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Don't forget to get your blues name.

http://www.outliermusic.com/jokes_bluesname.htm

Mine is "Bony Baby King"

My Sweet Irish Honey bought me an English to Irish translation book so we could converse.   From it, I learned two more glorious terms.

"Mankey" as in "general grungy icky dirty feeling" and "skanger," a woman of questionable moral character.

The next band I play in will be called "The Mankey Skangers" or I'm quitting. 

I would like to point out that "The Beetles" is, in fact, "The Beatles."

That is all!

We call it "Rock 'n Tonk," or sometimes "Punk and Western."

Theory is realtively simple, once you understand the framework.   It's one of those things where a few relatively simple rules allow for amazing complexity. 

If you understand the few basic rules, the complexity becomes less so.

Nope.  Not at all.

If you have a scan of it, or can email it to me, I'd be happy to help you out.

The beauty of the scale patterns is you don't really even need to know which are sharp and flat, or even the notes you're playing at all.   You could close your eyes, pick a random spot on the fretboard, and play the scale just by following those patterns.

Here's a practical side of it that you can apply to the fretboard right now.

I'm sure you know the minor pentatonic scale pattern.  It's one of the 1st things you learn.  Lots of wankery is to be had with it. 

Here is A minor pentatonic.  This pattern is completely portable, so you can move it anywhere.

---------------------------5-----
----------------------5-8--------
-----------------5-7-------------
------------5-7------------------
-------5-7-----------------------
--5-8----------------------------

Using that as an example:

If someone is playing in a major key, you can always play a lead using that major scale.  You can also slide your finger down the neck three frets, and play the minor pentatonic scale pattern from there, and you will be fine.

So for this example, if someone is playing a song in C major, find C on the sixth string (8th fret).  You can play C major from there.  You can also slide down to the 5th fret (A), and play the pentatonic minor pattern from there, and you're still in key.

Just for comparisons sake, here is C major pentatonic.  Can you see how the patterns line up?

---------------------------5-8---
----------------------5-8--------
-----------------5-7-------------
------------5-7------------------
-------5-7-----------------------
----8----------------------------

Well thanks!  Feel free to drop by and theorize.

Rap is poetry.  It's an often grim and disturbing verbal painting of the environment in which the artist comes from.

Sturgeon's Law applies to rap, much like everything else.

There's a blugrass number in there somewhere....

There's a lot of discussion on what's proper and what's not, but I think most of us would agree that George Carlin's "seven words you can't say on TV" qualifies as a baseline. 

Don't sweat it.  Just remember that we have lots of youngsters that read, and exercise a little discretion.