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Greeting's Y'all, Over the years I've become more and more passionate about Guitar, actually music in general. I used to pick up my guitar and just play, maybe look at some charts and practice for a few minutes then go off on the few things I learned and thought I'd just move on. This was, In My Case, A mistake. There are those that music comes so naturally to they can almost just pick up any instrument and play it like they've been playing all their lives. I am not one of those. I have to work at it pretty hard. With my passion for music this is not a burden, it's an adventure, that is the beauty of it for me as I really feel accomplishment over simple things. Now I've come up with my plan. In the end it actually makes it easier for me to practice and more and more things just seem to stick. So when HP says, don't skip this step... I don't. I work that part harder than the rest and, Yeah, he is right. I used to only play music that I wrote. I think Until 10/11 years ago, I only knew 2 covers. House of the rising sun (I learned that when I was 6) and Heart of Gold. Everything else I played I had written. Well that's great but then I found myself in this impossible rut... My point is we can all learn from all music. If you like it. Learn how to play it. Then Ask yourself, What did I learn? My Practice plan includes Three Tiers... Theory, Technique and Creativity. I'm pretty sure I heard HP say something about that like a decade ago. The key to a good practice session is to 1. have a dedicated place for focused practice. 2. Have all the tools you need to practice, i.e. Pencil, Paper, Metronome, whatever it is you need to achieve that session to it's fullest, in that place. 3. how much time are you willing/able to practice. and how many days a week. It's been my experience that taking a day or two off a week is very healthy. My days off are still musically oriented as I own a Internet Radio Station. so I'm always in there one way or the other to create mood or just what I'm feeling for that day. What's your Practice Plan? Can we share and maybe we can all benefit from each other. The purpose of a good practice plan that works for you, is to remove the stumbling blocks we create for ourselves... In My Humble Opinion, this Academy is a great place to help with that.

Tone... The Bane of My Existence 😄 So here's the thing. I've watched and listened and looked for "The Tone" I've found it varies from time to time. Where I get frustrated is finding someone else's tone. The gear? the Player? So the "Blue Jean Blues" lesson. (dig that by the way) I was trying to find the tone. Now I know HP has a very nice set up. But there has to be a chain of effects to get that sweet tone. Does anyone else have this issue? Please help me... hahahahaha... I have some good gear. Tons of plug ins. I use StudioOne 5. what ever the new one is. I have "Everything" that comes with it as far as plug ins. For amps I have a Princeton 150 watt (way to much power for me) 2x12 Combo. I can't even turn that on in my little apt. When I do play thru an amp it's thru my lil Marshall Code25. Tons of presets but hey... I wanna know where the sound that comes from the song I just heard so I can try to play it. I have a gazillion pedals (in storage) screamers and fuzz, whaa, Morley's Boss, Dan Electro I can find awesome tones, BUT, not the one I just heard. so I wind up groovin on something else all together 😎 Anyway, tone, effects... it all comes to a big mishmosh at a certain point. I might be over thinking it (as I do) but any tips I might pick from anyone... Thanks...

What I can tell you to help you is that the tone is only 50% the equipment and the rest is playing technique. I mostly use only Delay and Reverb as effects - only on high gain guitar leads sounds a compressor. Plug in's are fine as long as your computer has enough CPU and the amp modelling is good enough. Clean sounds mostly are good and high gain sounds are also mostly ok - where it comes to discover the weakness of plugins is when you want to work with dynamic playing with medium destortion. Good plugins still react to different dynamic playing and bad ones sound more or less the same no matter how you attack the strings.

Reverse Delay is a very cool full clean sound which I think requires excellent timing and technique. I have a custom single coil guitar - solid state amp - no sound effects and seeking guidance on: What equipment - make model have you found works Program - how to setup Guitar technique to make it all work together

LoL... I just posted something about tone and effects... and you explained just what I needed to hear... Thank you!!!

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Hey Adrian, yeah now I remember sound I used on that tutorial. I have used a Roland Jazz Chorus 120 Amp and a 2*12 cabinet in my AXE FX III device and I added some reverb and some reverse delay. The reverse delay it not totally required but if you have one it makes your sound wide - when you use normal delay on clean sound settings it does not really work since the repeated notes are too clear and they mess up the overall melody you are playing. Solidstate amp works since for clean jazz tones solidstate amps are a very good option. All you need is a large reverb and you are ready to go. I guess your amp has reverb, if not I would strongly recommend to buy a reverb pedal. Single coil pickups are not 100% ideal for jazz sounds but if you use the neck pickup and cut the high frequencies a bit then you quite good sound. Single coils have a very clear and crispy sound which is not really what we want in jazz sounds - just if you think it sounds great for your ears then go for it. No rules here - just recommendations.

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