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Why are you wanting a parlor guitar? The guitar that I had posted about getting my granddaughter was a parlor guitar. A really nice beginner guitar but I felt it probably would have been a little small for me. And I'm a smaller guy. And it's always difficult for people to make suggestions without having some idea what your budget, roughly, is.

Doug, you are so correct. The Art and Lutherie are nice beginner guitars. I had posted here about my granddaughter's new guitar. I am 93.7% certain it is an Art and Lutherie. I, of course, checked it out before my granddaughter began playing it. When I took her to the lesson the instructor checked it out and commented, "This plays nice".

Great progress Limatje! Thanks for telling us about this.

Congratulations Tony! Really nice looking new guitar. Enjoy it!

CapM, your 335 weighs 9 lbs!!!!! That shocks me. That is approaching Les Paul weight. I had no idea.

UncleHammy, a great quote and Will McFarland did say this. As I understand his entire quote was, "I'm not a neurosurgeon. If I make a mistake playing guitar, nobody dies." What bothers me (or did) is this came just before my 2nd neurosurgery

Thanks, Dave.

rkl312, thanks for posting this. I'm sure some wiil find it helpful. I started this book when I was " Still slaving away with this skill!". I spent a lot of time in sessions 7&8. In hindsight, maybe I could have spent a little less time had I supplemented my studies by using this more. I wish that I would have worked some of the songs. I think the only one I did was "All Along the Watchtower".

Cindy, the 50 in Bluechip terminology is probably consistent between styles of Bluechip picks. If you go to their webpage for their 55 picks that number represents 55/100 inch. Unfortunately, it is inconsistent with most other manufacturers. I thought, like Plantsman that it represented something in metric. Most pick makers describe their picks in mm thickness. I think most do anyway. V Picks does. Most of the posts above are describing picks in mm.

Ice, you don't know how appropriate your comment is! We've been married 51 years today!

Thanks, Neil. The finish is officially "Whale Blue". And, yeah, I'm really getting to like the hollow/semi-hollow tone. It was all driven by weight but I am getting to like the tone. Which is weird because I'm a Clapton/SRV/Santana guy. Unc, even lighter. I don't know the weight of a 335. I'm sure I could find specs but if anything I think my 325, which is a hollowbody, would be lighter than a semi-hollowbody 335. This is significantly lighter than my 325. And I have a Epi Casino Coupe which is the comparable model to a 339. This is even lighter, slightly, than it.

Dan, Barb may becoming an enabler. But she only goes along. She doesn't encourage me like Diane does you!!!! I tell you about guitars, like the Gary Clarke, Jr. Casino, and you tell me, "Don't tell Diane. She'll make me buy it!"

I have been looking for something really light for some time. After talking to a couple of the PRS owners on here, and talking with a few on other forums, I had decided that a PRS Hollowbody I or II was the guitar. I was already a huge believer in PRS guitars. I had looked at a couple on Reverb, at Chicago Music Exchange and elsewhere and made a couple offers but never ending up owning one. Last week my wife and I were in a local guitar shop and this one was hanging on the wall. Way up high where the nice ones are! The owner had to get it down! He handed it to me and my wife immediately said, "That is really pretty!" I played it and fell in love both with the way it played and the tone. My wife actually told me to make on offer on it but I didn't. I don't know why! I told her wanted to think on it. It has driven me crazy all week and I went back and brought it home tonight! It is feather light and has this gorgeous hollowbody tone. It has McCarty Humbucker Pickups. There is just no doubt at this point that this is going to be my "go to" guitar.

Someone over at our previous home, in a similar thread, turned me on to V Picks. I never thought I would like a thick pick. Now I can't use anything but a V Picks Screamer.

Thanks for starting it, Neil!

Ice, these are all nice ones but that Em one is really cool!

Way to go, Barb. I haven't started Scale Mastery but, like Randy, have them all. I started the Speed and Agility and, like you, got to the intermediate level. I can't remember what speed. 80? 84? Then, like you, got sidetracked. I keep saying I'm going to get back to it and need to. It was definitely helping the speed of my playing. Got to get bacck to it! Good for you getting back to it.

You adjust the pickup height on all your guitars when you purchase them! I guess that answers my question. Wow. I will take a look at trying this next week. Thank you.

So, Blue Dog I guess I should answer your question. What kind of Blues do I like? I love Chicago. I love Blues. So it follows my favorite Blues should be the Chicago variety, correct? I do really like Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters, Mike Bloomfield, etc. But my blues taste run towards the Texas variety.

Thanks Blue Dog! How many guys have covered that Albert King classic?!?! But Daniel Castro I have never heard of and he did a great job. I'm going to have to look into some of his other stuff. Gerard, thanks. That show from the Royal Albert Hall when Clapton came up on stage with JB was awesome. Further on up the Road is one of my "Bucket List Songs". Clapton with Robbie Robertson at the Rock and Roll HOF doing this song is another classic but one can't find it on YT. I have it on DVD.

Every month Guitar Techniques magazine has 4 free jam tracks. They are produced by Jacob Quistgaard. He has his backing tracks available on YT. What's interesting about his is that most of them start at about a minute. During that first minute someone is soloing and there is a link to the solo lesson and tabs. Also, it takes a little looking, but most of his backing tracks come with chord charts: Here is his website where he offers his jam tracks for sale. But he has quite a few free ones there: Quistorama Jam Tracks

Steve has often mentioned Coffee Break Grooves Backing Tracks. They are great. I have all their blues albums. They have 5 free ones on YouTube: