wide for both, as you say wide weight distribution
3,301 2013-07-16 18:15:10
Re: Wide Strap ? Narrow Strap ? Which is for you ? (13 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
3,302 2013-07-12 20:42:17
Re: Tweenkie alert! (13 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
and you say we're odd this side of the pond
3,303 2013-07-12 18:09:02
Re: 50 Ways to Love Your Liver (11 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
apart from the rather undeserved crack about British beer, i thought it was pretty good. i wonder what mr simon would say about it?
3,304 2013-07-11 19:23:48
Topic: songwriting (2 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
i was watching a programme featuring Albert Hammond. i was shocked to find that he neither wrote or read music. now i know that composing music doesn't depend on being able to write dots on paper, most pop writers don't; Lennon/Mccartney and many others.
Hammond performed a few of his songs, on guitar and piano, and he freely confessed he played totally by ear, he neither knew the notes on the keyboard or frett board, and he had no idea of chord names. i know i'm lazy, but learning the notes and chord names was one of the first things i did when i began teaching my-self to play. i'm still not much good but i know where to find any note you ask for!
i'm not knocking this guy, i am completely in awe of his talent and some of his songs must be modern musical classics, including "the air that i breathe" brilliant
3,305 2013-07-11 19:10:25
Re: Nikola Tesla (8 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
they speak a lot about Tesla on wharehouse 13, one of my favourites
3,306 2013-07-11 19:07:56
Re: To Roger (7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
in actual fact what we said was; "if we let him have a name he will do some favours. if we give him block capitols too we can ask for money!!!!"
what d'ya think?
3,307 2013-07-09 19:38:19
Re: Long Way Down (10 replies, posted in Songwriting)
come on tony, i love a good pun, please pun away. just thought you might like to know, i've already made 6-7 recordings, and this one is the best of the bunch, the rest are crap, but it's all a learning curve and i'll get there in the end....i hope!
3,308 2013-07-09 19:32:32
Re: neck surfaces (8 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)
i like the slippery neck on my telecaster, it's maple and slightly convex. similar shape to the strat,but that was(is) rosewood, so it's soft and i dont find it as slippery. i also dont like gibson necks as they are very flat and wide, they look great, but not for me.
3,309 2013-07-08 19:05:16
Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY Dino48. (13 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
have a great day dino
phill
3,310 2013-07-08 19:02:28
Re: Play with right or left side? (10 replies, posted in Acoustic)
hi spike,
i've played left hand since i was 15. main problem is that it can cost an extra 15% when buying new as building a hundred guitars to a single pattern is cheaper than building one to a different one, i hope that makes sense?
3,311 2013-07-07 18:43:35
Re: River Pulse (2 replies, posted in Songwriting)
sorry to hear you've not been well tony, hope you feeling better.
nice to hear something new from you. i could picture myself lying under a thin canopy, river babbling to my side, especially in this weather. lovely soothing piece of music. well done. phill
3,312 2013-07-07 18:33:53
Re: Long Way Down (10 replies, posted in Songwriting)
thanks pete.
was that a pun ark? mastering? in all honesty it's quite an easy machine to "master" apart from a few tweeks here and there it's very straight forward. as for editing, you can put all sorts of ins and outs etc fx the works. then stick it straight onto CD.
3,313 2013-07-07 18:12:48
Re: Happy Birthday JJJ (9 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
may the happiness in your heart be matched only by the wealth of your generosity.
happy birthday
3,314 2013-07-07 18:07:34
Re: NGD (25 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
hey rog, is this a mid-life crisis? new guitar, new bike? plus a caravan and a trannie and a polo?
and wall to wall sunshine. talk about the life of riley?
are you riding around with the guitar mounted on the bike?
stick me down for a like button too
3,315 2013-07-07 17:58:19
Re: Aging Vocal Chords (9 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
mccartney can still cook a good one, though he does seem to be rasping a bit after a tour.
back in the day i used to like Focus, saw them a couple of years back and all that falsetto had gone, in fact he was having trouble hitting low notes. that's overkill i suppose?
3,316 2013-07-05 18:32:46
Re: Long Way Down (10 replies, posted in Songwriting)
thanks for the listen guys, the reason the backing vocals are low is because that's how i want them (they're not very good)
i dont have a lot of patience for editing, photo's or sound which is why the video is rather ropey, the pics fitted at first then they went doolalley so i left them like that!
i lost my voice last week so i'm still recovering.....
3,317 2013-07-05 18:25:13
Re: Why? (5 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
each time i look in the fridge the wife says "innit time you filled that up now?" so i don't look in the fridge.
3,318 2013-07-05 18:21:18
Re: learned a nice trick (6 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
that's one hell of a good idea beamer, getting all the words on 1 page could cause some head scratching.
3,319 2013-07-03 13:54:07
Topic: Long Way Down (10 replies, posted in Songwriting)
This is a new song recorded on my new recorder and I've put it to some photos I've taken on holiday and of my family at Christmas. I hope you'll take a look and offer some comments. Follow the link...
3,320 2013-07-03 13:15:08
Re: happy july (8 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
that sounds like we'll hear it this side of the pond! glad i wont be any closer...LOL
3,321 2013-07-02 18:02:42
Re: Hard Rain - Beamer & Jet60's First (12 replies, posted in Songwriting)
a lot of rock comes from folk/country just listen to the eagles. so i'm waiting with baited breath for a recording...should be good if the words and chording are anything to go by
3,322 2013-07-02 17:57:08
Re: happy july (8 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
thanks for the well wishes. yesterday was warm and sunny, today is cool and wet, i'll have to give that gulf stream a kick, it must have blocked up somewhere
3,323 2013-07-02 17:53:47
Re: Capo on the 1st Fret (10 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)
the first band i was in was not making much money so i didn't change the strings that often. the effect of this was that tuning was great open, but getting sharp or flat as i progressed up the arm. i'm now slightly better off so the strings get changed more often. i played a strat with trem in those days. could the strings need changing? just a thought
3,324 2013-07-02 17:47:10
Re: Old Silvertone new pickups (10 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)
i thought i'd missed a post there, go on russ, take no prisoners...
funnily enough it looks very much like my "wilson" bass, i guess it's a standard shape.
i prefer heavy strings though, to get a deeper richer sound, my preference.
3,325 2013-07-01 22:19:43
Topic: happy july (8 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
happy July to all, it's my sister Vivien's birthday on the 1st, my son Lee's birthday on the 2nd, the sun is (was) shining and all is reasonably well. it might be a good summer after all.
sorry to hear about those firefighters though, condolences to their families.