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    String Bends

    in Learn & Master Blues Guitar

    Posted

    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.

    Thumb picks

    in Guitar Playing & Technique

    Posted

    10 hours ago, K9kaos said:

    I really like using a thumb pick!  Got used to it as I started to learn banjo, and it seemed fairly easy to get used to.  The one I use for banjo is getting pretty worn down so I may ask Santa for a bluechip thumb pick for Christmas!

    Those are some cool links! I really like the top link - the 12 bar blues progression he shows is great! I will definitely be trying to learn that!! 

    Thanks for sharing those links! 

     

    Bluechip hadn’t heard of that brand,thanks.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvcEzM7E6Lo

    A piece of Chalk

    in Guitar Open Talk

    Posted

    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

    Tube Eater

    in Guitar Gear, Amps, Effects, Pedals

    Posted

    On 8/21/2020 at 11:00 AM, Eracer_Team-DougH said:

    I should add,  

    If you've been really lucky, getting a new set of tubes and swap them all, might work

    What concerns me the most is the , put in a output tube and the fuse blew.

    That says the tube had a high current draw.

    Resistors can easily melt down on high current 

    Other thing with tube amps , never run them without a speaker attached. 

    Output transformers do not like being unloaded and typically melt down with no load,  which can also happen with a bad output tube

    Some amps have a protection circuit in them to prevent this most don't. 

    Always swap tubes powered down and cooled off., never swap powered on

    Probably best you find a tech

    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.

    Sliding 6th - blues in A p.57

    in Learn & Master Blues Guitar

    Posted · Edited by Triple-o

    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.

    Inverted 3rds

    in Learn & Master Blues Guitar

    Posted

    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

    Milk-Blood

    in Guitar Playing & Technique

    Posted · Edited by Triple-o

     “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

    Playing while wearing hearing aids

    in Guitar Playing & Technique

    Posted · Edited by Triple-o

    20 hours ago, Colburn said:

    My tinnitus never goes away - with or without hearing aids. Fortunately it doesn't drive me totally crazy. I normally sleep with music playing. But to me it's just background noise. If it's loud enough for me to hear, it's too loud for my wife.

    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/

    Gitche Gumee

    in Guitar Open Talk

    Posted · Edited by Triple-o

    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

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    Medford Oregon

    in Guitar Open Talk

    Posted · Edited by Triple-o

    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.

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    Drop Thumb

    in Guitar Playing & Technique

    Posted

    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.

    Standing on a corner

    in Guitar Open Talk

    Posted

    6 hours ago, Popeye said:

     

    Here is lyrics taken of sheet music of original version-

    Well, I'm a-standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona
    Such a fine sight to see
    It's a girl, my Lord, in a flat-bed Ford
    Slowin' down to take a look at me

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

    Heave ho

    in Guitar Open Talk

    Posted · Edited by Triple-o

    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

    Standing on a corner

    in Guitar Open Talk

    Posted · Edited by Triple-o

    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.

    Playing while wearing hearing aids

    in Guitar Playing & Technique

    Posted

    On 9/4/2020 at 8:36 PM, Popeye said:

    Thanks Greg- Appreciate the response. My tinnitus is increasing in pitch and volume. Gets old especially at night when all is quiet and trying to fall asleep.

    Mike

    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. 

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