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Thanks @Guitargeezer-Jack . I’ll try to find the YouTube videos.

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Thank you @Christopher_H ! Hope you are doing well.

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Great words of comfort knowing we move past current and past hurts and anguish. Appreciate your continuous support @KevinZ

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@Cadgirl Youre cracking me up. Such visuals, but I have faith in you! Go out and have some fun with it. I just returned from 2 weeks in Virginia at UVA taking industry course for company. I took guitar with me, but I was so self conscious that others could hear me, and I’m not that good. I played strumming with just my barehands, until one day I was tired of the restraint and I used a pick. Probably still played lightly so as not to have management or the police called. It felt good, and I figured these people don’t know me from Jack. My deck is a little different story, but I’ll give it a go.

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@ChuckS I hear you regarding the weather. Hot, humid and extremely dry (just outside Philly), but I’m going to try it. My porch was turned into a foyer years ago, but I have a nice deck out back. I haven’t been brave enough to play outside yet, because I don’t feel skilled enough. No time like the present to overcome that fear.

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@mike58 Thanks so much! I’ve continued to play it, and it sounds so much better now.

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Thank you so much for your pointing out areas of improvement @MikeGaurnier ! This guitar thing does not come easily to me, and I feel I have to work twice as hard to see strides, albeit slow but hopefully steady strides. I have a difficult time projecting my voice, but I’m working on it, and I was pleased with this one.

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Truly appreciate your encouragement

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Thanks @Philb ! I really hope I’m improving as I play and put my flaws out there. I really appreciate your feedback.

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Really appreciate it Bill. As for equipment, right now I have a USBmicrophone hooked up to computer. I have a regular mic and interface, but I can’t figure out how to set them up, along with a pedal too. Nothing comes with printed instructions anymore, and I don’t think the few ways I’ve tried to set them up has worked, so I just gave up fiddling with it. I need a real desktop computer. The one I have. Is towerless and slow and cumbersome, and

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Thanks so much Kit.

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Thanks @Cadgirl . Not a hard song to play. This was a tough one to learn to play and marry up the lyrics and vocals, but they’re all tough initially.

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Thanks @Cadgirl . I really appreciate the feedback,

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Thanks @Philb ! The guitar is a few.months old. I purchased it used on Reverb, and I couldn’t be happier. Lots of fun to play, and I’m definitely taking advantage of it’s ease of play and playing a lot of rock songs that just sound better on electric. That being said, acoustic is still my guitar of choice.

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Hi @Bill_Brown Thanks for your kind words. The guitar is an Ibanez AS53 Artcore Semi-Hollow. I love it, and sit’s very easy to play and sounds awesome whether playing clean (no effects) iidor with effects. A good amp helps with set up to make it sound great. Mike is a Blue mè