It was either that or take a bunch of science and math electives.
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It was either that or take a bunch of science and math electives.
Sounds great Pete - keep it up!
Ah the pick turn. An old enemy of mine. I have a few suggestions...The picks Davesworld refers to are Dunlop Tortex or Dunlop Gator Grips. Those are the best picks money can buy. The grip really helps. In addition, you may try these things:
1. Wash your hands right before you play. I've found that nice clean fingers hold a pick better than dirty fingers. I like my fretting hand to be a bit slippery (particularly when I'm doing the sliding and position shifting associated with solos), so I wash and dry my hands and then re-lube my left hand or fretboard with Finger Ease. Gross alternative: if you're in a pinch (ie at a gig and making lots of fret noise or fingers start grabbing) you can run your left hand fingers over your scalp (unless you just took a shower) and that helps out just as well.
2. Practice with the pick turned backward and sideways so you are comfy if it happens.
3. My personal favorite: I keep my right rear pocket about 1/2 full with picks. If a pick turns, splits, falls to the ground or falls in the sound hole I just reach back, grab another pick and go! I like this approach better than the mic stand pick holders - I went for a pick a bit too fast once and knocked my mic over. Felt like an a**hole and totally learned my lesson on that one.
Again, sounds great - keep it up!
@Jerome: It was more like 1/2 way between flatted and natural. The quote in this wiki article is a decent summary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_note
Rachmaninoff was a frickin' stud.
Quick tangent on non-western theory:
I studied folk music of Lao river people for a college music thesis. During the course of study I learned that their scale was very very close to our major scale, with a few differences. They don't think in terms of scales and their instruments are always tuned by ear. So the instrument (called a khaen or caen) has a scale that is close to our major scale in terms of intervals but there was no common tuning, i.e. a440.
Because the instruments are hand tuned by their maker and made from pretty cheap materials (long pieces of river grass and old melted down Thai coins), the intervals were tuned inconsistency relative to how we hear music...so some notes would be off by a few cents in either direction.
At any rate, the tuning was close enough that I was able to transcribe a portion of the Lomax Anthology of American Folk Music for playing on this instrument, using a system of notation that I developed for the instrument.
What is really fascinating is that these river people developed this music and this modality with no influence from the west.
I was suggesting that perhaps mozart and bach are more influential as composers, not musicians.
Jerome the note in blues that we play as a flatted third has an origin roots in field work songs where the blue note was less than a semi-tone flat of a natural third. We interpret it as a b3 because of how western music theory is notated (and because of fixed pitch instruments) but the origin of the note that makes up the blues scale is more like 1/2 way between a b3 and a natural 3.
Was Mozart influential as a musician?
BGD - Please notify admin by email when a freeze occurs - Per does not monitor the site regularly (remember, chordie is just a hobby for him). I agree, this has been happening more frequently recently, but if he is not notified, it won't be fixed. It typically just takes a server reboot. It seems I am the only person to notify him and if I'm not on-line, it could stay frozen for hours. Send him a message at admin AT chordie.com and typically it is fixed within minutes.
I did not know I was supposed to do that. Thanks.
I'll never forget the wife with one leg who competed on "Dancing With The Stars".
She could do the two step but it took her twice as long.
Finally! A "like" button.
Interesting question.
All time influential? Jacopo Peri, and his contemporaries. They ushered in the baroque period which gave us our modernized diatonic scales and keys.
Without earlier advocates of equal temperament we'd not have those scales, at least as we know them today. Also, the blues (foundation of much of modern rock) is based around a note that does not exist in modernized diatonic scales and keys...
I'm putting together a solo acoustic set list for bars and pubs. Although I've played quite a great deal of live shows, I have done none with just me and a guitar. Any more experienced solo acoustic weekend warriors have any favorite tunes to share? Thanks!
That's a Madeira. It was a low end import from Guild in the late 60's and early 70's. It was a Christmas gift when I was 5 or 6 and I've played it nearly every day since then.
I recently bought another Madeira, same model, but it doesn't quite have the sound. I got lucky with mine.
Pedal steel.
Not being critical, but I also have problems with slowness or failure to load approximately 2-3 times a week and I'm on a pretty fast connection. Also have been a few sql errors lately....
thanks yall!
I'm starting to work on re-arranging pop tunes in catchy, novel ways, eg Daughtry's version of "Poker Face." Do any of you have any interesting arrangements you'd like to share?
LOL smarta**es.
Dino I just did a 2.5 day fishing trip out of San Diego about three weeks ago. We floated around for 12 hours and caught 35 yellowtail in just under 6 hours. Then the next day we floated around for 7 hours until we got in to a small but unresponsive school of bluefin tuna and caught 2 of those.
The yellowtail is phenomenal.
Deadstring is dead right. Every possible permutation of our twelve tone scale has been written again and again.
There are no "new" melodies left to write.
All we can do is come up with a fresh scenario and interesting lyrics and instrumentation.
I challenge you to find one popularish song in the last 20 years that uses a 12 tone scale.
Here's me fishing. I'm the one making the dumb face:
With guitar:
Just wanted to let you know that I'd be happy to help you guys monitor and obliterate spam and ban spammers. I'm online all day for work and I typically lurk here a few times a day. Not sure what is involved in all of that, but like I say I'd be happy to help.
-joe
I'd show 'em my gun collection.
Posts like this make me wish for a like button.
I still play the same guitar that I got on my 6th birthday, my first instrument. I have never been without it. So I'm bonded.
OH OH OH...you stomp on it! I thought it was something you plug in to your guitar lawlz.
Also do you only use one jack or two?
Do you have any samples of the sound?
I'd start with major, natural minor, dorian and mixolydian, as well as major and minor pentatonic patterns. I never play a phrygian, locrian, or lydian so I don't worry about 'em so much.
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