no one's mentioned the old bar gig tried and true method...
reach down and swipe the edge of the pick on a cheap carpet a few times, it'll polish right up smooth as glass in seconds
Type: Posts; User: Bad Monkey
no one's mentioned the old bar gig tried and true method...
reach down and swipe the edge of the pick on a cheap carpet a few times, it'll polish right up smooth as glass in seconds
I found musescore to be pretty easy and fast. You can pretty much type in notation as fast as you can write after a little while. I think our bass player has used forte, I'll send him a message and...
not enough info in the OP to say. Is the OP playing in loud juke joints with the crowd right up on top of the band'l' or smaller gigs with a 'listening audience'? Is the OP playing in an acoustic...
you're posting on a computer or a smartphone, you've got a metronome.
https://www.google.com/search?q=online+metronome&oq=online+metronome&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.4795j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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I'm playing mandolin, zouk, electric guitar, and dobro in my home band. Once in a while I'll have an acoustic strung up in Nashville tuning as well. For gigs where we don't have a tech or two to swap...
it can be either, or both. very rarely does it start with a chord progression. or a riff for that matter.
songwriting is indeed a skill you can learn and get better at. It's like anything else, it...
the good ol' Boss TU-3 is solid, reliable, accurate, and cheap on the used market.
The Polytune pedal is also rock solid, just as accurate as anything else, and locks in FAST. I have three TU-3's...
there are no banjo jokes, only cautionary tales.
That's an Ibanez V.
Bingo. If I were to actually write it out in standard notation I'd be doing it in 3/4. K.I.S.S.
copyright only applies to performance for profit. Either for the benefit of the venue's or the performer's wallet. A front porch for fun doesn't ping the meter.
if the venue has payed their BMI/ASCAP/SESAC dues it's legal.
sorry. I'm pretty busy lately, been on the road for a couple months. Since St. Paddy's actually. Finally done with that leg and back home.
I just knocked that one out on my laptop since we were...
I'm going to put on my flame suit for a few minutes and say some stuff that a few folks are going to take issue with. That's ok. It'd be nice if they would actually think for a minute about stuff,...
Stop making sense. Next you'll be saying that the passive-agressive "I'm sure that others will be along to reply soon, but while you wait I did a search for you so you can read up" type responce...
I did, just to see what an old F5 with a new fingerboard was like.
FWIW, the 'Moto smokes the Northfields and Collings that were there to compare with. IMHO. Of course, that's just one cat's...
The Iwamoto here in Seattle is certainly not 1.25" and I'd be willing to bet that the one on Reverb is the ol' Gibson width as well.
any of the commercially available Irish 'zouk sets will work for those tunings. OP didn't specify what model Hora 'zouk, but the Irish 'zouk sets will work with few minutes of set-up.
I'm...
if it's there in a month it may end up with me. Right now I've got other fish I gots to fry. Believe me, it was tough to walk out of there without it. Twice.
I hadn't heard of Takeshi Iwamoto...
I don't sell instruments. Well, I've sold one strat in the past 25 years but that's it. It'd be like selling children.
One is never enough. The only proper number of instruments has very specific...
Kau Kau has a lunch special that's killer: BBQ pork, fried rice, veg, and a choice of side for $6.50. Kau Kau is THE spot for Chinese BBQ.
My bass player and went for our weekend Kau Kau lunch and then headed over to Dusty Strings to see what was new since we'd hit Emerald City before lunch...
Saw a mandolin by a Japanese Luthier...
I've got a couple Eastmans I take to bar gigs and festivals, a 614 and an 814. Both of 'em as well as a number of Eastmans I've worked on for friends have all been really fussy about strings. Guage,...
legend has it that the band would hide Eddie's amp, or cut the cord off, or whatever they thought they could get away with to keep him from soloing. Not that he couldn't, he could play like an angel....
saw that a few weeks ago. Thought it was one of the worst case designs I'd seen in a long time. I wouldn't trust it myself. Handle's on the wrong side of the case, webbing for the handle doesn't wrap...