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Post by Cams on Mar 8, 2015 10:53:13 GMT
Sweet box andyfr. My first good guitar was almost a Taylor 314. Taylors play great right out the box. I went with similarly specced Lakewood instead but it was a close call. +1 on the Snarks. I play with a five-piece band in a noisy environment and I'd be up the creek without my Snark on the headstock!
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Post by Cams on Mar 8, 2015 10:45:25 GMT
Coated strings last much longer, which for me is the killer feature. They also squeak less when one's technique is sloppy. My new Walker came with GHS True Mediums, and I liked how they sounded, but I found the wound strings were sticky with more friction that I'm used to, so I just put some Nanowebs on. I don't like the tone quite so well, but I'm willing to compromise for the longevity and feel of Nanowebs.
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Post by Cams on Mar 8, 2015 10:41:50 GMT
Much easier Come to Halifax in September and you'll get the chance to actually play it D'you know what? I think I just might do that!
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Post by Cams on Mar 8, 2015 10:41:04 GMT
When it stops being fun, it's time for a break! Besides a new guitar, I find that seeing live shows inspires me to play more too. Just don't overthink it. That's what I tend to do and it can add to the funk.
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Post by Cams on Mar 7, 2015 19:13:21 GMT
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Post by Cams on Mar 7, 2015 15:12:15 GMT
I love the square slothead in that photo. Hope you have a good visit. Do you still have your Heiner D?
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Post by Cams on Mar 7, 2015 15:09:29 GMT
You've had some excellent replies and I agree with them all. I've been through this many times and, like you, I used to get upset and worried about it. Experience then taught me that the drive does come back, and then I stopped worrying about the fallow periods. I went through a long photography phase which I'm just coming out of now and I'm still learning about how to manage my time and hobbies. I've figured out that I can't really do serious photography and improve my guitar playing at the same time, so the photography has been knocked on the head for a bit and I'm playing as much guitar as ever. I can also attest to the fact that a new guitar might just help you!
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Post by Cams on Mar 7, 2015 14:59:49 GMT
That's a great story! I'm also blessed with an understanding and encouraging wife, although, to be fair, when I mentioned that I'd like to put my name down on Kim Walker's list again, she asked how many horses that would mean for her?!
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Post by Cams on Mar 7, 2015 14:48:14 GMT
Being a Joni Mitchell fan in the early days, I often played stuff in open G. Did you ever hear this one, with the 6th string tuned way, way down to G? This Flight Tonight was the very first tune I ever changed my tuning for. I think it was in an old AG magazine or something. So good to hear it again!
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Post by Cams on Mar 7, 2015 14:45:45 GMT
Here you go - this is my first DADGAD tune. As mentioned above it's really just a series of shapes and scales that I've tied together, but it kind of works I think. I really enjoyed that. Well played that man! I play accompaniment with a ceilidh band. We also have a clarsach in the band and I found that standard tuning wasn't really working, so I switched to DADGAD and it made all the difference in the world. And it was a real eye opener for me because I knew only the very basics of chord positions in DADGAD and a lot of what I was doing was experimenting and finding my own way. I was now complementing what the clarsach was doing and worked well. The only limitation I'm dealing with is with key changes in sets of tunes. I don't have the chops of Bensusan, so I'm relying heavily on the capo. Thankfully, the Quick Draw fits my Santa Cruz well, and I've pretty much got the hang of sliding it up and down between tunes to the point where I've seen guitar players in the audience start pointing at me when they see what I'm doing! The other limitation is that for a lot of the songs I'm accompanying in standard tuning, so I either need two guitars with the accompanying issues of space and two DIs, or I'm switching tunings up and down and up and down. So I've started working on moving the songs over to DADGAD as well. I did Raggle Taggle Gypsy into the Banshee and the Silver Spear at the last gig and it went really well! I haven't read through this entire thread and I'm guessing that a lot of teaching material has been mentioned, but in case this one hasn't, take a look at Frank Kilkelly's accompaniment book. It's been really useful to me for figuring out DADGAD accompaniment.
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Post by Cams on Mar 7, 2015 14:32:06 GMT
There is a recent(ish) July 2013 You Tube video from Martin Simpson, where he explains one of his latest tuning: Thank you for posting that. Most interesting indeed. I also didn't know that Martin was playing a PRS these days!
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Post by Cams on Mar 6, 2015 20:08:00 GMT
Interesting experiment. I would enjoy just such a text I'm quite sure.
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Post by Cams on Mar 6, 2015 19:20:44 GMT
Looks like a great day!
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