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  1. felt this was sort of an "All Encompassing " topic title , seemed open to "all" so I'm adding my own "hi-jack" to Neil's thread. The large music 'box store' (think GC but better) Long and McQuade has had a student jam night on the last Thursday of the month for a few years now. I've wanted to squeeze in but felt it was geared towards their own students than 'out-siders'. at Christmas when my son said "If you could buy yourself something.. what would it be" I thought nice Gibson Songwriter ($4600cdn) or a nice Martin D-28 ($4500) or maybe a new amp ($1900) but I thought I have a good amount of good gear.. need better playing skills.. So I said how about 3mnth of lessons (he offered 9mnths) but I over confident said.. thanks but I don't see me needing that many to 'clean up' my playing so I booked in for 12 lessons. we started with my long running afare with Taking Care of Business .. we started dissecting it. and dissecting it, nicking all the notes in Randy Bachman's solos , I'm thinking.. I'll never get this song with the solo's back in. Yes it's in Steve's Song Hit's DVD Series .. but minus the solos like all the song hit's series. we added a few lessons on other things hammer-on, pull-offs etc. then he added Derek n the Domino's Layla just to slow me down some more.. on the last and final lesson he said.. you're coming to jam night right.. I said.. we still don't have TCB cleaned up ... he's like come on out. So on March 28th I packed up my trusty Les Paul. and headed to Jake's Boat House Bar-Restaurant on the south side of my city for 7:30pm start time. signed in with the QR code.. there I sat waiting for them to call me up.. it was packed with students and families esp with the next day being Good Friday most had the day off. and as normal they started of with the little 8yr olds and move up the age ranges.. by 10pm I'm pretty much ready to bail.. I've been up since 4am and a long work day.. I'm tired. I was thinking how do I video this and didn't come up with any plan. finally 1015 they call my name.. I'm nervous as the last time I played in a bar jam it was a crash n burn disaster. so I'm getting jacked in.. my guitar instructor Nick is on drums, the main guitar music instructor Mike that runs the jam is on bass and some guy I had no clue who he was is coming on stage with his guitar (Miguel) asking what song?.. what key? I looked over not knowing what they told him.. I said you singing this or am I.. He's like; you ok to sing this.. I said yes. He slides over to the second Mic stand. I'm staring back at my instructor on drums thinking how do we start this thing.. Looks at me and goes, I'll count you in.. starts clicking the sticks 1,2,3,4.. my queue I open up with the famous C5-6, Bb5-6, F5-6 boggie-woggie of TCB.. on the 2nd time around.. I hear the drums, bass and 2nd guitar kick in.. Time for opening riff #1.. rip it.. face the mic and start to sing. first lyric done.. time for solo #1 we worked so hard at.. rip it.. lyric #2.. leads into solo #2. on the start to the bridge there's 3 bars long of just drums on the recording but our version (unrehearsed unplanned) the 2nd guitar, bass, and drums are still playing.. I stop "as I'm supposed to; expecting them to too" they don't .. I count my 1,2,3,4 - 1,2,3,4 - 1,2,3,4 and start the bridge that goes for 8 bars of 3 barre chords with lyrics. at the end of the bridge Randy Bachman adds a Woooo , so did I. Then comes solo#3 the main solo. I step back from the mic.. hit the pickup switch to lead pickup which I had set to volume 7 from my rhythm pickup that was set to 5.. bend the C at the 13th fret up to D and do a slow release then bend and release that starts that solo#3.. it's a bit of a trick with bends, hammer-on's pull-offs and double stops and with a few little glitches on my part, I get through the main solo#3, the band is still just rocking it out. back to the rhythm pickup and the main boogie-woogie and lyric #3 at the end there's a sustained G at the 10th fret A string.. on the recording the band drops out and that's when Randy usually gets the audience to repeat.. Taking Care of Business; come everyone clap your hands.. Taking Care... .. this time.. our band ain't dropping out.. I'm like yikes.. what do I do?? I kick it back into solo#3 .. and start improvising around that riff.. I look back at my instructor pounding out the beat.. he's nodding to me.. Keep going. .keeping going.. so it's head down.. come up with more licks around solo#3 double stops.. pull-offs , bends.. I'm thinking now how do we stop this train? I hear the bass and other guitar change some sort of turn around.. I'm like ok here's my queue. I start doing a C, B up at the 10th and 8th frets fast strumming then over to a barre F .. finish off with the C5 on the 6th string 8th fret for a 'crash and burn ' ending.. whooo it's ended.. my mistakes are there but it was a kick azz song and people are clapping.. as I headed off the high stage people are saying .. great playing.. get back to my seat and the wife says to me , hear everyone clapping.. you had to be the best band tonight.. YES! a victory.. with only a few pictures the wife took.. no videos I'm very sad to say (at least nobody on the jam night facebook page hasn't said they have any).. and just my memories my in-person lessons are done.. have to start getting ready for Steve's Fingerstyle Retreat in Oct.. but dang.. how do I get Layla gig ready on my own for the April and/or May Jam Night.. I probably can't.. but I still have the memories
  2. On a side note I live 45 min from Toronto, that’s where Linda Manzer is doing her work I should see if I can go meet her and just say Hi grab a picture https://manzer.com/
  3. It's interesting where one gets inspiration from. honestly I wasn't impacted by the cancer news of Kate (or any of the Royal's) which appears you have. You think I would since I'm Canadian and we have more ties to England than south of the border. I was walking the dog the other day and as I crossed over the bridge like I've done a billion times in the 33 yrs I've lived here, the spring run-off has swollen the little creek to a river now 10 ft deep. As I walked home (yes I still had the dog with me) the lyrics for "I'm Just a Small Fish in a Deep River" came to me. wrote it down once I arrived home. Yes it's going to be a 'standard' 12 bar blues, call'n'response. Just need some time to pick a key and play it. What kind of chords and rhythm progression did you use?
  4. You’re really rock’n the town (I asked my guitar instructor if he knows of a guitar people just jamming other than bars, here’s hoping he starts one, said he might)
  5. nothing like playing live. I learned quite a bit (of what not to do ) in my last years 'rock night' out. Still looking for a good venue for playing (other than going back to church strum'n'sing) Hearing yourself is very important and sometimes the environment doesn't help (drummers, PA , etc) I'd say you're willing to go back to your venue but I'm not so gung ho to go back to the venue I was at
  6. @Steve Krenz @DianeB we have any idea how many are registered for this conference yet?
  7. great you have a guitar buddy to play with, and not just walking in cold to play with someone for the first time
  8. on Steve's YouTube Channel, videos go back "only" 8 years and the Live side of videos go back 6 yrs just have to keep scrolling down.. there's probably something each of us should rewatch
  9. @Gary Nelson I’ve had the LMG Fingerstyle course since it came out, never used it. my LMG Session 10 Cannon in D was like , ok we know what you’re playing but I never stayed on it to make it good guess April 2024 is my chance now
  10. so I started the new title in this section. Steve's GG Finger-Style Fall Retreat Oct17-20 2024 (not conflicting with Halloween this year) gx169.infusionsoft.app/app/storeFront/showProductDetail?productId=366 now with BIG in trepidation I registered for this. But after the wife for the third year in a row, being able to hang out in her friends condo in Florida for a week or two and I get zero trips. I made it a point to at least have one trip this year. And not being a big finger style guy.. yeah I have a pattern I fall back on for pretty much everything. Be it Dust in the Wind or O Holy Night. I'm going.. I have a hotel booked for Tue Oct 15 to Thur Oct 17.. and plan to 'tire kick' at Gruhn's, Carter's and Gibson Garage on Oct 16th.. Still have to book my flights yet. I'm in the middle of live teacher lessons on Tues nights that my son is paying for (twist.. child pays for parents lessons LoL). But I'm not on finger style.. we're cleaning up my rock ambitions. when the paid lessons end at the end of March; I will tackle Steve's LMG Finger Style course.. so I will have only 5 short months to at least get to a reasonable 'competency' level. Oh no pressure...
  11. I think there was a 2yr pause with the transition from Legacy to Guitar Gathering Hardly wait to hear what Steve can put together as hmmm Guitar Gathering ver 4 (I think?) since the wife has gone a number of trips with her friends, let’s see if I can weasel a trip to Nashville
  12. I believe I have heard of surgery similar to this as they need to make sure they’re not just making a mess by disconnecting part of the brain. if it was me, I wouldn’t know how to play that many songs 🫣
  13. You’ve never heard the best version done by Al
  14. Or Johnny Hiland pork chop fingers. well Maddie (and Molly) will play guitar better than I can ever dream of . On these “talk shows “ you never really get to hear the band, really only for the studio audience. as for SNL . The opening monologue is usually quite boring and usually fast forward it; as most of the show till Weekend Updates , (but as a guitarist, I always check of the band in back , and Maddie) as for these “Famous “ musical guests , I’m stunned at how poor the production/performance is from pre-recorded sound tracks of the musician guests. think omg. I have to sound better
  15. George and Eric traded back n forth a few times Eric being on While My Guitar Gently Weeps they also traded wife Patty Boyd a few times Eddie Van Halen wasn’t credited on Beat It and never received money for it as he wasn’t allowed by the band to play out. He did it for free
  16. Or flying a helicopter into the side of a ski hill
  17. @Plantsman13 if memory serves me correctly; Ovation Guitars have had a bowled back of fibre glass, which intensive purposes is plastic and they have a huge following. ps, I’ve seen whole solid body electric made of clear plastic resin as well
  18. What’s more surprising is Buddy Guy’s net worth is “only” 2.5 million
  19. @Cuong Dang you’ll find LMG a fluid course from session 1-9 this gives you advanced basic player Session 10-20 takes your basic principles and you apply knowledge to learn as Steve calls them “tools for your music bag” you have to work Cannon in D via the instruction book following the assigned finger pattern, don’t rely on the video to follow along
  20. @Cuong Dang the music is how it’s played , the tab is more the picking fingers than it is the “normal “ TAB note music Do you have the learning guide manual pdf?

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