Sweet. Sometime in June is my bet, depending on touring and shit.

Joe, what's your background? When you're walking with your ipod, try and find the steady beat and walk to it, and that's most likely the quarter note pulse. Twice as fast is eighth notes. Half as fast is half notes. Try walking to quarter note pulses of different songs, and externalizing either eight notes or quarter notes on your body with your hand, or on an object like a pen with your index finger. Every thing that moves moves in rhythm and that includes you. You already have consistent rhythm, you just need to be aware of it and control it. Then you apply it to the instrument. With guitar and strumming, treat all your down strokes as quarters, and all your upstrokes as the eighth notes between quarters. When you learn a song, no matter how simple the strum is, keep a steady clock like up-and-down motion with your strum. The trick is to only strike the strings when the song dictates, but to keep the up and down motion of the strum continuous. That's one simple way to externalize your internal rhythm.

Also, slow and steady trains your muscular memory and trains it correctly. Start slow and gradually speed up. You can play anything anyone else plays, and just as fast, but it takes time and the fastest road to that is slow and steady, and repeate it till your ready to puke.

That Guitar Fitness cover looks gay, but Josquin DuPres is a legitimately wonderful and amazing player who gets no attention, so i would check it out.

Peace,
Phil

Hey dusty, I'll buy that faggoted-up guitar book off of you if you're not using it.

And Phil, I'm going to second Colin in asking what broken 6ths look like. Is it bad that I'm playing the scale the same way every time, or should I be learning different ways to play major scales while I'm doing this?

Nope, I still want to learn. But I would recommend getting it, my friend raved about it.

And since when does highly stylized cartoonishly muscle-bound men == faggoty? I have to admit to never even thinking about theghey until this thread...

I mean, unless you want him. Then I could see it, but I think faggotiness is in the eye of the beholder.

in a C Major scale, sixths are
low C up to A,
down to D up to B
down to E up to C
down to F up to D
down to G up to E
down to A up to F
down to B up to G
down to C

high C down to E
up to B down to D
up to A down to C
up to G down to B
up to F down to A
up to E down to G
up to D down to F
up to C down to E
up to B down to D
up to C

it spans a couple octaves so go slow at first.