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Since this is a guitar players forum and most of us are trying to make music in the “conventional “ way. I’ll suggest the following: AI tools are designed to have anyone use them. a quick google will cover how to manipulate images and sounds with AI very quickly. for the ethical questions I personally think that using prerecorded concerts for big name artists that are pitch corrected and auto-dined (Taylor, Celine, etc) so they can lip-sync and dance and not perform live is unethical. check out YouTube channels of Fil from Wings of Pegasus or Rick Beato’s

@Cindy thanks to church all those years I have 30+ Christmas songs. yes I could work them into new arrangements with maybe more fingerstyle added. usually play 6-10 of those at the family Christmas dinner. but work had all of us cancel Christmas vacation schedules this year, so I won’t be playing for anyone this year

I know you/I have shared a coupe of emails and Facebook chats over the past little while.. but for the record here: I'm one of those that never completed LMG main course.. took that Master part of the course all too hard with session 4 way back in.. 2007 😫 slowed me down along with my 24x7 job.. thankfully I'm not 24x7 after 30yrs of 2hrs sleep a day. when I hit LMG Session 8 the Church Choir gig opened up for me and I became over those next 5yrs a Music Ministry Leader and over 300 masses (and more than 300 + practices) ; you'd never know that I played in front of 400-1500 people during mass after my fingerstyle performance where I became derailed somewhat in front of 35. I might be the longest running LMG player still left on the forum having started it in May 2007. both the LMG Blues and LMG Fingerstyle I just barely made it to Session 3 in both of them. I spend any free time working on Truefire Online courses mostly the Blues courses. I have a 12 song ukulele set I taught myself to play and usually run that at parties along with my 30+ "sturm'n'sing" guitar song set list. usually minus the solos.. Many of us wish Steve would resurrect the LMG learning series into a GG series of some sort to breath new life here. but has Dianne said.. he's got other things on the go to make him happy. after 5 months of working only LMG Fingerstyle Series to gear up for the Fingerstyle retreat (Oct17-20, 2024).. I've sort of lost motivation at the moment , semi-floundering on what to do or watch TV. So I'm sort of splitting my time between continuing the LMG Fingerstyle and Truefire Blues Solo courses. don't know what will be the next fire under me to go full on learning again.

Taylor’s do make big sound in their guitars I’ve looked at a couple of builders choice models, but they haven’t followed me home happy playing

Sometimes 20/20 hindsight brutal thing knowing what was tossed out, given away or lost

What to Do When You’re Frustrated and Stuck? · Beware when you are feeling stuck and remember that stopping is the enemy. · Plateaus are a natural, normal, expected part of the learning process. · Some things that help… o Relax. Nothing works right when you get uptight - especially learning. Don’t take the “stuck feeling” too seriously. Chances are nothing is terribly wrong. You’re just in a plateau. Just keep doing what you are doing - whether you feel like it or not and evaluate it again in two weeks and see how things have progressed. o Take a Short Break. Sometimes after beating your musical head against the wall for a considerable amount of time with decreasing amounts of progress, sometimes it’s just good to take a break for a few days, put your guitar in its case, and come back to it after a short time. BUT, don’t forget about it and break for too long or you will start to lose ground. Two or three days is a good amount of break time. o Practice Something Else for a While. There are many ways to get the job done and guitar skills tend to interconnect in various ways. If you’re stuck on barre chords then work on something else for a while and come back to them again in a couple of weeks. Often times this break has a magical quality to get you out of your stuck position. o Put Yourself in a Playing Situation. Nothing shakes the cobwebs of learning loose better than getting out of the practice room and into a playing situation when you are applying those skills. o Get some Fresh Musical Inspiration. Go to that concert, or go hear some live music, buy and download that CD from your favorite band, or get a new piece of gear. Getting new musical inspiration doesn’t need to be expensive - it just needs to excite and musically engage your heart again. o Be a Student of How You Learn. Learning is something you are going to be doing a lot of. Stop and think about the things that help you learn and those things that hinder or distract how you learn. Think about when during the day are you the most mentally engaged and try to practice during more productive times. Analyze the feelings you are having. Would practicing in longer, more focused times be better or would breaking your practice time up into shorter bursts of learning fit your style better? Think about how you learn and adjust your practice times to make them the most effective. o ABOVE ALL ELSE - DON’T STOP!!! Take a break if you need to, press on if you need to, try several different things, but don’t listen to the inner voice that says “Well, I guess that’s it. That’s as far as I can go as a guitar player.” That little inner voice plays in all of our heads and it just might be lying to you.

Oct 26-2024 Here's one thing I've found... Learning can't be rushed. A hurried mind will struggle with learning anything significant. (STOP. Read that again.) Learn how to slow your mind down so that you... ..you can learn ..you can listen ..you can absorb a new thought or idea. You can't learn when you're panicked, or hurried or frustrated or rushed. You learn when you're quiet, receptive, curious. Just some thoughts. - Steve Here's one thing I've found... Learning can't be rushed. A hurried mind will struggle with learning anything significant. (STOP. Read that again.) Learn how to slow your mind down so that you... ..you can learn ..you can listen ..you can absorb a new thought or idea. You can't learn when you're panicked, or hurried or frustrated or rushed. You learn when you're quiet, receptive, curious. Just some thoughts. - Steve

@NeilES335 @Mike Hoodenpyle my “other brother” Doug, videoed most of the conference im not sure how wide spread those videos will be outside the attendees

Special Guest Instructors Tim Lerch, Colin Hill and Christie Lenee

And of course a special guest “The book of knowledge “ himself George Gruhn

I was sort of hoping to have gotten a picture of George and I together, as I didn’t last trip I was here. I’ll only add Tim’s picture as not to go out of your story sequence

Quite your adventure already I had a small panic attack this morning with my booked return flight home on the 21st as the layover in Atlanta didn’t give enough time to get in from Nashville grab gear and head to the security/boarding in the next terminal in Atlanta to get to Toronto. i worked with westjet got a deal to switch to a direct flight home on Monday at 6pm (yes there was some extra cash involved) so now i can relax not be so rushed Steve Dosh coming out to get me now (Wed Oct16); we’ll hang out on broadway for a bit when do you and Amy get to Nashville

this is what I know so far. I’m out by the airport hotel Tues 15 night (maybe take in the Predator game before hitting Broadway) Greg flies in on Wed night. Diane/friend also drive in Wed night. Steve Dosh said comes in a day/two early (not sure when). Ben flies in Thursday around 10am and Eric Pirtle getting into BNA around 11. both on the 17th I get kicked out around 11am from the hotel. but thought I'd get them to hold my bag/guitar till about 1-1:30pm and figure out the ride thing My phone should switch over to my new U.S.A./Can plan today (Oct10) so making calls/texts a covered. Also know guitars and suit cases take up a lot of car room. We’ll work it out as a team

@valadezization great keep it going , metronomes are good but don’t get bogged down since working with one is a test of patience. session 4 don’t get bogged down with the string skipping excise. Many before you never made it out even after months trying to prefect it. session 7&8 don’t skip the major music theory in it. session 10 is fingerstyle not the easiest to complete at speed , and a totally different discipline.

Haha.. what was once white for me.. is now a mix of white and black.. funny forum