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Tube and spring reverb.  Nice!

Before you start getting all crazy with effects, get used to your voice.  How you sound inside your own head is not how you sound to other people.   Set yourself up with a microphone and an amplifier, and start singing and talking into it.    Once you're accustomed to that sound, you can practice and you'll be surprised how good you sound after a while.

Singing well is 99% confidence, and 1% talent, and I'll argue the talent portion every time.

One of my favorite all time songs.  Nicely done!

People find it easier to play farther up the neck because the frets are closer together, so it's a more natural fit for your hand.  You have big ole' clumsy monkey hands designed for grabbing banannas and picking fleas.   Guitar player hands have to articulate in all kinds of weird directions.  The middle of the neck is about where most folks fingers lie "naturally."

Yes they do.

The relative minor for any major scale is indicated by the sixth note of the major scale.

Some examples

C major / A minor:  Same notes, same key signature.

C Major:  C D E F G A B C
A Minor :  A B C D E F G A   

G major / E minor:  Same notes, same key signature.

G Major: G A B C D E F# G
E Minor : E F# G A B C D E

Metallica hasn't had a decent album since 1989.   You want awesome and heavy and complex, like Metallica used to be?

Meshuggah.   They've been doing it for 20 years, and haven't dropped a beat.

You'll never go back.

How much I run is entirely dependent on who is chasing me. 

I've been trying to get moved into a new house.   Coincidently, it ended up being the hottest weekend on record here.  So I got to hump furniture is blazing heat.

All done now, mostly.

Telluride sits at the end of a box canyon, and they shut the road into town down for the duration of the festival.   Infield camping is done by lottery, so you want to get your name in the box sooner than later.  If you don't get into the infield, and you can't' find a place in town to stay, you'll end up in one of the outlying camp grounds.  They provide shuttle service too and from, but you miss the town atmosphere, which is excellent in it's own right.   

Went drinking in the local bars, and saw members of Leftover Salmon and The String Cheese Incident up on stage jamming.  And also, four full days of Bella Fleck.

We are fortunate that we have a great music scene here, and always have.   It's probably the best place in the world to be if you play originals, because there are so many places looking for it.   In fact, I'm not sure where I'd play if I played in a cover band!

Anyway, I work five short blocks from the market, so I get to see a lot of the buskers that play there.  Fortunate stuff.   

If you're ever back in this neck of the woods, let me know, and we can go see someone make some noise somewhere.

I agree with both musicians.   And I use both when I teach.   Beginners should focus on technique and scales.  Building dexterity and strength has to be done, and scales (and chord transitions) are an excellent way to do it.   And you should always have a goal when you practice.  That goal might be "Run scales until my hands cramp" or it might be "Nail down this Andres Segovia bit perfectly."