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    Learn and Master Guitar Course - General Questions & Comments

    in Gibson's Learn & Master Guitar

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    On 8/31/2024 at 12:22 PM, CSN&Y said:

    Hey folks,

    I've had the L&M course for a good while now. Progressed through the first 3 or 4 lessons, then life happens and I get pulled away. Now I'm retired and ready to give it another go.

    I and many of us here  have the LMG course(s). not many talk about it as much since Steve moved full time to Guitar Gathering and Legacy not selling probably the best guitar instruction 

    You might find reviewing sessions 2-4 won't take as much time as before and you can move on from there.

     

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    How to put on a guitar performances for Halloween? Holidays?

    in Guitar Open Talk

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    @randomguy not sure I’ve ever heard of too many guitar gigs based on Halloween.

    usually Halloween music is played at parties, Monster Mash, Thriller, etc 

    If you’re really confident in playing and playing in front of people, maybe a local coffee shop can let you play in the corner for their patrons. 
    Diane is the best source of what you need to do to pull that off. As she’s a “regular “ at that. Not that I don’t have enough gear to do a coffee shop gig , it’s a big step up in performance.

    usu

    A post for 2024

    in Guitar Gear, Amps, Effects, Pedals

    Posted · Edited by Eracer_Team-DougH

    Posts from 2024. . I did post that I'm going to the Fingerstyle retreat in Oct in the the other section.. 

    in gear, yeah not much happening on this forum now that Legacy has died but taken the rights with it for the LMG series.. and the main body of students coming in has died off.

    hopefully statute of limitations ends soon and Steve can do GG LMG again. or better yet.. he can chop up his lessons onto TrueFire and really open up access to new live students again.

    I digress.. 

    Gear..

    I've come to the realization that

    a) I would like to have "higher end" guitars now.. 

    Gibson Songwriter $4600cdn, or Taylor 912cd $7800cdn or even a Gruhn's Veristar (sounds like Sitar) which are $2550 to $10,000usd = $3900cdn~ $15,500cdn; no budget. no retirement pension so out of luck

    but I'm not much of an "acoustic guy" (except for this Fingerstyle retreat coming up)

    so even a Murphy Lab Les Paul is $9,700cdn

    but even more importantly than a) like/want or b) money shortages is:

    C) my skill level of playing doesn't warrant any better guitars than what I went 'crazy' on in my initial GAS attack a few years ago when I started and have the Les Paul, MIA Strat, Flying V and the Sheraton which covers all the sounds with guitars that are pro-gig grade and my one lonely Simon&Patrick Acoustic.  

    So my real realizations is.. I need to play so much better than I do.. I shy away from guitar stores..

     

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    Hello. I'm new here, and you can call me Abe.

    in Guitar Open Talk

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    @Abe we still sort of feel sad that what brought us as a forum community was Steve's Learn and Master Guitar DVD series)  

    Now that Legacy that owns the rights to LMG and Steve's content doesn't produce the material any more (fantastic learning series) that Steve hasn't been able to re-create the series under the Guitar Gathering and garner the large following we once had.

    Steve makes his own content, (check out the Store link above of some of Steve's mini-series lessons that are for sale) but most of Steve's content is free all on the YouTube channel most Tuesdays.

    a number of great players are still here. Diane and others play fairly regularly out. I've played in church till pandemic hit (600 masses ) and haven't played there since. I tell the priest when he sees me that God has me on a different musical ministry at the moment; but I've done a couple of bar jam nights.

    many here are just "quite" adult learners. started guitar when they were young. life, marriage, kids, and job all took it's toll and not until they hit later in life (+40-ish) they take guitar backup.

    the summer Guitar Gathering as Diane stated was put on hold this year with only Steve's FingerStyle Retreat going on in Oct. both Diane and myself are going plus 22 others. 

    sounds like you've had an amazing musical family. 

    looking forward for hearing more about your guitar adventures 

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    joining jam sessions and open guitar night locally.

    in Guitar Open Talk

    Posted · Edited by Eracer_Team-DougH

    I’ve been to 2 different jams near me. 
    as I posted here in this forum

    one “should “ have been good , but a) I wasn’t really ready as I should have been and b) they were self centred only concerned about where their solo would be 

    so it made me sound worse than I was.

    the other was a music store school jam night where I worked with an instructor cleaning up my playing 

    so when it came time for jam night, my guitar teacher took to drums the other teacher that ran jam night took to bass and another guy they asked to join in as a band

    they played ‘with me’ not against me 

    and “we” killed it.

    so very positive 

    most jam nights will be rock based.

    if you’ve decided to start studying Segovia you’re going to find it a lot harder to find a classical jam

    NeilES335 found a jazz jam he sat in with but even that’s a tough fit without practicing with the jam group before, which doesn’t happen 

    Finger-Style Fall Retreat Oct 17-20 2024

    in Guitar Gathering Conferences & Retreats

    Posted · Edited by Eracer_Team-DougH

    On 6/18/2024 at 8:06 AM, Gregg Steiner said:

    The very first thing I did after deciding to try this fingerstyle thing. Was buy Steve's L&M Fingerstyle course. It took me I think 8 months at 3 hours a day to get through it.  While trying to learn some of the lessons I would say to my teenage son, who was studying at his desk across from me. "Joe, this guy is killng me".

    So....not easy if that is the first thing you try, but well worth the time and the best course I have ever taken.

     

    Only in my dreams able to play guitar for 3 hrs a day. Good for you

    What work doesn’t take away from time, the family and dog does.

    I'm a 40min at lunch in the car and 1hr at night type of guy. Gonna take longer than 8mnths for me

     

    its official 

    Steve’s Facebook says all 25 spots are filled 

    How much time it would take for a beginner to complete the L&M Fingerstyle guitar course

    in Learn & Master Fingerstyle Guitar

    Posted

    Well since I answered above (yrs ago now and having owned all of Steve’s courses  for years ) thought I’d add to the perspective of the Fingerstyle course.

    as I posted in the Gathering/Retreat section that I’ve signed up for the Fingerstyle Retreat Oct2024, I’d better ‘hustle’ of this playing. 
    I started Disk 1 Session1 on April 1,2024. I don’t have much problems in the right hand finger picking as I’ve had a “go to” pattern for yrs. 
    as of May 31, I’m on Disk2 Advanced workshop. 
    where I’m struggling is in 2 aspects of this course:

    1- note reading: on the videos, it relies heavily on note reading. I am either running 2 screens on my desktop or 2 tablets when I’m mobile. One has the instruction video the other has the Student PDF manual where I rely heavily on the TAB music

    2- jazz chords: Steve likes his jazz chord forms. I’m having issues jumping from something like Cdim7 to C#m7 in 1 beat , it’s going to take more time than I like to get these to 88bpm

    Blog will continue….

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    Playing LIve Jams / "Gigs"

    in Guitar Open Talk

    Posted · Edited by Eracer_Team-DougH

    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

     

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    I released my first album

    in Guitar Open Talk

    Posted

    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?

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