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Ah HA! That's why I've never been able to get Everybody's Talkin' to sound right. I've been meaning to try some open tunings on one of my guitars. Given that I think Everybody's Talkin' has just about the best line in an acoustic song I've every heard "I'm going where the weather suits my clothes", I'm going to check it out. Thanks a million johnwb.
- Zurf
Hi Spiritinthesky - I had to remove the link from your post and will send you a private message explaining.
- Zurf
Will do Bushy. I couldn't believe the news videos they were so intense.
To address the original topic, I think if the guitar can be returned to the sender with a full or nearly full refund, then buying on-line isn't so bad a deal. However, if you can't return it no matter what, then that can be a problem. My Yamaha F-310 was purchased on-line through a service at work and it worked out OK.
To Geoaguiar: Regarding the beans, for Toots to be playing a second tuba he will need a second source of wind to power the instrument given that his mouth will already be occupied with the first tuba. A tuba mouthpiece takes up a fair bit of space and unless he has a mouth like a muppet, there will not be room for a second mouthpiece. Therefore .... beans. I did actually play two baritones at once to see whether it could be done. That was a curious experiment. I did get notes out of both instruments at once, but was not sufficiently ambidextrous to operate the valves on both instruments simultaneously.
- Zurf
I'm selling my guitars.
MAN!!! That was great.
- Zurf
Sounds aggressive but possible. Good luck. I look forward to seeing/hearing the results.
- Zurf
Guitarpix wrote:I've bought over 50 online and only had 1 bad experience and it was rectified by the seller.... I have no hesitations in ordering a guitar unplayed.
Pix, you say you bought 50/ Wow! Your wife must deeply love you to put up with that.
My wife would let me buy a second tuba if I can demonstrate to her satisfaction that I can play two at the same time.
You should not have posted that. Now my tinkering mind is going crazy with ideas of funnels, inner tubes, toilet seats, tubing, diaphragms, and cans of beans.
- Zurf
Welcome srpetty and jovanmoon.
- Zurf
Wow. It's kind of in the middle of nowhere, which is the appeal.
Uh, well, if you think you'd like to go Thursday to Sunday with me you could fly into Dulles International Airport near Washington, DC and drive down with me.
If you're thinking of heading in earlier than that, then the absolute closest airport is Hinton-Alderson in Pence Springs, WV. It's bound to be a super-dinky one given that Pence Springs has a lower permanent population than the number of employees at most metropolitan airports. The closest town of note is Beckley, WV, but again it's bound to be a darned small airport if there is one. Probably the closest metropolitan airport is Charleston, WV. Then you'd have to rent a car and drive a couple hours.
- Zurf
I'm working on increasing the number of songs I can remember there DE. My problem is that when it's my turn, I can't remember what I can remember.
So I decided to copy all my favorite songs that I play the most often into one songbook. It ends up there are 45 of them in that book. I had no idea that I had "familiarity" with that many songs. Now if I can narrow that down and concentrate to improve on a few of them, I may have something worth while.
- Zurf
Don't keep us in suspense. Which verse is it? It's the one about enough money to buy Miami, isn't it?
- Zurf
In my case - "Forever and Ever Amen" by Randy Travis. That's the first song on guitar anyway. I do not recall the first song ever.
- Zurf
I admire some of you for being able to remember more than a couple of songs by heart. This is something that I have never allowed myself to do for some reason. Once you are used to constantly look at the music, it makes it really tough to do from memory. I have a real hard time at it. I am content just to bring out the sheets.
I've got a headlight to use at campfires for that very reason. I keep clothespins in my kit to keep the sheets from blowing away too.
- Zurf
flester wrote:If you can sing and play it without thinking, when someone says 'give us a song', then you know it.
I agree... but being able to think of the song that you know that you can sing and play without thinking... that's another story! LOL!
Ain't that the truth. I know a few songs, but trying to think of one of them when it's my turn at the campfire always seems a chore. I think I'm going to put together some index cards with titles and maybe a couple of the chords and the first words of each verse. With that, I could probably get by for a little while without my blue folder/crutch.
- Zurf
Well, it differs depending on the person, but you can figure on a month or two. There are a bunch of folk remedies, but mostly you've got to tough it out with the knowledge that every single one of us and every guitar player you've ever seen, heard, or known has gone through it. Stick with it, the payoff is worth the pain.
- Zurf
Welcome Whitewater55. Are you a paddler?
As terrific as he is, he's sloppy compared to the innovator who got that ball rolling. His name is Andy McKee. Check this song out - he hammers on entire barre chords! In addition to the fret work, he loops percussion done on the front and sides of the guitar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddn4MGaS3N4
Here's another guy I've heard live who does a lot of looping and use of pedals and even a kalimba attached to the guitar front. I've got two of his albums and they're terrific.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5ykEHT9 … re=related
- Zurf
I have three ratings for knowing a song. Once I print out a song and can work my way through it in a manner that I consider sufficient (which is not the same as being able to cover it note for note), then I rate it red. Once I can get through it with just glancing at the lyrics or the chord sheet either at the beginning of each verse or just on a passage that troubles me, then I rate it yellow. When I can sit down and play it without the sheet at all, then I rate it green.
- Zurf
I heard in an interview with Livingston Taylor that he and James love to garden. Gardening will tear up some fingernails. Apparently James wears gloves, uses tools rather than his hands often, and is very careful about what he does, but Livingston gave up on nails and uses fingerpicks.
- Zurf
Practice around friends and in your practice area with a mic in your face.
Zurf,
My mid-life "sports car" is a Ford Taurus with 186,000+ miles on it. A real chick magnet!
David
My sleek and shiny, high speed and low drag mid-life crisis thing was a whitewater kayak that was too much for me. It was like a Piper Cub pilot trying to fly a jet fighter. I traded down to the Taurus equivalent and am much happier with it. I think one of the favorite cars I've ever had was a Taurus. I'd buy another in a heart-beat. It might not be a chick magnet, but it's a darned good car.
Dexterity, stretching, and strength exercises. You would have to be not just a small person but a very small person with exceptionally short fingers to not be able to reach once your hands and fingers are prepared for it by appropriate exercises.
- Zurf
The advice on nails was excellent.
- Zurf
naoslager - Far better to be at home playing guitar than out cruising for young chicks in your convertible sports car. Some mid-life crises are more easily encouraged by wives than others. I'm glad you had a good time. Now I need to take my own advice.
- Zurf
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