Hi Tagnut, there are lots of resources but it depends on where your starting point is

this video is pretty good and there are other beato videos (I’ve never read his book so can’t advise definitively)

if you have further questions, post them on here and I’ll help 🙂

I’ve been playing 12 months and think that learning the theory is best learnt as you progress otherwise it’s information overload. Learning the neck becomes much easier as you build your chord vocabulary, I’ve found Barre chords relatively easy to get a grasp of going down the mainly classical route.
I got together with a drummer and bass player when lockdown eased and was surprised how basic most rock/pop stuff is.
Yes I let my Strat come out to play and I didn’t stress about tone or my lack of pedals or whether my teeny amp cut the mustard either. 🤣

After mentioning it a week or so back I was wondering about starting a new thread for 2021 but thought nope. Anyone else wants to then fine. Was maybe thing about a technique or theory thread and then remembered this is a bike forum.
My aim for 2021 is to try to post a piece once a week. The Paul David “10 solos, one backing track” video got me trying to think more about what I’m trying to play. So time to pony up.

I recorded (remotely) this Sam Fender track with my sister in law. I found the intro note surprisingly hard to get consistent and on the beat. She did the female vocal. I did everything else, but drew in the drums in Ableton cos I’m rubbish. Female vocals recorded on an iPhone, which came out better than expected

Guitars in the “video” are my green PRS SE Zach Myers, my son’s PRS SE 245 and my ibanez SR305.

Jesus! That is awesome. Ableton let you down by being the weak loop in the chain. Really good from both of you and your sister in law has a voice.
Very envious.
😳 Gives up on idea of posting music in future…

Good work @AdamT good to have someone you can call on to deliver vocals like that 🙂

@bazzer, totally agree, it’s great. My brother has been shielding and lives in a different region etc. We used to get together often for a jam . This is a poor substitute for that, but fun all the same. Really feel bad for musicians and venues though this pandemic.

@AdamT I sent some stuff to a mate of mine to do some vocals for me on a song I wrote. It does work, but its not the same as being in the same room for me.

And people never send it back the way I want it 🙂 Yes it sounds better with reverb on it, but I want it dry so I can process it myself 🙂

I’ll get junior to listen to that Adam.

Is anyone into guitar fettling to the extent of fretwork

I’m still on the refret on that old Sigma martin, I’ve accumulated tools over the years mainly from Thomann and the local DIY store. This is the first full refret I’ve done and has been a lesson in fret tang sizing. The Dunlop 6120 fit perfectly. They’re properly jumbo frets and getting an even curve not easy. The more time spent on the frets before fitting the less time spent dressing is what I’ve learned from the partial refret I did. I’m currently debating whether to fit the frets beyond comfortable reach. I never use any beyond 17 on a guitar without a cutaway and the frets don’t have an influence on neck relief beyond the neck joint so why fit them?

I’m currently debating whether to fit the frets beyond comfortable reach.

Maybe just fill the empty slots with a lighter wood veneer to give the visuals of frets?

Just found this fun little guide to Hendix’s chordal playing. Filled a few hours over the weekend…
https://www.musicradar.com/how-to/jimi-hendrix-rhythm-guitar-chord-lesson

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Browsing my HD this morning and found this from 10 years ago. The contributors are listed below. Would be fun to do another sometime.

DavidB 0:00 – 0:36
grieviuostim 0:36 – 1:11
stratobiker 1:11 – 1:48
lodius 1:48 – 2:26
earl_brutus 2:26 – 3:00
jond 3:00 – 3:35
hummerlicious 3:35 – 4:11
guitarhero 4:11 – end

Well with lockdown here again and bound to get worse I’m totally up for this, just a little 8 bar or 16 bar segment to work over, Either run them all together or we do it as separate pieces a la Paul Davids’ recent thing.
Anyone able to put together a suitable track to record over? Something moderate tempo that could offer a few opportunites to stretch harminically…
The Pauls Davids one

@eddiebaby, i happily put a backing track together and whack the individual parts together. Can anyone think of any other “rules” that might be needed?

Just a request to keep it under 180BPM. 🙂

That’s great Adam, let’s see if anyone else is interested.
I thing register interest in trying and then a cutoff date allowing everyone a week or so to plan it and then find time to record it.

Crikey was it really 10 years ago? My playing hasn’t got any better since

I’m up for this

I’m in, some good work on the last colective effort. The last one was in Em and slow, roughly 57bpm with people doubling it up to do their solos around 115bpm. How about Am and faster. A disco beat is around 125bpm, blues rock starts to move from 130bpm and at over 150bpm it’s swinging. Or go the other way and slow it right down to 90bpm for those who do want to do bits at 180bpm.

I’m in 🤘

I was noodling around in Am anyhow and wanted to throw the odd interesting chord in there for fun. I’ll see what I come up with. Hoping that @chiefgrooveguru might pop in a bass solo… That would be cool

Game on.

Right then! Here it is. Slightly funky feel I think? A nice Am pentatonic will do you OK, but thought I’d make you think with some kind of strange Eb6(#11) thing in there just to “funk” you all up a bit 🙂 95bpm btw.

Chord sequence is: Am7, Eb6(#11), D9, Am7, Eb6(#11), E9(ish).

I suggest you each work out a section which is twice the sequence above, so 16 bars. This is about 40s worth.

Right, going to loop that and have it playing at low volume as I sleep and see what comes mind in the morning. Thanks Adam. 👍🏼

Perfect Adam. Having spent 20 minutes noodling over it the ideas are coming. As you say funky, a Strat a greenbox and play something choppy.

What file format do you need and how can we get it to you?

Chord sequence is: Am7, Eb6(#11), D9, Am7, Eb6(#11), E9(ish).

Showoff 😀

Will have a play later 🙂

I got a Native instruments Maschine Mk3 yesterday and Komplete 13. I know its mainly used by the young people “Making Beats” but its a completely different work flow to something like logic and for me means I create stuff that is different to normal.

Can’t hear the track at work but I’m keen. We did 3 of these back in the day if I recall, that I was involved with anyway, and they were all fun.

@AdamT Will you be making the track downloadable?

Hi all, I updated the SoundCloud link to allow downloading. Happy jamming.

Whoop!!!

Watched the Paul Davids vid. Wow, Chris Buck.

He talks it through on his channel and even gives a Transcription. Discovering him has been a source of much joy this last few months.

Dear Lordy. It seems I just ain’t funky!!
Loving this. Thanks again Adam.

If it makes anyone feel better, I’m having to think a bit about this. That Eb kinda forces you to do something a little different. Quite a few options I think. Can’t wait to hear what people are up to.

I have Ableton and Adobe CC (so have media converter). Wavs, MP3 and M4A are all fine. I did get the odd wav sourced from an apple product which was a pain though.

Got it into logic, so will have a play over the weekend, looking forward to it 🙂

Watched the Paul Davids vid. Wow, Chris Buck.

Yeah, the guy is incredible. In another life he would absolutely be a Clapton / Brian May character. He needs a band* and a stage though! Or perhaps Youtube is doing fine for him.

*I’ve heard Buck and Evans. They’re not really my thing.

Had a couple of plays over the track now and getting there but it’s not an ‘easy’ jam. The last STW Rock jam track I did didn’t get a great response as a few struggled with the major key and it only modulated between B and A where the relative minor pentatonic worked easily over both.
Ended up with only 2 contributors (plus myself), linked below if interested. Credits to grievoustim, stratobiker, guitarhero in order of appearance. Appreciate it maybe just wasn’t that great 😉

Excellent. And double excellent to stratobiker for slide and wah on there.

Can’t seem to download it from SoundCloud anymore?

It downloaded for me directly off the link on the Soundcloud picture on this page, Bob

Thanks for that. I’ll give it a play over the weekend. Don’t think I’ve actually recorded any guitar for literally a decade, but I’ll have a go…

Struggling but enjoying it. Going for a ride my exercise now via loop to Tesco and on my return I’ll let my fingers warm up and start putting stuff down on silicon.

Its really hard distilling it down to 16 bars, its like every note has to count 🙂

I am by no means a great player but I am thinking to myself that bits OK but not brilliant. Then I think is that bit a bit too similar to the other bit.

Its a lot of fun.

Production on backing track is nice. @AdamT, how did you record it?

Also listening to the last jam, I now feel quite intimidated 😀