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@RockVox say the note names as you play the scales. Or play find all the E's, find all the F's etc

not sure how fast I can give you an update on the Gary Hoey course. I seem to be a 'slow learner' and I no longer do my lunch time car practice due to work overload and don't do my Saturday van practice since covid as the malls basically shutdown so the wife doesn't shop like she used to .

Yup good stuff. I picked up a Jeff Mcerlain course Blues Rock Soloing back in January, I'm almost done on the last lick to smooth out And in the Oct RockTober sale picked up another $5 blues-rock course Gary Hoey Blue Rock Reactor "powerful rythm and soloing" course I need to start. I download the whole course for full "offline " viewing in thier app, on my desktop, laptop and my tablet

Wim fantastic job on such a sad song

Sounds like you're still going to have to use binders And decide if to organize them by alphabetically or by subject. My church binder is sorted in groups alphabetically. Season Easter has all the Easter songs, Same for Christmas, etc But I use both a Samsung Android tablet running Mobile Sheets ($15 app) And I have a new iPad Pro running ForeScore music app (I do use my tablets for practice but their primary function is for gig's)

I had a look at a few YouTube videos and the manual. Looks like this is a stand a lone pedal to look similar to a Line6 Pod. Appears not to have any computer connections. So standard 1/4" guitar cable in You can run 1/4" guitar cable to the input of your amp or use headphones

As Henk and Diane said once you cross the $1,000 range of instruments the return becomes less and less . like a car that didn't cost much can go from 0-60 in 5.5sec and costs a lot to get it to 5.0 seconds. Granted there are many fine examples well below $1,000 as well. Just remember, nicks, scratches, and dings happen and are all part of a guitar knowing it's loved. [edit: owning a $2,000+ guitar is amazing.. play it , play it again]

Recording or looping myself just proves how far off reality is and what my brain hears 😪

And covid has had the opposite on my free time, Very well done on completing so many courses

@RockVox he's barring the 10th fret with his first finger and since all the notes are played all at once.. you pluck the first three strings at once with your index, middle and ring fingers

If you're on High E or B you have to bend up or you come off the fretboard If you're on A or Low E you have to bend down or come off the fretboard G and D can be bent either way, but it's easier to push up then it is to pull down Your hand is also freer to vibrate/vibrato when pushing up

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliffs_of_Dover_(composition) While he did indeed compose "Cliffs of Dover", Johnson does not take full credit, saying "I don't even know if I can take credit for writing 'Cliffs of Dover' ... it was just there for me one day ... literally wrote in five minutes ... kind of a gift from a higher place that all of us are eligible for. We just have to listen for it and be available to receive it Ah Via Musicom catapulted Johnson to guitar-hero stardom, achieving certified Gold and Platinum sales. A crucial element of the album’s success was the instrumental track Cliffs of Dover, which combined an infectious, lilting Celtic-inspired melody that appealed to general music fans with dazzling, blazing runs and a sweet, violin-like tone that impressed fans of technical guitar playing.

$77 is pretty darn cheap Lucky it wasn't more

I don't know enough about EMG pickups or their quick connect system. I'm also not certain if there any passive EMG pickups, thought they all needed a 9v battery to run. Maybe replace with a new battery One option for trouble shooting is put back the original pickups. Sometimes you have to go backwards to go forward. If you had soldered the connection on the pot, I would have you probably over heated the pot , but since this is a quick connect system that shouldn't apply Watch out when you disconnecting the pickup you didn't in fact pull the wire off the quick connect connector

@marshall not all rests need to be muted, not played is as good as a rest

So how do they compare sound wise

True test of good hearing aid programming is they don't make all sorts of wierd noises when you use a wha pedal

so I ended up doing a "Google" on Rif vs Lick here's it's answer: The Difference Between a Riff and a Lick: Riff: A riff is thematic (a what??). It serves as the main section for a song. Think of Satisfaction for example or Smoke On The Water. A riff is often repeated and developed, sometimes with variations, sometimes in different keys, but a riff is always recognisable as the main idea or main part of the song. A riff is what makes the song 'recognisable' and distinctive. p.s. thematic just means a theme! ; ) Lick: A lick or solo is a portion of a riff, so it is not the main distinction in the song, just part of the song. A lick is often incomplete in musical terms (but don't worry too much about that). On it's own the lick doesn't usually become the main part of a song like a riff does. But if a lick forms a theme (like a continuous main section in a song), essentially the lick becomes a riff. Because a lick isn't the main theme, it doesn't have that same association with the song, and so it becomes transferable: a lick can be used in other songs without necessarily having to allude to the original lick. Clever! More info: Take a pentatonic scale as this example. If you focus on just one Pentatonic Scale, you can easily create lots of difference licks from just one scale. Or you could create a distinctive riff that runs through the song from just one scale. Riffs are the main 'sound' or theme of a song, and licks are just parts of a song - like a verse, or chorus.

On the 7th fret B (then 8th fret C, and 10th fret 10) the frets are getting closer and closer You maybe finding that it just seems a little tight compared to say G barre on the 3rd frrt

I should add, If you've been really lucky, getting a new set of tubes and swap them all, might work What concerns me the most is the , put in a output tube and the fuse blew. That says the tube had a high current draw. Resistors can easily melt down on high current Other thing with tube amps , never run them without a speaker attached. Output transformers do not like being unloaded and typically melt down with no load, which can also happen with a bad output tube Some amps have a protection circuit in them to prevent this most don't. Always swap tubes powered down and cooled off., never swap powered on Probably best you find a tech

Yes If a tube goes bad or in your case put in a bad tube, a number of things can happen Worst would be output transformer blowing, , that'd be really bad. If you're lucky, the screen resistors saved the amp but melted down. Don't go into the amp unless you know what you're doing , paralyzed or dead are to options in there for the uninitiated. Never keep old tubes, chuck's Better take it to a tech