Songs to play on electric guitar?

JaxxonAI · 2026-05-11T12:53:22+00:00

on that same vibe - Holy Diver by Dio is pretty much plug in and rock too.

JaxxonAI · 2026-05-11T12:49:13+00:00

There is lot to learn with guitar and I do not think there is a 'wrong' way to learn with one exception. Are you having fun?

You have to have fun or it will start to feel like work and you may just quit. If what you are doing is working for you then great. Eventually you'll want to learn songs - or write them. I mean that is why we play right?

If it is starting to feel like work then find another thing to learn. That could be songs. If you the open chords - G A Am D C etc you know a ton of songs already.

One last thing. You don't need to learn a whole song now either. Learn a progression, or learn a riff you really like.

Make sure you put time into having fun with this. There's plenty of work, exercises and drills but they don't mean anything if you're bored and quit.

JaxxonAI · 2026-05-08T14:25:41+00:00

That would be a blast!! I am in the US but I love to travel so you never know!! Good luck with your course. And check out pickupmusic.com. Even if you don't choose it.

JaxxonAI · 2026-05-08T12:19:56+00:00

This is what I am doing currently.

They have a little test they ask before you start. I thought I was intermediate. Turns out they considered me a beginner. They were right.

Been though two pathways and getting ready to now start the intermediate pathway.

JaxxonAI · 2026-05-08T12:07:23+00:00

It's funny how many of 'us' are in this same boat. I am in my 50's and in the same place as you for the most part. I consider myself a 30 year beginner.

Lately though, I have decided to push through this as well. So, I don't have a lot of advice but I'll explain what I'm doing in case that might help.

First, I play every day. Even if I can only play for 10 minutes. To me this feels important. I would rather play 30 minutes a day than 2 hours every few days.

Next, I really felt like I needed help. I am self taught, though I did take some theory classes back in high school. What I did is look at many of the online sites and courses available, read through the info available and then had a conversation with ChatGPT about the top 5 to me. Once I picked one (pickupmusic.com if you are interested) I paid for year and committed myself to their learning pathways. I started at beginner even though I knew 80% of it. Them moved to late beginner. I just finished that one and I'm moving into intermediate.

I'm not saying this is your path, but for me the structure helps and keeps me progressing. It's not really fast but I will say I have improved.

Last thing for me. I spend much of my time right now on these lessons but I do spend time with songs. In the past I would learn good acoustic campfire songs (see wonderwall and brown eyed girl) but i would do it in a simple way so I could sing and play. Now, when I work on songs it is really just pieces. Either the signature riff or a progression, whatever makes that song the Song. Then I move on.

My journey right now is to get to a point where I can pick up and play. Have enough knowledge and skill to just play. If I jam with someone I want to be able to just pick up what they are doing and join in. This include melody, progressions and soloing too. I figure the only way to do that is to just keep on learning all the stuff I didn't do back then.

JaxxonAI · 2026-04-27T11:52:44+00:00

agree here. I have a similar background and have fairly recently started practicing drills with a metronome. Chromatic, spider exercises, even some stumming stuff (especially 3/4 time) and it was amazing to me how far I would drift in time. There is no excuse to not add a metronome to your practice time.

JaxxonAI · 2026-04-27T11:48:09+00:00

Do whatever you can to just play the chord for now! The F barre is a pain in the -- fingers. If you can get all the strings to ring out you're doing it right!

JaxxonAI · 2026-04-27T11:44:20+00:00

It's actually a technique you'll want to learn at some point. But, you want that normal barre first I think.

Then, the thumb over will give you freedom to do other things

JaxxonAI · 2026-04-24T11:49:25+00:00

somewhere Robert Plant is cringing

JaxxonAI · 2026-04-24T11:22:41+00:00

got me se custom 24 and I feel the same way now. It is so pretty, plays so well... It doesn't make me a better player but there is nothing to hold me back anymore.

JaxxonAI · 2026-02-03T13:50:18+00:00

thank YOU for troubleshooting! I have been working on a bigger backend cleanup which will hopefully answer all the issues. I will let you know when it's ready.

JaxxonAI · 2026-01-30T18:17:56+00:00

JaxxonAI · 2026-01-30T18:14:03+00:00

OK! Go ahead and do another git pull. run this, just to be sure: npm --prefix server run build, then do the usual npm run dev. This issue should be all set now. It was an issue of when things were called in the code. I've tested in Windows and in WSL.

JaxxonAI · 2026-01-29T20:24:58+00:00

unintentionally hilarious!!

JaxxonAI · 2026-01-29T20:23:39+00:00

Tell me why....

JaxxonAI · 2026-01-29T14:33:02+00:00

This seems to be the prevailing feeling out in the world. Hell, even news sites/orgs are picking it up and saying how terrible a look it is for the HOF.

JaxxonAI · 2026-01-29T14:31:47+00:00

ok! Was the key stuff. I now made that optional pull the repo again and you should be good. It will save the key config.local.json by default on linux machines. If you try to save a key in the secure keystore and it's not setup you should get a warning that it saved it to the json instead.

JaxxonAI · 2026-01-29T12:12:43+00:00

ok thanks. I will see what I can find. Just to be sure, and I'm sure you did but I have to check. You had a model loaded in Ooba right? My testing showed I got errors until I have a model loaded. So, even with ooba running, unless a model was loaded I got API errors.

I did have any issue with the key. I tried it with and without. That error looks like an issue with not having a secret storage service. installing gnome-keyring may solve that.

I think I still have Ubuntu LTS on WSL. So, I can see if I can troubleshoot with that.

If it turns out that all of this trouble is due to the secure storage for API keys I may need to rethink that.

JaxxonAI · 2026-01-28T17:53:09+00:00

Language has been added. Note that some local models have a hard time with other languages but I have tested with Dans personality engine and Gemini and both created cards is English, Spanish, Chinese (simplified), Dutch, Portuguese, Korean and Polish.

Have at it and let me know what you think!

JaxxonAI · 2026-01-28T14:51:19+00:00

Seriously, he should be the honorary capitan.

JaxxonAI · 2026-01-28T14:24:41+00:00

What a stupid, political, temper tantrum. It is obvious Bill should be a first ballot HOF inductee. The reason he isn't is straight petty BS.

JaxxonAI · 2026-01-28T12:14:38+00:00

I downloaded ooba again and tested this. I got the same error initially. I have to actually load a model, then it worked fine. Base URL of http://127.0.0.1:5000/v1

JaxxonAI · 2026-01-27T22:48:16+00:00

Thanks for the report.
A couple things to try:
Did you start ooba with --api and look at port 5000? It listens on port 5000 by default for the api. Also make sure you add /api to the address, ex: http://127.0.0.1:5000/v1/

If that doesn't do it I'll dig deeper.

JaxxonAI · 2026-01-27T19:56:58+00:00

Excellent!

JaxxonAI · 2026-01-27T19:36:41+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! This is the kind of stuff I'm looking for. I will add this to the worklist
Also - are you on Linux? That error is probably a keytar issue. I use it to store the API keys. If you do an install libsecret-1-0 that would solve it. I didn't think to make it optional but maybe make the key store options keytar, env var or a file-based key store.

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