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Awesome!  I'm eager to hear you play it.

not the drummer.  I would.  just haven't.

Well said.  A case to illustrate the point is You've Got a Friend.  It was written by Carol King as a piano piece and she was the first to record it as a pop song.  James Taylor fell in love with the song, and being as he and Carol King have been friends forever he got permission to record it.  He recorded it in the 1970's in the studio and it became a huge hit for him as a folk/pop song.  In the '90's he recorded it again on stage on the James Taylor Live! album, and it has an entirely different sound and feel.  It moves from folk/pop to soul.  He recorded it again in 2010 or so with he and Carol King playing it together and it has yet a different feel of a piano bar jazz song (with Carol King's exquisite piano playing added back in).  Now, bear in mind that the 2010 version was a purposeful replication of 1970 era concerts, but because they each had another 40 years of practice and growth, as did their back up band, they nevertheless had a different sound.  So given that, what's the so-called 'right' way to play "You've Got a Friend?"   Is it a pop song, a folk/pop song, a soul song, or a piano bar jazz song?  What's the strumming pattern to a piano tune? 

It is possible to perfectly replicate a guitar part, and if that's your thing then you should do that and have fun with it.  It is not possible to perfectly replicate a song played by an entire band by playing solo on an acoustic guitar. 

- Zurf

That sounds like a future destination.  I live in Bluegrass Central here in Loudoun County, Virginia.  My home is just a few miles from the famous Lucketts Community Center where bands like Johnson Mountain Boys, Seldom Scene, and Country Cowboys call home.  But we have family in Colorado, and it would be a ball to fly out there with my backpack gear to stay a few days for an awesome collection of music like that, and terrific scenery described by Jerome.

If I send you a request, I'll keep my shirt on thank you very much. 

- Zurf

I'm hoping to do some fishing one morning, probably Saturday.  Other than that, yard work, cocktails on the patio, chilling out kind of stuff.

He posted on Facebook.  So either he's still breathing and got a few moments of internet access, or someone with his sense of humor has hacked his account.

I'll let you know.  Whether or not the scales themselves prove useful, the precision, speed, timing, and pick control aspects are already showing themselves to be valuable.  Topdown commented that he thought my picking had improved the other night on the Chordie jam.  My left hand is definitely limbering up.  Working in bass runs seems easier.

I never caught on to slapping, but I was taught how to do it.  I can show him the positions, but it will be up to him to figure it out from there.

That sort of rule - watch where you're going - tends to be self-enforcing.

I had traffic vigilantes threaten the health of my daughter.  When my daughter was two years old, she had a seizure.  It was a baaaaad seizure and we headed for the nearest hospital.  I switched on my four ways, was flashing my high beams, and blowing the horn.  This is what the rulebook says to do for a civilian to temporarily notify other drivers of an emergency.  People were cutting me off and intentionally impeding my progress, probably trying to teach me a lesson.  I got up beside one of these jokers at a light and my wife rolled down her window and lit into that smarmy son-of-a-sea-cook like nobody's business, the whole while my daughter thrashing and screaming in her car seat.  The smug smile and all the color drained from his face right quick, let me tell you.  That guy wasn't the only one who decided to 'teach me a lesson', but he was the only one who got the opportunity to find out how ignorant he had been.  We got to the hospital and she received the treatment she needed before any permanent damage was done, but no thanks to the traffic vigilantes. 

- Zurf