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Post by Martin on May 10, 2013 8:22:18 GMT
And is it the same as the sort of music you tend to listen to?
I find myself in the main playing folky tunes, generally with a rhythmic fingerstyle pattern (sort of Travis picking) as singing accompaniment. I'm trying to branch out to fingerstlye blues or country blues eventually.
On the banjer, I'm also drawn to the folky style stuff, although the closely-related old time repertoire features highly too.
What's weird is that although I also listen to a fair bit of good folk music and old time banjo, I also enjoy rock/metal music and modern dance music (some).
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Post by rodders on May 10, 2013 8:43:36 GMT
I tend to play alternating bass bluesy stuff, and I'm trying to force myself to learn some 'Celtic' alternate tuning stuff, but I don't get that much time to play these days. Up until 2 or 3 years ago I listened to a lot of acoustic music (mainly Blues), but now I listen to all sorts, mainly Rock/Indie type stuff. I do most of my music listening in the car, so if James is with me it tends to be Olly Murs, Will-I-Am, type music!  |
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Post by markthomson on May 10, 2013 10:07:51 GMT
I tend to play my own brand of Keltic elevator music, with occassional forays into Bluesier / Jazzier territory. I used to play far more bluesy stuff, but felt that you can only go so far without singing the blues......
Listening wise, I don't do anywhere near enough currently, but when I do it tends to predominately be folk / traditional or pre war style blues, witrh a smattering of rock / metal when the mood takes me, and the occasional fingerstyle guitar CD again when the mood takes me.
I must confess to having some man love currently for Alasdair Roberts, his latest album is stunning IMO.
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Post by Phil Taylor on May 10, 2013 14:54:32 GMT
My YouTube stuff gives a good idea of what I like to play and listen to and it's quite a wide spectrum.
I generally only listen to solo acoustic players and mainly instrumental. I also like solo jazz and have been listening to Joe Pass and in particular Martin Taylor but no way can I play anything like that. When not listening to guitar I love 'prog' type rock such as Yes, King Crimson, Caravan, Hatfield & The North, Camel etc. but I have lots other types of music as well.
I would like to do a bit more blues type tunes but I don't think my rosewood Brook sounds right somehow, perhaps it's my ears? and I've always had mahogany guitars in the past which can be punchy as well. Anyway I'm hoping the new guitar will be more versatile.
Latest cd's bought are Martin Taylor 'Solo' and his collaboration with Tommy Emmanuel which are both great.
Cheers
Phil
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Post by grayn on May 10, 2013 17:21:06 GMT
Having recently got another octave mandola, I have been rediscovering some of my old material, either trad folk tunes or my own original stuff. It's also inspired me to try and expand on what I can actually produce from this lovely instrument.
On acoustic guitar, I pretty much just play my own songs.
On electric I love playing surf or prog/space rock.
I realised many years ago, that I much prefer playing folk, than I do listening to it.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2013 7:53:11 GMT
Most of the stuff I play is of a celtic/ folk nature, with a bit of Bach thrown in for good measure. However, the stuff I listen to is probably a little broader. Just lately I have been getting in to what can broadly be described as "Arabic" music, particularly Kayhan Kalhor. I tend to go through phases with my music listening. I have a rather large collection of classical CDs which rarely get played these days. I went through a big Jazz phase at one point, and bands like Radiohead have never been out of my CD player for too long.
Robbie
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Post by leoroberts on May 11, 2013 8:27:38 GMT
I guess it tend to play the same sort of stuff as I listen to - predominantly acoustic music.
I have sporadic, and occasional, listening forays into more 'pop' stuff (Billy Joel, etc) with even less regular classical and heavy metal...
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Post by scripsit on May 11, 2013 9:16:32 GMT
I play pieces designed for solo fingerstyle and listen to a lot of that, too. Sometimes my listening is because I have an obsession with a particular player or the tunes from an album that I'm wanting/trying to play, but I've always enjoyed the introspective nature of a lot of acoustic guitar playing. Even back in electric days several decades ago I used to listen to a lot of John Fahey, John Renbourn, Leo Kottke and the like. There's no safety net, either, when it's just a single instrument.
I've got a big collection of baroque small ensemble music and romatic era opera, which I like putting on when we have dinner or sit about the place reading. I got into this when I was weaning myself off blues and hard rock (it got too complicated to put bands together, rehearse, find places to gig and so on, but when I gave up playing I used to get edgy and depressed and jealous if I listened to others playing this sort of music).
If I have too much to drink (not that this happens often, of course) and the rest of the family goes to bed I sometimes find myself with headphones on listening to anything which involves guitar players like Peter Green, Rory Gallagher or Paul Kossoff. There are some excellent Australian guitarists like Ian Moss and Kevin Borich, too.
If I have far far too much to drink we are talking Motorhead and Bon Scott era AC-DC and early UFO ('It's the Ace of Spades, the Ace of Spades ...').
Kym
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Post by Mike Floorstand on May 11, 2013 11:05:55 GMT
Background listening at home is mostly JazzFM, in the car either Absolute Radio or XFM, or else a CD I've picked up at a gig (usually folk but could be jazz). In the massage parlour its usually some cheesy panpipe covers. I also like to download the trad music podcasts from ClareFM and put them on the MP3 player.
Playing would be irish, scottish and english traditional tunes on mandolin, or else my own arrangements of jazz standards on acoustic guitar (standard tuning). I do have a repertoire of trad tunes on acoustic guitar (DADGAD and a few other altered tunings) but been giving that a rest recently in favour of the more immediate gratifications of mandolin.
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Post by mrcrump on May 11, 2013 11:35:50 GMT
I play largely bluesy ragtime type guitar for pleasure and country Americana and blues and rock n roll when gigging, but for listening I find myself more and more enjoying English folk - both the unaccompanied singing tradition - the Copper Family, Fred Jordan etc, and the revivalist singers with guitars - Carthy, Nic Jones etc. Also a lot of Tallis, Palestrina and stuff like that (I'm fundamentally ignorant about such music but it sounds great).
I think maybe overall I'm moving to enjoying listening to the sound of voices more than admiring instrumental playing.....
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Post by ararat66 on May 13, 2013 15:11:33 GMT
Hi Rob - That would be Persian not Arabic !! that Kurdish lad at your school will 'ave yer guts for garters :-) (he's Kurdish not either of the others :-)).
As for me I seem to be happiest when jamming with others, particularly responding as an improviser with others. I have quite a strong jazz streak (if that is legal) but improvisation isn't just jazz, but fingerpicking and 'Eastern' influences from all the oud playing I have done. I am working towards getting some 'pieces' together with others - which is as much a frame of mind as anything else ... i really want to start gigging eventually, so my focus of purpose is shifting - thanks in some part to meeting other musicians through this forum and UK udis etc.
Musically I have always been eclectic starting out playing rock, jazz and country blues, but since playing oud this has opened everything up and my guitar playing is still catching up. I have always listened to classical and orchestral music of all sorts (not particularly guitar). I seem to be drawn towards music of Eastern Europe and Greece (Rebetiko, Smyrneika etc) and Armenian and Turkish stuff. There's a lot of Arabic and North African music that is astounding aswell.
This was meant to be a short answer - I haven't even got into the guitarists that I listen to, but there you go - all good stuff.
Leon
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Jo whoever he is.
