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Just put these three CDs in my car: Subject to Change without Notice, Jimmy Herring Unstoppable Momentum, Joe Satriani Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane

Yeah, Arlen Roth has done some great lessons. I remember watching his lessons on playing blues and doing vibrato on VHS tapes twenty years ago.

The Cipher- Guitar fretboard intervals The Cipher IMO, this is the best source for learning the fretboard. For learning theory and jazz guitar: Matt Warnock Guitar Lessons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf4YyXVoWeA

She's a beauty Searcy!

Revelation, Robben Ford

Saw and heard a guy playing a Tennessean about a year ago and I was GASsing hard for one. Fortunately, I passed GAS for it. I'd still like to have one, but that is way down the road if it ever happens.

Headkeeper- Dave Mason

Kentucky Moonshine- Pure Prairie League

99 Bottles of Beer- Unknown

Your Time is Gonna Come- Led Zep

Good Morning Little School Girl- Sonny Boy Williamson

Very true. That's why my guitars rarely make it outside of my practice room. But, I'm not totally unhappy with my playing. To those who don't play, I'm great!

And hard work can make up for lack of natural born talent.

LA Woman- Doors

I've been playing off and on for over 40 years, but really seriously for just over the last fourteen. Around 5 years ago, I figured that I wasn't really improving. I got to a point where I couldn't teach myself anything else- just learned songs. Deciding to take lessons was the best thing I could have done. I found not just a teacher but an excellent musician who didn't just teach me songs, but he also taught me music. Not just learning scales, but learning to improvise using that knowledge improved my playing exponentially. I'm not saying that improvisation through strict adherance to scales is the way it should be done, but the practicing of scales is the most direct route to acquiring a feel for the fretboard. The old saying about how to get to Carnegie Hall is right. I actually benefitted from getting away from lessons to apply what I had learned and just have fun; doing that was hugely beneficial. The three best things I've done to improve have been to take lessons, stop taking lessons, and learn (and practice) scales horizonally in two and three string groups up and down the neck. And btw, I've picked up taking lessons again. Also, not having other people to jam with, I bought Band in a Box last Christmas. That has helped me a lot. And playing to a metronome has also helped.

I'm sure most of you during your playing times, or learning times, have had revelations that have made something in your understanding of the guitar, or your musical understanding, click. When I was learning chords and chord structure, I learned fret distances from the I, to the II, III, IV, etc. But when I realized that working from the 6th string to the first on the same fret that the 6th string being the I, the 5th string on the same fret is the IV, the 4th string same fret is the bVII, the 3rd string is the bIII, the second string is the V, and the first string is the I, it made it very easy for me the quickly shape and grab a target chord. Of course, if the I is on the fifth string then you have to make a slight adjustment. Anybody else have any tricks they'd like to reveal?

U Can't Touch This- MC Hammer