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Location: Michigan | Brad says I should have my songs memorized...but it would be good for watching netflix while I am playing |
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Location: Flahdaw | Who listens to Brad? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Brad Who? |
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Location: Flahdaw | Coocoo Nuts |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | We are now using two of these in the band. They're very good, even great, but not perfect. |
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Location: Tennessee | The guy who plays mando/guitar/uke with me has one of those, along with a footswitch for his iPad, and all of his songs are on there in the right order for the set list, and it's fully self contained and he's all set for the show. And then one small disconnect and all you've got is a train wreck. :rolleyes:
I'm with Brad. |
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Location: south east Michigan | And then one small disconnect and all you've got is a train wreck Ain't that the truth. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | While I don't have an iPad, and this seems cool, I would not trust any device (iPad, Laptop, etc..) to anything but a RAM mount. Period...
The one on the guitar is a little odd.. but check these out..
http://www.ram-mount.com/NewProducts/ipadmusicstandmount/tabid/3901...
I have used RAM products for years for all sorts of mounting scenarios. |
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Location: Seattle | dont forget the iklip mini for Iphone/touch... http://www.ikmultimedia.com/iklipmini/features/
Run your amp sims for your Idea off of the irig and use the Ipad for sheet music..adding ac adapters (so you don't run out of battery)......etc, etc
didn't this used to be simpler |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | ...and from the i-klip site diagrams, it works with electric AND acoustic guitars!!! WOW. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | You should know your songs, no question.
But I've got well over 100 and adding all the time, and with advancing age resulting in diminished brain retention facilities..ah, I for got what I was going to say...... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Oh yeah, I just can't remember all this spoo.
Gotta have my cheat sheets with at least 18 point type, can't see for shit either. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I'm picking up my first pair of real glasses this afternoon. |
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Location: closely held secret | So you've been wearing fake glasses all these years?
Jeez, everyone wants to be the geek... |
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Location: south east Michigan | Those have been just cheap reading glasses.
It's gotten to where I can't read that 18 point type on the music stand in front of me.
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Just as TV goes hi-def..... my eyes go low-def.
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If I'm playing for people I have to know the song well enough to at least it doesn't look like reading off a sheet.
It's nice to quickly look over a sheet before starting, just to refresh the memory.
On a rare occation, for instance if I was playing for some close friends oh say maybe sometime next week... and I had a song 85% down but wanted to give it a test drive anyway.... then I might use a cheat sheet. |
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Location: south east Michigan | If I'm playing for people I have to know the song well enough to at least it doesn't look like reading off a sheet.
Sorry about my sloppy performace on the above sentence in my last post.
I was momentarily possessed by PEZ. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | This looks like it would interfere with my beer holder. That's the only thing I use the mic stand for. I have a mic on it too, but I never use it, so I shove it out of the way so I can reach the beer easier.
As far as gigging, if I ever do, I'll have to wear my bifocals. The contacts just don't cut it without bright light and large fonts. I'm not up Beal's 100 songs, but probably pretty close, and they are in various notebooks and tab sheets. I've tried to organize them, but never got there completely. If I did a gig, I'd probably have to organize the songs. Another of many reasons why I don't do gigs, I guess. |
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Location: Flahdaw | I'm okay with words, but forget the verses.
I cheat by listing the 1st few words of the songs verses in the order they are sung. That's usually enough to get me through the song. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Um, aren't verses just a bunch of words? |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by Weaser P:
Um, aren't verses just a bunch of words? I never thought of it that way.... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | It's the order of the words that is important to the song.
And I checked the song book, it's not 100, i8t's a whole bunch more. |
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Location: south east Michigan | That's quite a big book Beal.
I'd like to thumb thu it someday.
Who knows? Maybe soon.
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I carry about 70 or 80 in my book. Its divided into 3 sections. Down Pats.... Working On... and Get To Someday.
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I was doing an Eagles song one time. To my horror I sang.... "I got an EASEFUL PEASY Feeling". |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by Slipkid:
"I got an EASEFUL PEASY Feeling". Happens every time I eat at Taco Bell. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I just checked my songbook and it was empty.
I guess I got that old fart syndrome too.
Learn em and forget em.....that's my motto. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | thought this was somewhere else. for the real comment go there. |
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Location: Massachusetts | It's easier to do originals, that way, if you screw up nobody knows. |
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