My guess is that 5 2m is a slash chord of the fifth with the bass of the second. That's a total wild guess. Probably use that as an opportunity to walk down from the fifth through a minor arpeggio to whatever the next chord is.
- Zurf
4,527 2010-07-26 20:06:37
Re: Who was it thought the home computer was so smart? (6 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Thanks Damien. Your explanation is not lost because I also have a couple hard drives hanging off the Belkin server. Here's a better solution. Why don't you come over and fix it, and then we jamm? Bring your kids. My kids are always eager to meet new friends.
- Zurf
4,528 2010-07-26 20:01:34
Re: Gads. Here's a hint on when I started to mess with electric basses. (4 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I didn't say it was good.
4,529 2010-07-26 19:41:06
Re: When you're in the guitar store.... (20 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I always give my local guys a chance before the other higher pressure stores. I'd rather spend an extra 3 or 4% for my stuff and know that its going to fit my style and that I'll be able to get help with it down the road when I need it than to save that money and give up the help.
Now, if my local guys don't carry something that I want, then I'll get it from the cheapest place I can find, which is usually Musicians Friend or Guitar Center. I almost feel like I'm cheating on my local shop when I buy from another source. I get all my strings and picks and accessories at the local guys. And when I buy something more expensive, I give them the first chance.
I could have had a much larger mixer than the one I bought from my local guys, but that one had all the features I wanted at a fair price. So I bought it there. What good is it to buy a mixer with four more channels I'll never use from Musicians Friend and the only thing I'll get for it is more catalogs, when now I know when I have a question on this unit I WILL be able to get a straight answer quickly, and I'll get good service if I ever need a repair.
I feel nervous any time I'm playing somewhere that isn't my front porch swing, campfire, or office.
- Zurf
4,530 2010-07-26 19:33:49
Re: Going mad as hell. (18 replies, posted in Acoustic)
topdown wrote:
My one and only rule for music - If it sounds good, it is good.
Bingo.
Capos are not cheating. No way, no how. No more than using a screw driver to twist a screw is cheating. It's the right tool for the job.
- Zurf
4,531 2010-07-26 12:43:52
Re: Can anyone work out the Chord for- Fyfe Dangerfield High on the Tide (1 replies, posted in Song requests)
Catherine - Welcome to Chordie. There's a section on the forums called "Song Requests" where you're more likely to get a response. I'll try and figure out how to move your post to there. I wish I could help more than that, but I'm afraid I don't know the song and wouldn't be much good to you figuring out the chords to it even if I did.
- Zurf
4,532 2010-07-26 02:46:56
Topic: A bit of an adventure today. (1 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I took my youngest (5 y.o.) on a bike ride today. It was hot, but what the heck. I took her to a nice hard-pack and level bike path, the C&O canal towpath. It's known as the nations skinniest national park. Anyway, it's right alongside the Potomac River and completely canopied by mature hardwoods in most sections, so I figured correctly that it would be ten or twelve degrees cooler there. We were having a nice ride and saw a deer, a skink (the reptile, I didn't mis-spell), some grey heron, and were generally having a nice time.
Then I got a call from a friend who knew I was heading out. She said there were major storms blowing up and headed for the river. I had about twenty minutes to get out of there before we were in some serious stuff.
Well, we made it most of the way, but we still had about a mile and a half to the safety of the truck when the storm hit. There was nothing for it but to keep peddling. There were trees crashing in the woods, the tops of some of them being sheared from the bottoms and large limbs crashing through. I had to dodge a few smaller limbs and was hit on the back by one of them, but kept peddling so it was OK. My daughter was terrified from the thunder and I kept reassuring her that the thunder couldn't hurt us. I never mentioned that the lightning could, or that I was really worried about the big limbs crashing all around us.
We made it to the truck. I was soaked, but I had stopped long enough to close up the windows on the trailer and so my girl was pretty dry. I considered sitting it out right there, but the lightning had moved off by the then and the truck was in an open enough area that I wasn't concerned for limbs. I literally threw the bike and trailer into the bed of the truck, slapped a couple bungees on in a half-hearted fashion, and we hit the road.
The main road was blocked. Fortunately, I had my GPS with 100k topos of the area overlaid on a detailed road map. So we were able to finesse our way down dirt roads at no more than fifteen and usually ten or so mph. I had to get out and move more limbs and trees than I can count. Several I couldn't move and had to four wheel it a bit on the banks. But we made it home with nothing but a story to tell.
I can't recall ever seeing a storm blow up that fast. It was hot when we left, but I didn't see anything on RADAR. I thought our highest risk was dehydration or heat stroke, and was ready to prevent those. I didn't think to bring a chain saw and full body armor.
- Zurf
4,533 2010-07-26 02:33:09
Topic: Arrogance is ticking me off tonight. (3 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I am so sick and tired of arrogant companies that when their product doesn't work right has a so-called support FAQ that says, "Well, make sure all your other stuff is working right because our stuff is perfect don't you know. If it's not working right, either it's your fault or the fault of the other stuff you've got. So don't call us any more, OK?"
I had this with some Cakewalk software the other day. They produce a software with no manual and a terrible Help section then get uppity when you use their forum to ask how to use their product. Today it was Denon. I have an A/V receiver my wife was kind enough to buy for me as part of our renovation. Setting it up today, the HDMI and audio signals didn't translate to the TV or the speakers. Um, that's pretty much the ONLY THING I need an A/V receiver to do! I was ready to fly to Japan and shove it up a place on the designer that is unlikely to fit something as large and rectangular as the A/V receiver. But I'd make it fit.
- Zurf
4,534 2010-07-25 12:32:20
Topic: Gads. Here's a hint on when I started to mess with electric basses. (4 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
So I plugged my fretless bass with the flat wound strings (the way nature intended) into the new acoustic guitar amp this morning just to see how it would sound. Not bad. The problem is that I've been concentrating on guitar for four years and my bass knuckles had a bunch of rust to knock off. I'm not smooth by ANY stretch of the imagination. But what were the two riffs I was able to finally get to work?
Intro riff to Pink Floyd's "Money" and...
(God help us all) the intro riff to "Chuck E.'s in Love"
Those have lived with me through the years. Sure, for three years I was playing praise songs - pretty much the same ones you hear every praise group play if you're in a place (metaphysical or otherwise) to hear them. Couldn't remember one bit of any of them. But Chuck E.'s in love? Sure. Why not. Go figure. I guess the first things you learn stay with you the longest.
- Zurf
4,535 2010-07-25 11:49:13
Re: Who was it thought the home computer was so smart? (6 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Not a BAD day, just a FRUSTRATING one at that moment.
It wound up at Guitar Center and me buying a new acoustic guitar amp, so it wasn't all bad. But even that was frustrating because I took the kids along and they thought it was a toy store that they should be putting their hands on everything. Um, no. Hey honey, that guitar you're going towards costs two months' salary. How about you just stuff your hands in your pocket, OK. I found that I don't like the electronics in Breedloves and do like the electronics in Taylors much better. The guitar guy Jason was great. Props to him. The mic guys had better things to do than to talk to customers. Three of them in the room and not one word to me in ten minutes. Fuggedaboudit. I'll buy from my local store. The local store doesn't carry the line of amps that I wanted, and didn't have any with the features I wanted but they got first chance. So they can sell me some mics and chords, and when it's time for a new guitar one of those too. To heck with Guitar Center. My eldest did dig going into the drum section, but that poor girl is having the hardest time getting rhythm. She has NOT got the funk. She can remember lyrics like nobody's business, and her school music teacher is making good progress with her on singing, but she has NOT got the funk. Her mom wants her to learn piano first, so I'm going to play her some ragtime recordings by Claude Bolling I have to show her how the piano is a cool rhythm instrument.
Wow. That was a ramble.
The computer problems were Vista and 7 trying to interface with an older print server with a Belkin proprietary operating system across a wireless network. Sometimes the 7 computers would mount the printers via the server, and sometimes not. The Vista computer never did. The old XP computers were rock-solid reliable, so I'm guessing there's a compatibility issue between the Belkin client running on 7 and Vista.
My solution was to buy a printer with 7 and Vista drivers and built-in networking then to bump one of the former network printers to being a dedicated printer for the remaining XP computer. I haven't gotten around to that last part yet, but it was a $120 fix for a whole lot of frustration.
Oh, here's the amp I bought. Floor model, pulled out yesterday, so I got a discount and it's still brand new condition, plus I got to take the very one I played which is nice. http://www.guitarcenter.com/Acoustic-AG … 1425485.gc
Someone on Chordie has recommended it to me. I don't recall who, so I'm sorry that I can't pass along a thanks but I do appreciate it.
- Zurf
4,536 2010-07-24 16:43:59
Topic: Who was it thought the home computer was so smart? (6 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Please tell me, because I want to go back in time and punch that guy right in the nose just before he pitches the concept and make him miss the meeting and satisfy my frustration driven primal urges at the same time. Plus time travel would be cool.
- Zurf
4,537 2010-07-24 00:14:32
Re: Grand Larceny anyone? (17 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I like the FBI agent in Africa. Um, jurisdictionally that'd be CIA unless the FBI had been requested to do some forensics and crime scene stuff. I don't recall seeing that in the news lately, so, uh, I guess that guy's just a couple thousand miles outside his jurisdiction.
4,538 2010-07-23 10:13:01
Re: who is considerd the best gituar player (17 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
If you're including Glen Campbell, then you have to include Roy Clark. I have a friend who has heard them both off the stage state that Roy Clark plays the back of a guitar better than Glen Campbell plays the front, which was meant as a compliment to Roy Clark and not an insult to Glen Campbell.
4,539 2010-07-22 22:11:41
Re: America lyrics to the rescue! (7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
If a picture paints a thousand words...
4,540 2010-07-22 15:24:31
Re: America lyrics to the rescue! (7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
mekidsmom wrote:
Very nice story... and strange that you would think of that as an explanation.
It's times like these that I almost think I'm blessed that my 5 year old is yelling in the middle of the night in her sleep instead of waking up from nightmares. At least she doesn't remember it in the morning.
Not strange that I would think of them at all. My head is filled with 1970's folk/pop lyrics and random movie quotes. What is strange is that I can carry on any kind of a conversation that isn't comprised entirely of 1970's folk/pop lyrics.
- Zurf
4,541 2010-07-22 12:57:48
Topic: America lyrics to the rescue! (7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
My five year old was calling out for her mother last night, or rather early this morning. My wife was sound asleep, so I went over instead. My daughter sees me and says, "Daddy! The sandman. The sandman.... The sandman was... He was...," but she couldn't blurt it out because she was scared. So I said, "It's OK honey. Relax. Don't worry about the sandman. He flies the sky like an eagle in the eye of a hurricane that's abandoned." "OK," says my daughter and plops right off to sleep.
I have no idea what America meant by those lyrics, but they sure calmed my daughter down in a hurry, so here's to America.
- Zurf
4,542 2010-07-22 10:54:51
Re: Grand Larceny anyone? (17 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
What is "excess" profit?
4,543 2010-07-20 18:58:44
Re: Peavey PV8 (3 replies, posted in Recording)
geoaguiar wrote:
Zurf wrote:This is very exciting. Maybe I'll finally be able to lay out that bass track for Geoaguiar!
- Zurf
Woo Hooo. That would be cool! Check your verizon email....I need some vocals too!!!!
You are in sorry shape then if you're turning to me.
My Verizon e-mail is dead until I get some tech support, which I don't have time to sit around and wait on them. Please resend to my Yahoo! account, dazurfluh@yahoo.com.
- Zurf
4,544 2010-07-20 18:05:54
Topic: Peavey PV8 (3 replies, posted in Recording)
I just got back from the store with one. A nice little 8 channel mixer that'll take up to four mics and has a USB output. Our construction is finally done and now that we have places to put things, we can replace the stuff damaged in our flood from a year ago. So I had a budget of $179 from the Tascam portable studio that was ruined. This little unit worked just right. I've got the recording software on the computer, so I didn't need a studio recorder, just the mixer with a USB. I think this will work out fine. I don't have an amp or speakers for it, but that will come in time as I save. In the meanwhile, I'll be able to do some multi track recording on the computer. I should say I have the equipment that will be able to do it. I won't yet because I haven't the foggiest notion of how to use this stuff. But there will be a Zurfapalooza in the near term, I think, and unlike the last one this one will be electrics allowed.
Now I've got to save and get some mics, or find some on auction cheap.
I need at least one for voice and one for my instrument, though I'm thinking a Dean Markley sound-hole pickup will fit the bill and be inexpensive enough to get by for now until I can afford an A/E guitar.
This is very exciting. Maybe I'll finally be able to lay out that bass track for Geoaguiar!
- Zurf
4,545 2010-07-19 21:36:05
Re: It is a sad, sad day. (45 replies, posted in Acoustic)
Clean break so an expert luthier will have no trouble with that and making it look good to boot. Still, the unexpected expense is painful, and seeing something damaged that you were so pleased to get is disheartening at best.
- Zurf
4,546 2010-07-19 15:11:20
Re: bar chords (15 replies, posted in Acoustic)
Good posture, finger strength exercises, push your wrist forward to allow your index finger a better point of leverage, and practice. That's all I know about it. And that the B chord is evil.
- Zurf
4,547 2010-07-14 19:34:05
Re: Fingers and voice (15 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Jcellini, Guitarpix, and Detman101:
I've found this guys advice easy to practice and valuable. I haven't gotten through all of his lessons, but the ones I have have all been beneficial. I've been recording my voice doing the same songs for a while and there's a marked improvement from six months ago when I go back and listen. I'm still not good, but I brashly state that I'm not near as bad as I once was.
http://www.ehow.com/videos-on_3196_lear … ssons.html
- Zurf
4,548 2010-07-14 15:29:34
Re: "F" chord is now outlawed (148 replies, posted in Acoustic)
ozymandias wrote:
Alas, I am undone, the siren call of the B chord and it's siblings B7 and Bm are too enticing. Their call reaches into the depths of my soul.
B7 and Bm are harmless imitations of their father. Mere wannabes. Ominous sounding, but of no greater concern than A7sus4. It's B itself that is rotten to the core. With B7, its mother D has given it some mercy. And Bm has learned some compassion from its cousin F#m (who used to be a full F and then caused itself to become easier to play out of its long-held compassion). No. B7 and Bm are no cause for concern or alarm. But B - one shudder to thinks of what one must face when he sets down the road towards mutation. Good luck! Good luck to you, dear friend. The horrors and nightmares are only just begun. But someday.... yes someday, you will be able to pick up a Russell Harding tune from the Songwriter forum and play it correctly. And then you will be hailed by all us unmutated mortals.
- Zurf
4,549 2010-07-14 13:45:43
Re: "F" chord is now outlawed (148 replies, posted in Acoustic)
Caromshot - Well done.
4,550 2010-07-14 13:44:29
Re: "F" chord is now outlawed (148 replies, posted in Acoustic)
ozymandias wrote:
Now please don't tell Zurf or any of the other F and B chord banners. Cause if you do, I'll give you such a pinch.
I have no beef with F. F is a chord with a fine upbringing and good heritage. F is merely difficult and sometimes a little touchy, but it usually settles down quickly and cooperates with the C and G chords.
It's B to which I object. It's just plain evil. Just yesterday, I caught a B chord trying to cut the brake lines on my truck. There was another one hiding in a pine tree pulling out a robin's tail-feathers until I chased it off. They come in packs and they have no regard for decency. It mocks poor E and A as if they weren't even harmonic, trying to take over the whole key and make it its own. Shun the B. Shun it.
- Zurf