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28 May 2021, 12:32 pm

Why doesn't Marknis participate in this thread?



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28 May 2021, 4:38 pm

^^^i didn't know he was a guitarist. :o



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29 May 2021, 3:44 pm

Didnt know Marknis played guitar either. He ought to be fighting off groupies.

But how many of you can do this?



A guy singing, and playing guitar, while bicycling. He is the one time WP member who called himself "the bicycling guitarist".



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29 May 2021, 7:45 pm

^^^ wonder what became of him?



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30 May 2021, 11:15 pm

The guitars are bigger than the players :D



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30 May 2021, 11:16 pm

they have tough little fingers.



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31 May 2021, 12:09 am

auntblabby wrote:
they have tough little fingers.


Its more a double-bass than a guitar for the children :)



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31 May 2021, 12:12 am

Erewhon wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
they have tough little fingers.


Its more a double-bass than a guitar for the children :)

ah so :) esp. as they are nylon-strung classical models. :dj:



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04 Jun 2021, 8:18 pm

auntblabby wrote:
^^^ wonder what became of him?


Dont know. That vid was made in sept. 2020. Recently.

So he is still out there doing his thing. Just not posting here on WP.



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04 Jun 2021, 8:29 pm

^^^i hope it wasn't anything i said.



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04 Jun 2021, 11:12 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
Why doesn't Marknis participate in this thread?

Well according to one of his threads, "I couldn’t excel at the guitar".


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04 Jun 2021, 11:19 pm

neither can 99% of the rest. it is not a "talented 10th" but at best a talented 1%. the rest must struggle.



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05 Jun 2021, 1:09 pm

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neither can 99% of the rest. it is not a "talented 10th" but at best a talented 1%. the rest must struggle.


The great thing about the guitar is that becoming a virtuoso is not the only option. You can still make enjoyable music if you just know how to strum a handful of chords rhythmically enough for a singer to follow. And there's a wide, wide space between those two extremes. None of the guitarists and guitar-playing singers I've encountered were even close to mastering everything that can be done on the instrument. Instead, they could play a small range of styles and techniques decently well. I can do pretty good fingerpicking and clawhammer accompaniment, but I can't play lead lines and I can't use a plectrum except on bass.


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06 Jun 2021, 2:14 am

PhosphorusDecree wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
neither can 99% of the rest. it is not a "talented 10th" but at best a talented 1%. the rest must struggle.


The great thing about the guitar is that becoming a virtuoso is not the only option. You can still make enjoyable music if you just know how to strum a handful of chords rhythmically enough for a singer to follow. And there's a wide, wide space between those two extremes. None of the guitarists and guitar-playing singers I've encountered were even close to mastering everything that can be done on the instrument. Instead, they could play a small range of styles and techniques decently well. I can do pretty good fingerpicking and clawhammer accompaniment, but I can't play lead lines and I can't use a plectrum except on bass.

4 years of trying leaves me at kindergarten level still, so i wonder when to cut my losses.



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06 Jun 2021, 1:17 pm

^ In one of my first posts on WP, I asked that question, or my version of it. Something like, is it worth while to be plucking away at something that you are never going to be good at. Trogludite provided an elegant answer which I can't duplicate, but more or less, the answer is Yes.

And I have been plucking away at the banjo. I'm never going to be good, but as Phosophorus says, I am good enough to play backup to my voice and I enjoy it, so why not. No one is ever going to hear it or criticize me for it.

I even got my piano uncovered and tuned and am plunking away on it as well.

Play on, AB, play on! :D


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06 Jun 2021, 1:51 pm

PhosphorusDecree wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
neither can 99% of the rest. it is not a "talented 10th" but at best a talented 1%. the rest must struggle.


The great thing about the guitar is that becoming a virtuoso is not the only option. You can still make enjoyable music if you just know how to strum a handful of chords rhythmically enough for a singer to follow. And there's a wide, wide space between those two extremes. None of the guitarists and guitar-playing singers I've encountered were even close to mastering everything that can be done on the instrument. Instead, they could play a small range of styles and techniques decently well. I can do pretty good fingerpicking and clawhammer accompaniment, but I can't play lead lines and I can't use a plectrum except on bass.


I can't fingerpick at all and my leads are terrible but I can play fast, all downpicked rhythm parts like my last name was Ramone. :mrgreen:


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