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When I’m having a “this sucks” kind of day on my guitar I like to turn my focus to the theory side. I know it sounds a bit nuts to want to dive into what for many is torture. But I just love the back-ends of things, that nuts and bolts stuff (under the hood) that’s just how I’m wired. My specialty in Information Technology was gathering information from SQL databases and writing reports. I had to understand the relationships between tables and design queries, views and/or procedures to get the snapshot that managers wanted
I still haven’t grasped everything in music theory that I would like, not even close! I’m really still at the very beginning, but I’m learning more and more every day. Maybe in a few years I’ll be able to understand what the heck you’re talking about @jorgemac !
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I just found this little tidbit:
Joe DiMaggio
Simon, who was a baseball fan (and a New York Yankees fan, in particular), loved Mickey Mantle. When asked on The Dick Cavett Show why, then, did he not cite Mantle over DiMaggio he retorted, “It’s about syllables, Dick. It’s about how many beats there are.”
Simon reportedly later met DiMaggio at a restaurant in New York City in the 1970s and the slugger immediately asked Simon, “What I don’t understand is why you ask where I’ve gone. I just did a Mr. Coffee commercial, I’m a spokesman for Bowery Savings Bank and I haven’t gone anywhere!”
Apparently, DiMaggio wasn’t up for poetic license.
Simon later said of the encounter, “I didn’t mean the lines literally, that I thought of him as an American hero and that genuine heroes were in short supply. He accepted the explanation and thanked me. We shook hands and said good night.”
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Very nicely done! Great song by one of the best song writers ever! I was never sure if it was written for “The Graduate” or adapted for the movie. The movie seemed so scandalous at the time, today it would probably get a G rating!
Paul Simon said that some songs just came to him like a download. I think Sounds of Silence was one of them. I’ve always enjoyed Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover.
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I think the best cover artist of all time is Linda Ronstadt. She made a career of covers, only recording about a handful of originals but charting 38 US Billboard Hot 100 singles. Her interpretations of songs were peerless, one of the best voices of the 70’s and ever!
Some notable songs
“You’re No Good” (which she co-wrote)
“Blue Bayou”
“Long Long Time”
“That’ll Be the Day”
“It’s So Easy”
“Somewhere Out There”
“To Know Him Is to Love Him”
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Excellent @Braden! We don’t have to revolutionize the song, this can start very slowly! I love that you mentioned the D chord! I love those modifications that we’ve been learning every three months in “Old Man”. I play around with this several times a week. As I do this I’m recognizing all sorts of songs in my head
There’s one acoustic song from the 70’s that I used to love when I was 13-14 and I know find myself playing the very captivating intro of this song simply by modifying the D!
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Wow! That sounds great. I don’t have SongBookPro yet, I imagine I will eventually. It looks like an awesome App. I’m pretty pleased with how the TABs render on my tablet though, I may be able to just go with what I have.
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I have a grandson named August, I shudder a bit when his parents call him “Gus”! lol!
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Looking forward to your recording. Don’t worry about equipment, most of us use our phones which is convenient since you can upload to google (YT) directly, not a bunch of saving, copying, transferring required.
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Now, if you’re not referring to the Google Sheet but clicking somewhere on the TAC website, well that is another story. Nothing will happen for a bit, it takes anywhere from 4 – 30 seconds for the challenge to render after clicking on links.
Loading from Moose’s sheet is actually considerably faster.
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If you know when the challenge was, it will be easier to find. Like I said the arrangement is week 1-week 52 so Jan, Feb challenges are near the top, December’s will be near the bottom.
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I want to help you but I am not sure what you are referring to when you say “I click on the topic I want:
Are you in Moose’s google sheet when you click?
Are you in the Master Index sheet and clicking in the column labelled TAC Daily Challenges? That column doesn’t have hyperlinks so nothing will happen
The sheet is arranged from week 1 to week 52.Lets say you choose week 1 lesson Bon Jovial New Year, then you have to select one of the years, it doesn’t matter which but pick a year that is blue underlined. So hover over January 2024 and a link pops up, click on it!
Now you are in the sheet for January 2024. Now simply hover over the title of the challenge (in column D. Again a popup appears, click on that and you will be taken to the challenge on the TAC website! -
My goodness, some great food for thought there. Need to learn singing along early to make sure you’re learning the song in “your” key! Thanks for your input Moose!
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