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Post by Cams on Mar 14, 2015 8:08:00 GMT
First attempt at recording with the Alesis iO dock and iPhone 6 Plus.
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Post by Cams on Mar 13, 2015 21:04:57 GMT
Thanks Kym,
I've actually got a lightstand and an umbrella for my Nikon speedlight, so it's just a light I need really. The big problem I have is finding enough space in the house to record! I have to do it in the bedroom because we have three kids and dogs and not a big house! I'm having fun getting the rig set up though. I had most of the gear already; the only thing I had to buy was the ridiculously expensive and short Apple lightning cable and and I've just ordered a lightning cable extension because the Apple one is too short. But those cables have cost me more than your whole lighting rig!
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Post by Cams on Mar 13, 2015 8:23:11 GMT
The lightning adapter cable came yesterday and it works! I had half an hour to experiment yesterday with a single omni condenser mic. Audio comes in over only one channel and the headphone socket on iPhone or Alesis dock don't work for monitoring. I've downloaded a new app called MoviePro which apparently gives more options with audio and video than the native app, so I'll test that out tonight and try with the same mic and also with two cardiod condensers.
The most difficult thing to deal with is gonna be the short length of the lightning adapter cable -- 0.2m. It makes it difficult to set up the Joby Gorilla Pod stand for the iPhone. The other difficult thing is going to be to find a place with good light and no background noise (kids, dogs, etc!)
I'll write it up with pictures when I get something that works.
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Post by Cams on Mar 12, 2015 23:22:48 GMT
Huh. I never knew about this. Does anyone know if it'll slide up to the 9th fret? I've been using a Quickdraw for accompaniment in DADGAD with the ceilidh band and go up from open to the 9th fret often for Bb. I think I'll get me one of these.
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Post by Cams on Mar 11, 2015 22:31:26 GMT
For some strange reason, I hadn't heard of Kenny Smith before. What a picker! My band mate Nicola sent me the link because she wants us to learn this for the band. I hope we can nail it!
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Post by Cams on Mar 11, 2015 20:36:01 GMT
Please try your best to come to Halifax! Looking forward to play your Kim Walker SJ ! And getting to know you personally, of course I will do that! It would be great to meet you too!
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Post by Cams on Mar 11, 2015 20:31:36 GMT
I posted recently about the flatpicking course I'm doing on Artistworks with Bryan Sutton. Another poster delb0y is also a student there and has been for longer than I. I would recommend that course if you're interested in that style, and even if you're not, you'd probably still get a lot out of it. I've also bought a course from TrueFire, the Tony McManus fingerstyle course. The advantage of that one was that you can download it and use it offline, but there's no feedback element. The video exchanges on Artistworks alone are worth the price of admission. You can view exchanges that other students have sent in too, as well as the responses. The McManus course goes into dropped D and DADGAD and I'm sure you'd get a lot out of playing around with altered tunings if you haven't already. It's a lot of fun and somehow liberating, at least that's how I find it. And it's fun!
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Post by Cams on Mar 11, 2015 16:40:39 GMT
Congrats Bernd! It's an exciting time to be sure! I think I would do well to keep away from Jens Towet, given that my first decent acoustic was a Lakewood M14 CP and I own a Dreizehnter! It seems that you and I have very similar tastes! In fact, maybe you hadn't better try my Kim Walker! I hope I get to make it to the gathering and try one of your wonderful instruments!
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Post by Cams on Mar 11, 2015 10:35:39 GMT
Thanks all for your replies. I've ordered a 30-pin to lightning adapter (£40 shipped and I grudge it for a bloomin' cable. Mutter, mutter) and will report back when I know whether the setup is gonna work for me. If so, I hope to start getting some videos up. Nothing like a bit of pressure to get one's chops up!
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Post by Cams on Mar 11, 2015 10:33:11 GMT
I use a heavy Red Bear pick, style C, and have done for quite a number of years.
I'm having a ball going through the intermediate and advanced versions of Red Haired Boy from Steve Kaufman's Parking Lot Pickers book. It's extremely satisfying playing along with the recordings and getting through the tune, and, as I said before, it's really good for the muscle memory and getting scale patterns into your fingers without actually having to play scales. Moving up the neck is quite adventurous for me and it's about bloomin' time I started moving up nearer the dusty end!
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Post by Cams on Mar 8, 2015 21:10:32 GMT
Just took at look at the Kaufman book and listened to the instructions for Ragtime Annie. I have a couple of questions for you:
1. In this tune and many others, where the fourth fret is used, Steve moves us up into what he calls second position so that the third finger is playing fret 4. Bryan Sutton has us doing scales with four fingers, four frets. I'm guessing you're sticking to the Sutton method rather than the Kaufman method?
2. Did you record the backup track for this too? If not, whence did it come? It's a nice pace. I find the full versions of tracks on the PLP book to be too fast to be of much use for progressing.
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Post by Cams on Mar 8, 2015 19:53:02 GMT
Great to meet you delb0y! That picking on Ragtime Annie is great. Thanks for posting it! I'll hook up with you on Bryan's school page. I haven't made friends over there yet; I've been the loner up till now! I did one VE and he commented that, being from Scotland, I should start working on Red Haired Boy. The interesting thing is that that's one of the tunes I do with the bluegrass band every week! Another we do is the PLP version of Under the Double Eagle. I love playing that one. I'm working on Whiskey Before Breakfast just now, as well as some breaks in songs, which is something I struggle with. The Bryan Sutton course is making me more confident with that and I'm getting better tone, as you said. I've been working on scales and am amazed at how much good it's doing my playing. I guess it's like diet and exercise, right. We all know it's good for us! When I was going to Kaufman Kamp in 2005 I worked on the 20 tunes in PLP Vol. 1 for a month solid and it would do me some good to go back to that.
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Post by Cams on Mar 8, 2015 13:20:53 GMT
To all you players posting videos with good audio, are you using cameras that take external microphones? I've got a project in mind to use my iPhone 6 Plus with an Alesis iO dock that I got for my iPad 3, but I'm not sure whether the native video app on the phone will recognise the mic inputs on the Alesis. Any other ideas on getting condenser mics into an iPhone 6 Plus?
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Post by Cams on Mar 8, 2015 13:11:34 GMT
Having been a member of this here forum for all of two days and browsed around, it seems that most members are fingerstyle players. While I am also that, I like to flatpick too. The first time I ever heard a garage jam in Atlanta, I was blown away. The tune was Whiskey before Breakfast and I was utterly dumbstruck that I had never heard anything like this before! I worked my way through Steve Kaufman's Parking Lot Pickers Vol. 1 and learned all 20 beginner versions at a slow pace and the most amazing thing that I found through woodshedding that was that my muscle memory for the CAGED keys in first position became ingrained. And not a scale in sight! I play bluegrass regularly with a band on the Isle of Arran where I live and have been getting frustrated with my lack of speed and fear of solos, so I signed up a few weeks ago to Bryan Sutton's lessons on Artist Works and have been working through the videos. While the site is somewhat lacking in features and functionality, the lessons themselves are first rate. Bryan Sutton is patient and explains things really well. So even as an intermediate/advanced player, I'm finding a lot of use in starting right from the beginning. There's also a feature where you can upload your own videos and have Bryan do a critique of your playing. I've did one just on my iPhone and it worked pretty well. I'm now waiting on a 30-pin to lightning adapter to see if I can hook my Alesis iO dock up to the iPhone and get some decent audio. So, all that to say that if anyone is looking at adding a new style or improving an old style of picking, I recommend Bryan Sutton's lessons wholeheartedly. And with that, I'm off to pick some toons with Bryan! artistworks.com/bryan-sutton
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Post by Cams on Mar 8, 2015 11:03:25 GMT
I'm having real problems with the nail on my index finger. Thanks all for the tips. I think I'll try some of those glucosamine pills
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