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@Archiguitarchi, it sounds to me that you would benefit from having an EQ pedal so that you can experiment more than you can with the Quilter's bass, mid and treble. The Behringer EQ700 is cheap, 7-band and covers up to 6.4kHz, so would be ideal.

Thank you, Steve and team.

I am sorry but high quality mp3 is an oxymoron as mp3 is a lossy format. You can, however, mitigate the situation by using software which allows you to chose how many kbps you want the mp3 to have, anywhere from 64 to 320 kbps. 256kbps stereo is probably going to be of high enough quality for home hi-fi systems. If you want to edit the audio at a future date then it would be better to avoid lossy formats and stick with AIFF, WAV (full quality, not compressed) or FLAC (full quality, compressed but not lossy). Audacity is free and up to the job. If you use an Apple computer then Music (previous known as iTunes) is also up to the job.

If it sounds good then it is a valid chord; music theory needs to find a way to describe it! Robben Ford and Larry Carlton are just two examples of players that choose nasty sounding chords in order to create tension and then, just as the audience wonders whether this is intentional or a mistake, they return to the normal scale, unaltered chords. It gets called tension and release and can be very effective. Robben Ford has a tendency to venture into odd notes during the 12th bar of a blues. Larry Carlton had a phase when he would play a phrase in a solo one semitone lower than would be correct, before returning to being in tune.

Yes! Can I comment on #1, add more chord tones? If all we do is contin ue adding chord tones we can end up with an incoherent mess. I prefer, when extending chords, to start omitting other notes. For example, the key note is the root. Unless your band has no other musicians, then the bassist or keyboard player will be playing the root, so we guitarists don't need to. The 3rd and 7th give the chord its colour, so dropping the 5th could leave you with as few as 2 notes to fill out the chord. When playing on my own I often use 1-3-7, 1-3-7-9 or 1-3-9 chords.

Wikipedia has a page on the Andalusian cadence, in case you are interested.

That reminds me of the old saying: I have my great-grandfather's axe - I replaced the handle twice and the head once and it is as still good as new. The PRS HB II is a great guitar to fall in love with.

Dick Dale.

Because of your background maybe you are subconsciously expecting to be able to get up to speed quicker than you are. Don't sweat it; don't rush it. You will get there.

It is a case of poetic licence. I thought it was called Blueberry Hill, which would be the name of the hill. It may have been the hill where you had a splendid view of blueberries in the valley below. When we were children we learned the rhyme: The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain, whereas when you learn about weather you discover that the rain in any country falls mainly where there is higher pressure - mainly on the hills.

Background information about songs, songwriters or players are often quite interesting. Thank you for that, Triple-o.

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Nice one, Randy. 12-string guitars open the door to a whole new palette of sounds. I hope you enjoy finding your sounds. I have a Faith 12-string and found the sound a bit brittle. Trying silk and steel strings gave mine a gorgeous sound. Be prepared to try different types of strings when yours need replacing to find what works best for you.

I don't use AI to play the guitar nor sing with the voice of someone else, so with zero experience of AI I also cannot help you. Sorry.

Hello Cindy, I remember you. I have only been on L&MG since 2011. Like Doug, getting a job playing bass in one band and being invited to ply drums in the church worship group, along with the chidlren's singing (at last, something on guitar) and transcribing hundreds of songs so that the church has written song melodies, not just pages of lyrics with chords, takes a hugr amount of my time. Add to all that the war next door in Ukraine and the humanitarian aid that needs to be delivered there and the refugees who have temporarily been evicted from their homes by the war - for nearly 3 years so far. Time goes by quickly. I bought Steve's Jazz course which I will do as soon as I get through the basic L&MG course.

Apple USB SuperDrive is what you are looking for, @Anne Hill, I have the very same device!

Anne, search your favourite online shop for: external USB DVD drive. DVD drives can play CDs as well as DVDs.

I read that to mean you, DianeB, see text on a white background. I see a dark grey background to every post, just like Anne's screenshot, above.

I don't belong here (in this topic) as my first guitar was electric, when I was 12. Now, over 50 years later, my 3 main guitars are all electric - Fender Strat (my number 1 guitar), a PRS and an Ibanez 335 style with flatwound strings). I have an acoustic guitar; the last time I played it was when I recorded acoustic guitar parts for someone, now 6 years ago. Sorry to all you acoustic guitarists.

Do you listen to Leonid & Friends on YouTube? Even the band Chicago isvery complimentary of Leonid and his large group of friends. The YouTube videos tend to be done in studios but the band will be touring the US this fall.

Nice one, Abe.

DianeB, I had not heard of Coronene before; thank you for that. My hexagons were inspired by the ceilings in Wes Lachot's studio designs, in particular June Audio as I followed the building of that studio. https://www.weslachot.com/recording.html

Back in 1993 when I started using a computer for music I chose C-Lab Notator which changed to be Notator Logic before Apple bought it and it is now known as Logic Pro. I bought that software as it combined a DAW with score-writing. Most of my scores are simple lead sheets, like the attached example. Friends and acquaintances have used other score writing software, most seem to use MuseScore because it is free. Sibelius has always been too expensive for me, Finale I nearly bought but, as DianeB implies through her comments, each program is different enough that they do not easily import from another program. I guess that is like a guitar being different enough from a banjo and a mandolin, that while they are all stringed and fretted instruments, moving from one to the other is not as simple as one might hope. I wonder what others of us are using and would you recommend it to others? I have found Logic Pro's score-writing to be really impressive, albeit a bit quirky to use and not perfect. I would say that unless you want to be able to align your scores with the audio, Sibelius is probably the most capable and MuseScore the cheapest, albeit hard to use for someone with over 30 years' experience of using a different program. Aj keby nekvitol fík (m001) (noty).pdf

I am taking a break from learning (but not from playing as I still need those jobs) while I put a new studio together (see the photo, below). I am hoping to be done by Easter 2025. We'll see. Steve's Jazz fretboard workout course is now sitting on my computer, waiting for me. I like the look of it and am relishing working through new chord patterns, especially after watching quite a few YouTube videos of James Chirillo.

Thank you, Six String, for sharing your recent experiences of amps and Gruhn's. DianeB, you are the best at motivating forummers; thank you for that. Gary, I hope that your extra time with your guitar will reap many benefits and give you and your audiences countless joy. My amp story this year is that with a weekly Sunday School slot, I made the smallest possible cab for an 8" speaker I had lying about to go with my Quilter Superblock US amp head. It means I now just carry my guitar and gig bag ('cos I only have two hands) and I only need one trip from the car to the venue.