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I've got the opposite problem. I can't bridge strings with mine, which is why the B chord is evil.
Try flexibility exercises over time and see if they help. Use your thumb to push down on the fingertip and bend it more for five seconds at a time eight or ten times a day. After a couple of months, see if you haven't increased some strength and dexterity.
- Zurf
Hello everybody, My name is Joe and I am also new to this and having problems with understanding strum patterns. Many of the songs seems to have wrong chords, when played using the song pattern they sound awful, I've tried recording many of the songs using backing tracks and on playback, My reaction was 'what the heck'. Chordie gives you an idea and you just have to run with it and do a little experimentation.
Please bear in mind two things when looking at the chord charts. First, they are not entered to Chordie, but found and more 'reflected' here from somewhere else. Chordie is more of a song chart search engine than it is an original hosting location. So, we're not going to get the authors of the chord charts to do anything as we often don't know who they are. Second thing is that the chord charts are a representation of however the author of the chart plays the song - they are NOT necessarily the exact way the song was played by the original recording artist. They are all ARRANGEMENTS on the song meant for personal study, and not official, sanctioned versions. If you want to duplicate the original recording artist's version, I'm afraid that you're going to have to go buy sheet music for it. I have several books from Alfred publishing of that sort. "The Ultimate White Pages Acoustic Guitar Guitar Tab" and "Easy Guitar Tab White Pages". Each has hundreds of songs and cost about $30.
- Zurf
When you're ready for an archtop Paul, I'd suggest checking out The Loar. I diddled around with one at a shop and greatly enjoyed it.
- Zurf
Naoslager - it was tough to quite get there, but did you just say that you were fired last Monday? Geez I hope not. If you were, here's wishing you the best luck in finding something better quickly.
- Zurf
Dude. Whitewater. That is the best freaking big car story I have ever read.
I had a '98 Taurus and absolutely loved it. I still miss that car. Keep it alive, baby. Keep it alive!
Man. Now I really want to go out and buy a big sedan. My wife does not like them, but I do. My favorite car ever was a '78 Oldsmobile Delta 88. It was longer and wider than my '78 Dodge Tradesman van. Seven adults could sit comfortably in the bench seats. Man, I miss that car.
I should go buy a Town Car.
Three 10 year olds, two of which are borrowed from neighbors, are here and jamming on instruments they don't know how to play. My six year old is completely OWNING them - blasting away on the trumpet (which no one taught her to play but in 1/2 hour she's figured out quite a lot). At one point, she stood up on a bar stool and shouted, "Guys! Follow my lead!" Then she started blasting a song. And... the ten year olds followed her lead.
Man, I love this part of being a Daddy.
- Zurf
What is a cajon? Maybe I want one too.
It's a percussion instrument and you do want one.
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From a parent's perspective... this is VERY COOL! Here's hoping she keeps the love and respect for the instruments... and maybe she'll be like her dad and just want to play them all!
Yeah. Except for the woodwinds, I was showing her the instruments more than the instructors. She did best with clarinet last night, but she wasn't interested by it. She didn't do so well with the trombone, but it is what really excited her. So I told her to forget about how she did on introduction night. There wasn't an instrument in the place that she couldn't learn. She should pick one that excited her and that she would put the time and effort into learning. So she picked trombone. She really, really, really liked doing a glissando. I'm going to play her Terry Lam's solo from "You Are On My Mind" when she gets home from school today. That's the solo that made me want to play trombone - and I did learn it eventually (though not nearly as fast or with as much style).
Beginning at 2:38. He used an F trombone and got some of those really awesome glisses just by pulling the thumb trigger and superb breath control.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxrxX-nCILY
- Zurf
It'll work. When things fall together like that, it's not just coincidence. As a minimum, it will make for a big change in your life that you will recognize as being the end result of posting that ad when it happens.
Zurf wrote:Cool instrument. But not as cool as trombone.
Cool is not the first adjective that comes to my mind when talking about the trombone. Hee Hee. Really tho, as long as she takes a liking to an instrument it's all good.
Might want to lock that office door from now on. She sounds like my son. If it ain't bolted down it will be misplaced.
Among band geeks, girl trombonists are hot.
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Well holy crap look at that. She put the fiddle away in the case and the autoharp back on the shelf where it belongs. And both basses are on the racks where they're supposed to be. Only thing where it doesn't belong is the tuner, and I'm the one who used that last.
This girl never puts anything away.
I'll be darned.
It was the night when my daughter had the opportunity to try a bunch of instruments and pick which one she was wanted to play in band or orchestra next year. She picked trombone. She'll be the third generation trombonist! My father and I both played. I haven't played for years, but I'll pull out the mouthpiece and let her get started on building an ambeture. And if she wants, I think I've still got my Carmine Caruso Calesthenics for Brass around here somewhere.
Third generation trombonist. Wasn't even any pressure. I was trying to get her to do string bass so that I'd have a reason to go buy one.
It's an hour past her bedtime, but she's still banging around in my office. She's tried my fiddle, my autoharp, and a bass. She was JAMMING on the bass. I taught her the opening riff to a Magic Sam song I used to sing her for a lullaby and she really dug it. She put it down saying, "Cool instrument. But not as cool as trombone."
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Chuck Norris.
How'd it go? Still sleeping it off?
Good for you. You need to put your logo on her. Can't wait to hear you make her scream. (which is a sentence I would never have figured to write)
- Zurf
I've only named one. Ol' Reliable. It's my old reliable Yamaha. Cheap piece of junk, but it stays in tune, sounds OK, and I take it along on all my camping escapades.
Otherwise they are known as: my Ovation, my fretless, my electric, and the Guild. But Ol' Relibale is ... Ol' Reliable. Not much more need be said, I suppose.
- Zurf
F chord is illegal, but B chord is evil. EVIL!
My understanding of that issue is that there's some cross-wiring in your brain so that parts of your brain that are usually exercised by optical nerves are also exercised by aural nerves. Pretty cool.
Anyway, with or without synesthesia you can learn to play an instrument. If you have enough rhythm to say a phone number with the same beats as other people and if you have enough tonal recognition to follow along on the ABC's song, you have enough rhythm and tonal recognition to play.
It is unfortunate that you were discouraged when you were young. But all it means is that you're behind the learning curve. It DOES NOT mean that you can't learn. Not at all.
I think you should stick with it. It's a great thing that you recognize your weaknesses going in. That gives you a huge leg up because now you know what to concentrate on in your learning. Tonal recognition and rhythm. Counting exercises will help with the rhythm. Also, use a metronome. Slowwwwwwwwwwly at first. Go as slow as you need to to be able to count rhythms. Even 30 beats a minute is not too slow if it allows you to count accurately. Speed comes from accuracy, so work on the rhythmic accuracy first. Tones - well shoot - that's a matter of intervals. Scales out the ying-yang. Learn the intervals that go together.
Not exciting stuff - scales and counting exercises - but you CAN LEARN. I am confident.
And while you're learning, enjoy the show.
- Zurf
Jerry Lee Lewis released an album in 2010 titled "Mean Old Man." It's mostly covers. It's worth a listen.
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Nope. I've got no advice. I do have some good thoughts, and wish you well in the endeavor. Good luck with it.
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That sounds like fun.
Here's hoping for tight lines and bent strings.
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Right Pix. But I do think there's a lot of campers that pick and a lot of pickers that camp.
Speaking of which, third weekend in June - Low Water Bridge Campground in Bentonville, Virginia. You're all invited. Details to follow.
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But I am where I am and that's not bad at all. I have my health, my family, a home, a job, and the Lord. That's way more than I deserve and I really don't need anything more.
I like the way you think.
Composing good poetry is often a case of "sculpting", ie, write out everything you can think of from your "inspiration", then carve away the extranious bits until your word sculpture is complete.
I've heard this same thing about song-writing. I think the quote (though I don't recall the source) was "Great songs are not written. They're rewritten."
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