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I am 40 years young and reside in Largo, Florida, USA.

I play music professionally, have done so since I turned 17. Play mostly solo but do a few duo,trio, and full band gigs. Do mostly cover songs but enjoy writing original material in my free time. I play many various instruments but guitar is my main squeeze. I am adamantly against performing with pre-recorded music. Every sound that comes out of my speakers are made on the stage by the musician(s) on that stage. I've recently incoorporated "looping" into my performances. I chose the Boss RC 20 XL model. Many people are amazed by the process in which a song is literally built right before their eyes. These devices are the most useful piece of music equipment made in years. They're now affordable for the average musician. (app $250) If you're a dude and wear eyeliner, please stop. It does not make you a better musician;>/

Dream it, Believe it, Achieve it..........

...thanks Chordie for making me a better musician

I use D'Adarrio Jazz nickle's(12-54) on my acoustic. I play outdoors in Florida at  resorts by the water so humidity and sweat are a major problem. I have found that sound quality at first isn't as good with the nickle strings but they do not lose sound quality as the life of the string goes through its cycle. Two things let me know when it's time to change them;they break or tuning becomes more of a problem. What one may lose in tonal quality with the nickle strings instead of bronze, phosphor. or poly/nano coated strings can be compensated suffentially by boosting the highs a tad on your guitar eq or guitar input source( mixer,eq,amp,etc..). I have saved a ton of money by making this change in that the life of my strings have probably increased 10 fold. So to answer your question are the Elixer strings worth it, I say yes if you're recording and no if you're just pluckin' around. Just a little input from a full-time working musician......Peace

Lessons are fantastic, formal or informal, individualized or grouped. Personally, I am a teacher of guitar and also a student of guitar. As my students improve some ask me to teach them songs I may not be able to play.  Although parting is ultimately inevitable with most of my students I want to teach them as much as I can. This means as they get better, I gotta get better.

  Playing with  many different players is also a great tool for learning and improving. Exposure to different styles of music can be beneficial in a big way.

  As previous posts have mentioned music is an infinite  evolution of progress and no matter how well one plays there is always room for improvement.

Absolutely not!!! I teach guitar and some of my best students are in their mid 40's. There are so many fantastic resources out there to aid in one's learning quest. Chordie, of course, the finest one on the net is the right place to start. Just put that guitar in your hands and go, go, go. Play with as many different people as you can. Be persistent and be patient and most importantly, cherish and enjoy every second of it.

Eddie Van Halen; his playing did something to me that no person or thing had ever done. Time would freeze when he busted out one of those freakish solos. Ed set the bar high man, real high.

Plummer,

I play music as a profession down the way in sunny FLA, USA. I too play acoustic music. My set-up is quite simple and practical but sounds really good.(or so I'm told by most) I use 2 Marshall 50watt Soloist amps with a unpowered 12 channel Mackie mixer. I set the amps behind me approximatly 2 meters, one off my left shoulder and one off my right shoulder. The cool thing about the soloist is that is has a "filter " knob on it that adjusts the internal freqencies that cause feedback.If youre experiencing low-end feed back, turn it to the left, high- end feedback, turn it to the right. Pretty nice feature that enables you to stay consistent with your overall sound. Just a little musical food for thought.

Absolute crap. It's a very low quality product worth only half of what it costs. The other half of what you pay for it goes for that annoying info-mercial that's on almost every late night T.V. station. I personally know several people who have fell victim to the "scam' and all involved regret their decision to buy this "balsa wood toy".

Martin makes a type of strings called "Silk and Steel". These will give you the best of both worlds in that they're easy on the fingers and soundwise you won't lose the sharpe, crisp sound you get from steel strings.

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Fellow Tak 330 guy here. I've had mine refretted 4 times and each time it sounds and plays as good as new. A fret job is much less expensive than a new guitar and if you look around you should be able to find someone to do partial fret replacement. (change only the bad ones). Just something to consider.

You'll have to do one phrase at a time, unless the symetry is the same all throught the song. You'll have to pick and choose your parts that you want to sample. For example, I'll sometimes loop a guitar intro and solo over the looped prt. Sometimes I'll solo over outro parts and sometimes during the middle of a song I'll do a little loopy loop. You're not gonna be one those "sounds just like the record" guys but looping adds so much individuality without following the masses and sequencing. I also have a seperate stage mic that I use for percussion. I'll loop a guitar part then play the top part of a djembe drum. After I run through a measure I'll play the bottom of the drum. Finally, I'll use a shaker or a casaba. This emulates the snare or toms, the bass drum, and the high hat. Your possiblities are endless with looping and you're not confined and restricted like you are wuth pre-recorded music. Hope this makes sense.

Sequencers are lame man. They take the human touch and soul out of the music. Personally I prefer on the fly looping. I use the Boss RC 20. It took me a few gigs to get comfortable with it but now I couldn't imagine playing without it. The cool thing about looping is that you assemble the tune right before the audiences eyes. My opinion on sequencers is just that, my opinion but I beg of you don't use one !!!! I think you'll find that respect of your peers and audiences will be greater with "live looping" than pre-recorded sequencing. Good luck with your gigs.