Excellent Craig! I enjoyed watching and listening to this! Keep em coming!

Thanks Chuck. Much appreciated.  😆

I love your Suhr Guitar!! 🤩  🤩 

Me too!

Nicely done Craig. Sounds great too!

Sounds great and reminds me that I want to hear some live music tonight and have a beer. Not the worst reminder!!!!

Thanks everyone. I actually think it was a little sloppy in parts. I had to catch up in a couple of places.  But I am happy with the effort. 

Hey nice work! And nice T-Shirt in the background! 🙂 

Thanks Robert!  Yeah it IS a nice Tee shirt....Whoever gave it to me must have excellent taste!!

Hi Craig, me once again. I wrote "it sounds great" and found out, that means I like just the sound. What I wanted to say: I like your music and playing. Just to be accurate....

Thank you for clearing that up.  😎 

Classic!  And I mean all of it-  the progression, surf sound, and man-cave decor.  And my favorite element is switching in and out of solo to comping rhythm and back to solo, that's smooth.  

The song requires a laid back feel, but the natural reaction is to feel a bit rushed switching gears, until you have this comfortably under your belt.  Can you tell us a little about the approach to practicing for this piece?  Take the members for a walk through your process, maybe how much time and what effort us required to make that level of playing rhythm and solo when working on this kind of performance.

We are lucky to have you posting such good materials, Craig. 

Hey Clayton,  I think the whole key to this kind of playing is to play along with your favorite music.  Learn the rhythm and solo sections so that you can naturally switch. Record rhythm section and then do a second track of call and response,  leaving gaps to play live. In those gaps you have the freedom to either solo or comp. After a while (many hours (days) in my instance) it becomes second nature. 

The philosophy---The real secret that I dont normally share (but you guys seem nice!) is to LISTEN.  To really listen!! In order to achieve that we need to learn how to be completely silent inside. Very hard to achieve,  I'm still struggling.  This brings out an honest analytical ear that we can use to focus and zero in on the most intimate of sounds. We get to see and hear the whole soundscape.

I've been playing guitar for 41 years and have had the good fortune of having played with much more experienced players who have taken the time to offer guidance.  So find someone in your locale who can do this for you.  Having a Great teacher is essential -enter R.R ,  but having a more experienced jamming buddy who can also guide you is the bomb!! 😎 

I think the only reason for why it sounded so great was that t-shirt in the background.

🤣 [just joking with ya!]