DianeB

I deleted another spam post from the thread on "Creating a Practice Space..." that was posing as troubleshooting advice. It was unrelated to the topic, contained a link to a commercial site, and was the first post from the user (March 17), who was issued a warning.

Watch Live Lessons on the Guitar Gathering YouTube Channel HERE. 7:00 pm Central Time US 2021 LIVE LESSON DATES JANUARY 5th – The Top Guitar Chords in Any Key 6th – Travis Picking Boot Camp (workout) FEBRUARY 2nd – Seventh Chords and the Blues 16th – Multiply Your Soling Options MARCH 2nd – Ask a Pro: Q & A with Steve 3rd – Travis Picking Boot Camp, continued: Learning Freight Train (workout) 10th – Travis Picking Boot Camp, continued: Learning Freight Train (workout) 16th – Learning Irish Tunes 17th – Learning Irish Tunes, continued (workout) 23rd – Do You Really Need an Amp? with guest Miguel Perez 24th – How to Play Hammer-ons and Pull-offs (workout) 30th – Oh, the Wonderful Things You Can Do with Hammer-ons and Pull-offs! 31st – How to Play Hammer-ons and Pull-offs (workout) APRIL 6th – Change Your Playing with Hammer-ons and Pull-offs! 7th – Change Your Playing with Hammer-ons and Pull-offs! (workout) 20th - Ask a Pro: Q & A with Steve 27th - Playing Smooth: Eliminating the Robotic Sound in Your Playing MAY 4th – Easy Chord Moves to Make Any Progression Better 5th – Easy Chord Moves to Make Any Progression Better (workout) 25th - Harp Guitar with Chuck Thompson JUNE 2nd – Diminished Chords (workout) 29th – Ask a Pro: Q & A with Steve JULY 1st - Augmented Chords 20th - Improve Your Picking AUGUST 24th - 10 Chords You Need to Know 31st - How to Play Guitar with Confidence SEPTEMBER 14th - Arpeggios: The Framework of the Guitar, Part 1: Major Triads 21st - Arpeggios: The Framework of the Guitar, Part 2: Major Triads 28th - Arpeggios: The Framework of the Guitar, Part 3: Minor Triads OCTOBER 5th - Arpeggios: The Framework of the Guitar, Part 4: Major & Minor Triads Workout 19th - Arpeggios: The Framework of the Guitar, Part 5: Major, Minor, and Dominant Sevenths 26th - Arpeggios: The Framework of the Guitar, Part 6: Creating Licks NOVEMBER 9th - Arpeggios: The Framework of the Guitar, Part 7: More Seventh Arpeggios 23rd - Arpeggios: The Framework of the Guitar, Part 8: Seventh Appeggio Workout DECEMBER 7th - Arpeggios: The Framework of the Guitar, Part 9: Other Arpeggios 14th - Arpeggios: The Framework of the Guitar, Part 10: Final Arpeggio Workout

From the Guardian: ... Popular music’s centre of gravity has undeniably moved towards solo artists, at least when it comes to serious commercial success. This paradigm shift has been obvious for a while now (“What happened to all the bands?” asked Rostam Batmanglij after leaving Vampire Weekend in 2016. “Is it just that bands are corny now?”) and has accelerated across genres. ...

Sweet! And a sweet story. Over there <-- my long arms are draped around Leslie, my 1975 Guild dreadnought. So manly. The bass strings, I mean. Welcome to the family!

Wear those badges of honor on your fingertips with pride! Once I was mistaken for a violin player. 🤷‍♀️

A teacher? Who, me?! I can't imagine what would give people that idea. 😉

Hi, Eduardo, Welcome to the forum! To get a truly satisfactory answer to your question, I recommend consulting with an experienced guitar teacher. If you give them an account of your past musical experience and present knowledge, and a vision of where you want to go, you will form a clear plan of what to do now and what to save for later. For now, I can say that the melodic minor and harmonic minor scales are compositional tools. They exist to create authentic cadences (V or vii dim —> I or i). You will encounter them in melodies where they are called for and likely not even notice them. After consulting with my own instructors, I deferred Steve’s session on pentatonic scales to focus on the major scales. This is just one approach. I think Steve introduced pentatonics in the course where he does to give the student momentum in learning the fretboard, and pentatonics are a little simpler than major scales. So much depends on what you want to do with guitar. That’s where a real conversation with a teacher is invaluable. I'm sure my friends here will offer good insights.

I have deleted yesterday’s (2/3/21) spam post. I left it up for a day to increase awareness. In the interest of transparency, I'd like all to know that I informed the member that the forum was not for solicitation, and because they made no introduction or demonstration of interest in the forum, I issued a warning. If it reoccurs, they will be suspended or banned. There's nothing inherently wrong with self-promotion on the internet, but here, happily, we have boundaries. If you see something suspicious, please advise one of the moderators.

@Adam429 Adam, are you referring to the "Fretboard Workouts Bundle"? If so, note that the accompanying PDFs are e-mailed along with the links to the videos. I'm not aware of a "workbook" with all those PDFs combined as a single file.

The old bait and switch. 😉