Happy New Year! I have been working through the beginner stages and am deep into the C Dorian lesson. I am enjoying it a lot. But going back through my Guitar Wisdom note pad i wrote out the 5 questions Tomo might ask a new student at Berklee. Id like to share my answers as a frustrated 46 YO self taught player.
1 List your Influences 5 Artists
-Alice in Chains
-The Doors
-Peter Greene
-Rory Gallagher
-Joni Mitchell
2 5 Fave CD's with fave song on each
-Nirvana Unplugged Song Lake of fire
-Emily Remler Firefly song Perks Blues
-Joni Mitchell Blue Song All I want
-Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream Song Mayonnaise
-Metallica Master of Puppets Song Orion
3What is your strength as a player ?
This is a tough one as i seem to focus on the bad stuff but ....here goes
Decent dynamics when playing try to follow along and add to the music
Dont panic if im lost on the fretboard
listening to whats going on
Will not give up
4 What is your weakness as a player
Take ages to remember things
Terrible at maths sometimes i get in a hoop about where i am in a song while counting bars (but i dont panic )
Gaps in my knowledge from being largely self taught
Theory is still ropey
Rhythm playing needs some polish
5 Listng gear- eveyones favorite i think !
This spans from the mid 90s to now
Telecasters
x1 Road Worn Mexican
x1 Affinity Tele from 1998 bought with my first big job pay!
x1 Harley Benton for the living room noodles
Strat
Usa Strat
Classic vibe 50s
Prs se John Mayer
LP standard
Gibson Firebird studio
Amps
Boss Katana Mark 1
Fender Bassbreaker 15
Bugera v5
Yamaha lunch box amp
Cables
mix of fender tweed cable and some local music shop ones.
Fx
Wha Wha
and alot of Harley Benton mini stomps clones of higher end distortions , reverbs , crunch etc
Picks i like to try all sorts but mainly use Dunlop .73mm and the dunlop gator grip .96mm
Well that was a lot harder than i thought!
Lee.
Lee, I love the song California from Joni Mitchell.
-LTR
Hello LaVoy,
You have one of the coolest names bar none.
Agreed California is a whopper of a song by an incredible artist.
All the best.
Lee.