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Is it just me or is the video slightly ahead of the audio on that youtube video?

HI Patrick - welcome aboard! Barre chords are a great way to expand your understanding of harmony. Are you practicing songs you like or are you just putting in the grind at the moment to improve your technique?

Hey @Kaizersoza welcome aboard, we're looking forward to learning some new tips and tricks from you as well. No pressure then. :D Why not throw your 2p into these threads and tell us a bit about yourself? https://www.guitarchat.co.uk/topic/692-what-are-you-learning-to-see-you-through-the-lockdown/ https://www.guitarchat.co.uk/topic/72-favourite-guitarists/ https://www.guitarchat.co.uk/topic/697-guitars-we-have-owned-a-history/ https://www.guitarchat.co.uk/topic/136-post-your-pedal-board/ Also have a trawl and see if there is anything else that interests you. If there isn't, feel free to set up your own thread. Have fun!

Mooer Ocean Machine - the Devin Townshend signature pedal. Two delays and a reverb in one pedal, lots of different types available and MIDI switchable. It has lots of knobs which saves scrolling through parameters to find the one that does the thing you want. Mooer are starting to shift their market position towards the higher end of things so worth grabbing the affordable items before they are rediscovered at some point in the future.

https://reverb.com/uk/item/13555549-s-yairi-yd-401-70-s-natural Good value japanese guitars for the time. Sort of where Yamaha/Ibanez are now. Nothing particularly special about them though, sorry.

Are you aware there is a Dean Owners club? https://www.deanowners.org/

I was going to suggest the Katana, it's virtually unbeatable at this price point for what it does.

My first thought was valves too. When was the amp last serviced? The next possible issue might be the power caps. They need replacing every 20-25 years or so. The amount of hum you describe suggests it might be the caps.

Nice, set up a separate thread though, this one is Rockett themed :)

lol Thanks! All constructive suggestions...! Would you like to add some content of your own?

How about setting up your own trawl? How did you get to the Suhr Riot and then the US Dream?

Is it just me or have they done some seriously nice overdrives in the last few years? I started out with the Animal OD which is supposed to emulate a 68 plexi and was impressed. https://youtu.be/c7wvcoZozhg I was getting a load of ACDC and then other pedals started popping up in my feed. Like this Dumble clone they made called 'The Dude' lol https://youtu.be/2GTlcESBtxI Then came their version of a Fender Tweed https://youtu.be/1Rc3WmFoodo Check out Start Me up at 0.24 in. I thought this was full of Tweed flavour but I wasn't getting as much nuance as I was from the Marshall pedals. Finally...the HRM, Hot Rubber Monkey - supposedly an emulation of a tone circuit that Dumble put inside Marshall amps. There I was thinking he mainly worked on Fenders but anyway, I'm not sold on The Dumble Tone by any means. But this pedal sounds gloriously thick and spongy with a nice bite in the midrange. Sort of a Steely Dan thing going on there (edit: just found that Jay Greedon was a Dumble ODS user!) Anyways, seriously gassing after one now. https://youtu.be/CGAjBT__9BI Have you guys tried any IRL?

OK s'hard to tell without knowing what it sounds like but I'm glad you worked something out.

Hey Ricky, welcome and congratulations on popping your GC cherry. Last time I looked into it, the digitising and undigitising of the guitar signal introduced a slight lag. However that was about 10 years ago so perhaps things have improved since then given Joyo offer the JW1 and there is the Boss Air Katana. Boss seem to be doing great things generally around amps these day. Have you done a search on amazon for bluetooth wireless guitar or looked at retailer sites like PMT?

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Try inversions. Drop the 5th lower than the root so it effectively becomes a 4th.

Any excuse for dirty writhing for money!

Hulk fists and wet celery...or a spot of mud wrestling as they did in the old days, with onlookers throwing guinea coins and making obscene or humiliating demands.

Yes but different styles of Kung Fu, which tend to be highly stylised. Anyone with a background in MMA or even Muay Thai would have made a meal of him. BTW having a Dad who practices acupuncture is no substitute for living in China. That's like saying 'my Dad has a PhD in Medical Ethics, so I know all about that science stuff'.

OK it's three months old but I've only just discovered it. Some of you might have missed it too. TDLR: Basically an attention seeking youtuber called KDH goes after a few online personalities on his channel, including Rob Chapman, like some vigilante undercover tabloid journalist. In Chapman's case, KDH claims to have exposed various perceived issues with both Chapman and Chapman Guitars, some of which may have some basis in truth and others didn't (with the benefit of hindsight). Some of the points covered include QC issues and speculation dressed up as sensationalist fact around Chapman moving from Riff City to Guitar Centre as US representatives. Chapman's online following see red and go after KDH like a blood thirsty vigilante mob. Chapman does nothing which is seen by wider internet as an abuse of 'power' after KDH removes said video (but has since reposted it). Chapman issues an apology video which give's Prince Andrew's Epstein interview a run for it's money. Riff City subsequently post their own version of events, after Chapman apparently deletes their response on his vid. Cue every other guitarist-youtuber out there jumps on the band wagon posting reaction videos criticising Chapman for lacking in sincerity and being more than a little economical with the truth, if not bypassing it altogether, particularly around the Riff City thing. KDH subsequently posts a pointed parody of Chapman's apology, checking off every point on a video by Pewdipie on how not to apologise. Chapman can do nothing apart from sucking up the burn and chalking it up to experience. This is the internet ladies and gentlemen, how different things are from 20 years ago. Toss shit about and everyone directly involved gets hit. The rest of the world jumps in on it salaciously, revelling in the smell and texture like it was Chanel face cream. One day my grandkids (IF, and that's a big IF, I survive into my late 70's-80's) are going to wonder what the world was like without internet in the same way I wonder what it was like without TV.

Facebook isn't as good as it used to be. The advertising isn't all that effective, it appeals to a Gen X and older demographic and it's not great for relationship building...but what social media is? Twitter is all about proclamations and instagram is all about thirst, there is no depth in either. Google is still king but it takes more work to get things up the search engine rankings these days due to competition and an algorithm which is harder to game than it used to be. I know Andertons well, Lee and I occasionally exchange messages. They are massive because; 1) They started posting in 2009 before Youtube exploded as a promotion tool. They got carried along on the tide as it were and probably wouldn't be able to repeat the success now as the algorithm has changed and there is more competition. 2) Lee (and Rob Chapman) are charismatic on camera. Rob put Lee onto the idea of Youtube as a promo vehicle at the same time he was thinking about Chapman Guitars over ten years ago. Lee has a stake in Chapman as well. 3) Andertons have an established and trusted brand, customers expect Lee and the team to take care of them (and they do).

I've seen some videos just now which explain music theory so they're definitely available. I actually took up guitar to help me understand more about chords to help my bass playing. It didn't work, I started to find guitar more interesting than bass.

FWIW I'm self taught, I look for songs that interest me and I try to learn how to play them. Steve Stevens, Steve Lukather, Alan Murphy, Boon Gould, Nile Rodgers...I follow their leads. I don't need them to teach me if I can work out what they are doing with the help of online chord charts.

I'm more or less numerically dylsexic. Basic arthimetic and stats are OK...they're grounded in the real world. But calculus and quadratic equations...might as well be a foreign language. But if you understand maths and can visualise it, I'm sure you will have few problems. Bach was of the same view. My opinion isn't important and in any case, it takes more than some text to be an effective teacher. There is sensitivity/empathy and the ability to make complicated things really simple. Compartmentalising information into bite sized chunks is key. And the ability to make learning entertaining either through personality or through staying close to the students' own passions.