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lol! Yes any trip to the guitar store is dangerous!
Congrats on your new blue beauty!
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I think I’m gonna call her “99”
– it was a pretty good year in my life, my youngest of 3 daughters was born in June.
– it was a great song by Toto
– it was a pretty good hockey player, you may have heard of Wayne Gretzky
– it was one of my all time favorite TV characters (Get Smart – Barbara Feldon)
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I received my Lava Me Air guitar tonight. Just unboxed it, tuned it up and been going through some of the TAC exercises including today’s “Fill Up The Tank”! It feels really good in my hands. The frets are bit tiny, I’m struggling a bit to form an A-chord but I can do it easily with fingers 2-4 instead of 1-3 so maybe I’ll have to make that adaptation. The sound is gorgeous and the action is perfect up and down the neck. More later, just wanted tell some like minded people right away.
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MUSIC >> FROM THE VAULT
Inside the recording of the Jimi Hendrix hit song ‘Purple Haze’
Arun Starkey
Thu 3 February 2022 10:00, UK
Purple Haze’ was the song in which Jimi Hendrix truly arrived on the music scene. He’d caught the eye with his dazzling live performances, and the first single by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, ‘Hey Joe’, peaked at number six on the UK charts. However, ‘Hey Joe’ was a cover written by Billy Roberts, and Hendrix was quick to tell the press that the band’s follow-up would be a different beast entirely.
He told one publication: “That record isn’t us. The next one’s gonna be different. We’re working on an LP which will mainly be our stuff.” Recording new material for their debut album, the band wrote future classics such as ‘Foxy Lady’, ‘Third Stone from the Sun’ and ‘Red House’. However, before too long, Hendrix and the band stumbled across a riff, one that would develop into one of Hendrix’s defining moments and the song that cemented him as a pioneering artist.
In December 1966, the band’s manager and producer, Chas Chandler, overheard Hendrix fooling around with new material: “I heard him playing it at the flat and was knocked out. I told him to keep working on that, saying, ‘That’s the next single!’”, he recalled.
Chandler implored Hendrix to develop the riff into a full-fledged song, and in the dressing room of a London venue before a gig on Boxing Day, it was done. Strangely, Hendrix discussed the origins of ‘Purple Haze’ numerous times over his life but never said where the track was actually written.
Fast forward a couple of weeks. On January 11th, 1967, the band started the recording process for ‘Purple Haze’ at De Lane Lea Studios. Per an account by drummer Mitch Mitchell, he and bassist Noel Redding learnt the song whilst in the studio: “Hendrix came in and kind of hummed us the riff and showed Noel the chords and the changes. I listened to it and we went, ‘OK, let’s do it.’ We got it on the third take as I recall.”
Amazingly, the basic tracks were captured in just four hours. New multitrack recording technology now allowed engineers to record and add additional parts for the final master, so after the basics were in place, the band had room to augment the song in any way they saw fit, and time pressures were alleviated.
Chandler commented on the song’s development beyond the basic stages:
“With ‘Purple Haze’, Hendrix and I were striving for a sound and just kept going back in (to the studio), two hours at a time, trying to achieve it. It wasn’t like we were there for days on end. We recorded it, and then Hendrix and I would be sitting at home saying, ‘Let’s try that.’ Then we would go in for an hour or two. That’s how it was in those days. However long it took to record one specific idea, that’s how long we would book. We kept going in and out.”
Famously, Redding and Mitchell were not needed for the overdubbing process because Chandler thought that between him and Hendrix, they’d be able to finish the track in a more time-efficient manner. Wanting a better quality cut, Chandler took the four-track basic tape to Olympic Studios, where the overdubbing process was completed. This was to be a significant decision, as at Olympic, they were assigned the sound engineer Eddie Kramer, who would go on to be a defining influence on future tracks by Hendrix.
Hendrix added new vocals and guitar parts over the first week of February 1967. Striving to create something genuinely pioneering, Chandler made use of the new effects and sounds that were on offer. The Geordie mastermind enriched background sounds by playing them back through headphones, which were moved around a recording microphone creating “a weird echo”. Chandler also utilized sped-up guitar parts recorded at half-speed, which raised the pitch. Additionally, he also experimented with panning, which helped to give the iconic phantasmal feel to the background noises.
This experimentation would also be the birth of Jimi Hendrix’s signature sound. The wailing guitar solo was the first use of the Octavia guitar effects unit. It was created by sound engineer Roger Mayer and developed using Hendrix’s input. Doubling the frequency of the sound that is fed in gave the sound outputted an upper octave. Moving forward, Hendrix had found his style, and he was to inspire legions in the process.
In many ways, a shot in the dark, the studio experimentation combined with Hendrix’s genius songwriting ability ended up creating the musical icon we all love today. ‘Purple Haze’ was the first proper taste of all the wonders that were yet to come from the Seattle native.
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Love watching his head bopping!
I had to do a search because I didn’t know about Tommy Emmanual at all:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Thomas Emmanuel AM (born 31 May 1955) is an Australian guitarist. Originally a session player in many bands, he has released many award-winning recordings as a solo artist. In June 2010, Emmanuel was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM);<sup>[1]</sup> in 2011, he was inducted into the Australian Roll of Renown.<sup>[2]</sup> In 2019, he was listed by MusicRadar as the best acoustic guitarist in the world.<sup>[3]</sup>
en.wikipedia.org
Member of the Order of Australia" - Wikipedia
Member of the Order of Australia" - Wikipedia
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Congrats! I completed the preliminaries last week so I just finished the first week of daily challenges. It was fun but let me tell you, challenge is part of the name for a reason, there were some serious challenges! I was happy that I showed up every day and was able to do most of it. Definitely needs a lot of improvement but it was interesting to see that after sticking with it a bit I could do stuff that seemed impossible for me in the beginning. It was like “I can’t even tell what Tony is doing!” and then a day later I was doing it myself.
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Love me some Floyd! Hey Braden, that’s awesome. I grew up in Canada and saw Pink Floyd at Olympic Stadium for the Animals tour.
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I mute frequently on the C but not as much as I used to. What helped me was making sure to get my hand well underneath the neck making it easier for my fingers to come at the strings perpendicular.
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Congrats on your streak! I think it’s a bit of motivation, but if you want to play it shouldn’t matter.
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Braden, that rocked! Or rather…it bluesed! Give yourself a pat on the back!
A-somethin’! LOL!
Loved it! Inspirational too, makes me want to improve quickly. After today’s Travis Nicks picking lesson, it suddenly doesn’t seem so far away, now.
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Wow! That’s great!
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Daily Challenges: so far I’ve only marked a day’s exercise complete if I played through most of it (with or without flaws) even if at 0.25 speed. Those that I never seriously attempted I left uncomplete.
But I read and hear the phrase often: “Do what you can and mark complete!” I assume how you mark it has no effect on the exercise when it returns? -
Yes I’m reaping the rewards already. The daily challenge is doubly fun now cuz I get to play it on this lovely instrument! I’ve got to give her a name!
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I watched every YouTube Review available on the Lava Me Air guitar and every reviewer had a lot of positive things to say about it. They all played on it extensively and liked the sound and especially the feel of it. It’s a small guitar, ideal for traveling.
It was referred to as a 3/4 scale guitar. But the fret board is still 1.7 – 2.1 inches which is just like my electric. It’s just shorter, 5 fewer frets than my guitar has, only 23.5 inches in length and the body is thin with rounded edges compared to normal acoustics. But according to the commentators, the smaller size doesn’t sacrifice much in sound or volume. (Andy Hillier did mention that the sound on the Lava Me Play was slightly warmer than on the ‘Air, but in the end he preferred the latter for its versatility and simplicity. It can go anywhere and is robust in it’s construction.
You can set effects on it to enhance the sound and fun, but several reviewers said it was a wonderful guitar even turned off and no effects.
This was one of my favorites out of nearly a dozen that I saw:
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Yes I had heard that electric would be easier to fret for a beginner so I was a little surprised myself. This was a very low cost guitar under $200, not sure I want to spend $75 – $100 for a set up. I think any adjustments I make will be done by Luthier Langer. I’m pretty handy and know how to search YouTube. There are a number of things on it that I have to fix, but the strings have to got to come off and well I can’t play it when that happens. I’ve got some sharp fret edges (thankfully they’re mostly on top of the neck so they don’t bother me much); I went ahead and ordered the right type of files to take care of that. Now that I know I can play on the old acoustic I won’t mind taking my strat out of commission for a bit.