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Nothing like a new guitar, (Now to convince the wife...)

I thought you've been to Nashville before?? Yes band on every floor When I was there I didn't have a ngd Now the real sad part. Those bands play a two hour gig for like $30 per band member and rely heavily on tipping before packing up and rotating to the next bar (Wish my playing skills would warrant a test drive at Carter's)

It was always in Anaheim, but just in January No gain for Anaheim, but certainly a loss for Nashville. Things might change back in 2023

Those that like going to NAMM big changes for 2022 Winter NAMM now in June Summer NAMM in Nashville canceled Covid must be bad down there for them to make this move

Well not sure where to put this . we sort of have 2 threads running at the Same time.. the "Recording Challenge" and the "Open Mic" subject threads. Open Mic was setup as a non-subject based recording where the Recording Challenge thread was subject based, which has sort of fled it's original subject theme this year.. which makes for a small dilemma: which thread do you post a recording.. anyways I picked here. Taken me a while to get this one done. the Main rhythm track took a while to get down with a lot less mistakes (mistakes are free of charge and gives music it's 'organic' feeling). knew the lead and subsequent vocal tracks would go quicker. once again we're using @Steve Krenz LMG Song Hits to provide the base of this song. This time I was hitting up Day Tripper by the Beatles as presented by Steve in Session 7 his course. I've added back the 3rd verse and I've added the B solo back into the song as well (the B solo riff keeps my fingers confused) Technical stuff.. the Base rhythm track was played on all things .. My Les Paul (I wanted to get away from always using the Sheraton) in the lead pickup . the Lead track was played on my MIA Strat on the bridge/lead pickup and last there was supplemental rhythm track played on what else.. the Epiphone Sheraton a Beatles type of guitar again keeping with me .. "you choose your poison"... first track is just the instrumental and the second track is how it would be heard at any party my relatives or wife's friends had enough to drink and beg me to play. (some day I'll invest in an auto-tune plugin) with Vocal

@Wim VD1 nice smooth and clear

That's the kind of stuff I've been trying to find up here. No lunch yet. Looking good Greg

@LVHook welcome aboard. LMG is a great learn course, teaches reading music, music theory besides playing. It's not heavy on guitar tabs, it really wants you to become a real musician. There are a number of great players here on the site. (The replacement home for LMG). Steve still does live lessons Tuesdays and has other resource videos in the link at top call Store, still has a summer conference and Fall Fingerstyle retreat. Steve's smiling encouraging face will always be there when you turn on those DVD'S

See you've got the Es going, looks like JP is on a L5 guessing Not sure what guitar Dan is playing. Glad to hear you got quite a lead in this group . I have to figure out how they do that collage video

Sounds good to me Plays like I can't

@Nairon good multi track , Songs Hits is actually pretty good to work with, @Wim VD1 need some "rusty voice " vocals to go with South St Pete track . I ain't got my woman, naw she done run away... I ain't got...

Rest and stretch your thumb Don't squeeze so hard with the thumb vs pull back with arm a bit. If tendonitis kicks in in your thumb just makes playing harder all around

@Randy Breeding barres at not mastered in weeks, And session 7 and 8 pound barre after barre. Most music is not written barre chord, barre chord barre chord..... Even after years my barres are not clear My thumb muscle still fatigues. Also do session8 at the same time, same concept, just slightly different shapes Also easier said than done, pull back with your fretting arm to give the barring index finger more pressure over squeezing with your thumb and finger as thumb tendonitis can happen

Jeff Mcerlain my favorite Truefire instructor A good guitarist can quickly find "their " tone, then there's us mortals. Digital modelers have come a long way since I purchased my Digtech RP50 poor sounding multi pedal. One thing with individual pedals ( besides the expense) you can quickly change pedal settings and pedal order without going through multiple menus I see a Fractal FM3 is like $1,000usd

Pretty good review Just wish he played to show more then just doing arpeggios

@Marshall many of us have both acoustic and electric I alternate on both through the lessons

@Wim VD1 sounds good slow acoustic blues. Sounds like blues, I bought Chris Buono's Guitar Lab Blues solo ($5 on sale) doesn't sound bluesy to me, I'll work and learn best I can from it, but certainly not making me a good blues player, This blues Fingerstyle course sounds like it's doing that for you

Well I can only live through these gatherings via everyone else . Gonna be a hard time for me to convince my banker to return Hope for a bigger turn out next year (not that 50 is shabby)

@NeilES335 Thought about tempo, and actually would make the song a bit longer. Which probably I'd prefer Lyrics are tricky with the "they've been down that lonely street " all crammed into that triplet. I listened to 4 version of Elvis and they all run 2'08" roughly as well, so either they dropped the triplets or they smoked through them like I did At least I can now sing and play live (which I match playing to my singing instead of the other way around) On to the next song..

well I tried to get this done for the June Challenge. but didn't work out. You have two choices.. you can listen to the no vocal version or add lots of ear protection and listen to the vocal version. This is out of Steve's Song Hits.. Session 5 if you will.. there wasn't much in the way of rhythm track to the song, so I ran the melody mostly on the neck pickup of a Epiphone Sheraton semi-hollow, the solo (I must come up with a more inventive solo idea) was switch to the bridge pickup and yes.. is "just" the melody played in the 12th position. it was a mix of mic'ing the speaker and since I run a very loud 30w tube amp, I have an attenuator on it that has line out .. so the lead is a mix of the two types of inputs.. speaker and speaker emulation. the rhythm track was done on my acoustic straight in to the mixer. last was my Dean Edge 4 bass to give a little more bottom end.. (if your ears are bleeding.. don't sue me.. you were warned about ear protection)

I took over my son's old bedroom which is like 10x10 as my studio. One thing I wish I could do is " sound proofing", but I think that will have to wait for about 5yrs to move into a different house after I stop working. Now your issue. I'm not sure you're going to need studio monitors. If you're recording electric direct due to volume, then mixing via monitors maybe pointless. I use headphones only The Personus or Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 combo packs are good. I have an ikea desk on one side with books and computer and mixer On the other side has a small IKEA shelf with music books and my dvd player

Good solid list for us still struggling with "current/post pandemic ", wish I could be there too. Play some notes for me, hope I can get back down in a couple of years

have to re-record my song.. just too many little mistakes.. guess it becomes the "July" open mic

In most cases you will want to alternate picking on 1/8 th notes Some exceptions like if you have a down stroke on open A, then a down stroke on Open D Same goes up stroke you could have a double But in most cases you'll alternate picking down/up/down/up Wax on/wax off opps sorry