Thanks for the tips!

Thank you so much! This truly helps! I always needed a "trick" to playing fast...for me it's mostly finding the notes haha

Oh wait, I have a better idea...could you do a post about chords, and how to avoid using power chords. I mean like either very intense open chords or something. I've always wanted to get away from barre and open and power chords...are there any other different kinds of chords?

Could you do a post about amplifiers, and how to get a really good tone, and which effects pedals are the best, and what they do and how to connect them? I've always wanted to know how to set up a rig.

Awesome video Mark! That will actually really help me and I'll try to use this as much as I can to warm up for when Tragic Flaw (my band) plays.

It was a few days after Chrismas (years ago) and I had just got my brand new Les Paul Epiphone Standard Plus. It was blue, and beautiful, and everything to me. I had it for a few days, and the lead singer of the band I am in came over to my house with his new bass. We were standing in the living room jamming, and after the song(s) I looked at him and said, "Don't you just love this guitar?". And right then and there, the strap came loose and it crashed face down on the floor. This next part is funny. He screamed "OH MY GOODNESS!", and I just stared down at it, as if nothing happenned. I think I was more upset or suprised about what had just happened, that I couldn't, didn't do anything, It was really funny. I'm sure there's a bunch more. For instance, everytime the band has a show, something in my rig is never right. The sound is just always bad. Something always goes wrong. I don't get it, and I don't know how to fix it and make it better, but that doesn't stop me from playing...

My first guitar was bought in a local shop in Austria, and it's a kid-sized acoustic, all hand made and very well done (except it truly counds like a ukelele). I was twelve when I got it, and I haven't played it since! But it's my first and it's definitely a collectible being that it was hand-made in Austria. And obviously it doesn't have a brand name, which makes it kind of cooler I think. ;)

Oh, awesome! thanks for the help!

1. I am younger than 30. (18-almost 19)
2. I've been playing for 6-7 years now.
3. I LOVE the look and layout of this blog. It's really easy to work with and looks really cool at the same time.
4. User generated posts/reviews would be pretty sweet! I still like that you are the one that starts the topics and such, because we can learn alot, but it is also interesting to see what other people come up with and what they have on their minds.
5. A ning-type group would be awesome! I'd definitely participate in it!

I think Rockband is alot better than guitar hero, only because when you do "solos" on rockband, you can do it at like the "12th Frett", which I whink is really cool, and more life-like, but I agree, there is no way you can possibly learn how to play guitar besides the three things you've mentioned already. However, aren't they making a guitar hero type game where you actually plug an actual guitar into it? I'm pretty sure it's under the links here somewhere that I saw that...