Wow. That sucks. If I had any fresh veggies, I'd can them up and send some to you, but I don't garden.
2,677 2012-08-27 14:27:12
Re: Beginner (4 replies, posted in Acoustic)
My suggestion is to go to www.justinguitar.com and go through his beginner's lessons, which will teach you some important chords and how to play them well. The lessons are organized into batches (I don't recall what he calls them). At the end of each batch or grouping of lessons, there are songs you can play the use the material you just learned.
I have no association with www.justinguitar.com aside from that of a satisfied user. It is a free, donation requested, site. If you find it valuable, make a donation. If it doesn't work for you, then go over to www.yourguitarsage.com and see how you like that. Likewise, I have no association with www.yourguitarsage.com, but it is another site with good instructional material for beginners, but with a different style and approach from www.justinguitar.com. There are also recommended songs on that site, as well as many, many, many song lessons if you want to just jump right into those.
- Zurf
2,678 2012-08-27 01:55:44
Re: NBC confuses Neil Young with Neil Armstrong. (7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
At least they didn't run video of Michael Jackson moon-walking.
2,679 2012-08-27 00:18:47
Re: For Astronomikal (3 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
That would be great! I look forward to receiving it.
- Zurf
2,680 2012-08-26 13:17:35
Topic: For Astronomikal (3 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
On "I Got a Name" - the chords I used last night were from Ultimate Guitar. I don't think they're quite right, but they're a good starting place. However, for that passing bass line you said you like at the end of the verses, the chords are listed as C/D, but it sounds a lot better doing a C then moving to whatever chord it is if you move the C on the fifth string to a B (I raise my ring finger and move my middle finger from the fourth string second fret to fifth string second fret and put my ring finger on the fourth string second fret, picking the fifth string with my thumb and simultaneously the 1,2,3 strings with my index, middle, and ring finger), then the next "chord" is to play the fifth strong open as an A.
This gives you a walk-down with the C chords treble notes and C, B, A as the bass notes. But again, on the A just play the A without the treble notes. Use the break to move your treble fingers for the D chord and set right into it. It sounds pretty good.
I think that's what I did.
- Zurf
2,681 2012-08-26 03:11:01
Re: Any skype jams this weekend? (16 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Good fun. Lots of music. Some help. A few requests. It all came out good and everyone left smiling. Possibly because they were going, but it's hard to tell. These things are always the highlight of my month or week or whatever it's been till we do it next.
- Zurf
2,682 2012-08-26 01:32:21
Re: Any skype jams this weekend? (16 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
hey Beamer - It was great to have you on. Your audio dropped right at the end. We could see your lips moving but we couldn't hear you, so if we didn't reply politely the way you'd expect that's why.
2,683 2012-08-25 13:51:00
Re: Any skype jams this weekend? (16 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
WHAT?
2,684 2012-08-25 03:05:26
Re: I got the new job (11 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
zguitar wrote:
normtheguitar wrote:Congrats, Mr Z - they obviously know a good man when they see one...
Cheers!Luckily, they let him go and gave Zurf the job.
There's more truth to that than I like to admit.
There were three of us in the department they disbanded. My boss, me, and one other fellow. The other fellow and I each found soft places to land inside the company. My boss was informed that there would be no soft landing for him. He's a good man. I expect that he won't be available long.
- Zurf
2,685 2012-08-24 20:51:19
Re: Working on a new "Yellow" song (1 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
And while I'm on a Guy Clark kick, Dublin Blues as well. It wouldn't be right if I only played a happy song. Got to get depressing right quick.
- Zurf
2,686 2012-08-24 17:17:09
Topic: Working on a new "Yellow" song (1 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
The Cape by Guy Clark.
Are we ever going to see one another again so I can try it out? Now that I've got a job and everything, I'll get Skype Premium to be able to host. You know, once I see the signed paperwork.
- Zurf
2,687 2012-08-24 13:07:13
Re: Willie Nelson taken to hospital (16 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
They can't give him anything in the hospital that would make him wobblier than what he does voluntarily. FREE WILLIE!!
- Zurf
2,688 2012-08-24 13:01:14
Topic: I got the new job (11 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I officially start on 9/1, though I started doing the work the beginning of August. I guess they liked what they were getting. Same company, same rate of pay, same benefits, same Executive Director, and I still get to work from home.
- Zurf
2,689 2012-08-23 15:07:40
Re: mekidsmom (12 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
That sounds like fun.
2,690 2012-08-23 11:28:49
Re: Where is the justice (24 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I hate cancer.
2,691 2012-08-23 11:27:53
Re: NGD!!!! (6 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Wow. Have fun with it.
2,692 2012-08-21 19:53:09
Re: Scales (27 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
It's amazing how stressed I get trying to get them right. As I work on them I realize I'm white knuckling the pick. Like it's trying to escape or something. Just one more thing to remember. Fingertips, bend knuckles, move thumb, the right notes to play, finger right behind the fret, keep time, hold the pick comfortably but firmly and without stress, alternate picking direction. It's enough to drive a person to drink, which is one of the more pleasant bits about it.
I've set a timer and work for five minutes playing the scale up and back in a steady loop for five minutes, take a few moments break, then repeat that twice more. That gives me fifteen minutes of scale practice per session. As I get better, I'll move that up, but for now fifteen minutes on scales per day will have to do.
2,693 2012-08-21 12:50:11
Re: Scales (27 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Here's my advice on scales. Learn them before you start getting arthritis in your hands. Holy moly! Ben Gay rub and Pain Free spray have been my buddies this week, that's for sure.
- Zurf
2,694 2012-08-20 14:06:08
Re: Willie Nelson taken to hospital (16 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Here's hoping he recovers. He's not one to compromise quality of life for quantity, and he's been lucky enough to get both. Now, I wouldn't particularly care for what he considers to be quality of life, but making those decisions for yourself is one meaning of the word "free."
- Zurf
2,695 2012-08-20 14:04:06
Re: CAGED (6 replies, posted in Acoustic)
If you go around the circle of fifths backwards, do the bottles fill back up?
- Zurf
2,696 2012-08-20 11:24:10
Re: mekidsmom (12 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Bummer. See you when you get back. Ping me on Skype if you feel like talking in the meanwhile.
- Zurf
2,697 2012-08-18 09:22:55
Re: Scales (27 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
jerome.oneil wrote:
The E phrygian stuff (and all the modal scales) are exactly the same Eureka moment as your relative minor moment.
Not quite. I already understood what a minor scale was and how it was formed when I had the Eureka! moment about relative minors. Because I am still confused by modes and how they are formed, it's more of a Eureka? moment. Please don't try to unconfuse me about modes right now. You'll go through a bunch of effort just to have me scratch my head and ignore it until I have a firmer grasp on forming and applying scales on the guitar neck. Baby steps.
- Zurf
2,698 2012-08-17 21:28:58
Re: Scales (27 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
For bass, I memorized the patterns and how one pattern would fit over another (allowing me to move up or down). You'd think this would translate to guitar success. In my case, you'd have thought wrong (as I did).
- Zurf
2,699 2012-08-17 18:24:03
Re: Scales (27 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Yeah, that's the stuff that took me so long to get through in the introduction of the book. He said he's starting out with the "natural scale", which is all the natural notes, which is also C major (I understood that much) and A minor (which took me a long time of head scratching, diagram writing, staring at a piano keyboard, and similar stuff). Finally I had the Eureka! moment "AHA! That's why the minor sixth is the relative minor to a major key," and I was able to finally pick up my guitar and start plucking strings very, very slowly.
You did just toss that E phrygian at me, and I don't really appreciate it. So I am going to do with it what I do with all untimely information, ignore it until the next Eureka! moment.
- Zurf
2,700 2012-08-17 16:01:38
Re: In Case You Are Curious? (26 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
E or D for me.