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(30 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Zurf wrote:

Take away the bass player and the drummer and you've got a singer/songwriter in a coffeehouse.  Add the bass player and the drummer back in and you've got a band.  Presumably one that can keep a beat. 

- Zurf

Just a few numbers to make things a little clearer. Last year(2006) I played a total of 360 gigs. 48 of these gigs were with drummer and or bass player. Lets see, that leaves 312 gigs played el solo, by me self. How many gigs did the drummer and bass player play without this singer/guitar player? Eh that'd be zero. And I've never stepped foot into a coffeehouse, can't stand the stuff, muchless played a gig in one. All of these gigs were at bars, resorts, or festivals.

I don't devalue the importance of bass and drums in music but singer/guitarists are, in most cases, the primary focal point and more times than not, the leader of a group. I love bass and drums but they're not a prerequisite for creating a band.

See;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29CMRsWl … mp;search=

and this;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAI3QgssxKA

and one more;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0U7TKSTSE0

1,727

(10 replies, posted in Songwriting)

What is Craic?

1,728

(30 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

gitaardocphil wrote:

SouthPaw41L , I have a friend who is drummer, he also played as guest on a few albums, he tells me the same. You can hear it pretty good if a drum machine is used.
For me, playing alone, and having a BOSS BR 600 (I still don't know how it works) it is interesting.
I am able to "create" a song, alone and with a possibility to correct, and that song is finished.
But live: most people think that the singer, the guitar player are the most important band members. WRONG, the most important musicians are the drummer and bassist, they are the "essence" of a band.

I disagree; take away the bass player and the drummer and the show goes on. Take away the singer and the guitar player and the show is over.

upyerkilt wrote:

much to the not so much delight of my wife, I am playing John Prine right now. I am leaving in a bout half hour to go get something to eat and drink before the doors open to see him at 7:30.
I am wishing I booked tomorrow off for a holiday!

Ken

Awesome!! You lucky dog. I wish I was there with you. JP is the freakin' best!!!! Give us one of your 'famous or infamous' altered reviews when you get home. What'd he open with, encore songs, band, I wanna know it all. Make me fell like I was there. Have a great time!

Best Regards,
SouthPaw41L(Toney)

I've found this site to be extremely helpful and they seem to have the widest selection and lowest prices on the net.

http://www.music123.com/Guitar-Amplifie … 0.Music123

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(30 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

The Patella Fellas

Rat-a-tat-taps and the Busted Knee Caps

Drum Machine?????? NEVER!!!!! Drum Machines are horrific for music. They are the enemy! We must gather as a strong force a declare our total and complete abstinance from these evil, demonic, souless, harmful to all walks of music, rhythym boxes of filth. Please join me in this quest. If you cannot find a drummer, go without. Please, please, please, do not resort to a drum machine. It pains me utterly just to write of these crap holders! Phew! I feel better now!

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(6 replies, posted in Electric)

cytania wrote:

I always thought compression was bad, a cheap way of umphing up a sound, RCA used to directly process Elvis's vocals with it (making remastering pretty tough) but in my quest for a Scotty Moore/James Burton rockabilly sound I've found Vamp setting 17B to be perfect and the key part of it is compression. Anyone know their way around compression pedals? there seem to be alot of different ones out there...

I have this one and love it. It adds amazing tone to ones soloing and the added sustain makes playing easier. I'd be lost without it;

http://www.music123.com/Boss-CS-3-Compr … 3.Music123

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(7 replies, posted in Electric)

What! no neon pink with lime green polks dots?????
Or hows about the old Jack Daniels label ???

The first song I conquered start to finish was "Bell Bottom Blues" by Derek and the Dominos. It took me 6 months but by garsh I did it!

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(4 replies, posted in Bands and artists)

I think the tune you're thinking of Ken is "POUNDCAKE"?

I know this isn't an incredibly fast, technically difficult, or consisting of power tools or any other bizarre gadgets, but I'll take David Gilmores solo on "Comfortably Numb" any ole day. That dude plays with so much feel and emotion and I'll take that over blaze and complexity almost every time.

In a recent VH1 listeners poll Bob Dylan's "Like A Rollin' Stone" was voted the greatest song of all time. I'd have to put "Smoke on the Water" way up there myself but there's no way I could ever take a stand and declare the most famous rock song ever. Just a few tunes that I really dig and feel were very influencial;

Purple Haze-Jimi Hendrix

Let It Be-Beatles

You Can't Always Get What You Want-Rolling Stones

Blue Sky-Allman Brothers

Ace of Spades-Motorhead

Runnin' With The Devil-Van Halen

Highway to Hell-AC/DC

Ther's a bazillion more, these are simply the ones that come to mind in the here and right now.

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(18 replies, posted in Songwriting)

bonedaddy,
Don't worry about offending those too shallow to comprehend the fact that that people, and beliefs regarding religion, will vary. You've created, and very artistically I might add, something that expresses what's inside of you. NO APOLOGY NECESSARY!! Keep on writing and thanks for sharing.

Peace and Guitars,
SouthPaw41L

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(5 replies, posted in Acoustic)

I stress this point to my guitar students relentlessly! Size does not not matter, in terms of ones' hands. The only advantage to having large hands is being able to use the thumb in a 'wrap around' technique to play bass notes on barre chords. This is a bad habit for large and small handed people. It limits ones reach for fills and flicks. What you need to focus on is thumb placement on the back of the guitar neck. Your thumb should be on the lower third of the back of the neck. Keep your wrist straight and almost any reach you wish to attain will be possible. I'm not saying you'll have the same span as a large handed person but proper,efficient technique will always conquer genetics.

Ask Lots, Learn Lots,
SouthPaw41L

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(11 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

I stress this point to my guitar students relentlessly! Size does not not matter, in terms of ones' hands. The only advantage to having large hands is being able to use the thumb in a 'wrap around' technique to play bass notes on barre chords. This is a bad habit for large and small handed people. It limits ones reach for fills and flicks. What you need to focus on is thumb placement on the back of the guitar neck. Your thumb should be on the lower third of the back of the neck. Keep your wrist straight and almost any reach you wish to attain will be possible. I'm not saying you'll have the same span as a large handed person but proper,efficient technique will always conquer genetics.

Ask Lots, Learn Lots,
SouthPaw41L

1,740

(5 replies, posted in My local band and me)

guitaardocphil,
I've pasted a previous answer to a question similar to yours. Here it is;


"My stage name is my birthname when I play solo(Toney Hall) and my band's name is Acoudos.(pronounced ah-coo-dose) It has dual meaning, when we're 2 piece it means acoustic duo, when it's more than 2 it means a dose of acoustic music. Most of my gigs are solo but the line up of musicians that I have are all very much like family.(some actually are family) The name is trademarked and copywritten since 1997. We don't have a working website because not to sound egotistical, we don't need one for what we want. We have more gig opportunities than we can accept and we're not looking to be 'big stars'. Just wanna do what we truely love and pay the bills by doing so. There's probably some stuff floating around on us but we really try to keep a semi low profile. My past is very dark(haha).

Peace and Guitars,
SouthPaw41L(Toney)"

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(5 replies, posted in My local band and me)

I'm lucky and blessed enough to fall into the #2 category. Got my first guitar when I turned 17, played 8+ hours a day for 6 months, fell totally in love with this amazing instrument, and started playing clubs. Haven't stopped since and won't stop until I'm dead and gone.

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(18 replies, posted in Songwriting)

Great job bonedaddy. This is an incredible song. Nice chordal transition between the verse and chorus. Lyrically appealing to both the believers and non-beleivers. A people song at it's finest.

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(57 replies, posted in Acoustic)

Michael,
Hello and welcome to chordie. The trick to successfully playing barre chords is leverage. This comes from your left thumb(if you play right handed) placement on the back of the guitar neck. If you place your thumb on the lower third of the neck you'll find that executing these booger barre chords will be much easier.(if neck were transparent your thumb would line up with the D,G,and B strings) It's gonna take a little time and muscle building but once you get it, it's all worth it.

Peace and Guitars,
SouthPaw41L(Toney)

1,744

(5 replies, posted in Acoustic)

guitaardocphil,
Attached is label for which Andy Mckee, and many other gifted artists are signed with. Navigate through and I feel confident you, and many others will be greatly impressed with the fine group of musicians working with CandyRat.

http://www.candyrat.com/

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(12 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)

deaken316 wrote:

Hey everyone I am looking for a new amp and was wondering if you guys had any suggestions I play in a band so needs to be fairly loud I might do a couple small gigs(mostly rock/metal). But heres the catch my budget is kinda low and I dont want to spend much mony (under $80 $100 at the max) Anyway, if anyone has any ideas reply.
                                                                             deaken316

Deak,
Here a few possibilities for your amp search;

http://www.music123.com/Fender-Frontman … 3.Music123

http://www.music123.com/Peavey-Solo-Gui … 5.Music123

http://www.music123.com/Marshall-MG10CD … 2.Music123
http://www.music123.com/Fender-15R-Fron … 9.Music123

http://www.music123.com/Hughes---Kettne … 4.Music123

There are many more options than the ones I listed, navigate around the site and find what best suits you. The prices on this site are the best I've found and I buy tons of gear. Happy huning!!

SouthPaw41L(Toney)

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(2 replies, posted in Songwriting)

Read through this a few times. James breaks it down quite nicely, step by step, for a newbie to understand. Be patient and ask lots of questions, if you feel it necessary.

http://www.chordie.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1957

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(14 replies, posted in Acoustic)

Hey fellas,
I think your advice and suggestions are 'fallen on deaf ears'. Yordo hasn't posted for over a year and a half. Good stuff though, I'm sure others will benefit from the helpful hints.

1,748

(5 replies, posted in Acoustic)

Hello Alec,

Dumbstruck here too by Andy McKee! The capo thingy is called 'partial capoing'. There's another guy out there by the name of Trace Bundy who uses multiple capos and moves them around throughout the songs. He's mind boggleing too. Give him a look...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw15zgMM … mp;search=

Peace and Guitars,
SouthPaw41L(Toney)

upyerkilt wrote:

I was trying hard not top reply to this as my silver tongue will probably come out but......

Rockchick, save this page and look at it again when you are 23. You will realise how silly you are being.
Nothing wronf with being silly though. I am silly all the time.
I do things and say things all the imte I think later maybe I shouldnt have. but I never regret any of it, what happens happens, what is said is said, what is done is done, what is anything is anything, life is life, crap is crap, good can be good, hippies are cool but fok music is better, parents are a pain no matter what the age unless they are babysitting, even wifes are a pain sometimes. never become a wife you will only be on here wanting to know why yer hubby is drinking so much when you ask questions, nothing is clear when there is a dead fly splatted over yer windscreen first thing on a frosty foggy morning. even cd's are good for ashtrays if you melt them and mould them properly, anything can be looked at in a different way if you put your mind to it.
I have a wee modem here flicking on and off showing me it is connected, so fast I cannot count the flashes per minute and 14 seconds, nor would I want to as that task is pointless and has no meaning in my life at all. A wise man said to me once, go forth and multiply, I thought at the time he meant I was to go and create babies but now I know what he really meant was...... was....... aaahhhh, now I know. Go forth? he really meant go fifth. why? because forth is just like fourth and coming in fourth is being a loser, so if yer going to lose, lose in style and come in where no one is interested in you. So where was I ? oh yeah the chocolate marshmallows. Keep away friom them in the month of October when the cow pats have just been laid upon the wet dewy grass, they never taste the same.
Rovkchick, ever had one of those puzzle rings? or ever seen one? very complicated. I undone my wife's yers ago and spent 4 days nearly continously trying to work it out. Knowing that I got it apart easy, it should click back in easily. I ended up taking it to a proffesional ring puzzle solver. A jewellers. The broke it and put it back together then welded and buffed the ring so you could never tell it was brke, amazing what these people can do, you get people verywhere that can hide things as well as help, it is not always plain to see why there is a face on the moon but when you work out what the dark side of the moon is all about you will understand life on a lilly pad, just like a frog after laying its spawn in the pond and decided it is time for air. They struggle up onto the not so steady pad and with their weight they sink again. But they always get back up and face the lilly pad in the stem and say " stop it". Sometimes frogs have to do this as well as those talking dolls you get for wee girls. My daughter has a doll that pees itself, it cries and she even has one that you can open the belly and see its guts, because on the outside things look very different to what is inside.
I found that growing up with a forest and a distillery at the bottom of my back garden helped a lot when i was younger, we made bows and arrows and atacked the milk float when it done its rounds, same milk float knocked down my cat and kiled in front of my eyes so he had to pay. I was 7 years old and... and well that has nothing to do with this reply, so on with the reply..........
The rolling stones sang a song ( actually a few hundred songs but lets not get into useless details) called you can't always get what you want. I was always told this when i was a boy. Then when I heard this song I listened to it and heard " you cant always get what you want repeated about 50,000 times then the next line is " buut if you try sometimes, you might just find, ye get what you need". Now you can take this great advice and do what you want with it like I did, but dont get caught like my mate's brother,
parents and frinds are wonderfull but the people that are even more wonderful are the ones that try to bring you down. the more the better, it lets you see how much better you are than them, and they will know it. one day when i was at school I told my french teacher she was a prostitute, ( i am using a nicer name, i actually called her a f***** g w**re, she annoyed me, but I learned from this, if you go mouthing off you get into trouble, so I stioped mouthing off....to her.... Only gets you suspended and then you miss out on things like how to really matter about the important things in life like life,
I have not got a pet anymore, I like big dogs but I hate ankle biting dogs. The kind that when they bark at your feet you just want to give them a right good boot across the room. AAAhhh the memories are flooding back now of that wee pominairian my grandad had,  iused to call it up on the chair to get clapped ( and it fell for the same trick all the time), once up I would see how far across the room it would fly by using my right arm then again with my left arm, I would mark out the places it would land with the dead mice I trapped. If you have raly read this far then I would say yo ureally have to speak to someone. i know i do since I typed all this, anyone ele read this far? Personally I could not be bothered to read something so long and boring and ......what was allthis about anyway? my cat? yea, so the big lesson is dont run in front of milk floats on a saturday afternooon. Well that is unless it is snowing, the milk boy through a snow ball at me with a stone in the middle and hit my eye, nearly took it out.  he came round and appologised and gave me a bag of jelly tots, what I really wanted to do was kick him in the kattangas.
aye so, just put up with all the crap just now or tell your mum and dad ye want t ostay with an auntie, I went and stayed with my auntie wheni was 14 for a few months to get away from my family,  ilearned a lot then like, like, errrrrm, hmmm, like how to watch people get blitzed out their face, fall down stairs, seing people get knifed, seeing guns and meeting some very unfriendly people. So thin kto yourself, is it that bad? live your own life, ignore everyone around you that need to be ignored, that should be ignored . play more guitar. write more songs on your experiences while you are young, bythe time you are 20 you will have a few albums worth of songs and if you are good enough and get noticed you can get rich thru it and hire some bodyguards, go to the houses of the peple you hate, start a fight and let you employees take care of it.
Or you could try growing up ,but  iwarn ye, that in itself is dangerous!! you have to pay bills, take care of kids, go to work whether ye like it or not, make sure you eat proper food, suffer unpteen hangovers and vow never to drink again but do the following week, yer 13 gilr!!!! enjoy yer teens, stop rebelling so much and feeling sorry for yourself, there are people younger than you in this world that have real problems. although your problems may seem real to you, go watc the BBC news for the next 3 days, watch reports they havein iraq, afghanistan, africa, romania, then think to yourself, do you really have a bad problem?
You have had quite a few replies here as well as your last online tantrum, take the advice from them and use it, listen to them, they are older, wiser and smarter, whether you like it or not, it loks like they are genuinely trying to help, not like me, I am giving advice by telling you to listen to them and stop thinking you have a life or death situation problem. deal with your problems, its all part of growing up.

WAAAAAHHHHH   HOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
Encore, encore!!!!!!!!

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(7 replies, posted in Electric)

This here little gizmo does wonders fer noise-gettin'-fid-of.

http://www.music123.com/Boss-NS-2-Noise … 5.Music123