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ok, since you said it, i will play on
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Practise the first riff in this song for a few minutes everyday if you want to improve how tight your palm muting is.
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"Many of us like to ask ourselves, What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?' The answer is, you're doing it. Right now." —Former U.S. Airman (Air Force) Aaron Bushnell
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!
I've been playing classical piano for 36 years, but I still can't reliably get through most piano pieces without them falling apart on me. However much I practice, the fingers randomly trip over each other after a minute or two. I have to treat it as a way of privately enjoying the music, rather than a performance...
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Oh dear god, this.
My fingers are wrong fret seeking missiles after a few dozen seconds playing.
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“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas, this is part of our strategy” —Netanyahu
"Many of us like to ask ourselves, What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?' The answer is, you're doing it. Right now." —Former U.S. Airman (Air Force) Aaron Bushnell
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!
I've been playing classical piano for 36 years, but I still can't reliably get through most piano pieces without them falling apart on me. However much I practice, the fingers randomly trip over each other after a minute or two. I have to treat it as a way of privately enjoying the music, rather than a performance...
Me too! Even the simplest pieces that I have played all my life I can’t get through without mistakes! That’s all I’ll say due to this thread being about guitar picking.
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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!
I've been playing classical piano for 36 years, but I still can't reliably get through most piano pieces without them falling apart on me. However much I practice, the fingers randomly trip over each other after a minute or two. I have to treat it as a way of privately enjoying the music, rather than a performance...
Me too! Even the simplest pieces that I have played all my life I can’t get through without mistakes! That’s all I’ll say due to this thread being about guitar picking.
IMHO the banjo is like a countrified alto guitar, so go ahead and post por favor
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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!
I've been playing classical piano for 36 years, but I still can't reliably get through most piano pieces without them falling apart on me. However much I practice, the fingers randomly trip over each other after a minute or two. I have to treat it as a way of privately enjoying the music, rather than a performance...
Me too! Even the simplest pieces that I have played all my life I can’t get through without mistakes! That’s all I’ll say due to this thread being about guitar picking.
You've still got a neck with frets right? It's close enough.
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"Many of us like to ask ourselves, What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?' The answer is, you're doing it. Right now." —Former U.S. Airman (Air Force) Aaron Bushnell
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Wonderfull to see the joy and happines in this child
This swells my heart and almost makes me cry. It is why I do the work I do. Thank you for posting Erewhon.
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i thought your banjo pickin' was pretty good
It took many "takes" to get one where I didn't mess up my fingers. And you know that verse where I hum all the way through? That is because I forgot the words. But I wasn't going to give up the one where the fingers got in the right places.
But thank you.
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i thought your banjo pickin' was pretty good
It took many "takes" to get one where I didn't mess up my fingers. And you know that verse where I hum all the way through? That is because I forgot the words. But I wasn't going to give up the one where the fingers got in the right places.
But thank you.
just so you know, even recording studios have to make allowances for a performer who got the pickin' right but the words wrong, in fact that whole thing drove development of modern multitrack recording technology to allow musicians to have the best of all worlds by combining the best parts of multiple takes into one perfect track. if you listen carefully to certain Beatles recordings you can hear mistakes also, most often lennon reciting the wrong lyric or george playing the wrong chord much to lennon's annoyance [they didn't get along]. many elvis tracks used the best bits of multiple takes to make one perfect track.
I always keep the lyrics in front of me. I don't care how well I think I know a song, I know I'll manage to screw something up in the middle of a recording, especially the longer songs.
I never noticed until I played The Beatles Rock Band, but now it really bothers me that, when they came back from the first bridge in Ticket to Ride, Ringo forgot how the verse drum beat went.
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I always keep the lyrics in front of me. I don't care how well I think I know a song, I know I'll manage to screw something up in the middle of a recording, especially the longer songs.
I never noticed until I played The Beatles Rock Band, but now it really bothers me that, when they came back from the first bridge in Ticket to Ride, Ringo forgot how the verse drum beat went.
but if you were to be a first-time listener of TtR, would you have thought that ringo's goof was musically bad-sounding? or just different?