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RichLich

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  1. Here's the deal: I've been playing and singing music for many years. In the past I've played clarinet (a few months), trumpet (a few months), treble clef baritone horn (4 years), and now guitar. I've been singing bass for over 30 years (although right now sinus problems have just about squelched my singing). I pretty much already know the notes in all the scales in the Major Scale Mastery Level 1. I read music (treble clef with no problems, bass clef not too well - I've mostly worked in the treble clef most of my instrument-playing life.) I've taken one Music Theory class back in high school which taught mainly rhythm (think beating 4 different rhythms simultaneously - 1 with each hand and one with each foot), triads, and inversions. (I wrote a canon for my final exam and aced it.) I don't need tabs (although they sometimes help). I stopped at Session 11 in the L&M course. Here's part of my plan going forward: 1. Brush up on / refresh L&M Session 6-11 and then start out "new" on Session 12. (I used to be able to play the minor pentatonic scales.) 2. I already do the warmups and speed and agility exercises nearly every day. The latter I and can do continuously at 80 bpm with an occasional mistake. (I can do a few at 120 bpm with a couple or three mistakes.) I've started to extended them by doing them across all 6 strings and up/down the fretboard (although I don't do that every session). I will continue to do this until I can do the basic exercises flawlessly at 120 bpm. 3. I've started on the scale mastery exercises. Since I already know the scales (well, I know all the sharps and flats through 4 sharps and 4 flats almost w/o thinking. I have to think and really slow down at 5+ sharps and flats.) The WWHWWWH pattern I already knew. I can play C, G, D, A, E, F, and Bb scales at a minimum of 60 bpm. (C, G, D, A, and F I can do at anywhere from 80-120 bpm). 4. I try to play at least all of one and sometime parts of other of my favorite guitar instrumentals (e.g. Rumble, Walk Don't Run, Ghost Riders in the Sky, Rebel Rouser - yes I'm a big Duane Eddy and Link Wray fan) several times a week. (I need to find backing tracks so I can play the lead along with the track. Just playing the lead doesn't cut it.) So: 1. How does the above sound? 2. Should I maybe bypass some/parts of the scale mastery exercises? (Probably not because although I know the scales, my fingers don't know the scales very well except in the open position.) 3. Ideas on backing tracks? 4. What am I missing? Oh, and in the mid-1960s I played rhythm guitar in a rock band for about 6 months.
  2. Thank you, Dave! BTW, I consider myself almost as much a North Carolinian as I am a Virginian. My mother and 3 brothers all live in Mt. Airy. I'm down there about once a month.
  3. Well, it is good to be back on the forums again. This is my first visit to them after being away for at least a year (still on the old LMG format however long ago that was). I love the new format. It is so much more professional looking. I also see familiar handles. Hoping to chat with more old friends. Many thanks, Steve, for believing in us, encouraging us, teaching us, and putting together a site and group like this!
  4. Had it for a couple of weeks now, but have acquired a new Squier Classic Vibe Tele (buttercream). After a couple of tweaks (it apparently got banged around in shipping - see below) I love it. Of course I had to promise the missus I'd sell something to have money towards the new ax so I sold my red Squier Standard Strat to a good friend (who also does guitar repair work for me and did the tweaks to my Tele when it wouldn't tune correctly and had a low E string buzz). I'll see the Strat again, however, because my pal loves it so much he's going to use it on a regular basis (it's his go-to guitar now) for our church praise and worship services. (All he did was adjust the saddles a bit and put on a new set of Ernie Ball Super Slinky strings.) He replaced his hand-made clear Lucite-bodied Strat shape with my Squier Strat.
  5. I have the Agility workout and both of the fretboard learning workouts. Should the agility workout be completed first before going to the first fretboard workout or can they be done in parallel?
  6. I have a new Squier Classic Vibe Telecaster. It was hard to tune and was buzzing on the low E / 6th string until the truss rod was adjusted 1/8th of a turn, the saddle for that buzzing string adjusted slightly, and strings replaced (Ernie Ball Super Slinky). Those problems are gone. Now, however, when I check the tuning an octave above the open string, every string is about a nickel sharp. How do I fix this?

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