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First of all, welcome back.
Second of all, I love that you cited a source for the term in your subject line. Only a writer would do that. 
Third, good luck on the tune! You chose a recognizable tune that's fun and not too complicated. I'm sure you'll do great.
Steel drum tuning is a huge pain and involves hammers and crowbars. You don't regularly retune them like you do a guitar. Takes a lot of skill and experience.
Do you find yourself using the phase or vibrato feature more often?
Another great topic.
Three for me:
1. I am working on spreading my pentatonic range by practicing solos on 1 or two strings only, forcing me to play up and down 4 or more positions on the fretboard rather than just moving between boxes.
2. I am working to integrate the altered scale into my solos to break out of the pentatonic funk.
3. I am going to write 3 songs before year end. Already got one done. Working on two more.
Great question. Impossible to narrow it down!
Early in my music career, it was the blues greats. Anyone with a last name King, SRV, Jimi. In college, I learned about Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, Pat Matheny. Then I started writing music and learned from JT, Paul Simon, Carly Simon, and many others.
More recently (the last decade) I've focused on jam band music so I've been influenced by Derek Trucks, Warren Haynes, and Trey A. Also the sick modern blues players like Joe Bonamassa, Eric Gales, and John Mayer.
And also the great local/regional players I used to gig with/open for back in Chicago. Chico Banks (taken way too soon, RIP). Biscuit Miller (Who still gigs out Topdown's way from time to time). Stan Skibby.
It's difficult to answer this question concisely.
Seymour Duncan’s website has a pickup matcher that provides suggestions based upon user inputs. I would start there.
Bbb as the 7 on that cdim7, not Gbb
You might try searching for "diminished triad chord charts" instead of "diminished chords." I did some quick lookin' and found this, which can easily be translated into a chord chart. http://hubguitar.com/fretboard/diminished-triads
I think the reason for the 7ths is that the half-diminished and diminished 7s are more common in jazz than diminished triads.
Guitar chord notation is pretty straightforward, certainly not as nuanced as standard notation, so it might be easier for you to spend 1/2 hour learning how to create chord charts vs. pulling images from Google.
Take songs you already know very well, and play all the chords as barre chords up the neck.
I just reread your post and realize I misunderstood it. I learned the thumb technique in school so I think it’s very much a recognized technique by music pedagogists.
For smacking chords, the pad of the thumb provides a much warmer sound that plucking thumb and fingers , or hitting the strings with the nails on the finger.
For fingerpicking I couldn’t imagine many practical scenarios in which bringing the fingers up to the e or a strings provide a benefit unless you’re transitioning from finger picking to strumming. Just my opinion though.
mbnxuwhuk wrote:My dear, there is an update on website and now I added there 4 more melodies on one string:
Jingle Bells
Linkin Park – In the End
Survivor – Eye of the tiger (OST Rocky 3)
Alice Merton – No rootsPlease follow and learn!
You may want to say Hi there. Not "My dear"
Hi there, Beamer my dear!
Second note: These tabs will work with any fretted instrument. Why limit it to guitar? You can play these melodies on uke, bass, mandolin, banjo, etc.
We were headed to toys r us just an hour ago. I parked and started to exit the vehicle. The vehicle was neither off nor in park. Fortunately I realized my mistake before anyone got hit!
Zurf said it Better than I could. Per usual.
unclejoesband wrote:Baldguitardude wrote:For my sake, please make those links private and/or password protect the files.
No way Dude! You get thrown in the public domain just like the rest of us.
I actually prefer keeping parties to parties as well. They are less than ideal recording environments, and some conversations accidentally recorded do not bear repeating. That said, I'll live up to or try to live down whatever I've done.
Strongly agree. If I knew things were getting out in the general public I’d have just listened and not played.
Great finish on that axe. I have never heard of Evertune. Mind making a demo video to share with the group?
and the vids will go to my YT account, audio will probably all be on sound cloud .
For my sake, please make those links private and/or password protect the files.
As they say: a wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.
I think it’s a combination of factors:
- bad expansion strategy
- bad management culture
- increasing onshore competition with great, lower cost brands
- a stale brand
- lack of meaningful innovation
- increasing popularity of EDM and other genres that don’t use guitars
"Put up" with your toddler!? She was a highlight! I am sorry that I didn't know Gabriel was coming, else I'd have brought him a practice band and given him a lesson.
She's a ham.
He had a blast. If we have him again next year I'll give you proper notice.
What a great time. In addition to seeing my friends Topdown, Topdawg and Zurf again, I had the pleasure to meet Beamer, Dirty Ed, Southpaw41, Joey3, and Normtheguitar, along with a bunch of Topdown's local buddies (Wyatt, a couple Steves, a few Jeffs, 1-2 Keiths, a Kristin and a Natalie). I am sure I'm missing other Chordians but the liquid courage was a-flowing.
I am going to try to make this an annual trip and I'm very regretful that it took so long to get around to showing up.
A HUGE thank you to TD for hosting, and also to everyone at CS who shared music with me (and tolerated my toddler).
Can't wait for next year!
I’ve always disliked that store for the reasons you list and more
I don’t but that sounds like a great find.
Thanks to Topdown and Zurf I’ve recently moved my acoustics to John Pearce or Earthwoods, if I can’t find the former locally. Great strings.
We are here. It’s nice and cool. We just had a snack at Sloppy Joes and after a family nap it’s open mic time.
T minus 14 hours until we leave for the airport. Can't wait!
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