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Post by scorpiodog on Apr 2, 2024 9:40:14 GMT
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Post by scorpiodog on Mar 12, 2024 17:03:13 GMT
Evidently the moral here is that if you procrastinate, it will give you an advantage. The early bird gets the same worm as the late bird. Ah, but the early worm gets eaten… Other public schools are available.
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Post by scorpiodog on Mar 12, 2024 10:13:46 GMT
I sold it cheap to a young guy, he had it up for sale for over double what he paid me for it within a few days. Matthew 20. 1-16 As long as I'm content with what I was offered, what happens afterwards is no concern of mine. I've got a whole sermon, well, two, on this if anyone's got 15 minutes Evidently the moral here is that if you procrastinate, it will give you an advantage. The early bird gets the same worm as the late bird.
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Post by scorpiodog on Mar 11, 2024 12:03:49 GMT
I think it's a case of press record, play, fluff, swear, start again. Eventually you'll get an acceptable take. You may not understand the 4th step. Here is an example from a few years ago (if I remember correctly it was when Dave White did one of his road trip guitars): Examples of frustration and profanity.
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Post by scorpiodog on Mar 7, 2024 10:57:19 GMT
The best thing, Larry, is to learn to damp the strings you're not playing with the fingers of the left hand. Playing a guitar (as with many instruments) involves complicated micro movements of the hands, and we all tend to compromise tone, squeak and unwanted resonance because we don't quite get those micromovements right. So see whether you can move your fingers very slightly so you lightly touch the adjacent strings with a spare finger or incertain cases with the finger you're fretting with. This is hard to explain, but you know how sometimes if you're playing a chord or a double stop your fretting finger(s) touches one of the strings you want to hear and stops it sounding? Well the trick is to do that deliberately when you don't want a string to sound.
I can't explain it very well, but another Paul can:
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Post by scorpiodog on Mar 6, 2024 14:22:39 GMT
Thanks, Larry. I'm a berk and didn't check.
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Post by scorpiodog on Mar 6, 2024 11:09:37 GMT
One guitar I bought for curiosity's sake a year or two ago astonished me for its quality compared with the price. I suspect the body size is a little larger than you need, but it has a brilliant pick up in it. Andertons are the UK agents, and it'll be well worth a try out if you happen to be there. Here it is: Sire A4. I bought the A3, which is laminate back and sides, but this one's all solid. Having said that, I fully agree with Keith. Lose all sense of urgency and try as many guitars as you can in as many different shops as possible. Only then can you be absolutely sure the guitar you buy suits you as well as possible. And it's fun.
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Post by scorpiodog on Mar 1, 2024 12:17:58 GMT
Late to the party here, but one thing that strikes me is that all the prettiness is on the back of the capo. From the front it'll still look just like a Shubb has always looked, or have I missed something? Thalia capos have a decorative band across the top, which seems to make sense from a prettiness perspective, though I don't like their capos at all, but these Shubbs don't seem to have anything. I do own a Shubb, though I rarely use it. The one I use most is one of the cheap PlanetWaves lightweight jobbies. It's small, does the job, is quick to put on and adjust and doesn't put the guitar out of tune too much if it's put on properly. It doesn't sit on the headstock of the guitar too well, so I keep it in my trouser pocket when it's not in use. But I hardly ever use a capo anyway, to be honest. I really don't think a capo needs to be pretty. I'm afraid my personal perceptions of sexiness don't include capos at all. I'm glad. I play and sing standing up and the effects of guitar accessory erotica could prove embarrassing.
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Post by scorpiodog on Feb 28, 2024 16:57:23 GMT
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Post by scorpiodog on Feb 7, 2024 10:31:03 GMT
Well, that's absolutely bloody marvellous, Leo. What an amazing experience. Jealousy has slid all over me like an envious blanket. I took some guitar lessons starting about 2018 until Covid came along, just once a month or so, not with anybody famous, but with a really good guitarist I know. These were the first lessons I'd had since I was 13, and I realised how beneficial they are in so many ways, but one of the main ones being, if you have to learn something as homework, you actually do it because you have somebody who will judge you and be disappointed if you don't, so it stops you faffing about for 99% of your practice time. Will you be having more lessons from Steve? I must confess, I have not taken any lessons since the restrictions were lifted, and I'm sitting here wondering why I haven't. I shall phone Mark as soon as I finish writing this post, and thank you, Leo, for prompting that. But I really strongly recommend lessons to anybody who doesn't have them. They will galvanise your playing, and improvements will come from all sorts of unexpected directions. I much prefer face-to-face interactions, so online lessons are not for me, but I know jonnymosco does them and, having seen some of his YT content, I'll bet they're fantastic. I should have hoped the jealousy would have worn off by now, but it hasn't and I expect I'll be having a jealous day, so thanks for that, Leo.
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Post by scorpiodog on Feb 1, 2024 11:25:07 GMT
Someone mentioned in the shoutbox that these two insanely talented people were touring together. This popped into my YT feed this morning. I thought it was brilliant.
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Post by scorpiodog on Jan 31, 2024 12:00:12 GMT
I've just seen it also. That's such a shame.
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Post by scorpiodog on Jan 24, 2024 10:58:44 GMT
I know this is supposed to be a "show and tell" thread, but I've given a lot of thought to what happens after my demise, and, in particular, how my friends and family will say goodbye.
First, I don't think it remotely important for my remains to be in attendance. For all I care, they can take my body and chuck it on the council tip in a bin bag, but I understand that's not allowed (hygiene, I'm told, at which I am affronted - I shower every day).
As many of you know, I run a little musical evening once a month in a tiny pub. It's called "I Can't Believe It's Not A Folk Club", and so I thought, rather than a funeral, I'd prefer to have "I Can't Believe It's Not A Funeral".
I'm planning to have it run in much the same way as I Can't Believe It's Not A Folk Club - a singaround, preferably without mics and amps, but I'm prepared to compromise on this. I haven't yet spoken to the person I'd like to have compere it, but I guess I will soon. I'm planning to video myself singing a selection of the usual crap so I can join in for the last and final time. I rather hope that the vids will reveal a much younger me than the attendees are used to seeing. From time to time, I may record updates in the interim - depends whether I get sick and tired of the whole shebang before I actually shuffle off this mortal coil (look at me getting all Shakespearian, innit).
I'll give instructions for conduct - no weeping and wailing, lots of laughter and bonhomie and no black clothes. Drinking to be encouraged, but not compulsory. I'll sequester enough funds from my estate for the drinks to be paid for (there may be nothing left for my legatees afterwards - I know how my friends can drink!).
The only thing I can't figure out is where to hold it. It can't be in the normal venue for ICBINAFC - it really is tiny. Maybe I'll leave that for others to organise.
If you've kept reading til the end, and you have any suggestions about the proceedings, I'll be grateful.
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Post by scorpiodog on Jan 5, 2024 17:35:14 GMT
Thank you very much for the replies. Hopefully will not affect me too much. I am trying to sell a number of guitars for a very poorly friend so this has bumped up my ebay sales a fair bit. Doesn't sound like you need to worry then. HMRC might ask questions (but they're so understaffed they probably wont), just make sure you have sufficient documentation to prove the truth to them. Might be worthwhile asking your poorly friend to write you a note asking you to sell them on his behalf.
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Post by scorpiodog on Jan 5, 2024 12:13:19 GMT
I only knew him from the things he used to post on this forum. He did a series of YT vids some time ago that he posted here and I enjoyed them very much.
I am, nonetheless, saddened to hear of his sudden death. RIP Phil.
Correction: he didn't post them here - I've just checked his account. Must've been Facebook.
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