WAY late to your thread here but watched the last few AVOYPs you posted JK & have to agree with the others… your playing on the Fender HH Tele has a really cool tone going on!!! Play is solid, timing feels solid & very enjoyable!!!
My only criticism would be that your “Guitar Face” looks angry 
! Smile & show that you’re enjoying your Groove!!! If not… that’s cool too, I just think it might be, I dunno, a better feel for your audience.
Rock On, Man!!!
Love it!
Tod
Just to add to my last…
Don’t be -
Be -
Just having a bit of fun!!!
Really though, thanks JK for all your contributions to this community!!! I appreciate you, man!
Tod
Great stuff, JK! I have the same rock songbook. Guess I need to get back to it now that I have my new strat.
Thanks for the feedback Adrian!
I found this hilarious Tod! I guess I am a grumpy cat rather than an Otis… at least when playing guitar. I’m usually more friendly in real life (although not quite an Otis there either… 
)
A couple of times I’ve tried to control my guitar face a bit better… and then I end up messing up. Maybe I need to put daily guitar face practice in my routine 
. Or maybe not, most of the guitar music I listened to growing up was angry… even though my tastes are more chilled out now.
Thanks Tosh. Lots of good songs in the book with new techniques. Worth learning a few.
I can’t comment on the skill/technique, but that sounded amazing JK 
I’ve only learned the riff from Grade 1, but I keep practicing it in my daily routine as I hope to learn the rest of the song once I’ve learned the techniques needed for it (power chords, palm muting, etc.).
I love that idea! I’m in Grade 2, and the songs there are much harder and taking much longer for me to learn which got my old unwelcome friends “self-doubt” and “frustration” rearing their ugly heads. So I’m taking your approach and revisiting Grade 1 songs and trying to learn more of those to build up my song repertoire and self-confidence while still working on a single Grade 2 song to keep the challenge level up (not that Grade 1 songs are easy, just easier). It’s made my daily practice more fun again, and I realized that I can apply the new techniques learned in Grade 2 to Grade 1 songs, so I’m doing that (kind of taking a step back to go farther forward approach). I’m currently working on Wonderwall from Grade 2 (stuck chords), and Black by Pearl Jam from Grade 1 (rhythm push strumming technique from Grade 2).
I’ve also ordered Justin’s songbooks (Beginner 1 & 2 as well as the Rock Songbook) from Anderton’s to save on international shipping since I’m visiting London. So thanks for the inspiration, and the “aha” moment 
Hi ya’ll, grumpy cat here trying to be in a regular recording groove.
Should I Stay Or Should I Go by The Clash
This is the next one from Justin’s guitar songbook. It was just going to be repertoire, but I decided to learn the 5 string barre chord grip Justin shows in the video lesson. That took a bit of practice to get under the fingers. Backing track courtesy of karaoke-version again.
Princess Jasmine decided to photobomb me, I should really learn to prepare more for these. At least there are no short-shorts in this one.
All comments welcome, positive and negative.
Spotted this at 5am and decided to bookmark and not play until daylight. Good decision !
What a great way to brighten up a grey morning. Rock solid pretty much throughout and the tone was to die for and sounded great. Keep them coming JK.
Nothing from me JK, that was brilliant. Your tone sounded great.
I gave the original a listen after watching yours and it all sounded bob on. Bravo! 
Hi…cool …even on my phone
Oi!
Not my fave Clash tune, but you give a solid rendition of it here. Steady rhythm is key and that’s one of your fortes. Nice tone.
Glad to see you got a haircut for the visuals, although a bit tighter on the sides for the Mohawk fx would have shown more commitment 
(My memory was that Rockin’ the Casbah was on continuous MTV rotation at the time)
Thanks for checking it out even before the thread rename guys
Ah, tone was a Fender Deluxe Reverb amp model with an overdrive pedal and some extra reverb. All courtesy of the 'stang 
. Glad you enjoyed it Toby!
Thx Stefan. I “transcribed” those little twiddles in the interlude myself Not sure they’re right but that’s about as much transcribing as I do.
I hope it was an iPhone at least to be truly cool.
I’m on a strict four-weekly haircut regime now, after my mid-life-crisis growing my hair out I was going through when I first joined the community . I thought about the Keith Flint style but couldn’t get it past the missus. Thanks for checkin it Brian!
Nice one JK, especially keeping up with the chord changes and strumming in the chorus, amazing tone again but personally I’d like to hear the higher end a little more, sounded very bass heavy to my ears.
And you’re looking so comfortable and effortless with your playing with each AVOYP share banging 
No an cheap samsung … 3 day’s to go without the good gear … so it’s extra points for you …no i’m going to wash monkeyshit out of my hair (really) 
@brianlarsen I’ve seen this meme around that kind of goes - you think you’re going to get chicks when you play guitar, but you really just get more guitars… I wish I could find the picture 
Yep, I think you’re right there Mark - it was a bit bass heavy on the tone! Comes from me playing solo instead of in a mix most of the time. Thanks for the comment dude.
There must be a story here?!?
Rock solid on the rhythm as per usual, JK, the time spent drumming was a great investment in time by young JK for future JK, the guitar player.
A fun song and enjoyed watching you rock out.
I am in with Notter on the tone, I think it was bass heavy too the point of losing clarity. If not a result of the EQ settings, maybe a result of the reverb? Or perhaps tone adjustment on the overdrive pedal? I’m not a tone master so not sure.
Not quite sure which pickup position you had selected, if not the bridge maybe that would have been a better choice?
Now what about a rendition with guitar and vocal, like Justin’s intro … shoot for some punk attitude on the vocal delivery 
Thanks for the comment David. I’m pretty sure I just have the bass turned up a bit high on the amp on this preset. In hindsight I kind of “knew” that because I was using it to play scales and the low E was way louder than the other strings. But I didn’t really consider how it would sit in the mix for recording . Didn’t even think about it at all. Lesson learnt! I think…
Oh, singing at the same time as playing take a whole lot more practice! And I haven’t actually recorded any vocals for AVOYP for a while I think. Only OMs. Hmm, should have another crack at vocals, but not this song
Great performance JK!
I must admit I didn’t notice anything about the tone until I read the other comments and had another listen to the original. If you were going for that tone I would guess gain down a bit, bass down a bit, mids up, and bridge pu as David said.
…not a very big one but i have to wait for acces my laptop…there is one place in holland where monkey’s watching people and viceversa…
Bravo Jk, that sounded really good to me, Rhythm seems solid and you looked confident in your playing!
