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@Dan Brown are you going to take it with and use it when Joe B calls you to come on stage and jam with him on the cruise?

Amy, you are very welcome and thanks for sharing your video and joining us here at Guitar Gathering. That is great playing and I am very envious. If you look at my sig, Session 10, Fingerstyle is the only session that I have thrown in the towel on. I will go back before too long and give it another try before long. But for now I will remaain especially envious of your playing.

Hi Amy, I converted your video file to an audio file and sent that to you as an attachment to a pm. I use WinX HD Video Converter Plus to convert files. Simple and Cheap. But I don't know if it is available on Mac. I use Windows. Ron ps. I went back and looked and it is cross platform (Windows and Mac)

So @Eracer_Team-DougH, @K9kaos, and @Popeye give me some more specific ideas on this. I make no promises. But what features? Do we want to come up with a list of features and then a quick video "how-to" of each? Or one overall introductory video that is available to all but might be especially helpful to each new member? What other thoughts do you have on this? I have "screen grab" software that should make the process not too difficult or daunting. As always it's a matter of time availability. But I'd like some more focused suggestions.

Ben @bwillard summed up the history succinctly. Learn and Master Guitar, along with all the L&M courses, painting, photography, etc., is owned by Legacy Learning Systems. Legacy is owned by a Gabriel Smith in Nashville. If you look back at the traffic on the Learn and Master forum the traffic was entirely us guitar folks. We were the only ones supporting the forum. This does not suggest any relative support among the different courses in terms of sales, just forum numbers. The other forums would go months without a post. Towards the end the spam was getting progressively worse, to the point we could not keep up with it. And there were the security issues @Nutty 1 described. In the face of this these problems Legacy seemed to show little interest in committing any resources to resolving them. Fortunately, our leader decided to make a break and so here we are. Bob, I'm glad you made it over here. I think just about everyone has. Except one! There is one guy that keeps posting over at L&MG. He never gets a response and I have gone over there repeatedly and encouraged him to sign up here but he doesn't! I guess he enjoys his time with the spammers!!!!!??? I would add intelligent, handsome administrators. ?

Not directed at anyone in particular, but!!!!!

Sandy, great to have you back here and every bit as glad to hear your positive comments. But I disagree in that you have already contributed many useful comments and suggestions in your "short Journey". I know for a fact because I have seen them. I hope you continue to do so. Steve, Neil and I will continue to do what we can to keep it Civil for you and everyone else on here.

At least according to Music Radar. This is the type of thread that can jump the tracks. So Play Nice! Everyone on here usually does. But what do you think? Jack White?!?! Seriously #11? Who is Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz (Fantastic Negrito) #13!?!?!? Kirk Fletcher? Definitely Eric Gales? Yep. 13 Best Blues Guitarists in the World! Go!

Thanks for this, @Bob63047. I am always looking for this part with the list of keys by number of sharps. I printed this out and put in the first part of my practice binder.

And I ditto @Dan Brown dittoing @Texaspackerfan! Excellent idea @NeilES335! We should have had this available as a thread long befor now. Thanks, Neil

Popeye, my Strat is a 2012 American Standard with those fat 50`s. A lot of fun. Enjoy yours for a long time.

OMG, does that take me back, Diane! How many Gram stains listening to Riders on the Storm/Doors?! How many protein electrophoresis studies with Santana and Soul Sacrifice? How many arterial blood gases......Well, you get the idea?

So then it is safe to assume we will be hearing lots of your great recordings here very soon?

Neil, I'm not in any way making a comparison because I have never downloaded ProTools, much less used it. It probably is the industry standard. But if you are looking for a "beginner's" DAW don't overlook Reaper. for us "bedroom" guitarists it will do everything you could possibly want and there are pages and pages of training videos on their website and all over YouTube. And you can try it for some number of months (I can't remember what that number is 3? 6?) before you have to pay for it.

Nice, Bob. Congrats! Enjoy it on vacation and elsewhere for a long time.

I'm glad you found it helpful. Keep us posted on your progress with these. Billy Gibbons, I'm sure I don't need to tell you, is a huge blues lover and much of his and ZZ Top's music is blues based. He just released a solo album, The Big Bad Blues, in September. We have a local PBS station that has a blues show every Monday afternoon and have been playing it some. And the satellite blues radio station has been playing cuts from it. It's pretty cool.

@Park Ranger, after that Live Lesson Steve suggested and offered two products for sale from his site, a book and a DVD "Play Along", both from Hal Leonard.: The book is "ZZ Top Guitar Anthology". It is huge. Complete tabs to 25 ZZ Top songs. If you are a ZZ Top fan, which I am and you apparently are, any favorite ZZ Top song has to be included here. Years ago someone on the L&MG forum taught me that there are two versions of tabs which can be trusted for accuracy. This book is "Recorded Version Guitar" which is one of the two. So the tabs, I believe, can be trusted for accuracy. The video is "ZZ Top Guitar Play-Along DVD". I'm a big believer of Hal Leonard's "Play Along" DVD's and think they perhaps make it a little easier to learn. The only thing I don't like about them is there is no tabs to print out. I'm a paper guy. The songs on the DVD are: 1) Cheap Sunglasses, 2) La Grange (my favorite ZZ Top song) , 3) Legs (my favorite ZZ Top video. Of course, it's the favorite video of just about every guy ?) , 4) Sharp Dressed Man, 5) Stages, 6) Tube Snake Boogie, 7) Tush, and 8. Waitin' For the Bus. I can highly recommend both of these. Of course, Steve wouldn't have recommended these if he didn't feel they would be helpful. btw, Billy Gibbons was just interviewed by Dan Rather in his "The Big Interview" series on AXS TV. It was very interesting.

Making a couple assumptions here, that at 60 you are not retired yet and, that you have a busy medical practice. Completing L&MG in 18 months is very impressive. Even without those assumptions it's impressive! Some of us, thinking in particular of one chubby , old guy in Nebraska, could not complete L&MG that quickly when retired! Thanks for sharing your journey, ShadowBoxer. Fair warning! going to Chicago Music Exchange can be very dangerous!

Hey Rock Guys and Girls, this is not going to improve your technique. But if you are into distortion (and if you are into rock who isn't?) you will probably find this brief history lesson of the granddaddy of distortion interesting. The History of the Tube Screamer.

Which is not an accurate description of this silly quiz because for each band you also get a clue! But , oh well, it's a fun way to waste about 5 minutes when you (we) should be practicing. POST YOUR RESULTS! I got 48 out of 49 which should give you a clue to how embarrassingly easy it is. I missed the last one and, in the interest of full disclosure, got another one correct with a lucky guess. Can You Identify These Bands From Just an Image?

And you had better get more active on here, Dan. If not, I'm throwing you overboard on the cruise! (Not that I could physically do that? See you and Diane soon!!!!!!

Sweetwater and Musicians Friend both showing the Korg Pandora as ""No Longer Available".

Thanks for posting this. I'll have to check it out. My roots on my mother's side (actually my mother's father's family) are from Sweden- Peterson.

I have seen this. It is really interesting. Thanks for posting the link.

I shouldn't have said "8 track". It wasn't the player but the "multi-track" recorder for studio recording that he came up with.