JOE! SUP!

OK, I just would like to know your practice routine. If you have one I mean. I'm looking for some things to get me from where I am now to a higher degree in playing. Also, I hope in the tour following your next album you come near Battle Creek, MI so I can finally see you live! You rock!

Congratulations to Australia,Switzerland,Spain,Czech Republic and Trinidad & Tobago for making it to Germany next year........Cheers...I feel very bad for Turkey coz it is one of my fav sides in world football and despite winning 4-2,they failed to qualify........maybe next time.

Lucysorets,,first of all GET WELL SOON>>>prayers are with yu fo r a speedy recovery from yur illness!!!!!!!!!thanks for the mail and the great pictures....yu and vai..hmm...excellent pic,...yu have mail....i am yet to go thru the mail but just saw the inbox containing a mail from yu.....cheers and god bless,,

Zincmaster,,,,Right O!!!!

Captain steve........only time will tell about Englands resurgence in this series..but i would still go with Pakistan....well hope i am right this time.... ...........right about the albanian.......

suzie2000......glad to know yur holidays are approaching...enjoy it when it comes......lol..yu deserved it after the yearlong strees of dealing with students....

tracie..hi....

zenny...hi..

joe...hi guru...whats up????please post!

Hey J hows it going tonight? Was thinking about the road, my children, and gitting back into the music. Although, I have seen every stage from here to ten buck two and it was a great life! However, I was thinking about behind the lights and back stage. Any Ideas for an old bass player like my self?

Thks Wesley B

Hi joe! I'm from Israel, and my english is not good. So I want to wish you about the new G3 in Tokio , its so great show. Joe I wonser why are you don't come to show in Israel. Many guitarist here admirers you and so want you'll come. This will be a big surprise for your admirers here in Israel. Please think about this to show with a G3 jam in Israel.

Hi Joe -hope all is well with you! Thank you for the nusic the song I'm hummin!

js1200js1000 - hmmmm. A what? Is sodium near extinction then? I hereby promise to put less salt on my dinner - but hold on you'd be out of a job - I hereby pledge to put more salt on my dinner so that js1200js1000 can keep his job!! Gotta pay for the next JS guitar somehow. MONEY EH!!!!!!!

962 - have to keep you busy in here, can't have you lurking - what does lol mean on here? I always thought it was "lots of love" my son says "lots of laughs""laugh out loud" aggghhh you could go on forever with this.

Zenfish - Man of mystery - Composing blues differently, hmmmm, I'd tried years ago to understand music, didn't work - it's all ancient greek to me - Happy blues? Blues with a hint of green? Bloooze? See - I just don't understand - that's why I'm not a musician just a fan!

OCPS470, thanks for your response dude. Yeah, I wondered if I'd mis-remembered the detail of which position you'd put that pickup in! When I was looking at it I noticed how low the ouput was......I think I'll go with a Norton in the bridge then, 'cause I just gotta get that PAF Joe in the neck position. I've been reading the description and tech talk for it and it sounds like a great pickup.....the DiMarzio site is so nicely put together, it tells you everything it can in an easy-to-understand format!

I might try a Virtual 2 in the middle position on mine then, sounds like a good setup. Also, I might try it in my Strat with a Virtual Vintage or Chopper or something in the bridge. The Fender fat 50's that I put in there have real String Pull problems.

Yeah, the Norton is a reverse-tone-curve kinda thing so it's got some nice tones. It does indeed have the fatness, but it also has loads of great harmonics, and it seems especially suited to a mahogony-bodied guitar.

Thanks again for your input :-)

Chad, I started writing a Webshots tutorial in this post but it got quite lengthy, so I've e-mailed it to you instead!

English Dave

At home it is usually dinner and tea, at work it is lunch and dinner. If I take the wife out for a midday meal though, it is for lunch. All this confusion for summat to eat!

Hi fellow music lovers, how do you do today? From the papers: A French institution organizes this week a series of “job dating” in major towns to help handicapped people to find an employment. In a first part, the potential employers are in line, waiting to be received by the potential employees, who are staying behind a desk. Each 12 minutes, at the sound of a bell, the employers have to change desk and talk to another person. In a second part, employers meet the candidates they though were the more convincing.

G'day guys, just bought my very very ever first acoustic guitar, an ashton lefty, builtin picups thingys and tunner, man its got a nice sound to it, check my first song with it Joe hope its ok for u mate,

chelle wish u were here too. i had an amazing time. (that was my longest post yet think :D). hope ur feeling better :) (i didn't give u the cold! i swear!)

mari hope ur feeling better too. i'll give that song a dekko & see if i figure anything out :)

al nice pics .... dont match mari's tho ... lol ;)

962 cute cat! :)

He Delfino,

What kind of animal did you torture to get those squeaks? lol

Lov'

Delfino Pie...that one was funny...I liked it...

DelfinoPie, interesting sound..

....Congrat's to the great country of England for their superb victory against the Swiss.... England is a great team, and they deserve to go far.... I hope the U.S. as well as my bro' Alex' Portugal can raise some eyebrows during the coming World Cup!!.... Brazil wins 8-0 over the UAE.... Some team must stop them, and what a spoiler that would be, he, he ,he....

Zen - hahaaa.. Sir Clarky and the quest for the ‘holy shit’..

I think you are trying to determine the chords within a given scale type that have the strongest impact.. or chords that typify a style / genre maybe??
I think you’re ‘barking up the wrong tree’ a little here..
think on this:
does all blues music follow a form of being 12 bars long and using only chords I, IV and V??
the answer is most definitely “no”
yes, the I, IV, V progression is common, but blues music is much greater in scope than this - especially hybrid styles like Chicago and Texas blues which have jazz and country components respectively..

this being the case, is the II, V, I thing a jazz thing? And does it occur in all jazz music??
again.. no and no..

the II, V, I and VI, II, V, I are known to jazzers as a “turn-around” because it most often occurs at the end of a progression.. and turns you around to get back to the start..
given that this is a “cycle of 5ths” progression you can do some interesting suff with it. However, a classical type like me would recognise this progression and a “prefect cadence” with some nice approach chords.
the function is essentially the same from a musical "grammar" point of view..

I’m thinking that you are looking for a typical model for each style.

In my view this is unwise. You’ll not find what you’re looking for because it does not exist.

You are better off learning lots and lots of songs of a great variety styles.
Then study what you’ve learned. Figure out what makes the song work by looking at the chords progressions, inversions, key and key changes, the song form, etc etc..
Then you’ll get to see a wide range of scale and modal usage by the examples of others.

But one thing that I’m am 100% certain of is that a chord progression alone will not determine a specific mode, scale or style of music.
a more useful thing to learn with respect to modal playing is a technique called “melodic substitution” and another called “parallel modulation”
these techniques will not screw your chord selection down to those that occur within specific modal contexts,
it's the notes [via scales and modes] you choose to sound over each indiviual chord that makes the difference tonally...

Clarkysan: Try out the condenser mic on Virtus bro and I'm sure you'll get the sound you are looking for.... BTW, I wont tell anyone you still have the mic bro, lmao....