This is the guitar I spent the most money on, $350 ish. (All my guitars are cheap, or from kits i built) I wanted a nice semi hollow body and splurged, lol! Hamer Echotone, MIK. Very nice alternative to the Epiphone Sheraton, I think better and cheaper 👍🏽

@HandyL I've got a Yamaha, Alvarez (main), and a Mexican Stratocaster. And a squire bass

Thank you! 🙏🏽😃✌🏽

Thank you my friend 🙂✌🏽

Drop D!!!? That’s for hardcore punk heavy metal and Radiohead 🙂‍↔️🖐🏽 that’s the devil’s music 🤘🏽😈🤘🏽 😆 the only head banging in this house is when father Pat bumps your head against the baptismal dish 🤘🏽😈🤘🏽 I don’t really do drop D and the only non standard tunings I’ve played were to just learn Radiohead songs. I do regularly have a guitar tuned in E flat and I recently started playing my classical guitar in C# by pure accident. The neck was being stressed and I tuned down until it was straight enough, tada! C#. C natural is past the limit and strings don’t have enough tension. But yeah, C# is nice. I like the lower registers. I’ve been wanting to buy a Baritone guitar for the past few years. There’s a few cheapies around the $250 range that I’ve been eyeing on eBay.

@HandyL I usually play acoustic, so drop d doesn't sound so crunchy when I play it, but I know what you mean. Sometimes I tune my whole guitar to open D and it makes it really easy to play, with a bright, beautiful sound

@ yes! It’s a different kind of ride 😃👍🏽 the lesser tension in the strings along with lower bass notes gives the instrument a different feel. Like violin versus viola. I played the viola for a year or two when my daughter was taking violin lessons. She eventually quit after a year but i kept playing. Easy to pick up, the guitar skills translate over. Just need to learn how to use the bow which is an art in itself and takes a lifetime to master. Honestly if given the choice to be stranded on a deserted island and could only play one for the rest of my life, I’d choose a viola or violin over the guitar. The sound that you can get from a violin or viola is a whole another level above guitar. It’s harder than guitar but the reward you get from work and practice is so much more satisfying. The range in tone and amplitude along with vibrato and dynamics make sounds that move through you and have an impact that is otherworldly. The first time i did a successful vibrato with a really clean and dynamic note i was hooked! It was like a drug, it was Crack! Guitar face is a joke, they’re all faking it 🤣 yeah yeah, you’re in the groove and playing so clean etc. violin face is shrooms whippets mixed with ketaminecstacy, guitar face is Coors light and decaf coffee 🤣✌🏽

I think Deerseeker buys stock bows from overseas suppliers and doesn’t produce their own designs. I bought a Turkish bow listed as Deerseeker and when it arrived I could tell right away that it’s a clone or the same bow as two other high end expensive bows I’ve seen online. It was an incredible value and worth way more than the $125 I spent on it. I have an OMA Edge longbow that is definitely a copy/clone of the Scorpion longbow that sells for double the price of the OMA.

Thanks DogMania! I appreciate your words more than you would imagine. Coincidentally I’ve been thinking about focusing more on motorcycle content because of the popularity, which I was so surprised by The videos I put so much effort into and feel are the best go nowhere, whereas the unplanned candid footage minimally, if at all, edited surges in popularity. Thanks for stopping by and sharing. There are so many places you could have chosen to be this Saturday night and I am deeply flattered that you chose to comment on my video 😃👍🏽 obviously a cheesy catch phrase but, Stijl good right? Like I could have convinced you to buy some fake crypto or join my Charles Manson cover cult….yeah I’m starting that, cover cults, it’s gonna be fire and the shibbidy or whatever the kids are calling it these days…..I think rad and radical are going to make a comeback. I like to think that I am a big part of the resurgence of stellar as a hip and with it adjective. I firmly believe that I am the originator of the rules drools comparative statement, with my first usage being, ‘Lefties rule and Righties drool’ comment that I spread on a few forums over a decade ago. 😁😉✌🏽

@ I think you hit on a popular theme on KZbin …. With the advent of 4K GoPro’s and Insta 360 cameras providing ultra realistic POV riding videos and high fidelity engine and exhaust sound, so many people love the soothing nature of riding videos…. I think you could literally post videos of the XJ every ride, some with commentary on fixes and upgrades and some just Raw sound and when people search for XJ content, they will get sucked in and drive up your views and engagement count!

Thanks man! That’s really encouraging to hear and motivates me to want to do it more so ✌🏽

Peace brother. Praise Jah-Allah

Thanks! 🙏🏽

I have a few Darrin’s and they are all incredible bows! 😃👍🏽

Thank you! 🙏🏽 😃✌🏽

Haha, thanks 😂 happy Nee Year!

I don’t think I would ever sell it, I love it too much 😃✌🏽

@@DavidBassermann thanks brother 🙏🏽✌🏽

@OreoSwirl-u6u it’s a chord progression I found in the chord sheets on my Guitar Toolkit app. It’s called Benson meets Metheny. I added the fills and the chord melody. The second Cmaj7 - Fm7 uses voicings higher up on the neck. Cmaj7 - C7 - Fmaj7 - Fm7 -Em7 - A7 - Dm7 - G7 - Cmaj7 - C7 -Fmaj7 - Fm7 -C

Merry Xmas!

Thanks man 🙏🏽😃✌🏽

Yes, lol? It’s a little mini Marshall amp I bought from Walmart super cheap. 9V battery is dying so the distortion is kinda heavy.

Hamer import burst top. Made in Korea, 90s-2000s. Production went to Indonesia and China afterwards. Very nice guitars! Slammer Series and plain HAMER logo on headstock made in Korea are the best after the USA models. Very undervalued but the prices have been going up, especially on the Slammer Series models.

Thank you 🙏🏽 ✌🏽

You got a deal 👍🏽

@@HandyL I subbed 😁

Thanks man! ✌🏽

Thank you 🙏🏽😃✌🏽

Already working on it ✌🏽😃👍🏽

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year! 🌟💫💥✌🏽

Thank you my man! 👍🏽😃✌🏽

I know right?!! What’s taking them so long. I wish I had started recording earlier. The contrail/chemtrails were pretty amazing as they were being shot out.

D’oh. I better check into that, lol! 🤣✌🏽

I feel you. I’m glad I went to art school instead. I had a few music school friends that told me horror stories about how they sabotaged each other, cutting the strings on their instruments and what not.

I felt the same way about my archery videos, those videos were just for fun and I had no actual goal for them. The music and guitar videos are different for me. Maybe because I’ve been playing music a lot longer and songwriting is such a strong passion of mine. I have goals for my music and it’s something I will never put down like I did with archery. As much as I love archery, if I don’t get back into it I’ll be okay. I don’t feel the same way about music. Music has always been on and off for me having taken long breaks and never really focusing on it. When I started playing piano everything changed. I always wanted to play the piano as a kid but ended up with a trumpet that I hated then guitar because everyone had one so there was always one laying around. I played guitar for a few years without ever having my own, just played friend’s guitars so I never really got into it but I knew how to play it. I was made to play the piano and saxophone. I got pretty good at Clarinet and saxophone in my twenties and am going to start playing clarinet again. I don’t have a piano right now so I’m stuck playing the guitar 😞 I’m definitely not a guitarist, those guys are egotistical buttheads 😂 Guitarists are like the popular jocks in high school whereas the piano players are nerdy smart honors students lol. Love you brother,cheers ✌🏽

Thank you! I think you are cool too ✌🏽😃👍🏽

You don’t like MC Hammer?

I don’t know why you felt the need to convey your displeasure? Hmmmm? You could have just moved on after the 20 second short but instead you devoted more time to display your douchebagery and try to put me down. I imagine you are overweight middle aged white Midwest drinks Bud light and still dream about your glory days playing football in high school. All the best to you, I hope you find happiness in the rest of your life ✌🏽

@ hey bro it’s not that deep, you’re just ass at guitar

Yeah okay whatever… you still felt the need to put me down so there is something you are insecure about. I never said I was a good guitarist. I do know that good musicians and artists don’t feel the need to put people down. That’s only something that people who ride the bench do because they are jealous they can’t play in the game.

Oh, and I am definitely not your bro…bro ✌🏽

Interesting! I wonder what aspects of the tune caused that?

Haha!!! Sorry for my ignorance. One question although? Did you play any instrument before the trumpet? I’m a self taught clarinet and saxophone player but studied the trumpet for a few years which helped in learning woodwind instruments with reeds. Messing around with the flute lately and want to get back to practicing viola. 😀👍🏽✌🏽

@HandyL I taught myself how to play the guitar... And I am old

I feel like music theory comes easier to those who are older or more mature. It can be tedious and boring if you don’t have an interest in it. Thanks for commenting. I’m getting kind of sick of the term ‘self taught guitarist’ being associated with lacking music knowledge and/or technique. 👍🏽

@HandyL I was 52 years old before I even knew there was such a thing as music theory, now I'm 64 and I teach music theory. It Don't come easy for nobody it just depends on how much gumption you got to put into it... And none of it has to do with how much you play

64!!! I just uploaded a rendition of ,When I’m 64’ the other day. Yes you are absolutely correct. Practicing and learning theory are two different things. I really got into studying theory when I was playing the piano regularly. Kind of can’t really do one without the other, playing piano and learning music theory. It’s so easy to understand and visualize it when sitting at a piano.

It shoots great! I just had to adjust to the shallow cut shelf. That was something I had to overcome and get used to but it only took a couple shots then I had it dialed in. Very fast bow! I was pleasantly surprised by how fast, and quiet 😳 it was.

I personally don’t see how CAGED helps. It Isn’t really anything unless you know the note of the root of the chord as you bar the shape and go up the neck.

It’s more about seeing the intervals pattern on the neck. The way BC is stacked above EF. The intervals form a sort of staircase that repeats as it goes up the guitar neck.

@@HandyL The point of CAGED is getting a better overview of the fretboard. This also includes learning where the root notes are. Then you can start seeing the different intervals. It sounds like you think CAGED is just a pattern and nothing else, but the pattern is only the start.

Merci bien mom ami! 😃🙏🏽✌🏽

Sorry no tab. It was all on the spot improvised. I probably couldn’t play it again unless I listen to it and transcribe it but still wouldn’t be the same.

It’s the major and minor pentatonic scales combined together in G#. Add chromatic lines flat seventh, seventh, and root etc. wherever there is a 1 3 pattern in the minor pentatonic box, make it 1 2 3 and use hammer ons and pull offs to make the quick runs.

@@HandyL thank you

Thanks big brother 🙏🏽✌🏽

Cheers buddy ✌🏽