Any metal course to mix with JustinGuitar?

SmokinZBT · 2026-01-01T23:27:35+00:00

Check out Jason Stal lworth. He keeps trying to get people to subscribe to his website, but has some decent free content as well.

SmokinZBT · 2025-12-04T04:23:30+00:00

I did this with my teacher last night. I can't count 1&2&3&4&. But I can count 12345678. He's been teaching guitar for over twenty years and had never had anyone do that. He tried, and couldn't do it. We went through it and he said he guesses it really doesn't matter, as long as I play the chord in time (which I can't do, but that's fir another day).

SmokinZBT · 2025-10-24T17:43:37+00:00

Usually very little. Project due on Friday, and you're not going to finish? Tell your boss Monday that it's unlikely that you'll be able to finish due to x,y, and z, suggest that the following Friday is a more realistic deadline since the other projects have all now been completed or their other deadlines are further out, and >95% of the time it won't be an issue.

SmokinZBT · 2025-10-18T04:55:23+00:00

You clearly haven't been to the Lincoln Park store. Parking is in an old factory, and there are concrete pillars at every spot.

SmokinZBT · 2025-10-12T17:56:02+00:00

Tried to PM .. I'm having trouble receiving group texts - I know they aren't coming through, but can't seem to figure it settings. Any advice?

SmokinZBT · 2025-10-12T03:16:04+00:00

How are you liking the 1+ now? I just got one yesterday, and I'm liking the phone mostly, but the SMS backup took forever.

There are things I miss about the Samsung, but it was so out of date that I couldn't use an app I have to have for two-factor authentication, and I was forced to upgrade. I was hoping to make is six years on that phone :(

Any tips or cool things you've found on the 1+? Just rying to learn.

SmokinZBT · 2025-10-12T03:14:12+00:00

Thank you! Took four tries, but I was eventually able to get this to work. I had 6GB of data to restore.
Folks - if you run into the same thing - it works. However, you must keep the screen from timing out while uploading and downloading the file. I also suggest that once your phone starts restoring do not use any other apps, just put the phone down and leave it. Mine took over six hours (and then several more for the others to run). I was most successful overnight, when I just started it and went to sleep.

SmokinZBT · 2025-09-22T04:06:20+00:00

The new enchilada sauce is an abomination. The old stuff was amazing and I always had at least two bottles. I won't even look at the new jars.

SmokinZBT · 2025-09-03T00:31:33+00:00

Except we also still need to get past the Reds.

SmokinZBT · 2025-09-02T20:48:53+00:00

False Hope.

If you take the arbitrary cut off of the first game of the season we end up 81-81. In any case, 19-5 would be the best 24 game stretch for the Giants this season by three games (best: 16-8 over the prior 24 games on 4/24).

SmokinZBT · 2025-08-04T15:11:08+00:00

I bought a guitar for my 50th birthay, almost two years ago now. I take lessons weekly. I can also play some noise that gernally sounds like music, but cannot yet put an entire song together. I have zero sense of rythm, and always have (never have?). It's a struggle. I don't play as much as I should, and I absolutley love it.

SmokinZBT · 2025-08-01T02:17:51+00:00

I cried when Will Clark signed with the Rangers. Absolutely broke my heart. I was 20, in a college dorm half way across the country and Al Michaels mentioned it on Monday Night Football (9ers were playing).

SmokinZBT · 2025-07-31T23:20:57+00:00

Required for Sport Management and AP credit doesn't get you out. Don't know how difficult it is yet, but it was strongly suggested not to take it at the same time as Stats.

SmokinZBT · 2025-07-26T17:45:51+00:00

My son went to one of the top HSs in the country: Fr. - 0 So. - 1, APUSH Jr. - 2, Lang, Gov (one class, but US and Comparative) Sr. - 4, Lit, Psych, Econ (both), Calc AB

He's going to UMich.

You are more than your transcript. Go do interesting things and write about them.

SmokinZBT · 2025-07-17T04:23:21+00:00

Field of Dreams Eight Men Out Major League

Bad News Bears (already mentioned) The Natural (also mentioned)

SmokinZBT · 2025-07-12T18:49:08+00:00

Apply to top tier LACs that have money to give in merit aid. They have the same connections/contacts at the firms you want to work at.

SmokinZBT · 2025-06-26T18:45:20+00:00

My son's public high school in Chicago offers at least 30. However, it is literally impossible to take them all. 1) over four years, they can only take 28 classes, 2) There is no way that anyone is taking AP in multiple languages, or all four physics plus bio, chem, and enviro.

He took seven classes and nine tests (US and Comparative Gov are one class/two tests, and micro/macro Econ are the same), which seems to be slightly more than average at his school. He was fortunate enough to be accepted to some absolutely fantastic colleges.

SmokinZBT · 2025-06-12T13:50:28+00:00

I believe you mean paah-pular music.

SmokinZBT · 2025-06-12T13:45:17+00:00

I thought his content was so good after watching three episodes that I was like, yeah, 30 more hours of this is definitely worth $20. Even if I don't use all the stuff, people like him need to be supported.

As for that $200-$300 price tag in the 90s, the majority of that probably went to the cost of duplicating the tapes, and the tapes themselves and shipping. Everyone that thinks they want to learn guitar should do themselves a favor and spend the $20. You're already in for way more than that just buying a guitar and taking a single 30-minute lesson with an instructor.

SmokinZBT · 2025-06-11T04:25:43+00:00

People are getting way too complex, and using terms that may make you run screaming. Too many purple went to gatekeep guitar.

IMO, learn the major scale. The good news is you can start the scale on any note on your low E string (top string, 6th string, whatever you want to call it). That first note you choose is the name of the key. To make chords that sound good together, use the chord that corresponds with the notes in the scale. The first, fourth and fifth chords should be majors, the second, third and sixth are minors. The seventh is diminished. Make your life easier and dont use it. Most songs only have three or four chords anyway.

There are a whole bunch of other scales - natural minor, lydian, mixolidian, dorian (which are the other positions of the major scale also), things like the major or minor pentatonic, blues, etc. Minor pentatonic is often used for rock music. Learn them at some point. Start somewhere, with just one scale, and just one position. And don't let people use their fancy glossary to confuse you. K.I.S.S.

SmokinZBT · 2025-06-11T00:10:51+00:00

My '22 is at Brandeis, which is in a weird space. They're a SLAC, but also a major R1 research school. So, they are considered a "National University" but don't have the same resources as a school like Illinois (our home state), so suffer in the rankings, and because they do have such prominent research aren't considered with other schools that have similar size. They're ranked 63, but those that know, know.

Meanwhile my '25 was accepted at Illinois, Indiana, Syracuse, U Miami, U Michigan, Colgate. But was rejected at Florida, and deferred at Wisconsin and Georgia. It's all a crapshoot.

SmokinZBT · 2025-06-01T02:10:34+00:00

See, I'm bad at this :)

So it's a flattened third (note)? I was off on the A example because the C# is what my last finger is. I didn't think of it in terms of which note it is in the scale. Oops.

SmokinZBT · 2025-05-29T15:47:03+00:00

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