munkshoo wrote:
Still having LOTS of trouble with it. Damn!
keep working at it! youll get it.
1,727 2013-10-27 21:09:44
Re: CHORDIESTOCK II - Feb 22, 2014 (160 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
If im solo floor is good, but I have a old friend in the area also and may crash there, I hope she is in the mood to hang with all us! she is a lot of fun to have around. If the wife comes, then Its a hotel or a B&B. Do you have a B&B near ya? (another selling point for the wife) 
1,728 2013-10-27 21:07:37
Re: CHORDIESTOCK II - Feb 22, 2014 (160 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
OK ill fly in on sat then and come home monday. if it can happen! but I gotta be carefull as to my days off work.
1,729 2013-10-27 21:05:46
Re: Tonight (3 replies, posted in Songwriting)
I can not get to sound cloud on my work puter, but I think Im going to like hearing this one!
1,730 2013-10-27 21:00:57
Re: guitar sound (5 replies, posted in Electric)
You get used to that chorus. At volume (unles your punching it with an all valve head or combo)
I think solid state amps just dont push it.
THough I dont play live (wish I did have that much talent, i used to garage band it for a while) when Im on my electric, I just cant play dry. I just dont like the sound. For clean I still have a pinch of gain in there for some boost, and definatly the delay and chorus and maybe a hint of verb in there also.
for rock, im pushing the he!! out of it with my full bore metal or if not going over the top, some good OD out of the digitech set for a Boss OD1.
1,731 2013-10-27 04:39:51
Re: CHORDIESTOCK II - Feb 22, 2014 (160 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
at least im working with a good amt of time to butter up the missus, was checking flights tonight. DFW to Tampa roughly 350 (flying in fri early evening leaving after noon sunday)
how far is that away from you?
1,732 2013-10-26 23:41:11
Re: Meeting another chordian tonight (15 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
sounds like trouble brewing! wish I could be there!
1,733 2013-10-26 23:40:11
Re: Music stands (12 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Man since the 80's bands have had tele prompters hidden in monitor cabs LOLOL (kareokie befor it was invented) Im a slave to my sheet music as i dont play every day. My friends ban that plays every weekend and someweekedays if booked, has paper all over teh floor and taped to monitors for the lead singer.
dont worry about it!
1,734 2013-10-26 23:32:43
Re: soft fingers (7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
You can also soak your finger tips in rubbing alcohol. yes it dries out your skin,,, but that is what your trying to do. it helps the calus build faster.
1,735 2013-10-26 23:29:11
Re: JAMMING (7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I have friends in a professional cover band. It is not aginst the law to play them as a payed band,, only to record and sell with out copywrite permissions IE Royalities paid. In a jam session covers is what its about and then taking it to another place with each person being able to take a solo if desired.
1,736 2013-10-26 00:09:11
Topic: Blues fix Scotty style ;) (1 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
This is acoustic, also featuring one of my all time top 5. George Lynch with his band Lynch Mob.
Bounce past the ID10Ts at the beginning and listen to the music at 2:02. Very blusy
1,737 2013-10-25 01:37:11
Re: Ovation (14 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)
flester wrote:
http://ovationfanclub.com/ for all your Ovation questions. I made a note some time ago that Ovation fit the following at the factory ( not sure where I got this info)
6-string: D'Addario EXP16 (.012-.053) Phosphor Bronze
12-string: D'Addario EXP38 (.010-.047).I have D'Addario Custom Light, 11-52 on my Applause (a budget ovation, its old and action quite high so I wanted something light) and something fairly standard 10-47 on my Pacemaker 12 string (not Martin, their basic strings don't seem great). Never took to coated strings
Hey Mine is a PACEMAKER also! cool!
1,738 2013-10-25 01:15:27
Re: squeek (4 replies, posted in Acoustic)
jerome.oneil wrote:
My pinky is almost useless. I'm working on it, though.
Well just play a lot of Chuck Berry, thats nothing but a root 5th and a pinky! LOLOL
Or you could play the heck out of some Steppenwolf.
1,739 2013-10-25 01:09:57
Re: Dont you hate it when... (4 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
jerome.oneil wrote:
Audacity is notoriously unstable, and leaks memory like an old boat.
Well this time it was more my computer than Audacity. In its own little way, Its telling me to replace fans,clean out the guts and upgrade system to Win7. LOLOLOL.
1,740 2013-10-24 01:50:01
Topic: Dont you hate it when... (4 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
(this could go in the recording section also but its not so much all about recording)
...... your computer glitches after 3 hours of work and you loose everything!
A week ago, I got home from work, loaded up Audacity, ran a patch from my digitech into the mixer, recorded a 3:45 min drum track (after an hour of messing w/ levels and bpm)
then a few stabs at playing a Bass line (just hanging on that dropped D )
I was about to save project and my whole D@mn computer locked up! Could not save, couldn't ESC nothing. I had to Hard boot it! lost all of it!
It was then 4:45 in the AM and I had to get to sleep. Man was I angry. I swear I think I was actually playing in time at 130BPM for the first time ever! And I thought the riff was pretty d@mn cool!
If you can imagine it think RATT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_gGWsqd8Ec blended up with Alanta Rythm Section, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k57_67AEOY
With the guitar I'm pounding on the dropped D (a'la Ratt) then hit a barred Em7 (7th) with a hamer on > and cant decide on weather to do the A13 like in Spooky or use just the D6. That's the main riff. then C5 to A5 B5 and back into Em7
I was doing a track for track so I could send them each to Jerome to mix down for me (Hey Jerome! I need to send you more stuff when I get the chance to do this again!LOLOL)
Well I just was thinking about it and thought to tell you guys about it.
Later.
Beamer.
1,741 2013-10-22 02:59:48
Re: I think I might have a bad case of G. A. S. (14 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)
Yep hang from walls!
1,742 2013-10-17 01:46:51
Re: Staining a Fretboard (8 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Tenement Funster wrote:
Thanks for the tips and insights, everyone.
Perhaps I will just leave it as is. Sounds like I could create some irreversible troubles.
Just clean it up like I mentioned. For polishing my frets, I tape them all off like all the vids will show you, If you need to use sandpaper, start with the lightest method first , but 1000, 1500, an if you really want to make it pop, 3000 for me are usually enough. Then use a good metal polish. My personnel favorite is S100 Total finish restorer. (I use it on my bike and my guitars!) After that is all done, and polish is removed (watch the tight edges where compound and polish like to hide), I use mineral oil on my rosewood. You will hear different opinions but most tend to either go mineral or lemon. They soak in nice and buff to a nice luster. 
1,743 2013-10-15 22:03:23
Re: Staining a Fretboard (8 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Worn areas are a guitars badge of honor. I say don’t mess with it. Just buff it with some steel wool, use 0000 with some metal polish, on your frets. Be sure to tape the wood off. Soak the wood with lemon or mineral oil and buff with a micro fiber rag. It will look brilliant!
1,744 2013-10-15 21:57:03
Re: strange song: plain psychotic (3 replies, posted in Songwriting)
I feel some distortion and volume leaning my way! 
1,745 2013-10-11 23:58:02
Re: Sleepless. (28 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Power Naps
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?id=8908727
A NASA study on military pilots and astronauts found a 40-minute nap improved performance by 34 percent and alertness by 100 percent.
1,746 2013-10-10 22:03:10
Re: Ovation (14 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)
After having the silk and steel for a while, I can say I dont like them very much, but ill deal with them. I go back to a bronse set again for sure for the rich tone.
1,747 2013-10-10 04:10:01
Re: Hello all (12 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
James, Im basically self taught in my guitar (and it shows cause after 30 yrs most kids play better than I LOLOL) I just start by writing what hits me. To be honest its usually angry stuff and I write to get it out. how ever I write some fun stuff and sentamental things also.
As to how, let it flow naturally, start humming and then the chords put them selves where they need to be. Some times I can not get the chords, That is when I come here and ask one or two of teh guys for help. Ill ask for a certain sound/mood and say minor or major. If I knew Theory I would be so better off. To quote Sean Connery's character in Finding Forester "The only way to write is,, to write." so I do. even if it sucks, i have scraps of stuff that I save and sometimes I jigsaw 5 yrs of scraps together. They take me in directions I dont expect.
Hope in some way this helps.
Oh and welcome to a great site!
1,748 2013-10-10 03:59:14
Re: a small story (13 replies, posted in Songwriting)
have not listened yet, cant from work puter, but i like the story and im sure the song is the bomb
1,749 2013-10-09 01:40:09
Re: Found new vid lessons (3 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
all you have to do is look up the page guys.
here it is http://www.activemelody.com/
1,750 2013-10-07 23:52:53
Re: Hanging Guitars (15 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
looks great!
HEY HERE A CHEAT FOR DOING PHOTO POST.
1. R CLICK ON PIC WHERE EVER IT IS ON THE WEB, GET ITS LOCATION FROM PROPERITIES,HIGHLIGHT AND SAVE. (EXPLORER) IN GOOGLE OR FIRE FOX IT WILL HAVE SAVE IMG LOCATION.
THEN i GO TO THIS WEB PAGE in another tab http://www.autogeekonline.net/
find any topic that you want and go to bottom of page for reply. hit go advanced.
on advanced page, click on the pic link. a box will come up, get rid of the stuff in it, and paste your address in it and hit ok. it will give you the complete link you need for your image. just copy and paste that in here.
thats how I started putting pics in here. it seems wordy, but its really easy after you get teh hang of it.