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Posted by: mtappa Mar 16 2009, 01:24 AM
Hey everyone!
This is Matt from Wausau, WI in the USA. Wausau is about 1.5 hours away from Green Bay, home of the Green Bay Packers.
I just joined GMC... I love the crazy amount of lessons to choose from on this site. I'm a bit of a beginner guitar player and just recently committed to practicing every day. This has made all the difference and I'm starting to see good results. I started with some acoustic chord strumming excercises but recently enjoyed Kristopher Dahl's Power Chords for Beginners. Looking forward to making some serious progress with all the mind blowing talent at this site.
My guitars and amp....
Michael Kelly Tribal Sun Electric w/ Roland Microcube Amp
&
Seagull S6 Acoustic
Posted by: TreyDeschamp Mar 16 2009, 01:30 AM
Thats cool welcome to the GMC family! Bret Favre married my second cousin I have been to his house. Sorta weird being that I dont really know my second cousin though!
Posted by: Andrew6 Mar 16 2009, 01:30 AM
Welcome! You've made a wise choice 
Posted by: Pedja Simovic Mar 16 2009, 01:31 AM
Welcome to GMC Matt ! 
Posted by: Jerry Arcidiacono Mar 16 2009, 01:46 AM
Hi Matt and welcome to the site
Posted by: Ramiro Delforte Mar 16 2009, 02:12 AM
Welcome to the site Matt mate! 
Be free to ask any questions 
Posted by: Emir Hot Mar 16 2009, 02:22 AM
Welcome to GMC
Posted by: Aleksander Sukovic Mar 16 2009, 02:42 AM
Hi Matt and welcome to GMC.
Posted by: Lian Gerbino Mar 16 2009, 02:46 AM
welcome!
Posted by: Stephane Lucarelli Mar 16 2009, 11:54 AM
Welcome to GMC Matt
Posted by: audiopaal Mar 16 2009, 12:48 PM
Welcome to GMC
Posted by: Bogdan Radovic Mar 16 2009, 01:16 PM
Welcome to GMC Matt !!
Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Mar 16 2009, 02:06 PM
Hey man, you came to the right place! Welcome to GMC!
Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Mar 16 2009, 02:09 PM
Hi Matt! Welcome to the site!
Posted by: David Wallimann Mar 16 2009, 02:15 PM
Welcome Matt!
Don't hesitate to ask any questions you have here!
Posted by: berko Mar 16 2009, 02:48 PM
It's great that you have found your way here and that you can now practice every day! Welcome to GMC man
Posted by: Drakonates Mar 16 2009, 08:22 PM
Welcome to the club
Posted by: Fran Mar 16 2009, 09:50 PM
Welcome Matt, enjoy the site
Posted by: Matt23 Mar 16 2009, 09:57 PM
Hey Matt, you have the same acoustic as me. Welcome to GMC.
Posted by: jer Mar 16 2009, 10:08 PM
WI.
You guys have good beer up there.
I've been in your state many a time. I even had my drivers license suspended there!
Posted by: ErikEklund Mar 16 2009, 10:36 PM
Hi Matt, welcome to gmc!
Posted by: mtappa Mar 17 2009, 03:51 PM
You guys have good beer up there.
I've been in your state many a time. I even had my drivers license suspended there!
That's funny...is it a good thing when the first image of your state is the excellent beer options and the subsequent police response to driving a vehicle after said consumption? Thanks for the laugh!
Welcome to GMC.Hi Matt,
I saw at your profile you were thinking about taking in your Seagull S6 to get the action lowered. Did you ever do that? My Seagull certainly has a bit higher action than my Bean Blossom acoustic/electric and the neck is wider than most but I'm starting to get used to it and I love the rich sound it produces vs. my A/E. I'd hate to ruin such a beautiful sound. I actually feel I'm a better guitar player when playing the S6 cause I can't be sloppy. I have to be very techinical with the fingerings but the sound reward is awesome.
As far as this site...have you come across any great acoustic strumming lessons? I've seen many classical and fingerpicking lessons but was looking for some chord strumming excercises.
Thanks!
Posted by: Jose Mena Mar 17 2009, 04:57 PM
Welcome to GMC
Posted by: Matt23 Mar 17 2009, 05:21 PM
I saw at your profile you were thinking about taking in your Seagull S6 to get the action lowered. Did you ever do that? My Seagull certainly has a bit higher action than my Bean Blossom acoustic/electric and the neck is wider than most but I'm starting to get used to it and I love the rich sound it produces vs. my A/E. I'd hate to ruin such a beautiful sound. I actually feel I'm a better guitar player when playing the S6 cause I can't be sloppy. I have to be very techinical with the fingerings but the sound reward is awesome.
As far as this site...have you come across any great acoustic strumming lessons? I've seen many classical and fingerpicking lessons but was looking for some chord strumming excercises.
Thanks!
Hey Matt, I haven't done anything about the action yet. I was in contact with Seagull finding out what saddle I had, and they said it might be a good idea to adjust the truss rod instead of the saddle, so I'm going to investigate a bit more before I do anything. If I do decide to sand the saddle I'm going to order a cheap saddle to practice on, and the actual model of saddle that came on my guitar to actually do it on, so it's going to be a little while before I get round to changing the action. When I do i'll tell you how it went.
About strumming lessons, acoustic isn't my main instrument, but my two favourite chordal strumming lessons are Jerry's http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/rhythm-guitar/open-strings-strumming/and http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/rhythm-guitar/acoustic-strumming-lesson/.
Cheers
Matt
Posted by: skennington Mar 17 2009, 07:21 PM
Glad to have you on board Matt
Posted by: Muris Varajic Mar 25 2009, 01:22 PM
Welcome to GMC!
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