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Beautiful guitar, Ben. And great story and great wife!

I more than likely deleted it Mandy. I'll look.

That is not the answer I expected from Ben. And it wasn't "Fender" I expected either.

Hmmmm. Ok. Thanks, Ic

I went to sign up and couldn't. It won't take my email address which they just used to send me some prospecting email. I can't find the spot to open a new account. Actually, apparently even Udemy has heard about my singing and is trying to make it difficult for me. It's a plot.

Thanks Mandy. No one needs this more than I!!!!!

Thank you, Gerard. I'm sure this will be helpful.

Tuninghead, what a great point Triple-o makes! So much so that I wish I would have reflected more before my post. I had made somewhat of a big deal of this over at L&MG. I thought my barre chords were pretty good. Until I got to 10. Even though I didn't finish 10 I know that my barre chords are now a lot better having tried fingerstyle. rkl312, then I should be really embarrassed! If I recall, without looking at my log, I think I took about 9 months.

Tuninghead, I am the wrong one to comment on this. If you look at my sig you can see that I did not finish 10. But I worked on it for months. So it is hard, at least it was for me.. At session 10 is when we start to get into "specialization" in our L&MG journey. After that you get into Blues, Pentatonics (used in a lot of different genres), Rock, Jazz, etc. So I would not skip session 10 because of intimidation. But if you are absolutely certain you're never going to play Fingerstyle you could almost justify skipping it based on wanting to move on to another genre. JMHO. Why not start it and see what you think? Spend a week or two. You might find you like it. I'm certainly not sorry I spent some time there and it probably helped my coordination. In fact, in the not too distant future I'm going to go back and finish it up.

Thank you, Diane

Very comprehensive list, Brad. Thank you. I am especially interested in the " Guitar Capo Mastery". I am about ready to buy one and try using it so perfect timing. I finished up Eric Clapton's eponymous autobiography a year or two ago. There was nothing in it that hadn't been covered in the press or documentaries. But a Clapton fan is still probably going to find it interesting. I did. I just started Carlos Santana's autobiography, "The Universal Tone". I'm not far enough into it to recommend it or not but so far it has been very interesting.

Great one, Ben.

As Triple-o said, I don't know of a list of songs " to learn as the course progresss ". But if you are studying blues there are certain popular songs that, when you go out to a blues jam, that are often played. These are the ones that you should probably learn in preparation going out to jam. Griff Hamlin posted an unofficial 20 Most Played Blues Jam Tunes. It inclueds the usual suspects such as Stormy Monday, Hoochie Coochie Man, Tore Down, Sweet Home Chicago, etc. These would be good ones to study as you go along.

And Plantsman13- I second what Dave said. Wow!!! that is breathtaking.

Plantsman, I'm glad you asked. We assumed the same "best and most talented luthier" but I wasn't sure.

I have the Fundamental Changes "The Chicago Blues Guitar Method" and it looks good. I really haven't studied it yet. The download itself wasn't a big deal to me. But Joseph, I gave you the email address to get the download. Do you have to email me every 5 minutes now?!?! (Or so it seems )

Thanks Dave. I'll have a look.

And Cap you should be stunned. One stunning guitar. I had asked you before about HB's. I didn't move on the one before. And didn't move Sunday on the one at CME simply because it was way out of my budget! I get home and find one on Reverb a 2-3 hour drive from my house! It has "Archtop" pickups. Do you haave any thoughts on those? And it is "Whale Blue" finish which I think is a little darker than yours.

bwillard at Chicago Music Exchange?!?!?!?!?!? Economists would be writing about the effect of that on the economic recovery for years!

Thank you for the link Maria!

Just one?!?! It's hard to pick one and it also depends on what week, how the stars are aligned and who knows what else? But ok. I'll play. Since it's this forum and I saw Steve playing it on a Live Lesson, so he is somewhat responsible, I'll post this one. My 1972 Gibson 325:

Doug, my wife told me to tell you to not encourage me. cntry, nothing to take pictures of. I did play an unbelievably gorgeous PRS Hollowbody but it is what is called, in PRS terms, private stock ($$$$$$). But major drool index. My wife and I are now heading back downtown and she just said I should go look at it again and show it to her. (My son and granddaughter and I went yesterday). But in the same breath she made it clear that would cut into her shopping time on Michigan Ave and State Street

Neil, I just bought Steve's video on using a looper but haven't studied it yet. I have to do that soon. Santa brought me a looper so I had better learn how to use it!

Nice looking pup and guitar, Barbara.