jumpinjeff
Forum Replies Created
-
Hi @dblusk808gmail-com , one last thought: rarely is a sympathetic tone offensive. One strings energy causes the other to vibrate as it is ready to go at the sound wave frequency encountered. In a word, it wants to join in. The occasional offensive tone is caused when two tones are close but not aligned and it causes a wah wah sound that is hard to endure once you hear it. This is not usually found on guitars but it was worth a mention. The wah wah vibe principle opens the door to a whole world of possibility.
-
sometimes the effect is desired and sometimes not. You get to decide how you want it to sound.
There are several ways to mute strings depending on where you find your fingers and which strings to mute. All of the ways are addressed here in our daily challenges. One of those techniques is palm muting, another is to dampen a string with your fretting fingers by letting your finger leak off of the string it is fretting to touch the string you want to dampen. It can also be done by briefly touching the string with the flat pick. This can be used to great effect. It creates a chirping sound.
Enjoy the sound and play with it. see if you like it or if it starts to bug you. It is only bad if you don’t want it there and can’t figure out how to get rid of it. ; )
-
when I find myself in times of trouble Music sets me free!!! Thanks for the reminder Fletchie. Did I mention Steve Was Rght? Always.
I <3 SWR
my emojis won’t load onto the page. had to go old school.
-
Congratulations @Loraine !! Thank you for putting your journey out there for us to learn. Your struggles revealed your determination. You are determined! I relate to determination. I am also struck by how even after 4 years you find yourself on the face paced learning curve. I too find myself in an ever accelerating pace of knowledge and skill acquisition. It is almost as if the more my fingers can physically do the more my mind can find uses for them. Thanks again Loraine for sharing your observations on your way to becoming the player of your desire. I see it.
-
Hi @stevieblues , use the drop down box next to your icon at the top of the page,…where your name is also located. You will see “Members” is one of the choices near the bottom.
-
10 minutes a day is your commitment. If an alien lands in your back yard you will do your 10 minutes. What happens next. Play if you can, play if you want, play for a minute more, play for an hour more, what ever you do you rest assured knowing your playing needs are met and you are in the land of discounts and free gifts (musically speaking).
What we have in TAC is a method to organize, balance, adjust and analyse the results our playing times. It allows for matching our desires and also our development both mental and physical to where we are, while simultaneously taking care of where we need to go. That is the clear direction supplied and cultivated. All that is required is effort.
At a point very early on in my journey, I could not just play for 10 minutes. Over time my sessions extended to hours and even then I had to learn how and when to stop for maximum improvement (also learned here). I was the one who had to do the rearranging. I had to figure out how to make room for this new thing. It was a process. You will find your process. Play as much as you can as often as you can. Find the successful mindsets that advance your comprehension and execution, jettison the ones that set you back. The advantageous mindsets are on display in most of the challenge lessons.
Or the easy answer: you should play an hour …LOL….that is funny right?….I think so.
Thanks @langerking , your question made me a better player today!!!
-
Congratulations @John_Bolling_Hall . I 100% agree!
-
Your eyes only sees a fraction of the actual oscillation a string performs in order to make sound. The link is to a YouTube vid that has slowed it down. They move, yah mahn, they move.
-
Sorry to hear about the broken strings. I want to verify that when you tune to D you are tuning your E strings to a tone lower in pitch not higher. Depending on your tuner gear ratios it is about one full turn Lower in Pitch. The E string will go higher to about G, that is three half steps before it breaks. I bend there but briefly and not without sometimes breaking a string but it is usually either a new string or an very old string. If you know you are tuning to the lower pitch and the string is still breaking we can have a different conversation on how to put your string on the tuning peg without fatiguing the string where it contacts the sharp side of the post hole if that is where it is breaking.
-
my case I fly with is only 43.5” . Even my biggest case (Calton custom for an MD) is only 48″. Check your measurements. My 43.5 inch case fits in the overhead on 737s but my larger cases to not. When I flew the law was first come first served. If I had my guitar and did not want it checked I would pay for priority boarding giving me first chance at the overheads. If you are asked to move it say no. If it fits and you were there first it is your space to occupy. That was the law. Instruments had a carve-out which treats them differently than baggage.
-
This is the whole kit and boodle. Well thought! I found many of the same strategy’s and frames essential to my progress.
-
Who loves you baby!
-
But @Fletch I like to play with naked ears….yah,….I am that guy.
-
no worries not bugged. I love talking guitar!! Pitch. the pitch is higher than the open D by an octave when working on the high e string tuned down and it is one octave lower on the low E string when tuning down to D. Both Higher and lower by an octave than the open D string respectively. We may have found the challenge. The D sound you tune to is not the same as your open D string. The Ds are separated by octaves. The note is still a D note. Your tuner likely recognizes the D note in any octave. If you are using a fixed pitch matching device like pipes or a tuning fork you would have to adjust for the octave by ear. Sounds tricky and it was for me until I learned the trick. It is all vibrations and the vibrations interact with each other in certain, specific, identifiable ways.
-
Tuning down means lowering the pitch rather than raising the pitch. When the pitch is raised on a string the tuner winds the string up on the peg, increasing tension. When the pitch is lowered the opposite happens making the string slightly more slack.
If one were to attempt to tune an E string up to D pitch the string would most certainly break. The tension is too great for the string and it snaps. By tuning down, the string is loosened creating slack and less tension, less reason to break. Lemme know if that makes sense.
No need for a new tuner.