[What are you listening to at the moment?]

It's getting harder and harder to get through this thread via my phone. I wonder if all the threads might not need some adjusting to make them shorter, like maybe just ten comments per page or something? Just a thought.

[Music Hopes, Aims and Goals]

3 hours ago, Gtar Pkr said:

I would settle for "President For A Week"... Just long enough to piss EVERYBODY off

It wouldn't take me an hour because that's about how long it would take me to fire everybody and get rid of several boondoggle agencies. Then I'd head out to Area 51 and demand to be given the keys to my own flying saucer and a death ray generator. Then, downtown Seattle here I come.

[Music Hopes, Aims and Goals]

4 hours ago, john said:

 

Done

Thanks John. Writing for others is my main goal for now although I may play some folk festivals once in a while.

[Music Hopes, Aims and Goals]

On 7/1/2022 at 12:59 PM, Gtar Pkr said:

You need to add;

-Ghost writer or Write songs for other artists

-Paid studio musician only

Indeed.

[What are you listening to at the moment?]

 

[A Song For You, Leon Russell 1970]

Russell was an odd duck but I like this song a lot. You do it well.

[In The Mood]

Well, when you do something different you really do it different. 

 

Way to go git-man. You've inspired me to work on the fingerpicking version of "Sing, Sing, Sing" I started a year ago before getting sidetracked.

[Bent Fingers?]

Deal!

[Bent Fingers?]

They look more like mummy's fingers. 🙄

[Bent Fingers?]

You would think fingers that look like these would be arthritic but my only arthritis is the osteo variety in load bearing joints. So yes, grateful not to have any sign of it in my hands!

[Bent Fingers?]

All my life I've struggled getting bass notes to not get muffled when playing bar chords. My index finger likes to hook over the fret bar if I'm not careful, so I have to play with my guitar neck tilted up a lot. Anyway . . . after 63 years of life it dawned on me a while back to look at my index fingers together and I couldn't believe how crooked they are. I went and looked at an old photo of myself in my early 20's where I was barring a chord and it's plain in the photo that my fingers were bent back then too, so this isn't a new condition. How I could have went way over half a century without noticing this is the real mystery. Anybody else have fingers this crooked?  My ring fingers are almost perfectly straight but all the others are bent at least a little.

[Biotin]

I don't know if there are any other fingerpickers here but thought I'd pass this tip on just in case there are.

 

Most fingerpickers keep the first couple of nails on their picking hand a bit longer because it helps with the tone. This is especially true for nylon strings but it helps with steel too. However, as we age our nails get weak and brittle so they chip off real easy. Six or seven years ago mine were so brittle that one of my big toe nails was split into three pieces and stayed that way for years. I searched for remedies and found that biotin (a branch of vitamin B) was good for strengthening nails but that it took a long time to work. I tried it and both those things are true. I took 5,000 mcg per day and in seven months my toenail was down to two pieces. A couple of months later in was completely normal and remains so to this day. I used to chip nails on my picking fingers all the time too. That hardly ever happens anymore.

 

After a year I started splitting the pill in half so that I take 2500 mcg per day to maintain healthy nails. Highly recommended. It takes forever to start working but biotin does the job.

[What are you listening to at the moment?]

Johnny Hodges is a master on caressing notes rather than just playing them. By the time you get to the end of the song you'll see just what I mean. He was an original. I never heard anybody like him.

 

[Awesome Guitarists and Awesome Guitar Performances]

Kelly's Hero's (featuring young Luke McQueary)

 

 

[What are you listening to at the moment?]

Love everything about these guys!

[What are you listening to at the moment?]

Tedeschi Trucks Band - "Everybody's Talkin'"

 

Another great lesson on arranging. These guys are so good....

 

[A warning on the future of music]

There ya go. 🙃

[A warning on the future of music]

Every evil deed starts with a selfish desire and we're all born selfish and wanting constant attention. "Mine," "give me," "I want," "don't," "stop it---these are the words dominant to us when we first learn to talk. There's nothing more selfish than a small child. So I believe we're all born evil and the whole purpose of life is to become selfless before we make our grand exit. Few of us seem likely to achieve that goal.

["Shenandoah"]

Thanks for listening Bud.

["Shenandoah"]

Yeah, it's an LR Baggs Anthem and the vocal Mic is picking up the guitar too. That works great if you're sitting down but when you stand and play, the guitar is farther down from the mic, so the mic barely gets the guitar at all. That's not a very good sounding guitar anyway. It's a baritone that I have light guage strings on so I can tune just two steps down from normal. Now I have a regular auditorium size guitar I can tune way down with and still sounds good. Good enough for me anyway. I've got no one to impress.

["Shenandoah"]

Ah come on; it's not that bad, is it? I know I'm not God's gift to singers (unless it's keeping them employed) but I thought the guitar arrangement was okay. Oh well.

[Goodnight Irene, 1933]

Nice! Love these old songs. I do a bunch of them too.

["Shenandoah"]

 

[Site Access]

And the site is working fine on my phone now. Thanks John!

[Site Access]

Am I old or what? 😅