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My daughter is a whiz at learning lyrics. Tonight as I sang "Grandma's Feather Bed" to her, she sang along. I'll frequently stumble over lyrics, but she'll kick me off again with a reminder. I love that. Your Dad couldn't be happier than to have you sing and play along, and especially that you cite him as an inspiration. It's a lovely gift you've given him.
- Zurf
It's on my laptop. I used to run a service center, so I know about testing. Once I get an estimate, I may have to think about whether I'd just run an external monitor and use it as a desktop or whether portability is really important to me.
- Zurf
Computers are annoying.
Well I think you're a little weird in a good way.
- Zurf
Hmmmm. Well, I was already thinking of changing my nut to Tusq or bone and lowering my saddle a little more. I wonder if lowering my nut would be good too. The Tusq is just so inexpensive. If you've noticed such a difference, perhaps it is worth it. The Tusq saddle has made a huge difference in tone, but not in playability. Perhaps lowering the bridge a little more and adding a Tusq nut that is lower than the current one would make the difference I want.
The more you learn, the more you recognize how little you know. Keep on learning. Well done.
- Zurf
Nothing too special in that first song really. He did some really hard attacks on down strums, missing the bassiest notes and played only quarter notes on the on beat. No problem, you can practice that and get it down cold in a few days or weeks probably.
The thing where he slides up the neck - all he did is start at the octave of the root of the chord, hit just that string with the pick and then slide his fret finger up the neck until he got to the chord, which he strummed when he got there. It's a bit tough to get the slide down (I haven't yet), but if you practice it you'll have it fairly quickly.
As far as the windmill of his forearm - that's just show. It doesn't affect the sound at all.
Otherwise, he was pretty much playing straight chords throughout. He didn't even do any bass note shuffles, hammer ons, or switching up to sevenths, all of which YOU can do to spice up the song when you play it and sound even better.
Seriously, if this is the guitar player you want to be, you can do it. He's good, no doubt, but there's nothing that I'm seeing that good solid practice won't do for you. There's a million guys who play as well as he does spread out in garages, campfires, and back rooms of guitar stores. Most of those folks just won't get in front of an audience. The one thing he does do very, very well is maintain a steady tempo. To get the steady tempo thing in your mind, you really have to practice with a metronome. There's no other way.
- Zurf
That's talent. I'm impressed Roger.
- Zurf
Keep practicing your strum patterns with a metronome, slowly at first and being sure to keep a steady rhythm and pattern then increasing in speed as you go, and you'll be able to play like that in a couple years.
Here's two of the folks who inspire me - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni8KBhnebwE
- Zurf
Sweet looking guitar. It's tough to beat a Gibson. I'll bet your fingers are sore from giving her a workout.
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Rhythmnpik - As a moderator, I couldn't care less whether you log out or not. It's helpful to you because then you get to see what's happened since you've been there. I know what you mean about daughters, but I was never all that tough of a guy to start. I think I was knocked out in about ten seconds in my last brawl, which was a long, long time ago. My buddies won it for me though. Good buds.
- Zurf
People take stage names to maintain privacy, but also sometimes because of union rules. In the stage actors union anyway, they will only allow one person with a particular name. So if there are two actors with the same name, the second one to join will have to modify his/her stage name. The first person named Joe Smith can be Joe Smith. But the second person named Joe Smith might have to use his middle name like Joe William Smith. Then the next guy name Joe Smith might decide to use his mother's maiden name instead of his birth name, like Joe Jones. Etcetera and so forth.
Other times, it's to allow a certain anonymity.
Other times, it's because their given name sounds odd or may be off-putting. For instance, if you were a folk singer with the last name Hitler, you might want to consider using a stage name.
Sometimes people use a stage name to release a second sort of sound. Jimmy Buffett did that with an experimental album that he didn't want people to be confused with his usual sound. Another example is the Garth Brooks/Chris Gaines releases.
Tons of reasons. Shoot. We use handles here on Chordie. I doubt your given name is Gitaardocphil.
Everyone who is not here, raise your hand!
Well I don't smoke pot. I used to bike race too, but it's been over two decades and 100 lbs ago. I never ran. Well, I did join track for one season to show the doctors that I could run. Ends up the doctors were right.
I have no shame in using a song book, but sometimes it is too dark to see it or it is inconvenient to bring guitar, music stand, and a light.
- Zurf
I have nothing to say but.... COOL!
Welcome to Chordie Dirty Ed. Now that you're here, may I recommend checking out the Songwriters forum? I did a few songs over the weekend that I lifted (with permission) from that forum. Seems like Selso's song about his Hippy Chick went over the best, but that might be because I did that one Friday night.
What are your tricks for memorizing songs if you have them?
Also, how do you remember which songs you "know"?
- Zurf
Zurf wrote:geoaguiar wrote:Sounds like a week of recovery is in order.....ahhhh reality
I was thinking just the opposite. It's clear that I have to learn to play and sing while drinking whiskey. That's my fault for practicing sober.
- Zurf
Wow...perhaps you're right. But to become really good you'll have to be intoxicated most of the time for practice purposes. So you're gonna have to learn to work while intoxicated which is actually pretty pleasant so long as you have a desk job
I do have a desk job, but I don't think I could do it intoxicated. It's so dry that if I had the slightest bit of a depressant in my system that I'd probably run screaming or cause some damage. Not good. I guess I'll just have to continue to practice sober.
Sounds like a week of recovery is in order.....ahhhh reality
I was thinking just the opposite. It's clear that I have to learn to play and sing while drinking whiskey. That's my fault for practicing sober.
- Zurf
Thanks tandm3. I don't care for the round backs on the Ovations. It makes them hard for me to hold with my round front. Two opposing arcs rotating around one another. They do sound good, though. No question about that.
Find someone who plays better than you and jamm.
- Zurf
Four days on the New River during which time I got a broken rod, a broken paddle, wrenched my back, and gave myself a minor concussion. Whew. But there was GOOD music. Thursday night we played from about 7:30 or 8:00PM until about 2:00AM (it's hard to tell exactly, we were on 'river time'). Now, I had consumed just a bit too much whiskey and so I played and sang poorly. Alternatively my friend Dirty Ed had a bit too much Yeungling beer and it unleashed a torrent of songs from thirty years of memory, which he played with ridiculous fluidity. Friday night I remained whiskey free (we were out by then) and played and sang much better. Fortunately we were not out of Yeungling beer and so Dirty Ed was still "on". We had a good time until about 1:00AM, after which time the others had a good time while I slept in my chair.
Man, we played everything. The music was by far better than the fishing.
- Zurf
No worries MKM.
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