[Live Lesson: May 1, 2018 Ask Your Guitar Questions Plus John Mayer's PRS!]

Gerard,

The concept of using the 3rd and 7th of the underlying chords in soloing is also explained in Session 19, and the bonus DVD contains a nice workout to practice this.

Wim.

[Jazz - worth it]

@colder

I fully agree. Knowledge of jazz chords, related arpeggio's and scales are to me the fundaments of melodic soloing. And the ii-V-I progression works well in many styles.

Wim.

[Session 12 - Advanced Chords]

Congratulations with your progress, Neil.

Enjoy the blues session.

Wim.

[Monthly Recording Challenge 55 - "To the Movies"]

Well played, Mandy.

I admire your perseverance and wish you all the best with your recovery.

Wim.

[Monthly Recording Challenge 55 - "To the Movies"]

@mark_h,

Mark, I am glad you are feeling better and that you shared this beautiful song with us.

Wim.

 

[Session 7 - Barre Chords on the 6th String]

I agee with Neil. Just recently I started to focus on the CAGED system as basis for learning arpeggios and chord tone soloing. I did not really need it till session 19. So it's a good idea to stick to the content of the course and the session you are in.

I wish you all the best with your learning.

Wim.

[Monthly Recording Challenge 55 - "To the Movies"]

@WATSON43

Beautiful playing and singing. Great solo. Well done.

Wim.

[Nirvana cover]

Thanks, guys!

wim.

[Nirvana cover]

Yesterday I watched the documentary "Kurt Cobain : Montage of Heck" and afterwards I felt like playing and recording a Nirvana song.

It's the Leadbelly blues classic "Where did you sleep last night" from Nirvana's MTV Unplugged. Had much fun learning it.

Wim.

 

[Video Surgeon - Highly Recommended]

Thanks for this info. I just downloaded Song Surgeon Trainer on my iPad. It's the basic version and it is for free.

Wim.

[Session 11 - Pentatonic Scales]

@NeilES335

Neil,

Justinguitar has some nice free lessons on Jazz.

This is the link to his Jazz Index Page:

www.justinguitar.com/en/JA-000-Jazz.php

On this page, you will find a section on Jazz Standards. I learned to play Autumn Leaves, Misty and Blue Bossa from these online lessons and enjoyed them a lot.

In these arrangements, the chords and melody are played separately, which makes it less complicated than learning chord melody fingerstyle.

Very interesting as well is the harmonic analysis that Justin does on all 3 songs.

Thanks for your nice words on my playing. I am currently still working on arpeggios and the CAGED system to improve my soloing. That's a huge task.

 

Take care,

Wim.

[Monthly Recording Challenge 55 - "To the Movies"]

Thanks, Steve, Randy and Mandy (nice rhyme).

Wim.

[Session 11 - Pentatonic Scales]

Neil,

Congrats with your progress. Now may I suggest you do yourself and your wife a favour and learn a couple of songs? That's not a sidetrack but the application of what you have learned.

To get you going, here is the sheet for Misty from the real book. With the Jazz Chords workout in progress and the Major Scales completed, you're ready to tackle it 

Cheers, 

Wim

[Monthly Recording Challenge 55 - "To the Movies"]

As I have the pleasure to select the theme, I would like to kick off this month's recording challenge with a fingerstyle arrangement of Mission Impossible. Another one from the Song Hits.

Wim.

http://soundcloud.com/wim-van-damme-401299565/mission-impossible

[Monthly Recording Challenge - 54 "Play Me Some Blues"]

@Randy120, I wish I could sing like you. Great playing as well!

Wim.

[Guitar Gathering Forum Collaboration GG1]

... in anger 

[Session 5, Strumming practice at night]

For similar reasons, I play electric with headphones and amp simulator between 8 PM and 9 AM. 

So I play my accoustic almost exclusively during daytime in the weekend.

Wim.

[1st Forum CD]

I just submitted my song, Cindy.

Thanks for putting this together.

Wim.

[Guitar Gathering Forum Collaboration GG1]

Nice! Well done.

[1st Forum CD]

@Cindy

I have recorded the song for the 1st forum cd today in Garageband. When exporting from Garageband, the default format is .m4a.

would that format be ok for you? Or could I get some advice on how to turn this into mp3?

Wim.

[Monthly Recording Challenge - 54 "Play Me Some Blues"]

@mark_h Great fingerstyle playing, Mark. I like this kind of arrangements where you play both chords and melody.

Get well soon, Wim.

[Chord embellishments]

I just came across these 2 video lessons on chord embellishments. One is on minor, and the other on major chords. In Session 19 of the L&M course is an exercise "Stievie's groove" where Steve briefly explains this topic as well. The 2 videos here give some more detail and examples.

 

[Monthly Recording Challenge - 54 "Play Me Some Blues"]

Thanks, @Nutty1 and @Jim26. Will you participate to the challenge as well this month?

[1000 Members!]

Also from my side a big THANK YOU to @Steve Krenz. Being part of this guitar family makes learning guitar even more fun. I get much inspiration and motivation from you, this forum and its members.

Wim.

[Monthly Recording Challenge - 54 "Play Me Some Blues"]

Thanks, Greg and Ian.

Baby Elephant Walk is nothing like Texas, Delta or Chicago blues, although it uses the 12 bar blues format.