General Music Chat

This thread has been most helpful to me. I know from what you guys are saying, I will not get past the skills I have unless I go through this page like a manual. I worked yesterday, despite my meds. I was clear enough to fake it. My thinking is really clear, my driving is good but I've caught myself with a few motor skill issues to hide. If thinking is my strong point, I'll get the books out and see if I can discover these pentatonic realms in a way I can understand. Tried it before and it was as clear as mud. I also have this "Catch-22". I bought this computer for my wife for Christmas last year to replace the one for her previous Christmas past. She gets on line in the eavening and doesn't stop until 6am. If I practice on my acoustic downstairs, it will wake her, and if I'm off line she overtakes the computer. No, she's not a fatass do nothing. She works hard around here and Farmville is sometimes her greatest reward. Today, though,it is a day off for me, and once she gets up I'm going to explore your advices, even if I've got to print them out (after she wakes)

I don't know if you saw the link I posted for a site where you can pull up any of the chords or scales in full or partial patterns 3 note per - 4 note per , whatever you want.
It prints them with little dots on a fret board and even indicates the individual notes.

I have found this an invaluable research tool for comparison, and often print them out for my study purposes.
I'll have to admit sometimes I print them on photo-paper as my visual acuity is not what it once was and I hate trying to play guitar with my glasses on.

At any rate here is the link again ...

http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/

Also helpful

http://www.justinguitar.com/

Will do! Still down loading one of my favorite tunes of all time.. Movin' Out.

Got a question about that song to anyone who might know. There's a point in the song on lead where it sounds like he may be using a volume pedal as opposed to the knob on the guitar because his hands are actively full. I have a duel purpose pedal that does wah or volume, but the volume part doesn't work. I am most interested in the volume side because I have another wah pedal that's exclusive. should I invest in a volume pedal?

Hell ... I'll send you mine.

I tried diligently to learn to use the volume pedal as recommended by our good friend Paleopete.

It was always too loud or to quiet ...

Thing about studio recordings ... 2 - 3 decibel shifts are easy to do anywhere in the mix.
Unless you have a dedicate sound man or a quality boost pedal.
Not so easy to pull off live.
I make all my changes at the guitar.
Then our simplistic structures make this fairly easy.

Rats in the cellar starts with a muted plucked chord. this is easily done at the guitar. It is the simultaneous use of volume and timing I get from 3;00 minutes in Movin' Out. My biggest amp is a VR212 Crate. Aside from using the master volume, serious volume offenses usually don't wake the dead in the graves 1 mile from here. Between here and there, most of the neighbors are of the to each his own mentality. In a venue, I could imagine a short blast could be like a splash in the face with cold water.

Music Theory for Advanced Guitar players:

http://www.zentao.com/guitar/theory/

I use this one every day. Don't be intimidated by 'advanced' - they don't assume too much.

Has text and examples of scales, modes, chords, Triads, chord scales and melodic patterns etc. Good stuff on pentatonics as well since you were discussing that.

Talbot

Mike I looked that one up and thats a great site.

Im tickled that people have moved this thread to scale discusion, its a great musical thread, so thanks to all that have repsonded, Ive picked up a few things here myself!

Back to pedals for a moment.

Marshall is coming out with a series of pedals.
I've found limited information on them but the sonic samples on their web site are intriguing.

Time once again for me to look into some pedals.
Probably delay, chorus, flange, & phase ...

Have come to an agreement with Eric our bassist.
We are to start work on some jazz on the side.

Don't laugh ... I'm serious as hell about this.
And it is one of Eric's favorite Genre' as a bassist.

I'm even researching a semi hollow axe, perhaps even a Marshall amp to work with.

We'll see ...

Hell ... I'll send you mine.

I tried diligently to learn to use the volume pedal as recommended by our good friend Paleopete.

It was always too loud or to quiet ...

Thing about studio recordings ... 2 - 3 decibel shifts are easy to do anywhere in the mix.
Unless you have a dedicate sound man or a quality boost pedal.
Not so easy to pull off live.
I make all my changes at the guitar.
Then our simplistic structures make this fairly easy.

I am taken aback by your offer. took me 2 days to think how to respond. I don't expect anyone to do more than I ask. In this case you have, I do not. To send would be money to have. I have not. At cost is my Phaligraphy. Hold until I can. Just letting you know I'm interested. Apprecieate the offer. As far as foot switches go, the only thing else I could ask for is a dedicated compressor switch. I have that option on my modeler, but one click one wy or the other and I'm out of mode , if you know what I mean. I just had my electric generator in the shop. Bill is $113. I want to pay it before Christmas, can't leave him hangin'.Two weeks of Shingles was 2 weeks of no pay.Iknow, TMI.

Dude ... the pedal ( old Ernie Ball ) did not cost me a dime.

Still seems to work well ( last time I had it out )

Send me an address ... Merry Christmas

mistermike is the resident expert on pedals. My experience is get true bypass if possible. I like multi-functional pedals. I have 2 chorus pedals on my board. One is the boss super chorus. I have hated that thing since I bought it and have threatened myself more than once that it is coming off my board. It just does not have enough modulation for me. However it is a good pedal to just leave on most of the time because it is such a mellow chorus. Last year I purchased a Digitech CF7 Chorus Factory! Now that is a chorus! I love that thing. Digitech has managed to model 5 of the most popular chorus pedals and they are very convincing representations indeed. It also has 2 flangers of which I was able to get that Heart style flanger almost PERFECTLY. I would advise anyone getting pedals to do your homework. Watch other guys and see what pedals they are using that have the sound you want. If you don't do your homework you will wind up with Hundreds if not thousands of dollars worth of pedals still in the box that you aren't going to use. Oh I'll use that one some day (yeah right) LOL!

Oh and John did you read my post about the placement of my MXR phase 90 on page 3 (I think) of this thread?

For sure on the bypass issue.

Other than my TU 2 & TU 3 tuners.

I've come to hate Boss effects. Perhaps it's because everyone I know locally over uses the damn things like I used to ... sounds like sh*t.

Seriously thinking of hiding our other guitarist pedals and telling him someone stole them.

Worked so hard to get " that sound " here we go again ...

You've mentioned a semi hollow axe. A word of advice to any hollow holders.. Don't use locking straps on them The wood is not as thick and the strap eye can be pulled through the wood. A solid body has much more wood to hold a 1/8 inch woodscrew.

mistermike is the resident expert on pedals. My experience is get true bypass if possible. I like multi-functional pedals. I have 2 chorus pedals on my board. One is the boss super chorus. I have hated that thing since I bought it and have threatened myself more than once that it is coming off my board. It just does not have enough modulation for me. However it is a good pedal to just leave on most of the time because it is such a mellow chorus. Last year I purchased a Digitech CF7 Chorus Factory! Now that is a chorus! I love that thing. Digitech has managed to model 5 of the most popular chorus pedals and they are very convincing representations indeed. It also has 2 flangers of which I was able to get that Heart style flanger almost PERFECTLY. I would advise anyone getting pedals to do your homework. Watch other guys and see what pedals they are using that have the sound you want. If you don't do your homework you will wind up with Hundreds if not thousands of dollars worth of pedals still in the box that you aren't going to use. Oh I'll use that one some day (yeah right) LOL!

Oh and John did you read my post about the placement of my MXR phase 90 on page 3 (I think) of this thread?

Chorus pedals are subject to what you do with them. You can double your sound ,tighen or loosen it in wider bands, but if you don't have separation by multiple amps (configured diferently, even better) you will only confuse the issue with sound overload. And I Love Digitech also.