska we have horribly hot, humid summers and horribly cold/dry winters. Also like Barb I have the canine issue. Clapton, our Aussie, is convinced it is his mission to constantly make sure the door is open letting what little moisture has accumulated in my room escape to the rest of the house. He takes his mission very seriously. Things are further complicated by the fact we live in the country and are on a well with horribly hard water. It ruins a humidifier in short order. So I fill one gallon water jugs at the grocery store and carry them upstairs to the room. The humidifier goes through one every 12 hours! So this is something I need to investigate. Thanks again for the information.

@BenBob! Good to see you here!

Dan, Please consider posting this in our Monthly Recording Challenge: Christmas. It certainly should be there. I tried to make a copy of your post and put it there as a moderator but couldn't figure out how to do it. 🙄 I can move a thread from one forum to another but not a single post! Maybe that is just as well since I didn't get your permission first! 😁 We're going to ignore that silly netiquette rule about doubly posting!

Marty, it is wonderful to have you back here after the year you had. And congratulations on the Blues, Jr. I love mine.

Thanks for this generous offer. GuitarPro is a very useful learning tool and I'm sure a lot of members here would take you up on this. I wish it was as easy as saying "Sure" but I'm not sure about the legal issues here. L&MG is obviously copyrighted and there are licensing considerations. Please don't upload any files yet. I'm going to refer this one to Steve. Thanks again.

Everybody, apparently my mailbox was full. Sorry! A member on here tried to leave a message and got the notice. Fortunately, he and I also text and he alerted me to this. So if you have tried to send me an obscene, nasty message the last couple days, you can now! This forum typically runs so smoothly, largely due to my co-conspirators @NeilES335 and @DianeB, that I don't know what you could have been trying to reach me about. But if you did try, sorry. I have done some housekeeping and there is room now.

And Doug I probably wouldn't have noticed except Kelly made a point of saying it was attached. Thanks.

Nice job, Dan! Really nice job. It's sounds great. You have to feel a lot of satisfaction in making this much progress. And please continue to share your progress with us. And I hear that metronome!!!😁

If you have already downloaded the video and didn't get the tabs, the pdf (tabs) is attached to this message.. If you haven't downloaded it yet, customer service at TrueFire said they were correcting (adding the pdf to) the download zip file to include it. Kelly Richey - Oh Little Town of Bethlehem.pdf

Notice in my op I said it comes with tabs. Kelly said in her video it comes with tabs but when I downloaded the lesson the zip file only the mp4 was there no pdf. I'm checking on that. You can download the lesson, as I said, with that link or, if you prefer, here is the lesson on YT.

Kelly Richey is an instructor at TrueFire and one Smokin Blues Rock Player! Check her out on YouTube! I had mentioned the 12 Days of December Sale going on. Today, you can get her lesson on O Little Town of Bethlehem free over there. Comes with downloadable video lesson, tabs, etc. Click on that link then scroll up and click on "Song Lessons". It's FREE!

You Canadians always sticking up for each other.........and soooooooo sensitive. 😂🙄 Thanks, Neil!

Aaaah, yeah, Mike. As I said over in Danny's thread about his new Tele, that is the one "food group" I don't have a representative from. That 60's music had a huge, major, life shifting affect on us, at least now in our guitar choices. Who woulda' thunk that music we were listening to then would effect us now in retirement?!?!😮

I just came across this. I think it has just about any Neal Young song ever recorded tabbed out.

@Ning, I do (vaguely) remember your name from over at our previous home. I'm glad you found us and are going to be a member again of, what Steve calls, "our guitar family". There are quite a few of us here that, like you and me, played guitar in our youth or teen years only to put it away until retirement. And, yes, many of also developed a case of Guitar Acquisition Syndrome in retirement!😮 I'm looking forward to your contributing to the conversations here and sharing your progress.

NOOOO! Neil! You're a jazz guy! You don't have any business with a Les Paul?!?!? I'm the blues guy. That Les Paul is mine!😁 But you're correct about the Free Lesson Downloads. Last hour I snagged this one. It looks pretty darn good. I haven't downloaded it yet and delved into it. I really need to play acoustic more. And what did I have to lose?