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Post by Blacksunshine on Apr 9, 2020 12:50:42 GMT -5
I'm working on firming up my chord melodies that I already knew at one time, but kinda let go. (Someday My Prince Will Come, Round Midnight, There Will Never Be Another You, etc.)
I've also been working out Paul Gilbert stuff too, but that is MUCH more challenging.
How about you?
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Post by funkykikuchiyo on Apr 9, 2020 13:58:41 GMT -5
Haven't gotten there yet (still working through getting enough groceries and the fun of unemployment insurance), but I hope to revisit Jimmy Bruno's No Nonsense Jazz Guitar. Might try another chord melody or two. Two that I've played with but am far from having down: God Only Knows, and Ave Maria. Neither one is particularly jazzy in their original form and have some potential.
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Post by Blacksunshine on Apr 9, 2020 14:25:27 GMT -5
Haven't gotten there yet (still working through getting enough groceries and the fun of unemployment insurance), but I hope to revisit Jimmy Bruno's No Nonsense Jazz Guitar. Might try another chord melody or two. Two that I've played with but am far from having down: God Only Knows, and Ave Maria. Neither one is particularly jazzy in their original form and have some potential. That sounds interesting! I may have to look into that.
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Post by larryguitar54 on Apr 9, 2020 20:41:27 GMT -5
I'm working on "I'm So Afraid" by Lindsay Buckingham. It's a fairly simple song where the guitar player gets to indulge in a long solo that the band members have to suffer through.
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Post by windmill on Apr 9, 2020 21:13:20 GMT -5
Sight reading Part of it is sight reading melodies from the jazz real book. I have learnt the Pink Panther theme on the bass, off youtube
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Post by high voltage on Apr 10, 2020 15:10:24 GMT -5
I've also been working out Paul Gilbert stuff too, but that is MUCH more challenging. With a drill for the picking hand I hope! For me it's the re-tuning and working on the Rain Song.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Apr 11, 2020 12:32:02 GMT -5
I've been doubling down on chord theory and composition as a springboard to get myself back into recording.
I'm leaning toward modern surf-type stuff.
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Post by herb on Apr 11, 2020 13:17:40 GMT -5
Gutherie Trapp has some great lessons on YouTube. I've been working on the ones that address things I need to learn or brush up on.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Apr 11, 2020 14:30:41 GMT -5
Guthrie is a really good teacher.
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Post by ProzaKc on Apr 11, 2020 15:58:01 GMT -5
Nailing the solo from Smoke on the Water. Hardest part of the song and I've been playing a part of it wrong for years
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Post by Ayns on Apr 11, 2020 16:54:34 GMT -5
Ive hardly touched my guitars in the last month or so; I just can't seem to bulid up any enthusiasm for it. However, it must be having a positive effect on some folks as a couple of guys I know have emailed me new songs that they've written during lockdown that they would like me to "collaborate" on. Believe me, they must be bored coz this has *never* happened before.
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Post by mikem on Apr 12, 2020 7:58:25 GMT -5
Practicing my clarinet a bunch...went back to the method book: (17 Staccato Studies by Kell) that I played through in college (40 yrs ago). Revisiting the basics... btw: my wife hates it when I practice clarinet.... I'm trying to be productive...
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Post by herb on Apr 12, 2020 16:14:35 GMT -5
Guthrie is a really good teacher. What a cool, giving guy and most of the material he covers is right down my alley. I don't know how much he makes from YouTube for doing these lessons but it can't be much. I'm going to find out if he takes donations via Patreon. If he does I'm going to start donating to him. He also does personal lessons on skype but his YouTube lessons are enough to keep me busy as a hobbiest player.
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Post by HenryJ on Apr 20, 2020 15:29:47 GMT -5
I think I mentioned this back on April 1 (but no April Fool's joke).
I sing in our church choir. Our services have been livestreamed for several weeks now. A worship leader and a few other musicians are doing the music now, and they are well separated. But the minister of music has added videos of the choir specials from weeks past, and requested that we sing along with them, and even video ourselves.
My wife suggested that I accompany myself with my guitar while doing this, so I print out the music from planning center and work on the guitar parts and the vocals. I'm getting better on guitar, but I noticed I'm getting old man's voice.
So I play and sing along with the recorded choir songs.
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Post by k9bigdog on Apr 20, 2020 17:19:47 GMT -5
I find myself itching to jam with others right now yet oddly unmotivated to play on my own right now. Could be that most of my gear is either downstairs in my unfinished basement practice area or packed up and gig-ready in the garage. Big drawback to keyboard playing is that it's a lot of gear and an effort to set it up and break it down. I'd love to set up my harp rig but the wife wouldn't appreciate me melting the windows with my Bassman.
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Post by windmill on Apr 20, 2020 18:29:02 GMT -5
Sight reading, sight reading, sight reading. I am going to have start practicing some songs again.
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Post by rickyguitar on Apr 20, 2020 20:01:06 GMT -5
Still elworkjng so no extra time, but I have been feeling the itch. I have been trying to build up speed on mandolin and gzve bedn playing the harder guitar stuff I know. My wife us really encouraging so that helps a lot.
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Post by Duke on Apr 20, 2020 21:14:47 GMT -5
A few Leo Nocentelli/Meters tunes. Some are instrumental, the others I'm transposing to my vocal range/key. I'm also working on some Little Feat tunes and transposing.
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Post by windmill on Apr 22, 2020 20:09:18 GMT -5
Have found my copy of Mickey Baker's jazz guitar book.
Starting lesson 3 today
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Post by windmill on Apr 23, 2020 18:45:28 GMT -5
There is a light at the end of the tunnel ! I know, I have seen it ! Sat down last night to practice and to continue the agonisingly slow process of learning to sightread music notation. I stared at the song on the music stand that I had given up in frustration the night before, due to continually losing the count. I thought "No, dont want to get bogged down going over the same tune, you can always come back to it later." So I turned the page and the next song was an old pop song that I hadn't heard for a while and started playing the first few notes to get an idea. The next thing I knew I had run through the whole tune with only a couple of muffed notes, The next song was another old pop song as well, so I started on that and I was able to finish it, a few more muffed notes but got all the way through in time. Wow ! It was exactly what I had set out to achieve over a month ago, to play though the melody of a tune at first glance of the sheet music. They were only simple songs but still The words that football coach Bill Parcells told his team after they won the superbowl ran through my mind "For the rest of your life, no one can say you can't do it"
In other news
I have been using one of the jazz real books to sight read melodies and also to play along using the chords, some of the tunes just have basic chords
I get to lesson 4 in the Mickey Baker book and he is talking about substituting "jazz" chords into standard arrangements of songs.
The light bulb goes on - I can do this for the tunes I'm playing in the real book.
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Post by GmanNJ on Apr 24, 2020 7:48:21 GMT -5
Big drawback to keyboard playing is that it's a lot of gear and an effort to set it up and break it down. Amen to that Joe. I have put off setting up my rig in my office because when Webex (non video) used to suffice now they want Zoom video calls and I really cant have the office looking like a studio I have been playing more mando because its hanging on the wall and there is no set up. no amp etc. Been playing with recording with audacity. Turns out its pretty easy Been working up a gypsy version of Paint it Black and over dubbing multiple mando tracks. Diplostrat wants me to send them to him so he can add charango which is a small Andean stringed instrument of the lute family (usually made from an armadillo shell). I found an online drum machine and was able to get something of an Irish bodhrán sound. So some percussion and maybe a fiddle (via the keys) and I am liking what I envision the end result to be
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Post by k9bigdog on Apr 24, 2020 9:10:45 GMT -5
I've committed myself to finally setting something up in our seldom-used living room (we usually are in the family room) so I can start playing again. I also have a couple nice guitars that I've been neglecting for quite a while so they will be getting a cleaning and new strings. I have a decent grip on chords and pentatonic scales and I ordered a book on the CAGED method and I'm hoping that maybe that perspective will finally help bring it all home for me. Finally time though to start playing with all these toys and software that I have and start laying down some of the original ideas I have been meaning to record. Believe it or not, the fly-tying I've been doing lately has helped me get the creative juices flowing a bit and a very recent health scare caused me to think about all the things that I really enjoy. Who knows, I may even call on some of you to collaborate on some things I have banging around in my head... While I'm far from calling myself an artist at the tying bench, I don't do too bad...
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Post by GmanNJ on Apr 24, 2020 9:47:13 GMT -5
Joe if you wanna collaborate and not invest a ton of $$ I suggest Audacity. You can send the AUP file and the data folder for import. Then others can add tracks and email back. Audacity allows you to mix down and add some effects as well as edit. It supports 100s of tracks
could even set up a google drive like I do for Clamfest and March on DC jams. Then there is a single authoritative place to put these things bottom line is when you are ready there is a means to do this remotely g
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Post by k9bigdog on Apr 24, 2020 11:26:32 GMT -5
Here's picture of the fly I tried to embed in my previous post. I figured out how to do it after the editing window had closed. Catskill style dry fly
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Post by GmanNJ on Apr 25, 2020 7:18:32 GMT -5
^ thats impressive!
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Post by walshb 🦒 on May 12, 2020 6:10:44 GMT -5
Mostly slide technique. I love playing slide, it might be the most fun I have playing guitar. I still have lots of room for improvement, but the only way to improve is to work on it so.....working on better slide tone, also.
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Post by windmill on May 12, 2020 17:25:31 GMT -5
Working up a set of 10 Shadows songs, got 4 under the fingers.Working on Genie with the light brown lamp
And a surf guitar 10 tune set, got 8 already, working on Hawaii 5-O
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Post by ninworks on May 16, 2020 10:36:32 GMT -5
I retired a couple weeks ago with plans to play a LOT of guitar. Unfortunately 2 days after leaving work I gouged the heck out of the tip of my index finger on my left (fretting) hand. So, I'm working on healing my finger so I can play again. probably another week before I'll be able to play un-affected by the boo boo. I have to be more careful.
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Post by LM on May 17, 2020 20:08:36 GMT -5
I work on songs. Also, I'm an incessant lead noodler always trying to get smoother and learn more phrases.
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Post by LTB on May 18, 2020 4:23:45 GMT -5
Having played bass for last 16 years and 8 of those years solely on bass I am now working on my guitar playing. Trying to push myself passed that wall I hit so many years ago on guitar.
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