musophilr

I've still got my Fostex X30 4-track cassette machines (the [i]Fostices[/i] ) which have a pitch control so I can slow things down if I have to.

[quote name='Westie9' timestamp='1344552152' post='1766475'] I've just got a Roqsolid cover for my Barefaced S12T. I paid extra to have the front sleeve fitted to the cover so I can slide a piece of plywood in to help protect the grill. Really impressed with the fit and for £50, a sound investment. Flightcases are great, expensive, but watch out for the weight.... [/quote] +1 for Roqsolid BTW I thought I was so clever, getting a flightcase with wheels for my AC30. Until I had to lift it into the back of the car.

Many years ago I was persuaded to go to some "singles night" in a local community centre. When I got in there it was obvious why all these people were singles. Anyway there was a disco and the bloke was playing a lot of soul and funk, nobody was dancing except some lass that for obvious reasons nobody else wanted to dance with. He put on some Status Quo so she sat down and a few lads including me got up for the thumbs in the belt stuff. He then found something similar, as at least he'd got a handful of people on the floor, and one or two more from round the edge came to join in. So then the DJ puts on more soul! We go to sit down, when the next record is another of the same, we sup up and make our exit. I never went to another one of those ...

[b]Do you suffer from Tinitus?[/b] Yes, for 20 years [b]If so does this affect your playing?[/b] Yes, in that I have to wear earplugs otherwise the SPL gets painful. Applies to going to electric gigs as a punter too [b]Are there any ways of easing the problem?[/b] No [b]The 'Whistling' in my ears is driving me potty! [/b]Welcome to the club. There's no cure.

I'm surprised the gig bag hasn't lost a strap and sent his bass crashing to the floor. This happened with two gig bags that I bought on separate occasions years apart from stores that were in no way connected. Gig bags are EVIL, get a proper hard case. I tell you, Gig bags are EVIL!

[quote name='lowdowner' timestamp='1344372479' post='1763705'] Machine? [/quote] Persactly A Rhodes, Hammond, Steinway etc would be an instrument. My keyboard is a Yamaha DJX, optimised for the PAC LLABESAB people. You have to dig through the menus to find some useable sounds. Switch it off, it forgets everything, and goes back to grunting "Uh Huhhh" or shouting "Come on baby" when you hit a key. I didn't buy it, it's someone else's cast-off, but if you're prepared to search there's some nice musical sounds buried in it.

Well done. Tight performance. There's a department on this forum somewhere for posting your soundcloud links, I guess video links would fit there as well ...

[quote name='lowdowner' timestamp='1344369018' post='1763623'] not sure what the problem is - I see it as a badge of honour to be able to say 'whatever key you'd like is fine - it's just a different place on the neck' (unlike the guitar player who spends time muttering and moving the cappo around hither and tither trying to find a simpler set of chord shapes - or am I being mean?) [/quote] You're being mean. I'm a guitarist who always uses std tuning, and rarely uses a capo. I can play most things in most places. Our band tries the original key, and changes it if the singers need to. I also play keys (a little) ... thankfully the machine has a transpose function

Best part of a tidy few. Probably not as many as I should have done.

Sometimes I wake up remembering bits of a dream. Then later on, all I remember is that it was 'kin weird, and I'm glad that's all I can remember about it.

[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1344192255' post='1761039'] Not so worried about leads but I've seen a few people think its ok to put a drink on my amp whilst they Pratt about with whatever there doing [/quote] [b]Nobody[/b] puts a drink on MY amplifier!

My hatred of them came from when I was in a classical guitar ensemble and one piece required dropD tuning. The next was a duet involving me, playing a movement from one of Vivaldi's works. We'd started when I realised I hadn't returned my guitar to standard tuning. Got away with it but I swore I'd never mess with the tuning ever again.

I loathe non-standard tunings and in general won't use them. The exception is I have a cheap chinese plank of a guitar whose grandad might have been an SG, and I have been known to tune that down by a semitone in order to get an open string effect in Eb. Apart from that, the straight answer is NO, and if you find that offends, you shouldn't have asked.

I hate it when my leads get trod on. Especially when I do it. When other people do it the first thing I say* is [size=6][b][i]"OI! Gerrorff moi leeeed!"[/i][/b][/size] [size=4]* spelt "s h o u t"[/size]

As per one comment on a youtube page ... they've been listening to T.Rex. That's not necessarily a bad thing ...

so nothing to do with cross-dressing in the Bristish Empire, then?

I do lead guitar and keys in "my" band*. They did try me with backing vocals, once, but never again When i record at home I do everything: drum box programming, bass, keys, guitars, hand percussion, descant recorder and anything esle I can find. But not all at once * meaning the band I'm in. It isn't "my" band.

Read this thread though just now. An inspiration. Congrats, well done, and everything. Hope you get some more work out of it and that it isn't quite as hair-raising.

FWIW I think we can often give ourselves excuses not to play, or reasons why we can't. I've found that the only way to play well and enjoy it is to play until you can play.

Heard bad stories about silverstone elsewhere. Roqsolid = excellent. I ordered from them on Monday, by Wednesday (yesterday) it was with me.

Stretch & relax technique can help here too. Take a do-able bpm (call it [i]d[/i]) then play at [i]d[/i]+1, [i]d[/i]+2, etc. Eventually, say at [i]d[/i]+4, you are clearly on the very edge of your ability and run serious risk of error. Now back off to [i]d[/i]+2. Play, and it will seem easy. Make a note of what bpm that was. Knock off. Tomorrow, repeat the procedure starting at the tempo you knocked off at. You have to sneak up on some things gradually.

I saw some books that my mum used when she was a little girl. Fingering in those days made sense 1,2,3,4 were what you'd expect them to mean and + was the thumb. Modern books use 1,2,3,4,5 which might seem logical to the people who write them, but confuses the hell out of a simple minded guitarist like me. 1 is always the index finger, never the thumb.

The best solution isn't all that cheap but it definitely works: The Switchbone by Radial Engineering. Other passive wired 'solutions' can leave you with ground loops, or the signal doesn't drive either of the amplifiers hard enough.

How to play a guitar and get laid was funny too

[quote name='lowdowner' timestamp='1343247402' post='1747817'] Coming from a classical music background where 'tab' wouldn't be looked down on only because it would be *so* low it wouldn't even register, I can honestly say that tab most definitely has its place. Tab+notation is a great way to learn a new piece - 'classical' notation has no fingering information, which for a newbie is very important. Ditch the snobbery I say and use what works. I bet no-one starts interviews with Victor Wooten with the question 'so, do you use tab or not?' [/quote] But isn't the point about notation without fingering, that you get to work it out for yourself, and experiment with various options? That way you learn more. TAB stops you thinking!