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Post by delb0y on Apr 27, 2024 10:46:17 GMT
Thanks for the reply, Keith. Yes, I saw that Josh Turner video, too. I don't think any of us should let his brilliance put us off. He really is exceptional.
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Post by delb0y on Apr 27, 2024 10:09:06 GMT
Subtitled "What are you working on, and why?"
Since I first started playing I've always considered myself a gigging musician. Not to say I've done loads of gigs - BB King used to do more in a year than I'd do in a couple of decades - but nevertheless, that was always the rationale. So I'd work on specific songs / solos / styles, with the idea that the learning would eventually be used at a gig. Covid came along and, as documented elsewhere, that sort of drew a line under the band work and I found myself with the space to really focus on solo acoustic playing. I've continued to do this, and now (also settled into retirement) I find myself spending several hours a day, most days, working on stuff. Which is great, and a few people have noticed the difference and I have been invited to do a few gigs on the back of these improvements.
I have some material for those gigs, and will work on some more (slipping back into old habits, as it were) but I find myself wondering how to plan the remainder of my guitar-playing improvements going forward. There seems to be so many things I want to be able to do (mostly for the sole reason that I want to be able to do them) that I simply don't know where to start, or at least, continue.
Hence the question, what are you working on, and why?
I'm hoping that understanding what drives you guys might give me some insight into formulating a plan out of the current chaos.
Cheers Derek
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Post by delb0y on Apr 26, 2024 18:18:42 GMT
Now the animators are within the AI crosshairs:
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Post by delb0y on Apr 25, 2024 8:57:49 GMT
Claudio Abbado Floor Jansen Troy Donockley
Arjen Anthony Lucassen Mark
Fair play, Mark, there have been a few names on the thread that I've not heard of, but you win the prize for my never having heard of all four! Derek
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Post by delb0y on Apr 23, 2024 19:11:22 GMT
Some lovely guitars on that site. All a bit pricey, though. But tempting, maybe one day.
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Post by delb0y on Apr 22, 2024 13:16:43 GMT
Wonderful, as always!
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Post by delb0y on Apr 18, 2024 16:48:18 GMT
The damn thing plays a pretty mean fiddle / saxophone / slide guitar solo, too. As someone said elsewhere, this is as bad as AI music is ever going to be - it's only going to get better. Already it sings better than me, plays better than me, harmonizes better, arranges better, creates better melodies. The only thing (very) slightly lacking is some of the lyrics.
Thank goodness it can't play live!
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Post by delb0y on Apr 17, 2024 11:54:06 GMT
I don't know what to make of this - it's so damn good that it's scary, and it's only get to get better at an exponential rate. The two tracks below were generated in about ten seconds, lyrics, melody, arrangement, vocals, everything. The prompts are below and AI did the rest. We know we're at the very beginning of the AI journey, but imagine what this will be like in a year, two years, ten years time? Swinging country blues about the Mississippi: suno.com/song/9f78e35c-6e9e-4620-9170-013547724ce4Acoustic blues about a train: suno.com/song/62cade61-a621-4fcc-ad38-145eb3d9f553Derek
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Post by delb0y on Apr 16, 2024 7:28:22 GMT
I still have a copy of that Kicking Mule Bluegrass album, he mentions. Except I have it on cassette so cannot play it. Ha. I did buy a download of it not so long ago, though, and it was just as good as I recalled. Not sure I was aware Tony Rice was on there, too, though.
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Post by delb0y on Apr 13, 2024 5:45:57 GMT
Yes, some good points. Martin Taylor is always worth listening to. I think the idea that a good musician is about being a communicator rather than being, necessarily, a great technician, is a very valid point. Also like the idea of using ones musical heroes as mentors and yardsticks on he way to "goodness", too.
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Post by delb0y on Apr 10, 2024 8:09:54 GMT
Congrats on your new guitar and continuing progress. Slidey blues is great. It's an area of focus / learning for me, too. There's a whole thread on it here: acousticsoundboard.co.uk/thread/380Derek
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Post by delb0y on Apr 9, 2024 22:13:04 GMT
I have a tendency to over think these things (Can Django speak English? Would Fahey be obtuse and difficult? Would Janis get too stoned?) but I've come up with these four out of about fifty, and I reckon it would be a good evening:
John Prine Jerry Reed Guy Clark Pete Huttlinger
And we'd end the night with a medley of Angel From Montgomery and Dublin Blues with the finest guitar playing those two great songs have ever been blessed with.
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Post by delb0y on Apr 9, 2024 18:11:10 GMT
Spookily Linda Ronstadt and Tom Paxton were both names I considered!
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Post by delb0y on Apr 5, 2024 10:26:12 GMT
These guys are all so good.
I've long been a huge Richard Smith fan. For his particular style of thumb-picking / finger-picking there is no-one better. I listened to his interview on the Fretboard Journal podcast recently and it's amazing (but unsurprising) how much practice he puts in. When Covid was around and there were no gigs, he arranged to sit in the corner of a local cafe just to keep his performing chops up together. Here's the guy that's amongst the best in the world still puts in more practice than the rest of us put together. No wonder he's so good!
Joscho has such great Gypsy jazz technique. I have a live DVD of his and his playing is simply jaw-dropping. But always with a sense of fun and melody. Just an awesome player.
Rory Hoffman is relatively new to me - first saw him on YT a year or two back with Richard and Joscho. I've been blown away. A multi-instrumentalist who is amazing on whatever instrument he plays. There's a video of him backing Clint Strong (himself one of the best jazz-players around) on a Guitar Gathering chat and whatever Clint plays he just hears and plays the perfect backing - and it's not simple stuff either! Just phenomenal ears and technique.
Derek
PS I don't know much about bass, but Volker holds it all together rather superbly :-)
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Post by delb0y on Apr 5, 2024 6:56:09 GMT
What a great YT channel that is! Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
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