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Great video as always. Love the charts you implemented.

Hi Frank. I'd quite like to know why you play the guitar that you do and maybe others do too? I'm less interested in the brand but more the size ( I assume yours is a dreadnought or Jumbo?) as I find them a bit too large and prefer no bigger than a triple 0 down to a parlour sized model. I assume it is acoustically helpful for projection and such at your venues? I am not a smaller person but simply find smaller bodies guitars a lot more confortable given I sit and play mostly.

Very well put. When you buy a “used” guitar, which was what most of us did when we began playing, a good guitar will be already “played in.” I have a ‘65 Gibson B-25 acoustic I bought for under $100.00. It was great when I got it and seems to get better every year. BTW, remember when “used” guitars were cheap? …

Brilliant

Feel free to send me any and all bass tube amps lol been looking for a couple of years, but these people with walls of cabs and heads want a fortune for something “dead and obsolete”. If so lower the prices so people like me who actually appreciate and want them can buy em. This is a general statement based on what I see on the market and what I hear people saying btw, not directed at anyone in particular. I get it, but I’ve had to sell gear at a loss too. We’re in a rapidly declining economy and people need to sell for what they can before they just have paper weights.

Awesome Frank ..once I like your approach..playing by sound and rhythm..instead of tabs..very helpful especially the 3/4 6/8...thank you

👍 Thanks for your time Frank! Well done!

The demonstration and graphics were very helpful. I can start using this information right away to improve my strumming. However, it's going to take a lot of practice to get smooth with the palm muting.

my sing along set list 1 Sweet Caroline 2 Don't stop believing 3 Whats up 4 Piano man 5 country roads 6 hey Jude 7 hotel California 8 it's my life 9 have u ever seen the rain 10 livin on prayer I work as a soloist artist on a cruise ship and these songs always work 👍

I have a song request or lesson. How about looking out for number 1. Randy Backman from BTO. Like your videos. Thx

Interesting idea Frank, so I 've come up with my own A-Z. Songs without asterisks are ones I've performed live, ones with one asterisk are songs I've rehearsed but not performed, songs with two asterisks are future possibilities, so here it is, I hope it be of interest to you and others looking for some ideas of songs to play : - Always on my Mind Blowing in the Wind Can't Help Falling in Love With You Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood Exit Music (for a film)* Feeling Good Get Back * House of the Rising Sun / Hallelujah I'd Rather Go Blind Jennifer Juniper ** King of the Road ** London Calling My Way Need Your Love so Bad Only You Perfect Day Quinn the Eskimo ** Riders on the Storm ** Somewhere (from West Side Story)* The Thrill is Gone Unchained Melody Venus in Furs ** Wonderful World X Y Z Bit impossible so for XYZ I'll go for 'The Impossible Dream'* rehearsed it many times and it's nice to play but too much for my voice!!

Well, I think I’ll find someone to play the lead part😂. Glad to find your site ,though.

Great video! Thanks for putting this out here. Ever play around with John Mayer’s take on Free Fallin’? I think it’s pretty great too.

Outstanding vids. Thank you. What kind of Martin is that?

Nice! A Horse With No Name 👍🏻 I think I can get this tune in the bag. Acoustic is the goal but I can see this will be great on my electric with some reverb, delay and / or distortion. Thanks Frank for helping with my guitar endeavours.

Good work Frank!🎸👍

I saw them at the Marquee Club...Wardour St......early 1970s before they became well known.. .❤

4th or 5th video I've seen, subscribed after the very first. I'll be stickin' around ;-)

Hey Frank!

I use the Lekato 5.8 ghz knockoffs of these (about 1/2the $) and I love 'em. The only time I had a problem with dropping out was when a restaurant put me in a spot where their wireless pager router was at the same level as my floor units and about three feet away. That's one time out of well over a hundred gigs since I've had them. I hate chords. Especially attached to my guitar, I feel like an astronaut on a tether during a space walk. (I always bring cables with me as backups, of course, and had to use them in the example I gave above ).😁 I should add that I also use the Lekato 5.8 microphone wireless system with my SM58 and like that too.

Kind of sounds like what Zeppelin did

Ian Anderson probably has thrown away better songs than Henley ever wrote

Wireless is great, helps keep the stage look clean…I’ll consider these for my ‘travel’ acoustic guitar (Klos carbon fiber acoustic) Thanks for the video!

I did the jump! 2 months in! Looking good!

Enjoyed that !!!

Okay, I just ordered a set through your link.....we'll give them a try.

Right on brother! I agree 100%. I hope every young singer-guitarist sees this video.

Great advice! I’ve performed with a lot of working musicians. The best of them know that our job is to entertain, not to feed our ego. 😊 But the good news is that all those songs have room for interpretation, giving us a chance to bring some of our own freshness to them. (Now, we just need some emergency classic songs for younger generations!)

Achy Breaky Heart! I do it in A. A-E and, if adventurous you can play a few E7's instead of the Es! :) Yeah, critics say it's one of the worst songs ever written but the listeners at every gig sing along/tap their feet and often dance!

Wish you would take each song here and teach us how to play them in the exact order you learned them. Now that would be extreamly helpful !

That is quite a journey, thanks for sharing.

I’ve been playing guitar for 60 years started when I was five and I still play it every day just by myself no one around except possibly my wife or my son but I do it because it makes me feel good inside and that’s all there is to anybody listening great if you’re not, that’s great too. I do it for me.

Good timing on this vid - as I am very close to going wireless, particularly form acoustic duo work, as I like to once in awhile walk out around the front of the mains to hear everything,, engage a bit with the audience etc. Plus playing at a market the other day my guitar cables get dusty on the ground etc., I sometimes have 2 acoustic guitars with me thought so I should see about having two transmitters and one receiver (if that exists). Glad they work well for you - I was researching brands awhile back and tough to decide what to get. I will just lunge forward and get something soon to try out before my next gig .

Great content Frank! I'm lovin' what you are putting out. Glad to be one of the early adopters of what will soon be a much larger subscription base here on YT.

The Tall Fiddler. . Guitar boogie.. The last steam engine... Are all favorites of mine.. Solo instrumentals really....

Lay Lady Lay, was one of the first songs I learned.

Hi Frank. I’ve been using these for performance for years. Not doing much walking around on stage, but it’s great to not have a tripping hazard. My only suggestion besides charging every night when you get home from playing is - ALWAYS have a couple of different length guitar cables with you for backup. If they die during a job, you need to be able to recover pronto.