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Post by robmc on May 13, 2017 15:46:17 GMT
Bad luck Martin, plenty more fish in the sea though! Hypnotherapy might help with sunburst issue
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Post by robmc on May 8, 2017 18:58:46 GMT
Martin, couldn't you try and call it a moonburst and see if that helps?
That Larrivee is sweet, there's a Larrivee on eBay at the moment made from moonwood, apparently it's wood felled during a specific phase of the lunar cycle and violin makers have been using it for years. You couldn't make it up really.
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Post by robmc on May 8, 2017 12:00:46 GMT
look forward to hearing how it pans out for you martin leoroberts .... something to take the blues away and a lovely looking slope shoulder that has been tempting me: moon c3Well, Rob, I must confess to already owning a Moon 0003 so... quite the admission, my sympathy has dissipated.... they also have a second hand 0003 in shop, very different from the C3, that is one purty guitar, a whole lot of sunburst slope shouldered loveliness... somebody should buy it to save me ogling it.... I could probably make it to Stevenage and back before anyone noticed I was gone. In fact I could probably make it to Inverness and back before anyone noticed I was gone
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Post by robmc on May 7, 2017 19:37:06 GMT
look forward to hearing how it pans out for you martin leoroberts.... something to take the blues away and a lovely looking slope shoulder that has been tempting me: moon c3
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Post by robmc on May 6, 2017 20:02:47 GMT
Hi Martin, sounds like a grand day out in the style wallace a grommit! I was interested to hear what you thought, last year I went into my local PMT, (walk past it pretty much every day but only go in a few times a year) anyway I tried a few Martins, Gibsons and Taylors and to my surprise my favourite of the day was a cedar mahogany Taylor 512, it had a gorgeous bass and was beautifully finished. I generally dislike the newness of new guitars but I could have taken the Taylor home but for the £2.5k pricetag for that money I would rather go for a luthier hand built guitar and the idiosyncrasy it brings. I really didn't think I'd like a Taylor but I more than liked it, a lovely sound and generally seemed a higher level of finish than the Gibsons and most of the Martins too.
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Post by robmc on May 2, 2017 21:09:37 GMT
A big from me. I too liked the clarity and the delivery is convincing, tough song to interpret
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Post by robmc on Apr 25, 2017 21:19:01 GMT
Thanks Pistolpete. My post was attempting a gentle micky take at nkforster's post. Of course there are no dimwits, on this lovely forum. Ahem, I'll have you know I'm a dimwit. Best not to generalise.
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Post by robmc on Apr 20, 2017 18:07:32 GMT
What a gnarly old dude, great video
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Post by robmc on Apr 18, 2017 19:19:57 GMT
He thought 'willyskin' better than 'billaskin'? Should've just called himself 'fore' Grit is probably counting his blessings that he didn't go to summer camp in the North West of England! You must be a Scouser Leo, how uncouth Trevor for a Bluegrass ignoramus like me, this is great, almost like a picture-book of the history of the genre... I almost feel like a boy again, except for my grey hair and beard. I look forward to seeing how the inlays are realised and how the build develops, promises real artistry!
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Post by robmc on Apr 16, 2017 19:31:41 GMT
Hi Mark, the sober version on your GG sounds great to me and the melody definitely takes centre stage! In my short time of attempting recordings I've found that once I don't have to read the tune it is so much easier and I like just saying ok I'll take myself away for half an hour and try and record, I think I spend most my time pressing the record button on and off due to all my fluffs but then by some miracle I might just manage a decent run!
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Post by robmc on Apr 15, 2017 12:09:55 GMT
Hi Andy, thanks for the tips, yeah I saw Martin Carthy play a month or so ago, how you can see someone like him for £10 is incredible really, he juts walked on with two guitars and got started. He had his Martin tuned his way for the majority of the songs and then a larger Fylde in a different tuning that he used for two or three songs. He would make the best London black-cab driver ever, how he retains all of the melodies, tempos and words in his head is something else. I noticed that the thing that he had to concentrate most on was the tempo from one song to the next but really after that it looked like he was almost soloing up and down the fretboard rather than playing chord shapes.
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Post by robmc on Apr 14, 2017 17:51:34 GMT
Hi Andy, thanks for the video, I have not tried DADGAD at all, (it seems a bit of a mystery), this looks like an accessible way in, to have a play instead of pondering the reasons why!
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Post by robmc on Apr 12, 2017 13:37:29 GMT
I don't know much about bluegrass but I thought the point was to play as loud and fast as you can... hence the term 'banjo killers' for the preferred dreadnoughts (albeit this is probably not a term the oficionados would support!)... I think Blueridge guitars are particularly fancied for their banjo-killing. I also once sold a guitar on ebay and was mildly berated by a chap who had bid for the guitar without reading my description, which pointed out that the action was set low, he advised me that he could only by a guitar with a 'bluegrass' action. Ok. I can't get along with the Rocket Man cover, different is good, covers a multitude of sins or virtues depending on the individual, some of the other examples though I did enjoy though....
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Post by robmc on Mar 25, 2017 19:37:22 GMT
To me it's fundamentally an alternating bass that starts on the root of the chord with a single melody note between the bass notes, which gives it its signature sound.You can then play with it as you like. Interesting how much slight differences in muting the bass and melody notes can change the feel, as shown in the Buster video!
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Post by robmc on Mar 19, 2017 11:15:18 GMT
I can relate to that Derek, I just like the sound it makes, hard to describe but it has a basic familiarity to me, like walking or breathing (except after too much ale). What was also an eyeopener was learning songs that I didn't know off tab and then listening to how they are supposed to sound on the CD. I learn the tab first then listened to the CD, not so much in the first book but in the second I just knew my 'version' wasn't right. In particular, my tab learnt version of Martin Simpson's Fishin' Blues sounded like an estranged, distant and possibly inbred relative. A proper six-fingered-webbed-seal-flipper take leoroberts Mark, I haven't tried open tunings yet but I will be taking a look when I think I've got the tools! I think the fingertsyle patterns work well for me at the moment, I'd liken it to painting a picture but only using the primary colours, there are only four patterns but the variations within them are pretty infinite. Rob
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