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There ain't nothing like confidence, except air flow over the vocal chords.
You will find that you can sing better, and louder, if you're actually singing louder. It's a psychological block, though. When you practice at home, you tend to sing quieter, and that effects everything.
Alright. So, after on live gig with the new lovely (her name is "Joy") here's the 1st review.
1. I would not own a Breedlove without the upgraded electronics package. The base Fishman 4 pickups are somewhat lower quality. The ones I played before all scratched while adjusting output through a live amp. The PLUS models didn't have that problem, and come with an integrated tuner as well. I play it through a Fender tube, and it is thoroughly loud and clean.
2. She's a beautiful instrument.
3. The stock strings are kind of ratty. I'm not sure if that's the store or the shop that sets it up.
4. It's prone to a little feedback, so cut the mids down a bit. Once I had the on board EQ set up, it was no problem at all.
5. She's still a beautiful instrument.
She's live at the Poggie Tavern in West Seattle on August 30, for any that care to hear her in person.
Breedlove Atlas AC25/SR Plus...
http://www.breedloveguitars.com/instrum … 5_sr_plus/
Oh man, she's beautiful...
We are working on putting our first LP together. Working title right now is "Greatest Hits." 
Wow. Couple of thoughts...
1. Kid's parents should be slapped down a flight of stairs for being an extra special kind of dumb.
2. There is something seriously wrong with a world where lots of talented musician starve on the streets while *anyone* gets paid $80K to play a freaking video game.
3. Kid's parents should be drug back up flight of stairs by their hair, and kicked back down again for good measure.
That is all.
Never and always are 2 words one should really try to avoid when dealing with ART.
It's fair to say that you can always resolve to the I from the VII when dealing with major keys. That's fundamental modal theory.
jerome.oneil wrote:Just a bit of trivia on the all the birthdays.
The song "Happy Birthday" is owned by the Warner Chapple company, and public performances of it are a violation of copyright unless royalties are payed. It's why you never hear it sung on TV.
Pretty dumb, eh?
I bet the Chinese will not getting a solicitors letter from Warner Chapple even though I have heard it played several times at the Olympic Games. Or maybe they have paid the royalities.
Roger
Probably not. But if you got on TV and sang it, I'm sure they'd send you a bill. :-|
Hi Tom,
You are not alone in your frustration with tuning. The best of the best pretty much ALL use tuners. Not neccesarily because they can't properly tune their guitar but instead to make sure that those playing together are accurate with each other. I prefer digital tuners, something similar to this;http://www.music123.com/Ibanez-LU10-Dig … 7.Music123
The one I have(Korg) I've had for over 20 years.
Peace and Guitars,
SouthPaw41L
I'm going with the Korg tuners as well, but for another reason. Unlike Toney, I can't keep 'em around for 20 days, let alone 20 years, and they are really cheap.
These seem to be headphones that I'd like and also not extremely expensive...145.00 Jerome have you used these for mixing? I'm just curious how these compare to the phones that completely surround the ear...Sorry I'm completely ignorant on this subject. I've found info on LOW IMPEDENCE headphones that seem to be popular in the field. Maybe you or other chordians will know if these are low impedance headphones. Here are some specs I found on these headphones. And thanks for the reply.
The E03 transmitter features Eight factory switchable channels, 300 ft. wireless operating range, Frequency Response of 100 Hz - 10KHz ± 3 dB and Signal to Noise Ratio of 60 dB. Any of E03 receivers can be used with EO3-T transmitor.
The real difference is in portability. You can clip the receiver on your belt and you don't have to tote another cord around like you do with a wired set of headset monitors, and the ear piece is small and out of the way. Having said that, I still prefer a floor monitor over anything on my head.
Your mix, ultimately, is going to come off your mixing board, no matter what kind of monitor you use. We use POS unpowered stage monitors when we gig, and they do alright. It really comes down to understanding what it is you need to hear, rather than what you want to hear. I know I need to hear certain guitar parts for me to queue off of, and I need to hear my own vocals when I sing, so the mix into the monitor reflects that. So what I hear is geared for me, and not the audience. The mix coming out of the PA is not the mix coming out of my monitor, if that makes sense.
Ultimately, it comes down to what you want to do with the monitor. Are you in a studio with it? Are you gigging with it? Sitting at home noodling and trying not to annoy the neighbors? Those should drive your decisions.
Just because a pattern is used alot doesn't mean you should avoid it. This is the mistake jazz made when it went all be-bop. The more obscure the scale the more unusual the time signature the better for the free-blowers... Errm except for their listeners...
Popular progressions have a natural feel. Like the 12 bar blues, once you learn it you can instinctively feel the changes coming up.
Jazz is a thousand chords for three people. Blues is three chords for a thousand people.
In Ear Wireless monitors...
yes its on my other vista computer I will send it to you as soon as I leave chordie and there are several choices for downloads choose the free download,I think you will enjoy this program it also plays sound with each chord or scale on every variation I think its a great learning tool but it will not replace or answer questions like this forum can
jerome.oneil wrote:I've not heard of it. Do you have a link to where you downloaded it? I'd like to check it out.
That sounds like a good tool for ear training, too. Being able to identify chord flavors by ear is really useful.
I've not heard of it. Do you have a link to where you downloaded it? I'd like to check it out.
I played a 5SE. Really cool inlayed graphics all over it.
That 7 is cool. Does having the tone hole up by your arm bug you at all?
never saw any guitar like this. It looks really good but I bet it costs a fotune, but maybe worth it?
cheers Jerome
ken
I want one too
The ones I played were about $1400 US. If you convert Euros to American Pesos, you might call that a bargain.
I got to play a couple of these carbon fiber beauties today. Holy smokes was I surprised at everything. There isn't a matchstick's worth of wood in any of them. The finish them with automotive finish. They don't have truss rods. They're made of a single piece of carbon fiber laminate. You can stand on them, completely submerge them in water, and leave 'em in your car all winter long. They are impervious to heat and humidity.
And they sound delicious.
http://www.compositeacoustics.com/
All I want for Christmas...
Unfortunately, some formally-trained musicians become far too dependent on having notes on paper. These 'paper trained' players freeze up and freak out unless everything is spelled out for them on a musical staff. In extreme cases these players are totally lost without a music stand - even if they 'know' the music they can't just play without the paper.
I think this is a result of modern music education being done by rote, rather than via theory. Because they want to get young kids playing songs as soon as possible, all the educational energy is spent teaching them that "this note means you play this tone," rather than teaching them why those notes fit with the key they are in, which is what will enable them to break lose and improvise a little.
Self promotion as a performer is no vice, it's a business necessity.
But otherwise, yeah. Twits.
I'm still listening, though...
Selecting a teacher that teaches in the same way you learn is critical. Everyone learns guitar a bit differently. I'm highly analytical, so I look for teachers that can express things that way.
Short story, though, is the right teacher can help you immensely.
Got a call from my sweet Irish thing yesterday. She got stuck on the motorway, and had to drive on the curbs in town to get home from her sister's. She said they had more rain that night than any other time in the last decade or so.
Reading standard notation will help you in some ways, but it isn't necessary to play most of the music you want to play. Things that will help immensely are learning to read a key signature, and learning to read the rhythm parts of a song.
That way you can sit down with granny at Christmas and play along while she bangs stuff out on the piano.
Electronics is electronics. You move a wire through a magnetic field, and you induce current. The only thing that matters in that equation are the size of the magnetic field, and the size of the conductor moving through it.
There is no reason at all why hair ballads are popular. They should not be at all, as they are full of suck.
Judges have some lattitude in sentencing. However, if a person has shown habitual disregard for laws regarding violent crime, and placing the public in danger, then I have no problem at all with sequestering them away forever. It's a matter of public health, when you get right down to it.
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