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Do warm up exercises. I'm sure you can find some on the web somewhere.
Also, take it easy for a day or two. If you normally play for an hour a day, cut back to 20 minutes or so for two days and see how you feel by the third. And so on. Adjust times to make sense in your personal situation.
Just a suggestion.
- Zurf
Did you do it yet Scrimmy? If yes, how'd it go?
- Zurf
p.s. Loving the new vocabulary this thread has generated. Offities and stayintunitiveness are great words!
The tuner winder thing for removing pegs works pretty good for me. I found my football bat not to be as useful. First, I had a terrible time getting the darn thing down off the ceiling to train it and then it wanted to do the whole thing without using his hands. Last time I import a football bat from Great Britain. Besides, it kept wanting biscuits, but every time I gave him some he screamed about hating sourdough and wondering where the sugar biscuits went.
I don't fuss about scuffing my bridge. I'm plenty scuffed, so my guitar may as well be too.
I replaced the plastic pegs that came with my guitar for wooden pegs made by Taylor. The plastic pegs were a disaster to get out the first time, but the wooden pegs seem much simpler to manage. I considered brass pegs, but haven't decided to afford then when the wooden pegs seem to be doing the trick. I think the wooden pegs allow for a warmer tone to the guitar as well, but that may just be due to the fact that I usually drink bourbon when restringing my guitar.
- Zurf
Last band I was in was a worship band called "Joyful Noisemakers". Mostly called that by me.
Some friends of mine from Kentucky run a web site called "The Creek Bank." They have fishing gatherings along a river and have campfire concerts at night. They call themselves The Creek Bank Hogsquallers.
I'm from Appalachia. A Pennsylvania Ridgerunner through and through. I've been living in Virginia for over half my life now, though, so I've got a mix of pronunciations and sayings.
Appalachian adds a lot of "a"s in their accent. We talk about nackles (nickles) and pallows (pillows). We use double or even triple negatives. We use German grammar and English words. My Momma had an old country saying for everything. If you didn't already know what the saying meant, you wouldn't have figured it out from context.
I thought the Pennsylvania Ridgerunner dialect/accent/slang accumulation was a mess. Now I work in government contracting. We are rife with acronyms. The acronyms have taken on meaning all their own and have become slang. Amazing. I feel sorry for newcomers to the industry. They'll have a hard time figuring out what the heck we're saying.
- Zurf
Mine is a cheap guitar that sounds good enough for me. Yeah, I'd like a Blue Ridge. What I don't like about a Blue Ridge is their price tag. Worth the money, no doubt, but not to someone without the free cash in his budget. Like we were discussing with time in another thread, there's only so much money to go around. I earn a good income, but my money is better spent elsewhere for now. Like supporting some charities important to me and encouraging my children's hobbies. My eldest is interested in guitar. If she sticks with it, she'll have a Martin or a Blue Ridge or a Taylor before me more than likely.
I have a buddy with the same model guitar as I have. He's got a dozen or so other guitars, plays professionally, and can afford what he wants guitar wise. At the campfire, he still brings his inexpensive Yamaha - same model as mine. And after 20 years, it still sounds good and he still likes playing it.
- Zurf
Zurf - I would LOVE to get together with you guys! Send me an e-mail and we'll work out the details! (JAM SESSION! WOO-HOO!) But, no laughing at the old fat guy who can't play barre chords!
No chance. You'll understand that comment better when we meet.
Probably real. If all songs sounded good on all guitars, there'd only be one kind of guitar.
- Zurf
I'm another who came back to the guitar after a LONG break. Now I can't get enough. I'm even starting to enjoy playing in front of friends and family. Whisky is a wonderful thing.
All the very best; welcome to Chordie.
Here! Here! Or is that Hear! Hear! My wife actually hangs out and listens to me from time to time now. A little liquid relaxation aid surely helps the audience. The drunker they are, the better I sound.
One cautionary note a friend gave me when he learned that I was trying to write my first useful song: "Never write a song that you can't play drunk."
- Zurf
Oldnewbie. You're right around the corner from me and Jets60. Maybe we should get a little jam together, have a little fun, play a few songs, and generally commiserate on how learning to play guitar causes gray hair ('cause it can't be our age, eh?).
- Zurf
Play whatever songs you want, whatever rhythms you want, but do it with a metronome. Set the metronome WAAAAAY slower than you would normally play the song. Be careful and intentional about the rhythm you choose to play. Slowly increase the speed until you are playing the rhythm cleanly and effectively faster than you would normally play it.
As you become proficient at a given rhythm pattern doing this, then spend about half of your practice time that you dedicate to this particular drill reviewing and "brushing up" known rhythms and about half with new rhythms that you're working on.
You'll get the patterns down that way.
- Zurf
I've got one in the basement just getting dusty. Just haven't been able to give it the attention it deserves. An awful pretty instrument in the hands of someone who knows what to do with it.
- Zurf
Just checked out your Pigtails in Photographs song on FoC. You are SO ready for an open mic. Good picking and good singing. I'd be happy to sit in a pub and hear you sing and play. If you've half a mind or half a heart to do it, then get yourself over there and have some fun.
- Zurf
Do it. Get late on the list. The drunker the audience, the better you sound.
- Zurf
"Close to You", weedjie?
I'm ashamed to admit it, but that song ALWAYS makes me cry.
That song started as background music for a TV bank advertisement.
Like it? I love it!
- Zurf
Nice looking guitar SuperMatt.
- Zurf
Use a B7 and say "that's jaaazzz"
Wonderful idea, but a jazz version of "West Bound and Down"..... Do you think anyone would accept it? Maybe I just need a banjo.
- Zurf
It is what it is.
As far as I'm concerned strumming is a very important rhythm element of a song. The best at it, as far as I'm concerned anyway, are the Irish folk players. When I listen to my Celtic CD's, my jaw drops in wonder.
- Zurf
Can't remember who, but some posh bird, when asked about some long haired band's music replied "that's awful, they'll go down like a Lead Zeppelin"
Guess who she was talking about!
ZZ Top?
Bad I can take. But not disco!
If I had to choose which room in Hell I had to spend eternity, the boy band room or the disco room, it would most certainly be the boy band room. At least there is interesting harmonizing. I almost wrote hormonizing, but that would have been a Freudian slip.
- Zurf
Zurf wrote:Muskrat Love, the America version.
Otherwise I only like really, really cool songs. Of course, it's possible I'm biased.- Zurf
Zurf,
Please tell me you prefer the America version vs. The Capt and Tenille remake!!!!!!! I admire your courage admitting you like that. It is indeed the guiltiest of pleasures.
I already did tell you. I do not care for the Captain and Tenille cover. I do like the Captain's hat, though I can do without his spiffy jacket.
- Zurf
Muskrat Love, the America version.
Otherwise I only like really, really cool songs. Of course, it's possible I'm biased.
- Zurf
I know, just figure it out myself.
It sounds like a standard Bo Diddley in E, but every time I play a standard Bo Diddley in E I wind up playing Not Fade Away.
Please confirm if it's really in E and also give me some tips about how to get that nasty George Thorogood grind at the end of the stanzas.
Any help is appreciated. I usually play acoustic and usually play it Country fingerpick style, so trying to get a serious rock sound from an electric is foreign to me. Please answer as if I don't know anything at all, because that'd be the right assumption to make.
Thanks a million.
- Zurf
I grew up in a small town. My Momma knew everybody and everybody knew my Momma. I couldn't get away with anything. One time I was acting up downtown and by the time I got home I was in for it. I asked how she knew what I was up to so recently. She told me, "Boy! You can't fart on Main Street without me knowing what you had for lunch."
Small towns are just like that.
On band names, pick up any newspaper. There are band names just waiting to be discovered. Here are a few I've derived from articles in a copy of Field & Stream sitting on my desk.
Cannonball Hunters
NG and the Community
Gang Greene
Gunter and the Mecca
Radiant Warmth
Ram Ball and the Riggers
Eddie and the Current Seams
- Zurf
p.s. Big Data and the Deviants is an absolutely capital name for a band. Go with that!
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