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scott
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The guitar-playing item
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Sep 8 13:13 UTC 2001 |
This is the item where I talk about improving my guitar playing.
I'm actually a bass player, these days playing with the Nick Strange Trio.
I've been dabbling in guitar for years, although this year I actually have
a reason to put some work into it. Every year, the martial arts school I
train at (http://www.a2amas.com) puts on a big banquet with demos,
entertainment, etc. We usually have a band made up of students, except last
year when we suffered with karaoke. Strange statistical anomaly: No guitar
players last year. Plenty of drummers and bass players, but no real
guitarists. So this year I took on the task of working up my guitar playing
so we could have a band. Quite change; three years in a row I was the bass
player.
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scott
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response 1 of 13:
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Sep 8 13:17 UTC 2001 |
Beyond just learning how to actually operate a guitar, you need some songs
to play! A good resource for tablature (little fretboard graphics of the
chords) is at http://www.olga.net (OnLine Guitar Archive). I've found a
few useful songs there, although there's more that I didn't find or that was
just a bare skeleton of the guitar part.
I've also gotten one of those little digital multi-effects units with all the
usual sounds (distortion, echos, etc) which also has a "phrase trainer", a
short (14 seconds?) digital audio memory which can trap a sample of audio from
a tune I'm working on and play it back at different pitches and speeds. Quite
useful for figuring out a guitar lick, in fact much more useful than I
thought.
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happyboy
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response 2 of 13:
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Sep 8 13:31 UTC 2001 |
switch to banjo.
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carla
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response 3 of 13:
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Sep 13 05:59 UTC 2001 |
tabcrawler.com is also a very good tab site, scott. I fiddle arround
on it myself. sitting in front of a computer with napster<or equivalent>
and tabcrawler is really all ne needs to play just about anything.
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albaugh
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response 4 of 13:
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Sep 15 05:23 UTC 2001 |
don't you fret... ;-)
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carla
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response 5 of 13:
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Sep 25 04:50 UTC 2001 |
"just about everything" does not include Adrian Legg.
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carla
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response 6 of 13:
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Oct 11 05:25 UTC 2001 |
boy what a conversation killer that was. Adrian Legg is god tho.
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scott
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response 7 of 13:
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Oct 11 12:20 UTC 2001 |
Actually it looked like tabcrawler had all the same stuff as olga.net, but
in a much more obnoxious (popups, etc) format.
I've been trying out various distortion/overdrive pedals, but my conclusion
is that what I have now will sound a lot better after more practicing. :)
I've also been practicing.
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carla
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response 8 of 13:
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Dec 17 05:03 UTC 2001 |
My personal current guitar hell stems from the fact that I am at the point
that in order to grow as a musician, I need to comprehend and master
the circle of fifths. It's hard. People get their doctorates in the
circle of fifths. I'm going to start a circle of fifths item. Beh.
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madcow
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response 9 of 13:
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Jun 8 19:17 UTC 2002 |
mxtabs.net is a great tablature site for guitar, bass, and drums. Through
it you can also link to musicianforums.com which is very helpful for asking
people things about your instrument you want to know
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cmcgee
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response 10 of 13:
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Jul 22 00:48 UTC 2002 |
Ok, you guitar guys: Does moisture affect nylon strings?
I was arguing with someone last night, whose guitar kept going out of
tune. He said "Too much moisture in the air." The guitar itself had
been on the sailboat for a couple days, so I don't think it was the
guitar itself. He said the moisture was getting into the strings. I
said "Huh?"
Why was the guitar with metal strings staying in tune, and the nylon
strings going out of tune on a humid July evening on a sailboat?
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scott
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response 11 of 13:
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Jul 22 01:09 UTC 2002 |
If the strings are at all porous then they could be affected by moisture (by
the mass of the water molecules, actually).
But I'd believe the wooden guitar is a more likely culprit.
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