Greetings from West Texas

Good Evening Everyone,

Been on a 12 year layoff from picking up my guitar and recently, the urge has me wanting to dive back into it. I took some private lessons back in the late 80's / early 90's and messed around with it but never joined a band but did play in worship band at church back mid 2000's. Played in that band for about 3 years and then I stopped.  Fast forward to now, I've been looking for an online guitar lessons since the local music scene is not conducive to my style of music for lessons that would interest me (born and raised in So Cal, now in West Texas for the past 10 yrs) So I thought I would give this a whirl. 

I want to go back to the fundamentals of learning and a lot of what I learned is a distant memory and now that I just turned 60, I want to keep my brain functioning in the right direction. Dementia runs in my family and I would like to excise that muscle.  

I have question regarding this program, since I will be using my work station with headphones, do I need to use a audio interface in order play along with the lessons? I'm assuming this would be the proper set up, am I correct?

All the best

Albert

Hi Albert,

To hear your electric guitar with headphones on and a tutorial running, you will need an interface such as the Scarlet Solo. 

However, the guitar is going to be raw. Meaning your only tone options will be on the guitar itself.

When I am working at my desk and using headphones, I use a program on my PC called Amplitube, which gives me various amp models and effects pedals to use. You don't need it,

but having it makes things more interesting than just a straight guitar feed. 

Bill

Thank you, Bill, for the insight.  I do remember that Amplitude program and revisited their website last night. I will be doing some more research on both products, we're living in some pretty exciting times, thank you again.

Albert

Hi Albert!

I am glad that Bill has been able to offer you some techical advice.

I am just jumping in here to say welcome, and we are all cheering you on as you learn to play things you love on your guitar!

Be well, Lisa

Pleasure, good luck with it Albert 

Edit: one other option I just thought of are Boss Waza Headphones. I have these as well. These are a more expensive option, but give you a Katana amp in a set of headphones. They use bluetooth to pair with either your pc or your phone. No cables.

Bill,

I went ahead and purchased this set up.. Gotta have some interesting tone while I am learning right?

Albert

Thank You Lisa,

I am looking forward to jumping in with both feet...

All the best

Albert

Awesome, enjoy!

Cool!

Rumble

Happy New Year Bill,

Revisiting this question, now that I have Amplitude, I haven't had the opportunity to jump into a lesson yet but to sync both the interface and guitar licks, what is the trick? My headphones are plugged into the interface, will guitar tricks lesson play through the interface module or is there something I need to do to sync them both?

Albert

Happy new year Albert!

Yes, once you have everything hooked up everything will come through your head phones. 

I put a short video up of my settings and hopefully this gets you up and running.

https://youtu.be/DL-O3A3taNE?si=J66BFEPE6-1b1bHC

Thank You Bill, this was totally awesome of you do this...   I came across this backing tracks site with this cat named Roberto Restuccia, this kid has some really cool licks.

Guitar backing tracks |Coffee Break Grooves

Thanks again

Albert

You're welcome, hopefully you are up and running soon.

Yeah, great site. Thanks

Bill