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Well done @Nutty 1 Ive got hundreds of songs I wrote but haven't taken the time to perform them yet! You are going to be my inspiration to start doing more of my originals. Danny

Thank you @gotto I really appreciate your kind words. Danny

Thank you @Eracer_Team-DougH@NeilES335 Neil, for my recordings I have a 14 channel mixer. It is made by soundcraft and is able to record directly to my software. The software or DAW I use is Studio one 3.5 artist. As far as recording all the parts, I mic up real drums most of the times, however on some cases i use a drum pad if the drum parts are not that complicated. The pad is just too slow for me. How i record the drums, I make a recording of the original song in my DAW and play along with the song. Then i record the bass and that is plugged in to my amp and i use the direct outs on the line 6 amp. then it goes to my mixer which i can EQ it before it is sent to the DAW which that then is also EQ. I don't add any plugins for the bass parts. I try to keep it simple. Acoustic guitar, I mic up and use the direct outs on the amp and mix them later. I add Reverb,eq,compression,etc... Electric guitar, I used 71 fender tele, its got a great sound for the old school country songs. the amp is a Line 6 and i use the built in affects. That is mic'd in front of the speaker and i also use the direct outs and mix the two later. I don't use plugins that much. I try to keep the sound pretty raw. I'll add different eq's and compression that came with my DAW. That's it basically, hope it helps. Danny

Thank you @Nutty 1 ill try the next time to turn up the volume on the vocals next time. Still not comfortable about my voice. Danny

Thank you, @Fretless

sorry, try again. it should work now. Danny

Howdy folks! Here is my entry for this months challenge. I want to apologize for the vocals, I'm not a singer, lol! but I tried. The song is "She Ain"t in it" by Jon pardi. its kind of about if you could turn back time, in this case its about and old love. go figure, its a country song, lol! Danny

That was beautiful, @WATSON43!! What a beautiful thing to be able to do with your niece! great job!!! Danny

Ha Ha, true so true @Steve Krenz Danny

@Wim VD1 Well Played Wim. I like what you did there. Danny

@matonanjin Thank you. I was going to start the blues course but instead i'm trying to learn chicken picking, pedal steel licks, etc. However i play a lot of blues, find fairly easy to pick up and the other is pretty challenging. what can i say, im a sucker for a challenge. lol Danny

@DianeB@Oldjock@Popeye@Maybellene@Eracer_Team-DougH@Dave White@SandyB53@Nutty 1 Thank you all for your kind and encouraging words. It has been a challenge but well worth it. Danny

Well Played @Amy Greenblatt!!! Keep'em coming. I really enjoyed that song. Danny

I loved it! @Wim VD1 Merry Christmas to you and the family. Danny

Nicely done, @Wim VD1 That song always was a big hit for us at gigs. (being a country audience and all) But who doesn't love SRV! Danny

Thank you @Wim VD1 I've been trying to get my sound to mimic a pedal steel. slow process but its coming alone. Its used a lot in country music. Danny

Thank you, Ian. Great job on Merry Little Christmas. that was excellent! Danny

Thank you, Greg. It still needs a lot of work but i only been working on it for about five days. Danny

Here's my contribution for this months challenge. It's a rough recording and i was going to post it on the other thread but i thought is was more appropriate for this months challenge, being the holidays and all. Hope you enjoy. Danny

I just finished it! it took a while but since moved on to learn slide, chicken Picking and learn how to imulate pedal steel and the violin on the guitar. Excellent course!!! Danny

@IanD Fantastic job, Ian. The vocals sounded really to good too. I'm gonna have to start recording my singing now, Since my band has dissolved. I,m not found of my singing, argh. lol! Danny

Very nice Wim! i enjoyed listening. Danny

@NeilES335 thank you! and I will, btw I love your new thread, posting songs or progress everyone is working in excellent idea! Danny

Hey @Wim VD1< Thank you so much. You are an excellent picker!!! Who would've thought we would have gotten this far, WOW! let's stay in touch! P.S. this recording thing is a hand-full in itself.lol! And thank for your kind words! Danny

Well, I made through all 20 lessons Learn and Master Guitar! I want to thank you, @Steve Krenz for putting together such a wonderful, well thought out, and educational course. Your guitar course is hands down the best guitar learning course out there!!! I started Steve's guitar course many years ago and never expected to get this much out of one course. It has been an amazing adventure. I began playing the drums in high school, well Jr High first then decided I would like to learn the guitar as well. I started learning guitar, (i guess i was in my twenties) had a teacher for a year or so, i might add he taught me the bass along side the guitar and then life its you. stop playing for a while, well off and on but never really got anywhere with it. Sure, i could play songs and new a lot of chords with the help of Mel Bay books, ha! But it wasn't going anywhere. It wasn't enough. So many years later, now in my forties i came across Steve's guitar course. I told myself, i'm going to stick to it this time and wow!!!! What an adventure it has been. Now after completing the course I see now this is just one step in many more to come. So much more to learn. I can't get enough. I've since moved on to learning chicken picking, slide, and trying to emulate the pedal steel and fiddle sounds on the guitar. Also, I would like to thank all of the people on this site. This is truly a great family. Thank you guys and gals! I made a recording for session 20. I found a song I could Incorporate the B &E drone sounds. The song is called "Don't Ya", by Brett Eldredge. I left out some of the vocals so you could possible hear the B and E drone sounds. Again, Thank you all! Remember, Never give up and never stop learning! Danny