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He's the one. 

I also found out that my Uncle Bob has gone into hospice today.  He, along with my father and grandfather, fueled my passion for fishing.  He also taught me about poker, and the first thing he taught me is that he's a lot better at it than I am.  He's 90 years old, a gentle soul who loves gardening and the outdoors, and a veteran of some of the fiercest fighting of World War II.  He was a mechanic for the Black Widow Squadron in an area known as "the slot" in the South Pacific.  The Udvar-Hazy museum has one of two remaining Black Widows in flying condition.  I sent Uncle Bob some pictures of it.  I've written him several letters, but it looks like it's time to go visit in person.  I'll take a guitar and a fishing rod.  I may get some creek time for myself, and I may play a few songs for him and those with him. 

Z - I don't know.  I think so.  I met him through a church function.  But as they say, just because you're in a garage doesn't make you a car. 

- Zurf

I've told this story on here before, but it seems an appropriate place to tell it again.  When I was a young buck, maybe 15 or 16 years old, I played bass trombone and upright bass in a stage band.  We played the crazy, fun stuff of the big band era.  The only gig we could ever get was at Susque-View, which was a 'home' attached to a hospital in my home town.  We didn't get paid, but it was a gig.  The home was a good one, with a caring staff.  It was clean, well organized, and provided good care.  When my grandmother died, she died in that home.  So once every few months we'd go up there and play some of our songs that we'd been working on.  The candy stripers and nurses would wheel patients/residents in.  Many of them were confined to wheelchairs or bed.  The two folks who stuck in my mind the most was a gray old lady who was so weak that she couldn't sit up.  If they propped the bed up, they had to strap her in or gravity would pull her down to a slump.  She waggled a finger at a nurse and asked to have the blankets pulled off her feet.  "You're feet will get cold."  "I don't mind.  Just pull the blankets off."  The nurse did, and we in the band nearly cried.  She wanted to tap her toes together but the blankets were too heavy.  It's the closest she could come to dancing, and by God she was going to DANCE!  Another woman had had several strokes and was completely paralyzed but for her right wrist.  She could move her right hand just a little bit.  She was strapped into an electric wheelchair that had all the controls on the right for her.  She got that wheelchair into a dance floor of her own making and danced with it just moving her wrist to the beat. 

I agree with the Henry in the video.  Music is a gift from above. 

- Zurf

I had a truck like that Auxi.  It wouldn't play the tapes.  Just spit them back out.  The radio would turn itself on from time to time.  It wouldn't matter what station I had programmed the last time it had played, when it turned itself on it would play a Country station.  It was a Ford truck used primarily to get my canoe to the river or bikes to the trail, so pretty much any other kind of music would have been inappropriate anyway.

Few are.

Not a real ferocious dragon, though.  There's worse things than being able to toss out sweet licks in songs.

Y'all sure do think a lot.  Play something and see if it works.  To borrow from Topdown and Jerome, "If it sounds good, it is good."

I am not aware of that use of the term "modulation."  I call that "transposing." 

If you are in the key of C, then if you transpose up to keys, it would be E.  One key would be D.  If you transpose it down one key it would be B.  If you transpose it down two keys, it would A. 

Remember that if you are using the major scale, you have a step pattern of whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half.  So if you are using the major scale and transpose up one key, it would be one step (capo two frets higher when using the same chord shapes).  If you transpose up two keys, it would be two steps (capo four frets higher when using the same chord shapes).  But if you transpose up three keys, it would require putting a capo FIVE frets higher when using the same chord shapes. 

I hope that did not serve to confuse you.

Modulation, as I understand it, has to do with vibration reproduction out of speakers.  Or, it has to do with the width a string vibrates.  Neither of those meanings relates to the question I understood you to be asking, but it is possible (likely even) that someone, somewhere uses modulation to mean transpose. 

This may be a good topic to move to the Theory forum.

- Zurf

We went to church, took some pictures, and had an egg hunt.  Then I sealed some stuff and I'm letting it dry before I go back out and sand it down to paint.  I haven't decided what colors I'll paint any of it.  There's more I should seal and paint, but I'm not going to do it today.  Another day.  Maybe. 

I'm thinking that there will be some guitar playing on the porch swing and maybe a nice glass of red wine. 

- Zurf

Opened a beer bigger than the French's
and set about getting my tools.
The light in the shop burned out
and in leaving I tripped over the benches.