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Location: GA USA | As mentioned in another thread, we could collaborate on some projects if we know each other's strengths. What do you do well...
Play rhythm, lead, slide, mandolin, bass, uke, harp, dulcimer, sing, harmonize, arrange, promote? |
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Location: NJ | carpentry, rough and finished
electrical rough in and some final assembly.
window installation
painting
drywall installation, taping and mud.
basic concrete work. |
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Location: SoCal | If somebody throws a punch, I can usually find it with my face..... |
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| Rhythm, finger-picking, flat picking, some lead, even less bass..
..plus, "Freckles - The Natural Tattoo" |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I have a knack for standing in front of the cabinet my wife needs something out of! |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | Musically, I play 6 and 12 string rhythm guitar (I'm a pretty good fingerpicker and a decent strummer, but only rudimentary leads); harmonica (there are three styles of harmonica playing: straight harp, cross harp, and "close enough." Guess which one I am?); very primitive "Tuba-style" bass (BOOMP-boomp; BOOMP-boomp)-- works with some basic country tunes); and "claw-style" piano, which I RARELY play. I DO consider myself a very good singer and an instinctive harmony singer; the vocals are my real strength musically. I'm not a virtuoso player by any means, but by the same token, the instruments aren't just props, either.
As far as other stuff goes, I teach part-time (if you call 15 hours of classroom time a week "part-time,' which doesn't include prep time or things like grading tests and essays)at a local community college. I teach English Composition I and II; Technical Writing; Intro Psychology; Business English; Business Communications; Astronomy I and II; Geology; and Hydrology & Meteorology (note: I don't teach 'em all at once, obviously, but these are subjects that I can and do teach). I also work a 9 to 5, 40 hr a week day job at a local publishing firm and play music on weekends (and whenever else I can). Not too good with my hands, although I can replace or fix electrical stuff. I DON'T do plumbing--EVER! I also don't do wallpapering. Don't ever wallpaper a room with your wife unless you want a divorce (of course, if you DO want a divorce, that's a surefire way to get one!). We did that about 20 years ago--wallpapering, that is. We haven't done it since, nor will we ever again. |
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Location: Scotland | Originally posted by rick endres:
Don't ever wallpaper a room with your wife I agree. Unless you can slice her really really thinly, it's probably a better idea to use wallpaper. |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | Walking into a room and forgetting what I went there for, seems to be a natural talent for me. |
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Location: Central Florida | Lead and rhythm guitar, bass, piano/keyboards and vocals.
And, since going on line and participating in this and other guitar related forums, I've discovered I have a unique talent for bringing many a thread to a screeching halt! :rolleyes: |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | VERY good, Paul-- and I teach English! I'd have hammered one of my students for that. You get an "A!" Sometimes ya gotta let yer hair down when yer learnin' peepul to rite good English. Otherwise you go stir-crazy!
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by rick endres:
Not too good with my hands rick. This does not look good on a guitar player's resume. :D
Back to the tpoic of the post. I play fairly good rhythm and finger pick chords on slow songs. :) |
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Location: Cicero, NY | I've got emptying the cooler down to an art. |
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Location: Vermont USA | Posted by Tommy M
Walking into a room and forgetting what I went there for, seems to be a natural talent for me. |
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Location: Vermont USA | As to the message before I'm with him.
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | Hey, Mike--
I wouldn't PUT that on my resume! Playing guitar is about the only thing I CAN successfully do with my hands, except for.... well, never mind. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Can't think of any. That's why I'm a lawyer.
Actually OK at rough carpentry and other fixit type stuff if the amount of time is infinite. I'll drink cheap beer if I have to or if I'm buying.
Raising really smart kids seems to be another talent, but everyone tells me the milkman was smarter than me. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Rick,
I agree let's not go there.
BTW I'm a pretty bad plumber myself. :D |
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Location: closely held secret | Rhythm, simple lead, acceptable bass, sing, harmonize, compose... decompose... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Complain, bitch, sulk, repeat until satisified |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | The thing I really hate about plumbing, Mike, is that everything BECOMES an emergency--whether it starts out that way or not. You have a dripping faucet. No sweat-- take it apart, change out the washer, right? WRONG! You take it apart, and it comes A-PART! I mean REALLY apart, as in total disintegration. The only thing that had been holding it together was the corrosion. So now you've got the water to the whole house shut off because there wasn't a shut off valve to that faucet. What do you do now? You can't go to the big box stores like Home B.O. or Lowes, because the high school kids who work there don't know a faucet washer from a wall switch. So you go to the local hardware store. You show them what's left of the assembly, and when they pick themselves back off the floor after a fit of hysterical laughter, one old codger turns to the other one and says, " That's one o' them Price Pfister PF-27's. I ain't seen one o' them in 45 years. You seen one o' them in 45 years, Homer?" Homer replies, "Nope. I ain't seen one o' them in 45 years neither, Jethro. Yer gonna hafta get a whole new faucet assembly, boy."
And THAT'S why I don't do plumbing!! |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Folks tell me I can DRAW pretty good....
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Draw a bucket of water-
Draw a blister on my hand-
Draw attention to myself-
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Location: East Wenatchee, WA | Rythym and some finger picking. Bass is fairly good, drums...I can keep a beat.
Oh...and in the spirit of all the other goof balls, I can overhaul a lawnmowever engine (used to be a car engine before 1980), fly a plane (and I am legally blind), and ride a big hurkin motorcycle that I only balance on my tip-toes...matter of fact, I might play guitar better with my toes. |
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Location: closely held secret | They are fun to try and balance, aren't they, Jeff? Nothing like that moment when it feels like it's going over...
Oh, and TR... you forgot flies! :D |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Oh yeah!, That happens so naturally it's easy to forget :p Thanks |
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Location: Spain | Bulding an extension on our house no money so have to do all of the afore mentioned tasks plus afew more. New baby on the way in september . Looks like I might be good at something. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I've been playing the fool to appreciative crowds for years......... at least I think that's how they show appreciation.
Apparently I'd be quite useful around here though, I used to be a plumber. Will now consult and supervise for beer. But you'll have to hold that leek for a year or two before you see me waaaaay over on the right coast for a get together. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Plumbing is one of those trades that I figured anyone can do. After laying under the cabin in a space too small for anything other than a porcupine in a mixture of rocks, sewage and porcupine quills, I decided that I don't want to be a plumber. |
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Location: Spain | 18 cubic meters of concrete foundations if I need to put plumbing under it I,ll get a mole to do it |
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Location: Snellville, GA | Three basic rules of plumbing:
1. Sh#t flows downhill
2. The boss is an S.O.B.
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Anyone CAN do it..... :rolleyes:
Solids run down, gases flow up, payday's on Friday, don't lick your fingers.(What'choo talkin' 'bout TWA, my boss was great.....types fast too!)
There. Now you're a plumber too!
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Then there's this long list of rules and stuff they keep in a book called "The Building Code." But nevermind, I'm sure it'll work. |
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Location: NJ | plumbing
how can i forget?????
soldering piper overhead and burning off the hair on my arms is one of my most important skills |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | I can whisle and hum at the same time. The hum is the same note but an octive lower. |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | :D :D :D LOL, I love the ways a thread gets totally off topic! :D :D :D |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | It didn't ask for musical talents. If that's what this was about, my mother thinks I have a nice voice. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I can't believe y'all really want me to answer this question... |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | ...Did I mention that folks think I DRAW good?
let me know if I didn't..... |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Musical:
- harmony rhythm guitar
- melody mountain dulcimer
- vocals
- composing (when I get around to it)
- guitar assembly and set-up (just built a Strat from pieces)
Cycling:
- building and maintaining bicycles
- building bicycle wheels
- being not as fast a rider as the fast riders, but faster than the slow riders
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Location: Spokane, WA | I have an uncanny talent for believing I can do something around the house, and then spending twice the money, doing only half as good a job, in three times the time as if I'd called a pro.
Musically, I do a fair job doing improvised blues leads, and I'm trying to be a somewhat accomplished fingerstyle acoustic player |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | I play mostly lead rhythm 6-string, with some experience with writing/arranging. I've played a little with lead fills/electric, but nothing to brag about. I learned playing folk/fingerstyle, but REALLY need to freshen up on that a bit. As far as singing...let's just say I haven't been booed off the stage yet, but I've gotten close. :eek:
Someone should send me an FD-14 out of the goodness of their heart. :D
Non-musically, I tinker with a lot of projects that I'm not really good at. Davek, I COMPLETELY
understand - I redid my mother-in-law's basement, and what I thought would be a weekend project took three months...
I have a knack for overcommitting myself for way too many things, am really good with computers, take horrible pictures on a digital camera that I end up deleting, and spend too much time and money playing paintball, which is one of the few things I'm actually good at. Miss anything? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | So it looks like if we put all of us together we'd get:
A bunch of half assed guitar players;
A bunch of half assed carpenters;
A bunch of less than half assed plumbers;
A bunch of half assed DIYers;
And some computer geeks.
Surely we have a whole ass in this bunch, or did I just volunteer? |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | I think I'll be big, and turn the other "cheek."
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Location: Upper Left USA | He is just airing his differences. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Mark,
No need to volunteer...
You've already said you were a lawyer!
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Location: ms | Mark, I may have a half ass. But i have a full sized gut. Does eating count as talent? |
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Location: GA USA | Let this thread stand forever as a warning to those who would ask a simple question.
Sheeeeeesh! |
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Location: San Angelo, Texas | And I didn't even get to answer before Jeff killled it... |
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Location: GA USA | I think I killed this one by starting it. |
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Location: closely held secret | Abort! Abort!
Cap'n, she's goin' down!!! I canna hold 'er together!! |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | I can DRAW pretty good.......... |
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Location: GA USA | I can draw dang good, but you don't see me braggin' about it, do you? Who started this stupid topic? |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | This is alot like HR touchy feely...get to know the guy next to you...team building...feel better about yourself...crap. |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | :( I'm gonna go DRAW up in a corner and pout! :( ... |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Trboy, let's have this out right now...
...DRAW! :D |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by willard:
This is alot like HR touchy feely...get to know the guy next to you...team building...feel better about yourself...crap. So, do you feel better about yourself *before* the crap, or after?
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by JeffreyD:
fly a plane (and I am legally blind) Another good thing not to put on your resume. :D |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Oooo! OOOooo! And I do impressions too!
Look.
I take both hands in a circle and squeeze my hairy belly so there's a crack down from the belly button....
I can make a perfect ass of myself!
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Location: Cicero, NY | Oooo...I LOVE impressions! Do another! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Please take a picture and send it to Waskel. He collects that sort of thing. |
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Location: GA USA | Originally posted by willard:
This is alot like HR touchy feely...get to know the guy next to you...team building...feel better about yourself...crap. Actually, I meant it to be more like... I'm gonna record some guitar. I think I'll send it to (name) to add some harmonica. |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by stephent28:
Please take a picture and send it to Waskel. He collects that sort of thing. Yup. I'm the one that collect wierd crap...
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Hmmmm....haven't seen harmonica yet. Want some mountain dulcimer????? :D
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Location: closely held secret | Sure, I'll try a glass. |
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Location: GA USA | Or does anybody play glass harmonica?
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Self portrait....(check out the detail)
SEE! Told you I can DRAW!!! |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Me either...... :D |
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Location: East Tennessee | Waskel,
Except for the tattoo, the guy with the guitar looks like me. :D
What was this thread about?? :confused: |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | This thread was about talent
Talent?
Why that rhymes with shalln't
Oh God!
I've done it again!
How To Write A Song
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Gospel Guitar Guy:
Waskel, Except for the tattoo, the guy with the guitar looks like me. Hmmm. Don't see a tattoo. Must be behind the guitar... |
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Location: Spain | my little boy ( nearly three ) is now sat here with me drawing he thinks he,s as good as you boys and Ive learnt not to argue with him . |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by Waskel:
Originally posted by Gospel Guitar Guy:
Waskel, Except for the tattoo, the guy with the guitar looks like me. Hmmm. Don't see a tattoo. Must be behind the guitar... |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by fillhixx:
This thread was about talent
Talent?
Why that rhymes with shalln't
Oh God!
I've done it again!
How To Write A Song
Harry Nilsson Oh, I guess Al should delete about 2/3's of the posts. :D |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | A bunch of less than half assed plumbers;
Does that mean only half as much plumber's crack shows? |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | It ain't a plumber
If you cain't see the bummer |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | How about the Armonica (Ben Franklin invetion)
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Only counts if you can actually play it.
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Location: closely held secret | Yeah, those too. I like the ones with the treadle drive, though. That guy was a genius. |
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Location: Indiana | Musically I am mainly a bass player. I can also play guitar (all aspects).At a lower level, I also dabble with keyboards.I use the "Columbus System" (find the keys and land on them).
Non-musically, I'm a fair machinist.
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Hey Captn',
My self portrait is better proportioned.
Look at your little feet! Also you've got a big bubblehead,and WOAH, L@@K at the size of your hands!!!
I think you'd better see a doctor....
All joking aside......SHOWOFF! :D :cool:
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | The girls tell me the feet are a better indicator than the hands............. |
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Location: Wooster, Ohio | Flintknapping or making reproductions of prehistoric arrowheads and blades.
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