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Sul Pont, another term I hadn’t seen before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icWkyedURk https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0101824https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrcGTZN4HGM When I hear this all that comes to my mind is “Devils Tower”

One thing I read and I don’t remember if Steve mentioned it and I just forgot was about ,bend direction. When bending the middle strings, bend away from the next string to be played.I see players bending strings 3 and 4, I just never thought about why they would bend it up or down.

Bluechip hadn’t heard of that brand,thanks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvcEzM7E6Lo

Ok, a really big piece of chalk, the “Cliffs of Dover”. I really have a hard time understanding how some song writers name their instrumental pieces of music. When I hear this song “Cliffs of Dover” my mind doesn’t say, oh yea, I seen pictures of that place. The music doesn’t make me feel Like I am standing there looking for the French Coast line in the mist with a salty breeze in my face. The song is interesting to listen too and very well played, but sorry, no “white cliffs” come to mind. “The Best of Mozart” would have made more sense to me. I guess if you can play that good and write music, you can name your song anything you want. Anyone up for “Green Onions” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nd7EZ3k39s

Guess I need to pick up a few and see what works.plus a finger pick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0_zuk-4tF4 https://truefire.com/tommy-emmanuel/fingerstyle-milestones/c696?aid=theguitarjournal https://www.deeringbanjos.com/pages/search-results-page?q=pro

My ignorance of music is pretty impressive. Ragtime Music. “Losing our ignorance can be dangerous, because our ignorance is our shield“. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iBqkoCTPIg

I am not sure what I did, but trying to find a good power tube I ended up shorting something out. It might have had something to do with the hanging bracket springs that hold up the two power tubes, or one of the tubes I tried using was some how damaged. You were right I should have thrown away the old tubes, and just taken the amp to a tech. when it started buzzing.Cost me $77.00 to have it repaired.

Steve says to try some of your own.What I found playing around with this exercise that sounded good wasn’t a sliding 6th, but sliding into an A. Ab to A 4&5 frets Ab to 5th&6th frets A. I might try fitting it in the exercise. I thought I could also use an A turnaround, in this exercise.Using descending minor 3rd. Like the one he showed in one of his other lessons on licks. Also discovered that this was a good exercise to use a slide on my pinky.

This morning for some odd reason I woke up, “Fortunate Son” by (CCR) was drifting on the cerebrospinal waters of my mind. I like the song, especially the opening riff, so I stared to play it. Them I thought what is it that I am playing. What I saw glimmering, sparkling on the surface was the combined flow of the the Am and A major pentatonic scales. Then I lowered my sponge bucket, to break the surface. I could see what moved like 3rds, to my surprise they were inverted 3rds and something hidden in the demersal zone. It was a flattened 7th. So, take a look, slide your fingers gently over the ripples of time. https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0108035

“The Needle and the Damage Done”, Neil Young seems to fine notes where others only see frets. What’s his secret?He says it comes from “mindlessly playing” and taking the approach that “thinking is the worst thing for writing a song” This song looks pretty easy to play on paper, but for me it going to require some time.I think it has a lot to offer and will be worth practicing. The first think I noticed was the ca= 104. I hadn’t seen that term before, “ca” stands for circa, meaning approximately 104. Milk- Blood also caught my eye. The song is about drugs and the death of one of his friends. Someone on the internet said in an interview Neil says milk-blood is the practice of “selling ones blood to buy drugs“. I have seem the term used in two or three other drug related ways. https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/neilyoung/needleandthedamagedone.html https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0046623 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tp0U1TJ5ew

My Signia hearing aids work fine during the day. I am not sure how they were programmed. I hadn’t kept up on hearing aid technology. I just when in and let them test and fit me without asking questions.I know they have some type of tinnitus feature and it certainly works for me. Most nights strains like afghani is the only reason I sleep. Laying awake for 2 -4 hours wasn’t uncommon. When I use just my pillow alone, I need to be in another bedroom and be really tired. I’ve tried to determine what causes my noise levels to increase and I think stress is a big part of that equation.I thought maybe wine, caffeine or changes in blood pressure were also involved, but I really don’t know. Guitar practice seems to be a really good distraction. Before a doctor mentioned hearing aids during a physical my thoughts were getting pretty dark. I really didn’t believe they could make a difference, but I add nothing to lose.One of the best decisions I ever made. Travel is a problem, guitar gathering not possible. https://www.signiausa.com/tinnitus/solutions-for-tinnitus/

That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed. The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald, the song doesn’t follow the usual rhyming schemes. Until today I didn’t know there were rhyming schemes like AAAA, ABAB and XXXX. I like how Gordon Lightfoot used “true” when most would have used crew. He had a similar line later. The lake it is said, never gives up her dead.This song must be using XXXX and ABAB along with no rhyming at all. There are sites like “enhance your song writing with rhyming schemes.” that do a pretty good job explaining rhyming terms. The song is interesting and has simple chords. There are numerous YouTube lessons, I found a good one on strumming the song, you might check out a few for yourself.A good beginner strumming song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=9vST6hVRj2A&app=desktop https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0198640 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wreck_of_the_Edmund_Fitzgerald#Lyrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUVI9XZRHEs

Hope none of our members live in Medford or other areas effected by the fires . I Remember driving into Medford, a few years ago.Got kinda lost looking for Crater Lake National Park. I didn’t pay enough attention to the choices listed on my car GPS and ended up going to Crater National Bank “Walking the Path of Extinction ”sounds like song title.

I was looking at the song “Harlem River Blues.” The intro and chorus seemed to be written for fingerstyle playing. Recently, I have been practicing hybrid picking and I thought, maybe it’s not fingerstyle, but hybrid picking. So, how did Justin Townes Earle play the song. I found a YouTube video of him playing the song on the Letterman show in 2011.It looked like he played it with his thumb and index finger.More searching led me to the conclusion that he played it in a style that was called drop thumb. Drop thumb because the thumb isn’t restricted to the low strings, it’s free to drop down and play the high strings. Really good song. It’s a shame he died last month. I think I will work on the song, but using a hybrid picking style, since that’s what I am practicing.

Thanks, I went back and looked at it again, the Southern California line was “supposedly” used on their 1980 album “Live”

Hoist up the “John B Sail“ or “The wreck of the John B“. You probably know it better as “Sloop John B“. The name The Beach Boys used in 1966. What you might not know is that it wasn’t a Sloop. It was a “Spoonger” Sloops have one mast and a Spoonger has two. The season was June to Oct. and most Spoongers headed to the “Big Mud”, the great Bahama Bank, Probably one of the best sponge beds in the world.They would use their “sponge buckets” (glass bottom bucket) to survey the sea floor. Then in 1939 it all came crashing down when the spoonge beds were wiped out by a fungus.The John B sunk in 1900. https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0094279

I think BB King was the best at vibratos. https://carvinaudio.com/blogs/guitar-bass-education/four-types-of-vibrato-you-should-know-part-1 https://my.artistworks.com/blog/vibrato-technique-classical-guitar

A few years ago I drove down to see Meteor Crater n Arizona. A mind boggling place. To this day I regret one thing and that was driving past Winslow Az. and not taking a picture of myself “standin’ on a street corner”. I went out of my way to visit a really cool Guitar Store in Flagstaff, I even drove to Sedona to visit a Starbucks with an incredible view, but for some reason bypassed Winslow. I really can’t explain it, especially since I usually went out of my way to drive on Route 66 whenever I had the chance. One place being Gallup NM, another town with a story behind the name that I would have never guessed. I have seen another version of the song “Take it Easy“ and It says “standin’ on a corner in Southern California,“ is that the original? I also heard it wasn’t a Ford flatbed in Winslow, but a “Toyota pickup“ In Flagstaff and that was the reason for the line in the song. ps it was before the statue was erected.

W/bar, With bar, could be Wammy Bar. This is something I’ve never used.I read where this song “Lenny” is supposed to be one of the better examples of “call and Response” music. It might also be a good one to dig out that bar. https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0109454 http://totalguitarist.com/lessons/reading/tab/whammy-bar/ ps slowly 62 bpm

Don’t think twice, try this Cash version of Hurt. Keep in mind that you might need a cup of “joe. Joe, you say! You old “Salts” surely remember the day “joe” stopped the Rum rations. https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0192811

At night I use a pillow with two speakers inside that are connected to a white noise machine.I also live in a state where using a “volcano” is legal. I have never tried it, but I took a class where they seemed to think “mindfulness meditation “ was the answer.

“Hurt”, by Johnny Cash. This looks like a pretty good beginner song. https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0169554

I was trying to post a video, but ran into a problem. You might google "This mysterious Book improves your guitar phrasing" its a different approach.

Feeling a little confused about song structure? https://www.songstuff.com/song-writing/article/songwriting_terminology/