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hahahahah that story from the cellist is awesome. I totally buy it. I think classical music type people see rock as like I can do this in my sleep and they totally can haha I'd imagine both of those folks you mentioned are probably formally trained? I've thought alot about multi-instrumentalism, specifically my question is..... if I spend a shitload of time trying to learn piano lets say.... will it make me a better guitarist? Fortunately, I am about to spend about 10 hours with someone who plays keys, guitar, bass and trumpet super good and I'm planning to ask him just that. I don't know if I'll be able to totally relate to his answer b/c he's music degree'd from UofM and stuff so it might just be like "cool story, check out this chromatic scale I can't play cleanly" haha

shit I just calculus'ed it out in my head that the first lesson happened yesterday? How did it go?

I think I've got way less songs to keep in my brain than you do but I feel your pain on trying to keep it all straight. This might be a pretty accurate representation of what goes in on my head. You ever play with these dudes (esp piano/keys) that can roll up and play the song without even knowing it, can anticipate what's coming next - without sheet music? I feel like you're about .5 steps way from that with this.

Good luck on the lessons man! Be on the lookout for CAGED and Minor Pentatonic, hopefully you start on those soon! I agree w/ what Biff says about reading music for a guitarist. But I would keep an open mind with your teacher for a little while b/c I think its definitely debatable, but I've been playing guitar in bands for a really long time and I can take a long time to eventually read what notes are what on a music staff but I'm not proficient at reading music and don't use it at all without teamed with tabs. I actually listened to a podcast a couple weeks ago where host asked a professional guitarist about reading music. The guest on the pod has played with really big acts, they mention Kelly Clarkston regularly (I think that's who it was). Went to school for guitar and stuff, works in the industry as a professional guitarist. Doesn't read music. Says no pro guitarists really do. Hope this direct link works: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9ndWl0YXJtdXNpY3RoZW9yeS5saWJzeW4uY29tL3Jzcw/episode/Yjg3NjIzODItZjM3Yy00ZmU4LWI1M2MtMDZmM2QyMTY4MzE5?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahgKEwjAr_iI7pr2AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQvQE I learned way more about reading music from playing piano (I had a piano teacher who emphasized site reading) and drums (learned how the rhythm is counted in printed music this way). I think there's a lot of theory to be learned from reading music that could apply to guitar. But I like having the music notation for rhythm but tabs for what to actually play.

Pretty sure Biden cut him off so at least what he has/knows isn't ridiculously current.

I've definitely seen people of the conservative persuasion not realizing that's a parody site.

Chernobyl is nice this time of year. Just some normal tourists

I hope he put the wrong Washington in gps

if he investigates Biden for Trump this doesn't happen.

call me shocked a chief can't handle the heat

what if it's a parked semi full of adult toys per protocol

so if they're gathering in a parking lot or something can someone just block the exit and be done with it?

he can't handle the heat

Did they argue he'd compliment putin?

OK, I think we're on the same page. I've read a couple of Caros books about LBJ but haven't gotten to the vietnam ones yet. I agree that's what takes him down I'm just not informed enough to know how low it should pull him but I agree that it's fair that it does.

this seems like the reasoning for increasing LBJ. I think his civil rights stuff was not what was popular when he did it.

With the exception of the trumper thing you might be describing Whitmore Lake. I lived there for a couple years and it was awesome. That was before trump though

I hear yah, I definitely don't have the patience for it. I tried to do recording for quite a while a number of years ago and it was never a source of satisfaction, it was just another source of dissatisfaction b/c I never got it sounding as good as I wished. I think my buddy in another on/off band I'm in has that Tascam 2488. He pulls some really great recordings in his room with it, he doesn't have super hot mics or crazy mic pre's or anything like that. Last week he started an apprenticeship with an engineer in Detroit. Looking forward to seeing how good he gets, he's looking to career switch to this. I think it would be a difficult way to earn a living.

rand paul woulda crushed it as president right now

The other thing the engineer did last time that was hilarious...... our singer was like, that chorus would sound great with hand claps in that part. Engineer goes into a different project and copies a hand clap, then pastes it into the chorus in perfectly in line with the snare drum. LMAO I was involved in recording hand claps once. It's a complete disaster. It really doesn't sound good unless you have multiple people clapping. Then, when you have multiple people clapping one of them is me and I don't have rhythm so I'm the stray 1 hand clap hahaha

Studio has evolved in such crazy ways - do you do much editing Biff? One thing that still completely blows my mind is how they'll have me do say 5 takes of a solo. Then, with what seems like a quick mouse drag but is defiitely more than that, the producer can create one super-solo from the best parts of those 5 takes. And you totally cannot tell that it happened. Never really have to rip a perfect take. It's really something.

that's awesome dude. I'm not a bassist either but what I always hear from them is you gotta do better than just playing the guitar on the bass so if you did that you're golden as a bassist man! haha! Now you just gotta learn to play both guitar and bass at the same time

Back into the recording studio on Saturday..... one of my favorite things to do associated with playing guitar!!!

nows when you go clear out your twitter feed of everyone who said Russia wasn't going to invade.