[WELCOME NEW MEMBERS! - Tell Us About Yourself, Receive Encouragement and Advice!]

Welcome to the journey.  It’s worth it!

[Em and A shape barre chords.]

Check out this mini course Steve did on YouTube:

 

[Practice Space - home recording. Need some help/ideas/advice]

Your practice room looks amazing.  

[News from the 2021 Gathering]

Sounds amazing and jam packed with all manner of goodness 👍😀

[News from the 2021 Gathering]

Thanks Diane.  Really appreciate it.

[Guitar Gathering 2021 List of Attendees]

Please share lots of pics and stories 😀

[NGD Part Deux Martin 000-15M!]

Nice guitar.  My profile pic is a custom Martin 00-15 gloss 😀👍

[​ 🎼 ​June Recording Challenge 92 - OPEN MIC ​ 🎙️ ​​🎼 ​]

On 6/13/2021 at 4:47 PM, Wim VD1 said:

This one is based on a Tommy Emmanual Travis picking lesson on TrueFire. I brought back in a bit of The Animals for the intro and tried to make my guitar sound like a mandolin in the end .

It"s the first recording with my new Fender Paramount PM-2 Parlor Mahogany. It"s a nice small short scale fingerpicker with the neck joint at the 12th fret. Great guitar for fingerstyle blues.

Wim.

 

 

Wim that was great!

[​ 🎼 ​June Recording Challenge 92 - OPEN MIC ​ 🎙️ ​​🎼 ​]

Working on a few things which will hopefully be presentable in June 😀

[NGD - Taylor K24ce]

Congrats!  That’s a beautiful guitar.

[Progress Journal (Strings)]

Thanks Neil.  I hope to do so soon.

 

Keep on pluckin’,

Strings

[​ 🎶 ​May Recording Challenge 91 - OPEN MIC ​ 🎙️ ​​🎶 ​]

Here’s an exercise from Session 10 Bonus Resources.

https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/NTrYVpSPLjsuyMfy9

[Progress Journal (Strings)]

Thought I’d share a little recording I just did for a Session 10 exercise.  I am new to SoundCloud so I hope it comes across ok.

https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/NTrYVpSPLjsuyMfy9

[Progress Journal (Strings)]

On 5/22/2021 at 4:46 PM, Wim VD1 said:

Strings,

Let me invite you to the monthly recording challenge, where you can share your recordings with us 👍.

I agree, beyond session 10 you will tackle the "intermediate+" materials and these lessons will take a bit longer. But it is also a real joy to discover all the styles and techniques explained there.

Wim.

Thanks Wim.  I will check that out.

[Progress Journal (Strings)]

I have now reviewed Session 1 through 9 and am currently enjoying Session 10 on fingerstyle.  I plan on uploading some of the songs.  Reviewing theses sessions has been quite helpful.  Sessions 1 through 9 were fairly easy for me.  I suspect Session 10 and beyond will be much slower 😉.  Even still, I am not in a rush.  I want to enjoy the journey and learn all I can.

[Musicwoods]

Am I missing the link to the video?  It’s sounds interesting.

[​ 🎶 ​May Recording Challenge 91 - OPEN MIC ​ 🎙️ ​​🎶 ​]

Great job Nairon.  I enjoyed that.

[Augmented Chords]

That was interesting.  His last example of a song with all augmented chords sounded like a somewhat scary merry go round ride 😀

[Augmented Chords]

Thanks Diane.  I will watch this.

[Progress Journal (Strings)]

Thanks Doug and Neil.  Excellent suggestion.  I will definitely record myself.  I have also read that playing in front of a mirror can be helpful.

[Progress Journal (Strings)]

Been enjoying reviewing the music theory sessions.  Steve’s fairly recent HOW MUSIC WORKS series on YouTube covers the same material.  Amazing he offers so much teaching for free!

Here’s the link to this series.  Notice in the comment section someone put a really helpful interactive way to test your theory knowledge.

 

 

[Asking for advice from you Martin people]

Tough choice since both are different.  It seems you are leaning toward the EC.  I have experience with a 000-15, 000-28, 00-15 and 00-18.  Perhaps you “need” both to round out your guitarsenal 🙃😉

[Your favorite small amps]

Agreed!

[Progress Journal (Strings)]

Reviewing the sessions has been really good.  It’s showing me I have actually learned quite a bit.  Sometimes in order to go forward I guess you need to go back.  This gives confidence as you move into newer learning opportunities.

[Progress Journal (Strings)]

Just finished going through Sessions 1 through 6 in the last few days.  I have been reminded how well Steve structured the path of learning.  I’ve enjoyed the songs especially in Sessions 5 and 6.