Hey Fam!
We hope you're having a wonderful December.
One of the things we'd like to start doing regularly is going LIVE with you to play music and do a Q&A. So we've decided to make our inaugural live stream a Christmas concert for you! We'll play a few Christmas tunes and then answer any of your burning questions at the end.
Our student live streams will be hosted in our private student Facebook group. If you haven't joined yet, go here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/guitarfamstudents
Tune in on Wednesday, December 23rd at 4pm Pacific (7pm Eastern) for some Christmas cheer. And feel free to comment below with any questions you'd like us to answer.
Looking forward to it!
Q&A: When recording tracks (voice, guitar, drums, etc.) what are you listening to? Who made it? Do you have a click?
Great question! Looking forward to chatting about recording. :)
@David Lieder This is what I like to hear... David getting into recording more! :D We have lot's to talk about on this topic because we've been doing a lot of different types of recording lately.
Great idea for the Holiday Live Stream: Playing and Q&A. Hopefully I'm free to tune in that day so I can enjoy it with everyone. :-)
With regards to the Q&A here's a questions that quickly comes to mind:
What is your process of finding the chords or creative a simple guitar arrangement for a song when you only have the melody to work with? Definitely the more challenging approached as opposed to writing over a chord progression, so not sure of it's to big of a topic or too advance to discuss. Either way could be a good topic for those who already write songs and or plan too.
I'll let you know if anything else comes to mind after putting more thought into it. :-)
@J.Rod it would be great to see you there! Thanks for the question. This is the process we took for my song "Face the Waves". Looking forward to chatting about it!
Okay have another one for the live stream Q&A. :-) lol
I like to play a lot using my thumb (Hendrix style) but always have trouble getting that high e sting to ring out when playing. Ugh Example would be an A (E shape) chord. It's not always needed when I play rhythm, but when I want to do some embellishments with my pinky on the high e string it always gives me trouble, so I usually revert back to a regular bar chord for that. lol Can't remember if Nate plays using his thumb bit If it's something either one of you do any tips on that would helpful. Completely understand if neither play using this method but figured I would ask ha! lol. :-)
@J.Rod - great question and I second it. That's one of the things I'm also currently struggling with a bit.
We'd love to discuss this! I'll add it to our Q&A time.
Mark your calendars!
We’re doing a Valentine’s livestream on Saturday, February 13th at 12 noon PST in the private student Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/guitarfamstudents
We’ll perform a couple love songs and do a Q&A. You can post your questions in this thread or email them to us at support@guitarfam.com.
If you’d like us to do a student video review then you can email your video clip to us as well.
Can’t wait to hang out with you!!
Awesome, I'll definitely try to be there. Maybe I'll even submit a video of one of the many things I been working on to improve my playing. :-)
Woohoo!!
Not sure I will be able to make it. I will try, depends if we get thru with some things we are doing
I'll keep my fingers crossed that you'll be able to make it!