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I've heard folks doing the same thing at Guitar Center.  I heard one guy playing the exact same lick over and over again for what was probably 45 minutes or more.  From one of my offices, there's a Guitar Center on the way home.  Sometime when the traffic is really bad, I pull off to play some guitars and basses I can't afford (I know, it breaks my own rule) in the acoustic room and to spend a little time looking over the DVD's and books.   Sometimes I go in, and there's some guys really shredding.  Other times you'll hear a guy popping and slapping and putting together a serious groove on a bass.  But this time, it was a guy playing the same four measure lick over and over and over and over.  The guys who worked there didn't seem to notice.  I'm sure three different licks wouldn't have bothered them a bit.

- Zurf

Good gracious, that's a long song for such a short title. 

- Zurf

No need to apologize Ms. Doll.  I was just being a smart alec for some reason. 

I don't worry about censorship on sites like this, and think it's rather odd that someone would assume that the right to free speech (usually applied at a national level) would apply to an international site such as this.  When you consider that just in this thread six different nationalities are represented, the idea that there is such a thing as 'community standards' goes out the window.  I tend to treat conversing in a private site such as this the same as I would treat conversation around the fireplace in someone's family room.  If someone says something offensive, the host has the right to demand appropriate behavior by his own rules.  Further, if someone feels as if something is or should be offensive to the host, it may be appropriate to speak his mind (though at that point whether or not discipline is appropriate remains the perview of the host). 

So, I was being a smart alec because really censorship on a private web site is something that ought to be expected in exactly the same sort of social rules that one can expect censorship at a private club or home.   Plus, I'd really appreciate any donations.  Free money.  What's not to like?

- Zurf

My sister isn't quite like the fellow in that movie, but she can learn an instrument well enough to play it on stage in a week or so.  I can recall her playing piano in an Andrews Sisters tribute band, saxophone in a classical orchestra and lyre (the percussion kind) in a marching band.  She's played so many different instruments in so many different styles I can't even recall it all. 

Unfortunately, if genetic, the genes were used up before getting to me and I have to work for every advance.

- Zurf

You've done it once again Miss Rebel.  Are you planning to put chords to it, or should I put in my own.  You know the saying "Three chords and the truth."  You've written the truth, I won't mind putting my own three chords to it.

- Zurf

Not heard of it, but congratulations on your purchase.  I hope your son gets many hours of pleasure over many years from his new guitar.

Old Doll - Something I have heard as being useful for others in your situation as an accomplished player who needs to revive her playing to keep from getting stale is a retreat.  In the U.S., perhaps in UK as well, there are camps.  Sort of like sleepaway camps for kids, except they are for adults and concentrate on various artistic skills.  Going away to really concentrate on guitar playing for a week with other guitar players (most of whom you've likely never met) sounds like it would challenge any player.  Especially if you elect to study a style that you've not studied before.  Perhaps Flamenco or Ska or Reggae or Bluegrass or what have you.  Or something that you've dabbled in but are still waiting for the Eureka! moment. 

Anyway, just a suggestion. 

My sister is an artist who takes her 'vacation' as an instructor at one of these camps.  She teaches things such as papermaking or various flat arts, but the same camp also does folk music schools with fiddle or guitar or banjo players.  She says that the after-hours campfires are epic!

- Zurf

Oh, music.  Our church is blessed with a terrific worship leader.  We do some of the modern worship and praise songs that have an alternative rock sound.  However, he also writes a few songs now and then that have a folk-rock sound.  They've done arrangements on a few hymns as well.  I like that.  The lyrics of the old hymns are terribly useful for reinforcing the teaching of the sermons. 

The worship leader is open to Country Gospel, I think, (my preferred religious music style) but our lead pastor cannot stand country music.

We had a rap group perform this past Sunday.  I wasn't into it, but there were some folks in the congregation that were grooving.  No sense in leaving folks out.  I like the idea of using a variety of musical styles so that everyone can find some reason to be offended.

- Zurf

Doc,
Fear not.  If it stops being fun, I'll stop playing.  I am having a LOT of fun working on the rhythmic opportunities your "blocked" strums have opened up.  I still consider myself a bass player, but practice guitar twenty times as much as bass right now (I'm not even really practicing bass, just playing some riffs so that I don't atrophy too badly). 

My style of bass playing does not include all manner of technical thumpery.  I'm not popping, slapping, tapping or any other "ing".  I'm a dead ahead  box player, sometimes staying on the root note of a chord for measures at a time, just using passing notes from root to root.  Other times merely using arpeggios or inversions, but doing it RHYTHMICALLY.  I recall playing with a real wizard.  This kid has it all, talent, skill, good equipment, and a positive attitude.  Plus he's a genuinely nice guy.  Anyway, we're making up bass lines for a new song one of the guys wrote and he did the unspeakable.  He played straight sixteenths.  He's a good kid and I'm learing a lot from him, but I about lit into him, I'll tell you that.  "Kid!!!  You are good.  Great, really.  I could practice all day every day until I die and never play half as good as you.  But Kid, you've GOT to understand something about the bass.  Never, ever, EVER play straight sixteenths!!!  Never!!  SHUFFLE.  Always shuffle."  Anyway, getting to put some of that rhythm into my guitar playing - sheesh, that's a real blessing.   

- Zurf

I've seen 6/4, which is six beats per measure each quarter note gets one beat. 

I've never seen 4/6.  In 4/6, you'd have 1/6th notes getting one beat and four beats per measure.  I didn't even know there is such a thing as a 1/6th note.  It would be like cut time triplets, but four of them, which makes no sense to me.  It would be extremely difficult to count and seems like it would be one of those timings that would have to be felt rather than counted. 

Then again, maybe counting isn't that important after all.  There's a band in my area called the Dixie Jazz Quartet that has five members. 

- Zurf

Yep.  I just bought a scales book.  So right now I'm working on getting a clean sounding barre chord (F, F#m, Bm are the ones I'll need the most) and starting work on scales. 

- Zurf