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[PRS_Rocker]

Include your son if you can. My five year old daughter is my back up dancer/singer. She is partial to the Police and Queen.

This thread in general makes me feel pretty bad but in a good way if that makes sense. I really need to start learning scales and circles. I have always wanted to learn the entire fret board note for note but like so many I just use tab. It is highly effective but musically lazy. I took formal sax lessons for almost a decade as a kid and playing without actually reading the music feels like cheating.

If it makes you feel any better, the music for the instrument in your signature was actually recorded in tab first. LOL. It was later moved to sheet music, but only after a standardization of tuning was established. :^)

[Ezios_Axe]

That's funny and a good point. Music notation has seen a lot of change over the centuries and tab is only an offshoot I guess.

At the end of that sequence Ezio breaks the thing Peter Townshend style and uses the broken headstock as a stake to kill a guy. Ubi should find a way to include that somehow.

[Bob_Sacamano]

I've got the song book from justin guitar, and I warm up by playing about a dozen or so of his songs(not every song, every day). I play Cinnamon Girl, Seven Nation Army, Last Kiss, Wish You Were Here, Heart of Gold, Downtown a few times a week. Obviously I like playing Neil Young songs. Those were the first songs I learned, and I'm still adding new wrinkles to them. Right now some of the others I'm working on- and pretty much have down- are Powderfinger, Old Man, Ohio, Good Riddance, Pink Houses, Rockin in the Free World, Midnight Rider. Just started working on Melissa, Sweet Child O' Mine, Simple Man, Remedy, Soulshine.

[triguy98]

I have a Fender Mustang amp, and use Guitar Pro. The new GP6 is amazing. It is a huge leap over GP 5. It is not a small program if you install all the sound banks and everything, but it has limited modeling capabilities, so you can set the guitar sounds to kind of sound like they actually do in the song, versus a generic tone. I love it.

I used to play a lot of slide guitar, and after setting up a cheap Harmony a buddy gave me, I think I will be playing it a lot more. IT is very nice to have a dedicated slide guitar with a little higher action and heavy strings.

I actually haven't touched RS in a week or so. Been learning "Shine On You Crazy Diamond." I love that song, and I get the tone real close with my Mustang. I would really love to learn "Comfortably Numb" but I am having a real hard time nailing that tone, and I can't stand it if the tone is off. It drives me nuts. Hopefully soon I will be scoring a tube amp and start collecting pedals so I can nail the Gilmour tones.

[Typhoon7M]

Memorizing the scale positions of the chords in the CAGED progression, inventing scales and paths along these positions.

Studying the books:

• Music Theory for Practical People (By Ed "Edly" Roseman)
• The Art Of Playing Rock Guitar (By Richard Daniels)

Currently playing the offline songs (mostly)

• Baby I'm Gonna Leave You (Zep)
• Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven)
• She Sells Sanctuary (Cult)
• Cities on Flame With Rock and Roll (BOC)
• That "I'm A Cowboy" Song (Bon Jovi)
• La Grange (ZZ Top)
• Leyenda (Albeniz)

[C.Linton]

I've been working with (on and off) John Ganapes' "Blues You Can Use" book/CD lesson plan series. Quite a good system if you want to specialize in playing Blues.

[dougoberle]

My wife and I are expecting in a few weeks, so I have been playing scales for the baby in the womb. It is my little experiment to produce a prodigy.
I have always been partial to improvising in the harmonic minor scales, but for some reason, I have been all Lydian for the past few weeks. I went through the Zappaesque Mixolydian years, and like everyone else, cut my teeth on Dorian 30 years ago...but all the sudden, Lydian makes a lot of sonic sense to me.

My imporvisational warmup starts with E Lydian, which is nice an easy because you can hit the low E string, let it ring and noodle around in the scale. I like to put more focus on the notes in the scale that help to complete the E Maj chord, so phrases will often start, stop or hang on the B and G#.

E|--------------------------------------------------------9--11--12--
B|------------------------------------------9--11--12----------------
G|-----------------------------8--9--11------------------------------
D|------------------8--9--11-----------------------------------------
A|---------9--11-----------------------------------------------------
E|----0=====================================let ring

Notice that the scale shape is the standard "Dorian" shape, but starting 3 frets below the root that you want to play Lydian in.
There is a nice "pitch-axis" transition that you can easily slip into while improvising in this mode, the Phrygian Major in E. Both promote the E Maj chord.
So while improvising, I will often go between Lydian and Phrygian Major if I am doing a sitar-like raga.

E|----------------------------------------------------------10--12--13
B|--------------------------------------------10--12--13--------------
G|-------------------------------9--10--13----------------------------
D|------------------ 9--10--12----------------------------------------
A|---------11--12-----------------------------------------------------
E|----0=======================================let ring

[D3ViLBrInGeR]

a complete and free scale sheet: EasyScale, search for it , it helps, A LOT!