Yup. This box is the foundation of a lot of my playing. All those fourth frets I (usually) hit with my pinky. Although I do move around the fretboard a decent amount as well.
I'm working my way through an Eric Krasno (Soulive) masterclass (via Marty Music). Was $60 I think, but I've seen it on sale for $30.
He doesn't go too deep into theory, but stuff like if we're jamming over G7, and I'm playing rhythm, I'll play X, Y, and Z and then I'll add the #9 here and...
Correct. I think for some people (myself included) understanding the universal/foundational elements is essential to understanding the abstraction of the theory.
Which is why I recommend it for people who struggle with theory. Not as a replacement, but to help build the foundational...
How Music Works
Highly recommend this book for people who don't like "theory".
It's a more "physical science" view of how music works:
-Frequencies and how they relate to different intervals
-Fundamental frequencies vs. harmonics
-why basically every culture independently came up with the...
IG can be good -- I follow some cool guitar-related accounts, some funny meme accounts, and friends and family (only the ones I like).
I post occasional "stories" (i.e. photos that disappear after 24 hours), mainly just pics of the baby to keep family across the country in the loop.
some pedals are worse than others and a few similar pedals can be okay. I have most of mine (inc. all digital) on isolated slots. I have my overdrives daisy-chained so that I have just the one power-supply plug for the whole board.
This is a much better option than 10 wall-warts into...
bought a bunch of patch cables and a new power-supply and spent some time getting things organized. this is as neat as this has ever (or will ever) look.