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One of my favorite songs from the 60’s! Your style works well for this diddy!
I admire how you put yourself out there, it’s inspiring! I’ve been working on a song because I really want to share something with the TAC community. I’m close but not quite there yet. I’m realizing just how hard it is to sing and play guitar simultaneously!! Can’t seem to go more than a few bars without messing up!
And it’s a real easy song, only 2 chords! But there’s this entity called “Rhythm” and his brother called “Timing”!
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Wish I could help! Although I’m Canadian, I can’t get this down either (yet!). The hammer on the 5th fret sounds a little but on the second fret (D chord) my middle finger is practically mute. I might get a little squeak, but it won’t ring for me!
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Well done!
Prayers for your friend
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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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Thanks for posting that video. Just watched it and I think it helped me a lot, especially the pressing too hard with your fretting hand thing!
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Hmmn: interesting and I kind of anticipated this would be the answer since the same chord with different fingering is actually a different shape and your memory has to store both shapes. But, at the same time as we learn songs, we may use a new shape for a chord because of the ways we will be modifying the chord. Our daily challenge this week is an example: very odd way of forming the G chord – I can hardly do it at all (after just recently finding some success playing the “normal” G cleanly).
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Loraine, my brain understands it but still working on my heart that desires so much to learn faster. Thanks for your encouraging words!
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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!