• Supporting artists: Streaming VS Buying

• Hammer-on tutorial

• Using modes when improvising

• 12/8 Feels

• Tune memorization

• Playing freely & musically vs thinking too hard and sounding robotic

• Compositional Approaches

• Fingerings

• Getting gigs

• Connecting changes or ideas when soloing

• Triplets

• Long Scale VS Short Scale

• Executing techniques live vs in the shed

• ‘Sus’ and ‘add9’ chords

• Vamps: thinking modally vs chord tones and extensions

• reading and feeling stuck in your development

• Finding gigs & jam sessions

• Breakdown of the rhythm of my tune “Inside Out”

• Help with Jörg’s transcription of Frans Vollink and fretboard navigation

• Help with how to play parts of my solo from the play-along page on “Joy Luck”

• Gospel substitutions

• Rock VS funk feel

• Staccato vs legato playing

• structured practice & avoiding distractions

• iReal Pro Play-alongs in practice VS real life scenarios and keeping form

• Just Friends Play-Through

• Melody & Harmony (and the bass)

• Fretboard awareness

• Gain vs volume

• Plucking hand dexterity

• Making charts for gigs

• How to network and get on the scene

• When to say yes/no to a gig

• Motifs

• Rhythm & Odd Meters

• Pedals

• Apps

• Getting comfortable on a 6-string

• What to practice if limited on time

• Learning tunes

• Younger self advice

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• Difference in approach when soloing VS walking

• Who am I checking out

• Playing from the 5th of a chord when improvising

• 4 string / 6 string

- Getting your sound at home and maintaining it everywhere you play

- playing without a drummer

- various learning / practice tips

- weak beats / strong beats

- don’t want to play jazz but should I work on it?

• Learning Spain

• Humpty Dumpty

• Thinking in key centers VS chord scales

• Walking basics / reading chord charts

• Reading shifting meters

• Playing behind the beat

• Learning the notes of the fretboard

• Fretboard economy

• If I could go back in time, what would I do differently in my development

• Keeping track of where you are in a tune

• Learning all parts of a tune

• Polyrhythms

• Recording process (in the studio)

• Modes… do we need them?

• General mid-month Q&A

• Substitutions

• Fill and lick development

• Effects