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2,827 2012-06-04 12:34:57
Re: Are we spoiled????? (21 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Well I'm sure spoiled, and don't think I don't appreciate it!
- Zurf
2,828 2012-06-04 11:35:57
Re: Missing co-worker (25 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I'm sorry for your loss.
2,829 2012-06-03 12:50:57
Re: Appropriate Strumming (7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
If you are listening to a song and the verse and chorus both have a similar sound, and then there's a bit that has a different sound, different chords maybe or often times a different rhythm or pace, that bit is the bridge. Not every song has one, but many do. Once you know what to listen for, they're pretty easy to pick out with some practice.
I don't know your preferred style of music, so I'll give you a couple examples I know well.
If you're listening to "Sittin' On The Dock of the Bay", the bridge is "Looks like nothing's gonna change..." through to "so I guess I'll remain the same...".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd3rA89VhtA
Or if you're listening to Moonshadow, then the bridge is the part that starts "Did it take long to find me..." and ends with "are you gonna stay the night?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGNxKnLmOH4
I hope that helps.
2,830 2012-06-03 11:58:48
Re: Appropriate Strumming (7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Get and use a metronome. Practice with it. Go sloooooowly when learning a new strumming pattern, and increase the speed a little at a time. Play the pattern PERFECTLY before increasing speed. Eventually, when you get it up to full speed, it will be almost impossible for you to make a mistake with it.
It is not unusual for verse and chorus to be one strum pattern and the bridge to be a different one.
Also, be sure that you recognize that just because there may be a "better" strum pattern than the one you are using, that there is no "perfect" strum pattern, AND that as a student the "better" one may be beyond your grasp at the moment. You don't shingle the roof before laying the foundation.
- Zurf
2,831 2012-06-03 01:48:52
Re: Big Anniversary (16 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Cool. I'm always surprised when folks can remember stuff like that. It's cool that you have. Keep up the good work.
- Zurf
2,832 2012-06-02 11:19:11
Re: Missing co-worker (25 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
You bet Bunbun. Hopefully he just decided to disappear for a while on purpose, but I'll pray for him.
2,833 2012-06-02 01:43:33
Re: Walk ups Walk down (3 replies, posted in Acoustic)
I don't have any specific sites, but you may want to search on bass runs. Remember that the four bass strings of a guitar are tuned the same (just one octave lower) as a four string bass. Runs, walk ups, and walk downs are bread and butter to a bass player.
2,834 2012-06-02 00:16:58
Re: Just learned of the death of a friend (13 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
If there's a funeral, I may try and slip over to Ohio for it. Wish I could make the Buckeye rodeo. Just can't. It's the end of the school year and I'm hosting a neighborhood party at my house. It would be pretty rude of me not to be here for it.
2,835 2012-06-01 22:51:29
Re: Just learned of the death of a friend (13 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
It's sinking in and I'm getting kind of ticked off about it, not that there's any reason to be ticked off.
2,836 2012-06-01 21:55:16
Re: Any music this weekend? (15 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
topdown wrote:
I hope to meet up with Toney on Sunday once again, other than that I'm open for a skype session if there is any interest.
Catch me if you can. If I've got free time I'm happy to Skype away. Saturday I'm taking the family to a festival. Saturday is church and I'm really, really hoping to put a boat in the water. I haven't been afloat since last fall and I'm going insane. But the lake nearby closes at sunset.
2,837 2012-06-01 20:45:03
Re: I have GOT TO get me one of these :) (6 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
dino48 wrote:
I think I will pass on it.
Wonderful pun.
2,838 2012-06-01 19:39:31
Topic: Just learned of the death of a friend (13 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Same age as me. No information on cause of death at this time. Best darned pie-baker I've ever met, but dang she was really bad at paddling whitewater. I can't tell you how many times I had to help rescue her or recover her kayak. She's the reason all my harmonicas taste like Macanudos and Crown Royal, as she kept me well supplied with each at the campfires where I played.
She's a friend to Dirty Ed too. Last time I saw her, we tried a duet on Helplessly Hoping. It ended in peals of laughter, which that song does not usually engender. A few Eagles songs worked out, though.
2,839 2012-06-01 17:06:43
Re: Any music this weekend? (15 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Both sound great. I'm hoping to get a little porch swing time. Sometimes a neighbor willing to sing falls by and we'll give a go at something or another, depending on which neighbor.
- Zurf
2,840 2012-06-01 16:11:55
Re: What's the hardest chord you ever encountered? (133 replies, posted in Acoustic)
Or play some of the notes way up near the 12th fret. It might sound funny, but it'd be open.
- Zurf
2,841 2012-06-01 16:10:08
Topic: Any music this weekend? (15 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Is anyone gigging or jamming at home or up for an on-line endeavor?
- Zurf
2,842 2012-06-01 12:34:13
Re: Dayton, Ohio or Bust (11 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Give him one with a little mojo built in. Great idea. Plus now you have an excuse to buy another guitar, which is always helpful.
- Zurf
2,843 2012-06-01 01:11:44
Re: living with guitars (13 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
And Crossfire. Sorry. Just so many good SRV songs. He even made Mary Had a Little Lamb into a kick-butt jam.
2,844 2012-06-01 01:07:52
Re: living with guitars (13 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Oh, and also Pride and Joy.
And "If the House is Rocking, Don't Bother Knockin'"
- Zurf
2,845 2012-06-01 01:07:09
Re: living with guitars (13 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Detman101 - Check out these songs for Stevie Ray Vaughan - killer bass lines every bit as good as the guitar licks which are very, very good indeed.
Texas Flood
Taxman (cover of the Beatles and way better)
Tightrope
Telephone Song (recorded with his brother Jimmie)
Apparently SRV was into T's.
2,846 2012-05-31 01:49:25
Re: Finally, A truck worthy of the chordie sticker. (7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Cool. I thought it was the other way around.
2,847 2012-05-31 01:48:37
Re: living with guitars (13 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Clearly. I need a better hat.
2,848 2012-05-31 00:54:35
Re: Finally, A truck worthy of the chordie sticker. (7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Cool. I have my sticker pending something. I didn't realize it was an inside the window deal, and my trucks windows are tinted extremely dark. So, I am holding it in a safe place for when I am forced to get an economy grocery chaser instead of using my V8 4x4 pickup.
2,849 2012-05-30 11:28:57
Re: What Matters Most (11 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Dirty Ed wrote:
jerome.oneil wrote:mekidsmom wrote:Rule no. 2 - if it doesn't sound good, have another drink.
This is right in line with whatever genius said "The more you drink, the better we sound."
The first time I used that line back in the early 80's, the bar I was playing at ran out of beer. (True story)
DE
I bet you sounded AWESOME!
2,850 2012-05-30 00:59:33
Re: Doc Watson Dead (7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
When we speak of great guitarists of any style, Doc Watson is on everyone's list. A tremendous talent and based on what other musicians had to say about him also a kind and thoughtful man.