I can play "Bron-yr-aur' in glorious CACGCE
― calstars, Monday, 25 September 2017 02:01 (six years ago) link
cool.
Sund4r, debating whether to email you a link to this piece I am trying to learn and ask whether you have played it or have opinions about the fingering.
― The 2541ders (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 02:03 (six years ago) link
Feel free. I can try to get to it on the weekend.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 12:50 (six years ago) link
Sent
― Two-Headed Shindog (Rad Tempo Player) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 September 2017 01:37 (six years ago) link
Must confess I have never been able to sight-read - indeed can't read at all - after decades of periodic attempts of varying seriousness.
That said, I started with a nylon-stringed classical guitar, mainly because my mother had one around the house. She was an old folkie type, and I guess in the 60s it was pretty common to learn guitar that way. Nylon is kinder to fingers. I think I worked clumsily through some books of fingerstyle tab. Paul Simon, Suzanne Vega, Clapton, Gilberto.
I still play fingerstyle on my mother's old guitar sometimes. Occasionally I will do something fingerstyley on steel-stringed acoustic. I tend to like guitars with wider nuts, because the spacing accommodates fingerstyle playing better.
But I've never quite gotten the hang of fingerstyle on electric. It's so quiet compared to picking, and accommodating that drop in volume is difficult if I want to do both inside a given song, or even within a given gig.
― cornballio (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:09 (six years ago) link
For a long time I had this weird stubborn thing about not picking with my ring finger, only using the thumb index and middle. Lately I've finally reincorporated the ring finger again and it really opens up a lot of possibilities, not sure what I was on about.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Monday, 9 October 2017 04:26 (six years ago) link
RIP Tony Acosta of Luthier Music: http://classicalguitarmagazine.com/luthier-music-founder-string-maker-tony-acosta-passes-away-at-77/
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 22:41 (five years ago) link
I posted this upthread but it got ate by the code, just a local braddah doing an excellent arrangement of "Maori Brown Eyes" (cheating a little with the thumb pick):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLeqnEDF7jU
This is still one of my go-to's when I get a chance to play.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 23:22 (five years ago) link
Cool.
This guitarist named Jake Reichbart has posted over 400 videos of fingerstyle arrangements of various well-known tunes, watched a few and they are reasonably well done.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 March 2019 00:46 (five years ago) link
I love finger style guitar but infinitely prefer the old strings, mahogany-top, small-bodied sound over the bright, chiming sound that so many finger style players employ
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 28 March 2019 01:10 (five years ago) link
Yeah, know what you mean
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 March 2019 01:14 (five years ago) link
I just like Nick Drake is all and early Bruce Cockburn too and although I appreciate a Pierre Bensusan et al I like the intimacy of a parlour guitar or a nylon string!
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 28 March 2019 02:11 (five years ago) link
has there been anyone inspired by michael hedges's innovations that wasn't completely boring and soulless? aerial boundaries moves me but it seems like the only thing people took from him was the surface level slapping and tapping
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Thursday, 28 March 2019 03:23 (five years ago) link
Why are they still called nylon string guitars when the bottom three are metal and the top three are some kind of polymer?
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
I thought nylon was a polymer, no?
― calstars, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 20:23 (four years ago) link
Yeah, but I think they often use fluorocarbon instead. Sorry, should have been more specific.
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
https://www.gearank.com/guides/nylon-classical-guitar-strings
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 23:16 (four years ago) link
Most of those still seem to use nylon for the treble strings? I thought the basses are usually made of a nylon core wound with metal. Interestingly, though, Savarez Alliance are probably my favourite and they do seem to use some kind of carbon fibre for the trebles.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Thursday, 22 August 2019 01:13 (four years ago) link
Unrelated but I recently switched to guy-based strings on my violin and it sounds amazing (but I have to tune it up a lot more— apparently the strings last linger tho?)
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 22 August 2019 03:34 (four years ago) link
*gut *longer
Wrt fingerstyle, a local know-it-all told me to anchor my pinky instead of “floating” and I cannot, and I also don’t think it’s necessary? Idk.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 22 August 2019 03:35 (four years ago) link
With fingerstyle guitar?? That is bad advice.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Thursday, 22 August 2019 03:52 (four years ago) link
Afaik, classical guitar teachers have been advising against anchoring the little finger of the right hand on the body of the guitar at least since I was an undergraduate. It reduces flexibility and introduces unnecessary strain. I'm more forgiving of it than many, esp considering that many great guitarists of the past did it or something like it, and might occasionally slip into doing it myself (although usually when using a pick). If you need an anchor, just resting the fingers on the strings you are not using works great. If you're looking for pointers on technique, I'll recommend Tennant's Pumping Nylon again.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Thursday, 22 August 2019 03:56 (four years ago) link
I can't think of a situation where I'd anchor my pinky on the guitar's body when fingerpicking tbh.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Thursday, 22 August 2019 03:57 (four years ago) link
leo kottke's RSI is the argument against anchoring, but I still find it helpful when ploughing through v rhythmic picking-pattern grooves
― ogmor, Thursday, 22 August 2019 08:18 (four years ago) link
There are certainly people who do it but it is definitely not a practice that someone needs to be told to do if they have no inclination towards it.
Parkening playing a fast rhythmic picking pattern with no anchor: https://youtu.be/5YdPvM_xZg4
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Thursday, 22 August 2019 11:42 (four years ago) link
Close-up around 0:25
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Thursday, 22 August 2019 11:45 (four years ago) link
it's a q of what's easiest/realistic rather than humanly possible
― ogmor, Thursday, 22 August 2019 11:52 (four years ago) link
i don't & have never felt the need to.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, 22 August 2019 12:03 (four years ago) link
Fgti finds it easier not to anchor! I'm saying that is not only fine, but probably better. xp
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Thursday, 22 August 2019 12:03 (four years ago) link
If you want to anchor anything maybe it should be the thumb, like a bass player might
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 August 2019 12:14 (four years ago) link
Not if the bass player doesn't want tendonitis.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 22 August 2019 12:22 (four years ago) link
I've never heard of a fingerpicker anchoring the thumb on the body of the guitar? Ergonomics aside, any fingerpicking style I can think of requires the thumb to be available to play bass lines.xp
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Thursday, 22 August 2019 12:23 (four years ago) link
I was more thinking of resting the thumb on a bass string in between bass notes when possible (xp)C’mon, lots of bass players anchor. I almost never do so maybe I shouldn’t comment.Love any story about Christopher Parkening.
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 August 2019 12:26 (four years ago) link
Resting the thumb or fingers on unused strings between notes, when there is time, is what I do.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Thursday, 22 August 2019 12:36 (four years ago) link
It also helps to mute those strings when they should not ring.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Thursday, 22 August 2019 12:39 (four years ago) link
i anchor my pinky sometimes, and always understood it to be a bad habit. I also fret the bass string with my thumb, thanks jimi.
― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 22 August 2019 12:40 (four years ago) link
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 August 2019 12:57 (four years ago) link
Although didn’t notice G making D ring nearly as strong, or the A making the E.
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 August 2019 13:11 (four years ago) link
I use too many tunings. I only have maybe forty guitar-based songs but thirteen tunings all told :(
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:03 (four years ago) link
Sonic Goon - Experimental Flamboyant Tie Included
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:10 (four years ago) link
I haven't fucked with guitar in a while now, but I used to be pretty good at basic fingerstyle stuff. With respect to pinky-resting, if it's good enough for Daniel Bachman, it's good enough for me.https://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/daniel-bachman.jpg?x37511
― Auld Drink of Misery (zchyrs), Thursday, 22 August 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
Some people, Lenny Breau comes to mind, actually play with the RH pinky. Think its letter is ‘c’
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 August 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
Apparently he also anchored it so...https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/28278-how-did-lenny-breau-do-that
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 August 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
Sorry for using a fellow Canadian against you guys
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 August 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
We claim him was he, really?
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 22 August 2019 19:04 (four years ago) link
Born in Maine to Acadian parents, family moved to Canada when he was seven. His dad recorded for the Banff label, and Lenny taught Randy Bachman, how Canadian can you get?
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 August 2019 19:12 (four years ago) link
He even had a show on CBC Winnipeg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44PDpwYpSEU
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 August 2019 23:06 (four years ago) link
Did I mention that his first professional recording was with members of The Band?
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 August 2019 23:11 (four years ago) link
Anchoring is bad news, generally, and lots of professional bassists have problems with their hands and wrists. I touch my thumb on the string lower than the one I am playing or touch the body on my acoustic bass guitar when I play the B string. I have a full-length thumb rest on my main electric which I really like for playing on the B string; something like that would be cool on the acoustic, but it would most assuredly change the sound of the instrument in not-good ways (mine is a luthier-built gorgeous thing I purchased from an estate that, unlike 90% of acoustic bass guitars, actually functions as an acoustic instrument -- it'd be pushing $4000 if I had it built today, and it did not cost me even close to that)).
― Three Word Username, Friday, 23 August 2019 06:45 (four years ago) link