General Music Chat

It's the washer here. Always have a spare pick or two in the washer.

nuthin like good clean pickin.

Resolution... To locate and recover every damn last one of my guitar picks, which I have lost tons of...in my home throughout the year...... Sort of like loose change in the couch, etc...

first place I look when I can't find a pick is the dryer. I'm sure to find a few stuck in the lint trap or laying in the barrel. ^.^

Exactly! One time, I couldn't find my guitar...Did I think to look in the dryer?...Noooo... But Somehow... it wound up in the frig... Hahahah (Not really!)

I was diagnosed with muscular dystrosphy so my new years goal would be to: Stay in shape. Oh yeah, and be playing shows by summer, and have 9 tracks by then too.

I want to get my band into the studio and record some covers and work on some originals.

I dont know whats happened lately, but my personal playing has risen to a whole other level. Its cool cause I really didnt think I could get any better, (in my mind anyway), but Ive suddenly gotten a lot more fluid with my solo abilitys. So I hope to continue this progress.

Write songs for myself.

Record some music with my daughter.

I dont know whats happened lately, but my personal playing has risen to a whole other level. Its cool cause I really didnt think I could get any better, (in my mind anyway), but Ive suddenly gotten a lot more fluid with my solo abilitys. So I hope to continue this progress.
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Well that's a good thing! Use it wise my friend.. and often

I was diagnosed with muscular dystrosphy so my new years goal would be to: Stay in shape. Oh yeah, and be playing shows by summer, and have 9 tracks by then too.

Prayers offered in your behalf my friend.


Get a second / third opinion.

I want to get my band into the studio and record some covers and work on some originals.

I dont know whats happened lately, but my personal playing has risen to a whole other level. Its cool cause I really didnt think I could get any better, (in my mind anyway), but Ive suddenly gotten a lot more fluid with my solo abilitys. So I hope to continue this progress.

Write songs for myself.

Record some music with my daughter.

I'm not at all surprised.
By reading your postings over the last year I've noticed a revival of interest in your walk.

I shared a little in another thread.

Just thought I would start a new one.

Over the years of playing Ive learned a lot about myself, tone and technique, but recently, and I guess it goes back to rediscovering the first Van Halen album again, My playing has hit a new plateau.

Ive had the chance to do some serious woodshedding the last few weeks, and its so weird, cause I really in my mind thought I knew all there was to know.

Ive always been able to play anything that I wanted, but its just gotten to be almost effortless all of the sudden, rythym and leads, both I just seem to have flowered all of the sudden.

Yesterday I spent close to 30 minutes on this tapping thing, with harmonics that a couple of years ago I wouldnt have even thought about, the only problem I see coming up with my band is that I will probably overplay everything we do.


I just thought I would share this with the forum, music is a journey, and Im enjoying the place Im in, I didnt think I was in a rut by any means, but it seemed like I stagnated a bit and Im getting that fresh feeling all over again, like the first time I jammed some punk rock chords 35 yrs ago.

If others want to share it would be neat to hear whats going on with others on this forum, from what I hear in samples on here, many have progressed a hundredfold and more.

Have a Great Day

Keep On Rockin!

jw

I was pleased to see the lack of false modesty in your post(s). My wife hammers me for that - assuming it is vanity and it surely isn't.

What you've identified is something I call "plateaus" and with me they seem to occur after a dry spell. (one of those dread periods where everything you play sounds flat and lifeless.) Dry spells are a good time to work on scales and technique so that the time is not wasted.

The plateaus are followed by a jump forward. I love those jumps. I had one recently myself, where I noticed myself playing some things rather effortlessly that had recently seemed so hard...

Ain't it a trip? I thank God every day that He put this thing in me - the desire to play as good as I possibly can.

The thing I like about the folks on this forum is that everyones seems to get the same jolt out of this that I do.

Talbot

Its funny thou Mike, I always love playing guitar, its just a time when I can totally disconnect with LIFE, you know that thing we have to endure!

So I havent really felt flat, and Ive had gigs where every note just seems to fall into place, but Ive kinda worked on my technique, as I said a few weeks ago, the funniest thing was raising my guitar up some, so Im getting a lot better leverage on the neck, plus doing finger taps and such Im not kicking my guitar between pickups all the time.

I was at my wifes house yesterday and I took a guitar and little amp and must have practiced for about 5 hours and its just amazing what my playing does when I do that, scales, LOL, I dont even think of scales these days, I just listen and feel and it seems that I hardle ever hit a bum note, it just flows or something.

Ive been doing some off the wall type licks for me that a few monthes ago I wouldnt have thought of doing, so its all good, like I said next weeks gig, the guys will probably have to calm me down some! LOL

Resolutions are for suckers!

I've got one thing I'm determined to do this year - get "Red" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WziHTTy_MCs recorded. My drummer and I have spent months working on it and are ready to lay it down but now my engineer is moving the studio and won't be ready until January or February.

BTW if you do get a chance to listen to the track on YT read the comments they are hilarious.

1.) Improve
2.) See #1

Retirement as we think of, as people that don't leave home for work everyday, employed by someone else, working hours dictated by someone else and so on is a pipe dream for me also. What is not so much a pipe dream, but is my dream and resolution and not just for new years. I am focusing on making my Pistol/Rifle Range a reality. I was shooting for this spring, but there has been things moving forward in my favor to be a charging range by February. I will do what I like to do without leaving home and getting paid for it. Retirement? Who needs it. I am just going to live as I like without someone telling me how to do it. In short, my resolution is to live as I like with no regrets and to aim for the big prize- happiness.

last year it was scales
this year it will be chords