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Affable mimicking is always suspicious. People with microphones and even dogs do that all the time. It can be automated, therefore it is not exclusively human.

My Fylde Touchstone is rather strong in the bass. It's a matter of the main frequency of the Helmholtz resonator represented by body volume and soundhole area. String variation only goes so far.

Get in a room with a piano in it, press its sustain pedal and start playing your instrument. Echoes all over the place.
That's why Nyckelharpas and Hardingfeles have these additional strings - bring...

There is lots of money in "old music"
Kiss just sold their catalog for $300M
Springsteen's was $500M
The Beatles catalog is supposedly worth $1B
Dylan sold his catalog for an estimated...

The generation of classics is more of a happy accident than it is a planned production - a company is trying to grow with new stuff rather than recline in royalties for bygone success.

Sounds good, Jairo, even though I don't have a Victor needle ;) It has that innocent American early wartime feeling, and the arrangement probably does a more appropriate job than a full orchestra...

...said the devil's advocate ;)
Reminds me of what the synthetic guys in this shop are saying.

And the word "music industry" is saying a lot. Product longevity is not part of the target triangle.

If you play in order to gain perfection, you're doomed, that's probably what to expect. But if you play to be happy, you're safe - that is what music was for all the time, after all. People haven't...

Prescription: playing real music yourself. What makes me uncomfortable about these songs is the unbearable urge to remember where I've heard them before. Apart from that, it all sounds boringly...

My nightmare of sitting at the wheel and having it wrestled from my hands by AI became true in a rented VW Golf with so-called "lane assist". The thing tried to steer me into oncoming traffic on a...

So much is mimicked in music (ask Rob Paravonian) that AI can hardly add any more of mimicking. The danger of AI lies in the ease of deep-faking and the loss of recording credibility. It may, OTOH,...

Yes, moderation does a lot, since sugar and alcohol take top priority and block digestion of other nutrients which then go into fat instead of energy. So moderation and temporal separation from meals...

- with earphones to silently practise
- with sunglasses to do the ZZ Top thing matching my beard
- combination of both outdoors

I would add that (at least for me) getting derailed by one mistake can be caused by being nervous while playing in a group setting. Recently, I've been trying to get out and jam more but the first...

Getting derailed by one mistake is a sign of not really having the tune down. Derailment can happen to anybody at any time, so it's essential to be able to hop back on with missing no more than a...

Happy accidents happen :))

Yes, chopping wood instead of delicate picking is bound to be a losing battle. The only solution is a louder instrument. That's why I got an RTG: peace among boxes and pipes.

I'm just not trying to play all the notes, and in a way, fiddlers do the same.

Left hand speed can be the higher the less force is neccessary, and fiddlers have considerably less force to apply,...

That G buzz gives it exactly the tube-amp compression Led Zeppelin would have aimed for :cool: and you're not alone with this..

I have noticed two things:
#1 - when practising stubbornly on the same faulty phrase, the brain can learn how to do it wrong and stick to it.
#2 - when learning a new tune, the brain overwrites...

Sugarfoot Rag was not familiar to me, and listening to a video of Sierra Hull and Sam Bush playing it convinced me that this is not an easy access indeed, a pill to be swallowed with a verrrry big...

I tend to move around difficult tunes by practising other, easier tunes in between. This gives me a chance to slowly ooze into the castle of challenge by using back doors I found on the easy detours...

Instructions on how to do things is a more important purpose of YT than many of us musicians think - it's not just for fun. I have found many useful hints myself that way (e.g. recently on how to...

that's what I was trying to say, in an even smaller nutshell :cool:

Looks like Simon's stats only ever registered MY views on his channel, that would fit the data.