SuzanneShafer
Addicted to Bikes & Blues
Thanks, Elio. I'll check out the Behringer as well before I decide.
Hi Everyone - I Wanna Play the Blues When I Grow Up
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Cowboy Bob
Horse Player/Guitar Wrangler
I’ll have to agree with @PapaRaptor. The Focusrite products are very good, as are the Presonus products. Even as I am the resident Pro Tools evangelist, I would also recommend looking into one of the Pesonus interfaces and get S1. Unless you want really want to get into Pro Tools, Pro Tools | First would not be a good choice for a beginner.
Good luck, and feel free to ask questions.
SuzanneShafer
Addicted to Bikes & Blues
Okay, so Growing Up is optional. Unfortunately, growing old isn't so I'm thankful that I'm not likely to injure anything but my pride when I "lose it" on my guitar. My first bike was a chromed out 2001 Honda Shadow, which I proudly rode everywhere until a mentor pointed out that it wasn't designed for the backwoods gravel roads I was riding and steered me toward a Suzuki V-Strom. Loved that bike, too, but sold it after I went down hard twice in 3 months---and had to admit that perhaps, at 67, I really was too old to become a proficient dirt biker. These days I believe in "the right tool for the job" and do dirt only on my Ural, generally with camping gear and a guitar in the sidecar. And the guitar most often in my aging hands is my Manitou Les Paul, because on that one I actually can do barre chords...and, eventually, will (by gum) play the Blues...thanks largely to you, Griff. You're a great teacher!
david moon
Attempting the Blues
If you have a laptop it probably has a built-in mic. You can get started just fooling around with (free) Audacity, the internal mic, and headphones.
SuzanneShafer
Addicted to Bikes & Blues
Hmmmm! Based on the wave of panic your suggestion evoked, I'm sort of gettin' the idea that the only real roadblock to recording immediately is the fact that I'm a chicken. buk, buk, buk, ba-gawk
Record light (aka red light) fever hits everyone. The only way around it is to plow through it. I've been recording myself for more years than I care to mention and I can still play something perfectly, hit the record button and I'm back in 2012 for at least a few takes. It's funny, I was commenting to my wife after I spent half a day preparing and worrying about the video I recorded here yet, I can sit down and do a livestream like this one without a second thought.Hmmmm! Based on the wave of panic your suggestion evoked, I'm sort of gettin' the idea that the only real roadblock to recording immediately is the fact that I'm a chicken. buk, buk, buk, ba-gawk
SuzanneShafer
Addicted to Bikes & Blues
Your music room looks like a slice o' heaven and I loved both videos! Judging from the fretboard real estate I saw you inhabiting, I'm gonna need to know my way around all five boxes, so it's a good thing I actually like practicing them. Hey, now there's measurable progress! Just six weeks ago I didn't know what a Box was, and now I can play two of them without looking at a diagram. I feel better already. Thanks again.
MarkRobbins
Blues Junior
Yeah, nobody wants to hear me live, much less on replay. Not even me.Hmmmm! Based on the wave of panic your suggestion evoked, I'm sort of gettin' the idea that the only real roadblock to recording immediately is the fact that I'm a chicken. buk, buk, buk, ba-gawk
MinorT
Got My Mojo Working???
Okay, so I'm already well into Senior Citizen territory but I see no reason to let that stop me. I've always been up for Adventure; I rode my first motorcycle at age 63, so 70 doesn't seem too late to fall in love with guitars and the Blues. Already I've learned that, as with bikes, the right number of guitars to own is always one more than you have.
In my youth I was an accomplished classical pianist. With that background, I know rhythm inside out (Griff is spot on with the counting thing!) but until a couple months ago I'd never heard of Box 1 or CAGED. Now, thanks to Griff's excellent courses and teaching style, I'm learning fast. Maybe I'll even be ready to join a local jam with my little Les Paul and lap steel when COVID House Arrest is finally lifted. I'm spending hours each day practicing to make it so, and if this forum is anything like another I recently joined, I'll find wisdom here that helps me get it done.
Well hello there young lady, welcome and enjoy. I’m north of you a few hours up in Everett, WA.
SuzanneShafer
Addicted to Bikes & Blues
"Hi" back at ya, neighbor. I love your Buddha quote!
ChrisGSP
Blues Journeyman
You're spot on @PapaRaptor. My parents bought me a mono 1/4" reel-to-reel tape recorder when I was about 14, and that's when the red-light fever first got me. I'm currently on about my 50th attempt at recording BGU Example 11-5, and still can't get it right when the light goes on.
Grateful_Ed
Student Of The Blues
Bob630
Blues Newbe
The problem is little boys never grow up, there toys just get more expensive.LOL.Ah, 73 going on 13....a lifetime of puberty. What's not to like about that!
SuzanneShafer
Addicted to Bikes & Blues
Judging from the number of motorcycles and guitars I have, I'd say this holds true for little girls as well.
WilliamEnright
Blues Junior
Hi Suzanne, Got to love the bikes and the blues. I have a lady friend who passed her bike test two years ago and is having a great time, can I recommend trying off road and track skills, massive fun and teaches a huge amount about bike control. My friend did 'Race School' at Brands Hatch last year and loved it.
SuzanneShafer
Addicted to Bikes & Blues
I did the Jimmy Lewis Off-road Riding School (Pahrump, NV) when I started riding dirt...age 65. Loved it but eventually understood that was really too late in life. There is an age after which the consequences of hitting the dirt are more serious. For me that was age 67, when I rode my Yamaha TW200 off the edge of a mountain and landed on my head 30 feet below the road. Haven't given up the dirt yet, but only ride it on the Ural, with the sidecar keeping me upright.
Well, that explains why you are hanging out with the likes of us!
WilliamEnright
Blues Junior
Brilliant stuff. I fell of 14 times in two days riding a GS 800, that deep sand is tricky stuff. Still in control though as the clutch was pulled in with the bike on top of me. Do love a track day though, old CBR600 (Hurricane in the US?).
Anyway have fun and all the people I have met on BG forums are helpful and caring people.
Anyway have fun and all the people I have met on BG forums are helpful and caring people.