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The number one thing you can do is place your chording thumb on the back of the guitar neck. Draw an imaginary line on the back of the neck and place your thumb in the middle to lower third of the back of the neck. This will give you better leverage and expand your reach. Try to avoid the 'wrap-around' thumb technique in the early stages of learning barre chords. This is a bad habit to develope and it limits your reach.........Good luck, get ready for some pain.
Peace and Guitars,
SouthPaw41L
Here's another good chord locating site. It'll give you the most common played chord first then 6 or more alternate ways to play desired chord.
Guitarpix ,
Not exactly sure which video you're referring to but maybe this is it?.......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2vJUadjdmo
or this;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YAKOnt68D8
The original video was removed due to term violations.
Zurf,
If you log in and access a previous post of Oldnewbie, his e-mail should be included with his post. (lower left corner) Hows the shoulder ?
Fellow Virginian,
SouthPaw41L
I'm confident you'll be pleased with your new mic. Good choice.......
im in 8th grade and there is an upcomming guitar concert. 1 week 2b exact. our group is playing stairway 2 heaven. we are perfect!!! except for the solo... no matter how long i practice i cant get that solo!!! we cant just leave it out and noone else wants 2 do it. WHAT DO I DO!!!???
Practice and absorb scales in A minor. Do lots of variations with fast/slow/high/low/bends/hammer ons/pull offs, etc.. Turn your volume and gain up real high, make strained faces, contort your shoulders and back and let it rip....................................Make sure you're together with the rest of the group as far as knowing when to stop soloing. Finally, bring lots of pens and paper for you will be getting lots and lots of phone numbers and e-mails....Good luck, have fun, enjoy your youth.
Peace and Guitars,
SouthPaw41L
"Dental Floss Tycoons"
Yippie-i-o-ki-ayyyeeeee!!!!!!
Hows 'bout "The Banana Montanas"
jsn37,
I like the lyrics, where be the chords?.........
James,
If I may, I'll take a stab at the standard deviation thingy;
What is?....... The root mean square(RMS) deviation of values from their arithmetic mean...Also, standard deviation, if my memory serves me correctly, is the most common measure of statistical dispersion measuring how widely spread the values in a data set are.
How ya been?
SouthPaw41L
Good stuff Ken. I enjoyed watching and listening to your perfromances. I think we might also share the same barber!?!?
Peace and Guitars,
SouthPaw41L
First off let's define R&B.
Rhythm and blues (also known as R&B or RnB) is a popular music genre combining jazz, gospel, and blues influences, first performed by African American artists.
Writer/producer Robert Palmer defined "rhythm & blues as a catchall term referring to any music that was made by and for black Americans."[1] He has used the term R&B as a synonym for jump blues.[2] Lawrence Cohn, author of Nothing but the Blues, writes that rhythm and blues was an umbrella term invented for industry convenience. According to him, the term embraced all black music except classical music and religious music, unless a gospel song sold enough to break into the charts. [3]
This was a small piece of a large article on wikipedia. I would broaden the definition to include not just black Americans but all people who are moved by a strong beat and soulful, heartfelt melodies. Hey, to each their own but it's difficult not to find influence from R&B in any post 1940 music. (minus classical, polka,opera, and death metal).
James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Temptations, Al Green, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, Ray Charles, Johnny Otis, Big Bill Broonzy, Chubby Checker, Smokey Robinson,.............what's not to like about these icons of R&B music?
I can explain all this ghostly stuff in 3 words;
Ellllllllllllllllllllllllllll
Essssssssssssssssssssssssss
Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.........................
Here's a good source for some valuable information pertaining to copyright laws, etc.. A timeline must be indisputably established for starters. Afterwards, a multitude of various criteria must be met before complete and total ownwership belongs to wishful creator..............
I don't believe in ghosts but I do know for a fact that witches exist. I was married to one for 3 years...................
It's all good Russell, best of luck to you.
SouthPaw41L
I was in a band playing night clubs 6 months after I began playing. 25 and some odd years later I'm still doin' it, goin' to play a gig tonight here in about an hour. If you love it, embrace it. Enjoy every second of it! The amount of time is pretty insignificant, it's how one uses ones' time preparing and striving to meet goals. Make starting a band your goal and go get it!!! Best of luck to you.
Peace and Guitars,
SouthPaw41L
What's with all the hate for Oasis ? They made it. They're hugely successful. Their music isn't overly complex but it's catchy. Their lyrics are colorful and deeply emotional. I get requests to play their songs very often. Their music almost always goes over well with the majority of my audiences. Is it a geographic thing ? Is it a jealousy thing ? We would all be better off to look for the good in artists verses the bad. Negative energy is harmful to all that it comes in contact...............
tonydr wrote:learn the beginning of Purple Haze. Moderately difficult with bends hammers and pulls and glissando. Used to be a rite of passage, but still has some good basic techniques for any guitarist.
And you get to learn the Hendrix 9th (or what we old guys remember as the James Brown 9th).
And saying you can play some Hendrix is always cool.By the way, what is a 9th, a type of chord shape or something?
Here's a less wordy source for almost any chord question one will encounter.
The Founding Fathers-and evolutionary Children
Robert Johnson
Son House
Skip James
Blind Willie Johnson
Big Bill Broonzy
Howlin' Wolf
Muddy Waters
Willie Dixon
Tampa Red
John Lee Hooker
BB, Freddie, and Albert King
I thank, respect, and appreciate these men more or just as much as the creators of any musical genre. Simple in it's origanal inception but so much room for growth and individual signature.
Print the chords right handed, hold the flipped-over paper up to a light, WALLAH! left-handed chords. Eventually you'll be able to transpose the chord structures in your mind. The world does not cater to us lefties!!!!
Or click on the tuning block (right hand side of song page) and it will give you several options for various instruments. Left-handed guitar is one of those options.
My name is Toney. My Mother said "you were born feet first and we named you after the first few parts of your body that were visible ." The "toe" and then the "knee". Glad they decided not to call me Toenail Ankle.
My future band could be named; Toe Knee and The Butt Heads!!!!!!!
Jessica by The Allman Brothers-
Not one word is sang in this song but the pure beauty and emotion of the music is moving, goose-bump moving.
Riviera Paradise by Stevie Ray Vaughan-
Hard as heck to play but Stevie ripped through it like it was second nature. One of Stevies more complex songs and absolutely beautiful...........
Harvest Moon by Neil Young-
Musically soothing, lyrically, images of a peacful place pops into my mind evrytime I hear this masterpiece of a song.
The Long and Winding Road by The Beatles-
A happy/sad song that has gotten me through some rough, unpleasant times in my life. Now that I think about it, lots of Beatle music has been my partner in testing times of my life.
I have masterd the art of drawing the numeral 6 while simultaneously rotating my lower right leg in a clockwise rotation. I have a friend who is a rocket scientist( honestly ) and he is baffled by my ability to accomplish this feat...........
Scarborough Fair , Parsley ,Sage ,Rosemary and Thyme.
Thought #2 Does Rap qualify as music.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Early rap does (ie Kurtis Blow, Sugar Hill Gang, GrandMaster 5 and The Furious Flash) Todays' rap is a bunch of recycled, uni-topical, self-ego boosting, sampled, non-musical, posturing. An intimidation due to ineptitation, if you will. Jay-Z hires a band to play on the talk show circuits he does but the guys are working for less than $150 bucks(per man) a night.( + travel expenses and $45 a day per diem). I have a friend who is on the circuit and he regrets every day he's away from his local kush gigs getting to go home to his wife and kids after the gigs. Luckily for him his contracts are short term, product promo push stints. Live and learn he says but the contacts can't be anything but positive. I guess we all want we don't have, sort of................
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