Hels

success and self care in one great package!!!!

... working on how to record myself playing LOL!! Sound quality nightmares and buckets of technical stuff to learn... so bear with me! lol

it's a minefield of a world that creatives need to navigate these days! It can be overwhelming to learn all the nuiances of the technicalities. Well done on perservering!

Thank you for this. It's exactly the kind of information I've been seeking. Intuitively I don't really want to learn riffs as such but here you give the tools to open up expression!!! Excellent lesson!

Hey! I'm here returning to the guitar. I played first as a child until I was about 14, getting grade 5 in both piano and guitar. Guitar was my main delight but sadly the tutor was no longer available just as we started to get into the blues... a beautiful player in the flamenco style, so of course I learnt flamenco first, and never until now used the pick. Soooo... I have basic music theory, sight read music well in the lower frets. Now many, many years later I am returning by a happy path. I got into videography and decided I have absolute need to make the music for it myself. A big project but it is my way to always jump into the deep end without the baby pool. First I picked up a mini keyboard controller for a DAW and wow! my fingers remembered! Then the limitations obviously came and I needed to bring in a real guitar. I've only worked with accoustic guitars before so this time electric!!! What a world of sound!! Of course the video making has gone onto a darkened shelf in the back cupboard as I burst into the new world. I know how to practice and build finger skills so this is useful, but I do need some guidence as to the most direct route of things to practice. HP would you help me create a path through to give me all the tools to let the creativity flow? It's there bubbling away beneath the surface and I need to get to the tones, and all the little nuances that create the feel and sounds of bues, rock etc, under my belt so that everything can just "come out"!!! If a private lesson is best for assesment I'm happy to do that, anyway that would be good. But I don't want to waste your time if the material is here first for me to work on, then a lesson or 10 later, lol. all the best Hels BTW! I'm looking to get an Epipohone Les Paul... something like this....https://www.epiphone.com/en-GB/p/Electric-Guitar/epiphone-inspired-by-gibson-Les-Paul-Standard-60s/Blueberry-Burst What's your opinion on it? (my hands are small) cheers!!!

Hey HP, Sorry to have missed this live session! Will this happen again for this friday (6th June 25)? all the best H