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Actually Russel, I think you're better qualified to answer that one.  There are a whole lot of alternate tunings you can play with, but mine is all done with standard tuning.

I do love drop D, though.  Especially with a slide.

I own the Dot, too, and it's a great guitar.  I agree,  I think it suits blues and jazz picking better than the Gretsch does.  The Gretsch is a full bodied guitar, so it provides a different sound than the thin bodied Dot or ES 335 does.   Perhaps it's just the Bigsby, but you can get almost steele guitar sounds out of it when you're wringing it pretty hard.

I do like the neck on the Dot better, though.

That's all good stuff.    I love a good education. 

I've stood in front of one of those condenser hypercardoid mics, and they are not a thing to be trifled with.   I was three feet off the thing and could hear myself breathing.  Somewhat disconcerting in fact.

I'll muck about with it in the studio.  It's teeny, so if I can prevent feedback there, I can do it anywhere.

James hit it right on the nose (as usual).   The best way to understand 3/4 or 6/8 time signatures is to listen to someone else play them so you can understand how they feel, even if you don't fully yet understand how they fall out from a counting perspective.  Waltzes are a great place to start.

Everyone plateaus, and it can be a good thing.  It means you're comfortable doing something.  We get stuck because we don't like to get out of that comfort zone.

Set a goal.  Any goal.   Southpaw listed some good ones.  Then practice that until you're comfortable doing it.  Study it until you know it.   You'll break open some new skills, and eventually, you'll plateau on that, too.

I'm not quite sure I understand the question.   Are you looking for a different voicing for E major?  There's about half a dozen places on the neck you can play an E.

Those little one knob Epiphone valves are fantastic sounding little boxes.

Whatever you get, get a tube.   The VOX Valvetronic XL amps have lots of buttons and knobs, and sound fantastic, too.  Full tube preamp, with solid state effects on board.

http://www.voxamps.com/valvetronix/

I think the salient point is that genuinely reliable tempo is difficult.   Most people struggle with a metronome because the metronome keeps perfect time, while our internal clocks do not.  We may "feel" that we're in time, but the tick tick tick tick of the metronome is the best judge of that.

Transcription becomes pretty easy once you know the key of the original song.   That one appears to be in E, so you should expect to play lots of A's and B's.

You would be surprised at how difficult it is to play with a metronome.   Studios will use a "click track" and if you aren't used to it, it can be very disconcerting.

They are great practice and compositional tools, but I wouldn't put one in front of an amp live.  Line6 makes great stuff, but when you crank up the volume, it has a "digital" sound to it.   We have one (even have the pedal to control it) and our guitarist eventually went back to his favorite stomp box group.

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This is a POD2 "red bean."  I know they have newer stuff, but I don't know how it fares.