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Post by PistolPete on Jun 21, 2023 18:06:09 GMT
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Post by PistolPete on May 15, 2023 10:56:56 GMT
Congratulations! I am listening to it now. You must be very proud. Peter Thank you - I am convinced it is the best thing I've done yet, but then I always think that!
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Post by PistolPete on May 15, 2023 7:26:03 GMT
Many thanks everyone. I've sent out the orders that came in over the weekend this morning so hopefully they should be with you soon!
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Post by PistolPete on May 14, 2023 17:52:51 GMT
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Post by PistolPete on Apr 10, 2023 13:53:04 GMT
I'm not familiar with the book you're referring to but some general practice tips would be:
Break pieces into sections and work on them one at a time, and keep dividing ever smaller if certain bits give you difficulty, even if it's down to just a few troublesome notes or part of a bar.
Start slow, get it smooth and then gradually speed up.
Spend at least 1/3 of your time playing for fun. Old material, new stuff that doesn't challenge you much, just noodling around - it's all worthwhile.
Be regular, even if it's only for a short period of time. 10 minutes a day is better than 70 minutes once a week.
Personally, I also think it's important to practice material that inspires you to pick up your instrument. Music teachers often put a lot of emphasis on scales, arpeggios and exercises that are useful building blocks for other things, but honestly if practising them makes you want to burn the guitar then play something that brings you joy instead. It's always better to be practising than not practising!
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Post by PistolPete on Mar 15, 2023 15:12:54 GMT
I've seen toolboxes, guitar cases. pallets and many many vintage suitcases put to use as merch stands at small gigs.
Just wondering what everyone here thinks is the best set up they've seen? Did it make you buy a CD?
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Post by PistolPete on Mar 10, 2023 15:13:12 GMT
Well done Pete, excellent video. Well who can resist a bit of Acoustic Blues. I'm sure your videos will become very popular, you have a great way of explaining and demonstrating the Blues techniques. Wish you all the best with your future videos, on the Blues. Thanks. Just out of interest whereabouts in Staffordshire are you? I live in Stafford myself
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Post by PistolPete on Mar 10, 2023 15:10:21 GMT
Yes, good stuff. You certainly crammed a lot in - obviously the intent! I worry that a beginner would be a bit overwhelmed - you've covered the shuffle well, and taken the viewer on a quick journey through many of the ways in which it can be used but left them to explore those ways themselves (even suggested this is what they do). As a content provider you may be better served guiding them step-by-step yourself rather than providing the high-level overview and then sending them off to other people's channels for the how-to-actually-do-it(*)(**). You could, for example, create a series of follow on videos for the shuffle, and take them through each step / example. Each video might only be three or four minutes long, but at least they're your videos. It would be good to drop in some examples (copyright permitting) to illustrate the points in real situations. That might just be me - but it's a real bug-bear of mine when reading guitar books that say "These are the chords to a well known jazz standard" or "this sequence is often used to get back to the one chord." Real-life examples are gold-dust! I guess the 12 bar blues sequence and some simple variations - quick change / turnaround / using the V for two bars versus using the V then the IV etc would be a good next step. You could also talk about the eight bar blues, sixteen bar etc without getting to complex. Barre chords - even if it's just for the rhythm riff- will be useful. Especially playing the 12 bar starting with a 6th string root and another version starting with the 5th string root. (*) I think it's easy to forget how much we all know, and even a simple "I'm deadening the strings" or a simple Texas blues riff can be daunting to the beginner. And clearly the beginner is your target audience (**) They might not come back! Good stuff! Derek Thanks Derek - some stuff to think about there. Personally I get frustrated with how slow a lot of teaching videos go, even on subjects where I am a complete novice , like DIY or software. Given YouTube is a format that allows you to pause as much as you need, backtrack or re-watch at 50% speed, taking ten minutes to explain something that a moderately intelligent person can grasp in a sentence or two seems unnecessary (put your screwdriver in here, turn anticlockwise until effect is achieved, then re-tighten), which is why I made the decision to do some very short videos with a grand overview of a topic. My plan was that I might go back and cover things in more detail if there seemed to be demand for that. The riffs and stuff I included were supposed to be the real world examples you might come across (maybe I should have said "this Lighnin' Hopkins riff", rather than "this Texas blues riff") but my thinking was that by simplifying them a bit and putting them all in the same key it would better illustrate how the same feel gets put to different uses in different sorts of songs. Calling it The Beginner's Guide might have been a mistake too - in my head my "beginner" was someone who strums through some Dylan songs and wants to investigate blues a bit more, rather than someone who has never picked up a guitar before!
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Post by PistolPete on Mar 5, 2023 9:52:41 GMT
Thanks borborygmus . I did spot that I was talking to the desk and I have downloaded a teleprompter app to use next time. As for my lovely smile - I shall have you know the blues is serious business! (point taken)
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Post by PistolPete on Mar 3, 2023 15:58:03 GMT
I'm going to attempt an occasional series of guitar lesson videos where I try and I cram as much information as I can about a key concept of acoustic blues music into around 5 minutes as an introduction to guitarists of all levels who want to learn more about blues playing. Any constructive feedback, comments or suggestions of what to cover would be gratefully received!
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Post by PistolPete on Feb 28, 2023 17:52:11 GMT
It would depend on the pickup, but probably without as I'd usually want to change the pickup to something more to my liking anyhow
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Post by PistolPete on Feb 22, 2023 9:14:01 GMT
I know putting flatwound strings on resonators is something people do, but I'm curious as to whether anyone uses them on a flat top acoustic? Are acoustic flatwound strings even a thing?
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Post by PistolPete on Feb 13, 2023 16:14:52 GMT
If you feel like going out and sharing music is something you want to do, I'd say go ahead and do it. Equally, if you find the process of learning a song rewarding, don't feel like you have to perform in public for it to count. There are many different kinds and different levels of musicians & there's no good reason to say any one approach counts more than another. If you want to perform Tarrega pieces at Carnegie Hall that's an admirable goal, but if you want to play the first four bars of Smoke on the Water to no one but your indifferent cat that's still a perfectly reasonable and rewarding way to spend your time.
All art is pointless, that is very much its defining quality. It's a beautiful, brilliant, fundamental part of the human condition that we do things just because we can, regardless of whether they assist us in our day-to-day survival, and you shouldn't feel you have to be achieving something to enjoy a thing. It's ok to just enjoy it.
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Post by PistolPete on Jan 18, 2023 14:26:06 GMT
papadon I can't see your pictures I'm afraid - although I know the SA220 is a lovely guitar. Not sure if it's a privacy setting or something?
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Post by PistolPete on Jan 18, 2023 11:49:48 GMT
No, never seen or heard that one Pete. On the LP I'm talking about there were two tracks where all three of them played together - one track was Down by the Waterside, I can't remember the other one. I became really attached to that LP, like you do sometimes. I did a quick bit of poking around and it looks like it was Lightnin', Sonny & Brownie, the UK release of a live album called Blues Hoot, that also featured Big Joe Williams. It looks like the UK version is much more reasonably priced on the second-hand market, presumably because it has fewer tracks. Got to be worth £6.49 of anyone's money right?
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