Thanks, Duke! As my technique builds with each of the lessons, I'm feeling closer and closer to being able to just relax and play -- but obviously not quite there yet! You, Mike and Paul do a terrific job in teaching tunes which work on a variety of techniques and challanges. Each lesson teaches so much more than just another song. My friend, listening to my playing recently, remaked on the improvement, and said, "Wow, thank God for Duke Robillard!" But I'll just thank you directly, Duke, et. al. ;-) These lessons really mean a lot to me. 

Nice Job Bruce, Sometimes playing with a track can be a bit difficult but like Mike says, if you take your time and breath a little between lines it will groove more. Concetrate on relaxing more and letting it flow. You just may be trying a bit too hard. Youre doing really good with it though. I know that vibrato thing can be daunting. At this time in my life, it's impossible for me to get that kind of vibrato! Duke 

Now that I've recorded my own backing track, here's another stab at the melody! I imagine we'll do the next two A's as improv and then back to the melody in the bridge and out on the last A? Looking forward to seeing the next lesson!!

Great lesson! Thanks Mike and Duke! I feel like I'm making progress. Feedback as always would be very much appreciated. I was going to try to copy that thing where Mike wiped his brow before playing the lick. I don't know if it was intentional, but it looked very cool. ;-) Thanks again!

Awesome work Mike!