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Scales - What's all the hype?
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12-Fret vs. 14-Fret
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I'm just busy with home projects, hope your doing fine.
I hope you and your family have a safe and happy holidays.
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Michael.
What I was trying to say in the post is this. Yes trying a new style is difficult and uncomfortable. But the payoff can be large, the pay off may not show upright away but it will show up. ( question to you. do you play with others, and what styles do they play ) It will help you in the style you now play, by your taking a different look at it, and help you with your playing with others, by being able to change your style to better fit in with what they are doing. I play my style best, but I can change it up to better the end product of the song. God!!!! I hope this makes some sense.
Hey, I'm sorry it took so long for me to get back to you but..... I finished 2 of the 4 songs I'm now writing and the 2 I completed are 2 of my 3 best. I played them for some friends @ starbuck's and they really likes them ( they asked me to play them a 2nd time ) I've written a fair amount of songs, and play very few in public, but these 2 sound like some one else wrote them. I am recharged!!!!! Michael
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This may be one of my longer posts so why don't you go get a beer. Infact maybe you should get several. It will help you with your flatpicking. Wine is for fingerpicking. I'm thinking maybe you could be my bypolar north. I do love more traditional fingerstyle music. This one guy I play with once a month ( second sunday pickers ) always fingerpicks, he and I can sit down and play for ever and just keep pulling songs out of heads that we havent played in a long time, and 90% of the time the other one knows the tune. The one person I've played with that is so in the same mind set as I musically. But are styles are so different. I have had more fingerstyle players sit down and want to see what I am doing than flatpickers, I do a lot of crosspicking and arpeggio that tend to give a more fingerstyle sound to some of my flatpicking. I always play my own arrangements ( not smart enough to copy some one else ) And itend to go for the meat of the song, it might be the vocal, banjo, fiddle, of guitar, but has to be that part of the song that captures me. ( I told you this was going to be long, I forgot to tell you that it was also going to be boaring) Have you ever gotten half way through a post and forgot what the hell you wanted to say!!!!!! Here it is , the few fingerstyle tunes I do I first started to play flatpicking and realized I had the lefthand doing what I needed it to do, it was just the right hand that was lacking.
worked on the right hand a little and got it working. simple songs, but fingerstyle. So..... what you might try is to take another look and some simple fingerstyle song you know and try to flat pick it rather than trying to learn a flatpicking tune. What few tunes I fingerpick and the noodling that I do has given me new insight and has made my flatpicking better. It has made me hear the same songs differently. Also I have heard a lot of fingerstyle players that make every song sound the same, kind of like strummers do. ok ,ok you can stop reading now I'm done. If I type anymore I wont be able to play.
Tell me something I don't know but want to. ( You know they didn't call him ramblin' Jack Elliot because he traveled alot ) Your bypolar but handsome friend. Flathead. Delete Comment
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