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Zaphod42 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtxsYF4e3uM Seatbelts are now I got into jazz. Thank you Yoko Kanno. Creativity chat: Kinda thinking of doing a cover of All Hell For A Basement by Big Sugar but I need to learn how to drums first. And figure out how to get my voice to do the opening low notes of the vocals.
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Jazz is so diverse it seems hard to not like altogether.
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in my own work, i think jazz comes through in my vocals and drums more than anything else. i'd love to get into jazz piano and guitar, and deeper into jazz drumming i don't like it when someone says jazz sucks, gotta defend its honor e. the first jazz i ever got into was bitches brew, pharaoh's dance hooked me immediately nishi koichi fucked around with this message at 07:18 on May 14, 2021 |
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May 14, 2021 07:16
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Gramps posted:Lol I'm 40. A good majority of my hand pain is just being old and typing all day for work. The games just don't help. I already remap crouch to a mouse button because the default of LCTRL makes my hand cramp just thinking about it Dunno if it'll work for you, but something to try. For my hands it's just a couple minutes of stretching and light squeezing exercises and that kind of thing a day. Sweaty IT Nerd posted:Jazz is so diverse it seems hard to not like altogether. I think about 90% of the theory I was able to internalise when I was starting out studying theory was because I could find songs that, like, Frank Sinatra and Thelonious Monk both covered. Like I'm not convinced I'd really understand voice leading without Monk.
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May 14, 2021 08:29
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Sweaty IT Nerd posted:Jazz is so diverse it seems hard to not like altogether. Its why I like Herbie Hancock. Don't like this album? Skip one or two and he's off into another style. Cantaloupe Island, Chameleon and Rockit are all great, but also miles apart in sound.
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May 14, 2021 08:34
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Turbinosamente posted:You know, thanks for the jazz songs posted, they're cool. I've been trying to work my way through the trauma of having suffered through not one but two 15 minute+ jazz odysseys in my youth which did not endear me to the genre one bit. Thank Christ for Cowboy Bebop and swing jazz in general or I never would have pulled out of it. This is why I gravitate towards playing early New Orleans jazz. Yeah it's a little hokey compared to what came after it but It follows a respectable time frame where you can remember what the beginning of the song sounded like but also doesn't have that weird slickness of Guy Lombardo and you still get to overplay the hell out of it. NC Wyeth Death Cult fucked around with this message at 11:36 on May 14, 2021 |
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May 14, 2021 11:29
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I don't particularly love listening to jazz, but when I'm actually playing guitar jazzy stuff feels really cool.
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May 14, 2021 12:37
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GreatGreen posted:A lot of the time I just cheat and play a G chord, but I move my middle and index fingers up a string each. I also play C and G chords most of the time with my ring finger on the 3rd fret of the B string which I think makes it sound a bit more fundamental. I just feel like I'm struggling more than I feel like I should? Hard to say for sure without appropriate perspective. How long did it take all of you to "get" the c chord, or other difficult ones?
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May 14, 2021 14:19
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I’ve read that you can tune a guitar like a dulcimer, one suggestion I saw was DADGAD. How do you get a set of strings like that? Stringjoy let’s you choose by gauge but I don’t really know how to figure that out, is there a tool that makes that easier if I want them to be close to standard gauges?
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Snowy posted:I’ve read that you can tune a guitar like a dulcimer, one suggestion I saw was DADGAD. How do you get a set of strings like that? Stringjoy let’s you choose by gauge but I don’t really know how to figure that out, is there a tool that makes that easier if I want them to be close to standard gauges? No special strings needed for DADGAD, it's just a full step off from standard on 3 strings. Your fingers won't even notice a difference, most likely. Huxley fucked around with this message at 14:33 on May 14, 2021 |
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May 14, 2021 14:31
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I just got a youtube ad for sweetwater. They're coming for me.
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May 14, 2021 14:44
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GreenBuckanneer posted:I just feel like I'm struggling more than I feel like I should? I started playing last Fall. I remember the C chord being tricky, probably took a couple weeks of daily practice to "get" it. I followed the Justin routine of doing 1-2 minutes of intense practice on each chord for a week or two, then the same for moving between chords. I found D, Dmin, and F (xx3211) to be trickier, and I still get those wrong sometimes now. Keep the C chord in your practice routine, but don't get hung up on it either. Practicing other skills will help too. All the skills build on each other, so moving on will actually help you with skills you're already working on, too. Plus moving on will keep you from feeling stuck/frustrated, which is important in itself. E: Actually flipping through my own posts in this thread, I also said the C chord was hard back in October, haha. Power through, you'll get there. ColdPie fucked around with this message at 14:57 on May 14, 2021 |
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May 14, 2021 14:54
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GreenBuckanneer posted:I just feel like I'm struggling more than I feel like I should? I honestly couldn’t tell you, really. I’ve been playing for, gosh, right around 25 years now, almost every day. Oh god I’m so old. I do remember that the absolute first things I learned from my guitar teacher were the G, C, and D chords, taught to me on the same day, so I went home and did absolutely nothing but play those chords over and over for a week on a crappy old half-size acoustic. And that’s not to say I mastered them in that time frame, just that it took at least that long, hah. It takes time and was tough at times, but I never really cared because I had fun learning how to do it and always just kind of figured that no matter what it was, or how hard it was, I could eventually learn how to do it if I kept at it. Keep playing those chords over and over and you’ll eventually be able to do them without looking or even thinking. 
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May 14, 2021 15:02
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I just want to add to all the Jazz talk that there's something out there for everyone. I've enjoyed random things before but I ran across Scenery by Ryo Fukui and was absolutely hooked. One of my favorite albums of all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrr3dp7zRQY also, IDK if this counts as Jazz but The Man From U.N.C.L.E. soundtrack has some supremely funky jams: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMsFR-IuG_7Edbn_LSDG5NW3RjgNxOp8N
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May 14, 2021 15:46
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GreenBuckanneer posted:I just feel like I'm struggling more than I feel like I should? honestly. i have been playing consistently for a good 15 years and i still find the C chord difficult. for anyone who thinks they've mastered it, try the Guiliani right hand studies (https://www.classicalguitarshed.com/sm-giuliani-120-right-hand/). it's all C to G7. when you actually need to make sure every note in the chord rings out, things are a LOT harder.
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May 14, 2021 15:59
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May 14, 2021 16:16
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Never let anyone tell you that you can't make money in jazz. I just got a 42 cent google survey on my phone for searching "Watermelon Man original version," since I only knew the Head Hunters version existed and my wife only knew the standard version existed.
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May 14, 2021 16:16
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landgrabber posted:is there a good MIAB style thing that isn't $200 Suhr Riot Mini (high gain) or used ZVex Box of Rock (not so high gain)
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May 14, 2021 16:23
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A boss katana
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May 14, 2021 16:28
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a.p. dent posted:honestly. i have been playing consistently for a good 15 years and i still find the C chord difficult. for anyone who thinks they've mastered it, try the Guiliani right hand studies (https://www.classicalguitarshed.com/sm-giuliani-120-right-hand/). it's all C to G7. when you actually need to make sure every note in the chord rings out, things are a LOT harder. I don't really understand how to read this document I haven't had to read sheet music since high school when I was playing the xylophones because I was also the drummer
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May 14, 2021 16:31
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GreenBuckanneer posted:I don't really understand how to read this document p = thumb (because why not?) m = middle i = index So the first thing is play C (probably on the 3rd fret A-string) with your thumb while playing C (probably first fret B string) with your index and E (open e is easy!) with your middle finger at the same time. For fun, figure out a few other places to play it.
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May 14, 2021 16:39
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landgrabber posted:is there a good MIAB style thing that isn't $200 JOYO British Sound.
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May 14, 2021 16:44
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Make sure you're not gripping the neck, as well. The only things on your left hand that should be touching the guitar when playing the C chord are your fingertips and thumb, with your palm horizontal below the neck. Honestly recently I've been finding it easier to play barre chords than open chords. If I'm hopping around between E, F, A, C, D, and minors, etc, it just seems easier to barre those all between the 3rd and 10th frets. Easier to think about playing something higher or lower as well, lots of options. I think I probably need to learn how to take more advantage of open strings when I can, though.
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Lumpy posted:p = thumb (because why not?)  I think I'm missing something, with my thumb??
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May 14, 2021 16:54
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No that seems weird to me. Ring finger on 5th string C, middle finger on 4th string E, index finger on 2nd string C.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:
Don't hold the neck like a baseball bat (IE don't let any parts of your palm touch it), just let your fingertips touch the neck. Me am dumb, they mean what fingers on your right hand you're plucking strings with.
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May 14, 2021 16:56
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Those are right-hand plucking fingerings, not left-hand fingerings (I belive).
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GreenBuckanneer posted:
the letters are for your RIGHT hand (assuming you are right-handed) so you are plucking the strings with thumb-index-middle. I can see where I worded it badly. You fret the notes however you want.
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May 14, 2021 16:58
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here's a tab version if that's easier: https://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/mauro-giuliani-giulianis-120-right-hand-studies-tab-s32808t0 they're mainly used for developing fingerstyle right hand technique, so playing them with a pick might not work so well
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landgrabber posted:is there a good MIAB style thing that isn't $200 Crunchbox or one of its cheap clone ripoffs. I used to gig with a joyo CRUNCH. RAT. It depends what you mean by MIAB. Lots of pedals kind of sound like Marshall’s since that’s the sound everyone wanted for decades.
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Lumpy posted:the letters are for your RIGHT hand (assuming you are right-handed) so you are plucking the strings with thumb-index-middle. I can see where I worded it badly. You fret the notes however you want. OK that makes more sense, I was very concerned for a moment because I was like "my left hand literally can't do that"
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S.W.O.R.D. Agent posted:I just want to add to all the Jazz talk that there's something out there for everyone. I've enjoyed random things before but I ran across Scenery by Ryo Fukui and was absolutely hooked. One of my favorite albums of all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrr3dp7zRQY hell yeah
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Spanish Manlove posted:A boss katana a boss katana legitimately doesn't fulfill the needs i have and i already have a great amp that i like leave me alone
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Sweaty IT Nerd posted:I just got a youtube ad for sweetwater. They're coming for me. i love sweetwater but their stock is all hosed up right now 
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thathonkey posted:i love sweetwater but their stock is all hosed up right now Everybody's is. Pretty much everything south of $1000 sells as fast as it lists rights now. It's why everything is going up and used gear sells for nearly new prices. Everybody's counting on the used market expanding when the pandemic loosens up and people start going back outside, but I'll believe it when I see it.
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landgrabber posted:i've come close enough enough times, with enough frequency, to writing a song, or writing a good song, that i KNOW it's something that's in me somewhere. I have some advice for you, but I can't tell whether or not you actually want it or will actually try it. Write more music. You have to write a lot of bad music in order to get any good music out of yourself. So write more. Listen to more music. Questlove says he tries to listen to 100 songs he's never heard before, every day. Seems ambitious but like a good goal. (If you don't respect Questlove I don't know what to tell you.) Try a different instrument. You said you have Ableton. Put your guitar away and make music with virtual instruments. Write with a clean guitar. Write different music. Make a lullaby. Make punk. Make hip-hop. Sing or hum a melody into Ableton and build a song around it. Make it silly or melodic or staccato or scream at the top of your lungs. Make music with someone else—preferably someone who plays a different kind of music than you. Get a bass or rhythm guitar stem from someone who has produced a full song and build your own song around it. Get stoned and do any of the above, if you're 420 friendly. Is any of this going to be good? Eh, probably not. You know you're in a rut and you need to break out of it. Forcing yourself to try different things should help you do that. Do literally anything except what you've been doing, but keep making music. Or take a break, don't make any music, and only listen to ambient techno for a month.
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Robot Arms posted:Try a different instrument. You said you have Ableton. Put your guitar away and make music with virtual instruments. Unironically a good combination. "Get baked and play with synthesizers" was an integral part of developing new genres in the 1970s.
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landgrabber posted:a boss katana legitimately doesn't fulfill the needs i have and i already have a great amp that i like The Mosky Plexi-M is like $30. I hardly play but I like that pedal.
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May 14, 2021 23:48
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