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Steve has referred to them as "Our Friend over at TrueFire". And some of the TrueFire instructors on Steve's Tuesday night Live Lessons including Johnny Hiland and Corey Congilio. They have very educational and reasonably, in my estimation, priced lessons. Some great materials to supplement our studies here when you get to that point of adding materials. Right now their 12 Days of Christmas sale is on. They have lessons on sale, of course, but also give a ways, free lessons and a $5 download. I just bought what looks like a great lesson on rhythm or comping or whatever you want to call it: 50 Chord Tricks You Must Know by a guy by the name of Matthieu Brandt. I know absolutely nothing about this instructor. And, honestly, I will probably never get to this course given the piles of study materials I have. But it was $5! Go look. The sales materials changes hourly. So if there is something you are interested in, and it's not on sale, it could, and probably will, be on sale at some point. Here is the intro to that course I just bought:

Danny, this is somewhat a more general message about the Tele. So maybe I should have started a new thread in the gear forum. But since you're our new Tele owner, and this thread is about that, I added to here. Musicians Hall of Fame founder and CEO, Joe Chambers, interviewed Steve Cropper and he discussed "Why I use a Telecaster". This is the 5 minute cropped (no pun intended) version. There is also the full 30 minute version for those that have the interest and the time.

Neil, very off topic, I know. Hopefully the mods won't notice.😉 Since you're our resident 335 guy, did you ever see 5 Watt World's "Brief History of the 335"? Very interesting. I know "ES" stands for "Electric Spanish". But I had been told that the "335" was the suggested retail price when it came out but he contradicts that.

I think this should go in Guitar Playing🙄 This was posted in another forum. I can't take claim for discovering it. But it is really cool. And free. It has scale and triad generators or just put your own fingerings in. It will do Left or Right handed fretboards! You can save or download the resulting diagrams. Check it out. Guitar Scientist. " Guitar Scientist is a Free Online Editor || Create Scales and Chords diagrams, for Guitar, Bass and more. Download your Diagrams, Visualize Shapes. Perform Better! "

Dan, It certainly appears as though you have put some thought into your practice regimen and that you have the determination to be successful in your learning. You have announced several things that you are doing that I wish that I had done early in my learning. First though, you are correct in describing Session 4 as "challenging". It is. There is a lot of material here. If you haven't discovered it yet there is even more material in the bonus resources than the main part. I have heard many on here suggest to break it up and work it in parts. I think that is good advice. Just know it is going to take a while. You have clearly identified a game plan for your learning. I wish I had done that earlier on. I just sat down and practiced with no real game plan. And, you have purchased that little box we all love to hate, the metronome! 😉😂 That is going to help dramatically with your timing. And, probably most importantly, you are keeping it fun. You are bringing in songs like Nowhere Man to make it fun and give your hard work some purpose. Please come back here often and keep us up to date on your progress. And any time you are not clear about something or just frustrated, post. We have a real brain trust here of supportive guitarists. We are fortunate in that we even have several that have completed the course and come back and share.

Danny, congrats on the new Tele. Although I should not be looking at this thread. It's giving me GAS. I've got all the food groups: the Strat, the humbuckers, the semi-hollowbody 335'ish, the hollowbody, etc. Everything except the tele. You're making me think, unfortunately! 😉 I'll bet she does play like a dream. Enjoy it a long time!

Great story, Maria. Thank you for sharing it. Enjoy that gorgeous guitar a long time.

Again, welcome back Maria. And Happy Birthday!!!

Maria, It is absolutely great to have you here with us. You always contribute value to the conversations and I'm looking forward to that continuing. And......as somewhat official here😉 I will tell you there is no limit to the times you can restart. That is fortunate for many of us, myself included! Any of us that have been around here any length at all are familiar with the some of the setbacks you have had. But you have always dusted yourself off and went back at it. That says a lot about your character and determination Keep us appraised of you progress. It's taken a while but I'll be joining you soon in 17. We will compare notes! Ron

@Dan Brown was in the house!!!!!!!!!???!!! Long time, Dan! See you in a couple months.

Btw, I "screwed around" too long after my original post. I asked a couple guys familiar with the Quilter amps their thoughts on the little Quilter 100. By the time I went back to MF and put it in my cart it was sold out. But thanks (no thanks?😡🙄) to @Six String I just ordered this Quilter 45. In the end, this probably will serve my needs every bit as well. It's going to, I'm sure, make a great little practice amp with headphones.

Anyone needing a new amp? A 100 watt amp (head)?! A 100 watt amp so small it will almost fit on your pedalboard?! For $179! That's what the Musician's Friend Stupid Deal of the Day is offering. I don't know the first thing about Quilter amps. I've heard good things. But what have you got to lose? (other than $179). A back up amp? Or a practice amp? Or practice with headphones as to not wake the family? This is a head so you will need a cabinet if you don't use it with the headphones or send to a DAW or PA. It seems it has 5 amp models but I'm not sure on that either.

Sounds like a good trade!!😉😂😎

Great points, guys. My first "good" guitar was my Gibson LP. I went shopping after I had been learning for a while. I was in the store and had tried a few when the salesman said that they had a used LP/Fender Blues, Jr. 3 combo package. They were like new. I said to him that I really wasn't interested in used. My wife was the one that forced the issue and said, "At least look at it." The salesman brought the guitar and it was immaculate. It looked like they had just unboxed it. I came to find out it was that very common story. The salesman relayed that whoever had bought it was going to learn guitar. He took it home and put it under his bed in its case. It remained there for a couple years until he just recently brought it back to the store and sold it back. I've had great success buying used and every guitar in my sig, except the Epiphone Casino and Strat, were purchased used.

I had the pleasure of seeing Joe and Kirk, along with a lot of others, jam at the Artist Jam on Tuesday night of the Keeping The Blues Alive at Sea cruise. It was, as you would predict, awesome. Kirk also played rhythm for Joe at one of his concerts on the cruise. I also got to meet Kirk, got his autograph, and chatted with him (and Josh Smith) on that cruise at the autograph session. Just a really humble, pleasant guy. Kirk has a new (not all that new now) album called "Hold On". Really great. My favorite cut is "Gotta Right".

Which Hal Leonard "Blues Guitar"? There are so many of them. I have Chicago Blues Rhythm Guitar by Bob Margolin that looks really good and I hope to start in the very near future:

Yes, there is. Confusion that is. I have always just assumed it was a reference about Chicago and came about as a result of the exodus of people, including blues guys like Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy, from the delta south to Chicago looking for jobs. I further thought it came about the same time. It really represented Chicago blues to me. I never realized it was written by Robert Johnson long before this migration. Thanks a lot @Triple-o and @Dave White (for confusing me😉)

Chris, To answer your question, "Yes", you've got it correct, assuming that you are using the pentatonic form 1. You could also, if you want more of an open string sound and ringing, play the E minor using open strings. It would be like the F minor only moved "down" one more fret. So: I can't, of course, speak for Steve. But I suspect he wants us to use the different forms doing this exercise. I tried to. So just using the first bar of the exercise, Cm, you could, as you did, play form 1 at the 8th fret. You could also play it using (red is the root) form 2 at the 10th fret form 3 at the 3rd (or 15th) fret form 4 also at the 3rd (or 15th) fret form 5 at the 8th or 20th fret I hope that I haven't confused more than helped. the whole idea is that with each key, with the different forms, you can play all over the neck. These are just for Cminor. The next bar in the exercise, Dminor, you can play all over the neck. Those graphics, btw, were stolen from this really cool, helpful website, Free Guitar Source. You tell it what minor pentatonic key you want. You then move your mouse across and it will highlight the different forms on the keyboard. Or you can tell it all. @ChrisJ032, sorry for the long answer to your question! I hope it was more helpful than confusing. The short answer is "Yes"😂

Doug, I can't help with aany suggestions but I'm glad you started this thread. My Kindle is getting really "long in the tooth". Apps are taking forever to load. I'm going to have to replace it sooner than later. I've got lots of songs and, of course, lots of L&MG videos stored on it. So I am looking forward to the suggestions.

Thanks, Diane.

I just finished up Jeff Beck: Still on the Run. Really interesting, fascinating. From the Showtime page: "Documentary following Jeff Beck from his earliest days growing up in Wallington, Surrey with his home made guitars, teenage friendship with Jimmy Page and the influences of guitarists such as Les Paul, Cliff Gallup and James Burton." Interviews with: Eric Clapton Rod Stewart Jimmy Page Slash Ronnie Wood David Gilmour Lots more I'm forgetting. An interesting part was when Clapton was describing his latter time in the Yardbirds. He was thinking of leaving and the group sent him to go check out Jeff Beck as his replacement. He said he saw Beck and said, "Man. I'm in the wrong business." Unfortunately, you may need Showtime channel, or a streaming service like Hulu with the Showtime add-on, to watch this.

Ask anytime you want and ask anything you want! I, I'm sure you suspect, love talking guitars and especially love talking about my PRS guitars!😂😎

@William Nelson, I'm glad you received the couple responses you did. I love the sound of a 12 string guitar and one is probably going to be on my shopping list at some point. (Not soon. There are a couple other items on that list first.) So I was counting on this thread being educational for me. When you hadn't received any responses at first I was about ready to bump this. But, thankfully, Randy and Henk responded with a couple informative posts. And besides, I like the way you think! "it gives me an excuse to haunt the guitar stores"😉😎

It was a 1954 Les Paul Custom. Interesting because it had 3, rather than the usual 2 humbuckers. But do you know the entire story about the guitar? Frampton was on tour in 1970. The guitar was on a cargo plane that crashed and Frampton assumed the guitar was destroyed. It was returned to him decades later. NPR story about the guitar. Guitar World Story.