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Location: south east Michigan | In a effort to atone for my questionable behavior as of late I want to offer up to share the 99 songs currently in my songbook.
BUT FIRST!!! If somewhere down the line you recieved a "Slipkids Trinket" disc, you already have it.
SECOND!.. You need to be able to recieve a 2.5mb e-mail. I split it up into two sections so there will be two e-mails of 2.5mb each.
Pick through em. Play what you like, delete what you don't.
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I thought a stalker like you that sent out Monkeygrams pretty much had everybodies email! |
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Location: south east Michigan | Maybe I have yours....
and maybe I don't. |
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Location: SoCal | This kinda begs the general question, how many people here have the tunes they do neatly put together in notebooks?
I've got 2 storage boxes of music tunes, instruction books, etc, in my closet. Occassionally in going thru it, I come upon lists of tunes that I know, but I've never taken (read that as "have had") the time to actually put together a notebook.....
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | ... "Fake -Book" ...??...tryìng to put together a "True -Book" ....not successful as yet , good beginnings , halfway I allways get lost..
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Location: south east Michigan | Currently I have two notebooks going. One with songs I've pretty much got down and a few new ones to work on and another with songs that I want to get to... someday.
I might have to start a new one exclusivly for ones I'm working on. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I put together a song book. In my own notation or copied from others, I make a photo copy, punch holes in it, and put it in a binder. Matt Smith suggested this. So I have one book I made for music, and another for all things guitar, such as magazine articles ... and then I recycle the mags. |
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Location: SoCal | I would imagine that everybody who gigs needs a book with all their tunes. I do know that when faced with a microphone, the ability to forget the second verse of any tune runs rampant in my brain...... |
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Location: North Carolina | Got a binder I put almost everything I've ever learned by self transcription. It's alphabetized and goes back to stuff written in pen and ink on looseleaf with chords written as a superscript. The newer stuff is computer printed, but I still put the chords in by hand. I never use notes on stage and just use the book as a reference for when I update my active songlist. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | Brad, you've got mail.... |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | I have over 3100 pop/folk/country songs, with maybe 150 dupes due to variations, in Word format that I've gathered over the past two years from various sources.
As I view/play 'em I correct what I know is incorrect/incomplete and add tabs if I need 'em.
Since I don't gig I keep 'em on the 'puter. But I am hoping to start a notebook of those very few that I am not ashamed to play for the Grandbabies. :D
I also have collected over 200 videos of lessons and favorite performances. These really tend to aid my motivation and refreshes my memory.
I'm at a point now that I rarely have to go out and add to my libraries. But when I do, it normally opens up a path I haven't traveled or have forgotten. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I just recently organized mine into notebooks, by the artist's last name. Paul, I don't even need a mike to forget the words or chords. All I have to do is think about somebody else listening and I draw a blank. It took me a couple hours to think of the name of someone who performed one of the songs I had so I could get it in the right place.
On the other side of the coin, I still have the spiral binder I used to write down lyrics from songs I was trying to learn in the early 70s. What's amazing is that without tabs, computers or any fancy recording equipment, I did a pretty good job of figuring out the words and music to a bunch of songs. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I started mine with the singer/songwriter contest. I've got two books, one is other peoples songs and the other book is mine.
It's suprising how fast they fill up! Before I was like Moody, just stuff in a folder. Funny what makes you do things and the affect it can have on you. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I am contantly updating five guitar specific binders depending upon music type or purpose. In other parts of the house, we have maybe 100 notebooks of choreography material and shows we've been involved in, and SWMBO has a personal library of sheet music numbering at least a thousand. That happens when you've been a soloist for 45 years (her, not me). |
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Location: NJ | lately when I need lyrics or charts I have been searching for them on the web and saving them to word. I have a couple of dz right now. I used to just print them out but I decided to save to word to be able to send them to others etc.
a good project may be if we collected a pile of tunes from everyone put them on a cd and passed them around.
I always find it interesting to see what others are working on and to get ideas for myself
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Great idea, Al. I'll bet most of us have stuff in various formats. It'd be great to pool it all. |
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Location: NJ | anyone want to compile it and burn cd"s I don't have the capacity to do that. mental or hardware.
I also have several versions of the real book in PDF form which is kinda cool |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | I could do the compilation, burning and distribution. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Perhaps an OFC membership songbook disc like this could be part of the next years calendar package. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | While we're (we?) doing this, can you make it interactive so if someone has a higher or lower voice range, we could just auto-change the key the charts are in and also...
Ok, maybe not. |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by Weaser P:
While we're (we?) doing this, can you make it interactive so if someone has a higher or lower voice range, we could just auto-change the key the charts are in and also...
Ok, maybe not. Weas, would you like somebody to just come over to your house and play the guitar for you from behind a screen while you hold your guitar and just look like you're playing? |
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Location: south east Michigan | If you reqested my stuff, you should have them by now. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Sure... they'll also be a holographic projection of the original artist performing the song.. in whatever key you choose! |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Seriously - I'd be happy to take on this project. If that's ok with everyone, start sending stuff my way and I'll get it going.
Brad - I've got yours - thanks! |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | Got 'em Brad! Many thanks! lots of good stuff! |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
Originally posted by Weaser P:
While we're (we?) doing this, can you make it interactive so if someone has a higher or lower voice range, we could just auto-change the key the charts are in and also...
Ok, maybe not. Weas, would you like somebody to just come over to your house and play the guitar for you from behind a screen while you hold your guitar and just look like you're playing? |
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Location: GA USA | Okay. If you're buring it to a disc, you might want:
G8r\'s g8rbowl songs PDF
Southern Style Jamboree Songbook PDF
I'm pretty sure I have the Slipkid Trinket, since I made copies of all the CDs and DVDs that traveled with the Wooden Roundback when I got it. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | oh! Clean SONG sheets to share.
Here I though Mrs Slip was gone for the weekend.... |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Jas - the first link doesn't work. Can you send me the file? |
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Location: GA USA | Sorry. It worked for me the other day, I thought. It was g8r's link to his file, which must have been removed.
G8r, can you send Crimson that file, please? |
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Location: Michigan | :cool: SlipKid I am trying to get Ma-Ma out to Luigis as we speak...I will be looking for you. :p GWB |
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| Originally posted by Captain_Lovehandles:
Sorry. It worked for me the other day, I thought. It was g8r's link to his file, which must have been removed.
G8r, can you send Crimson that file, please? Should be working now. There was a problem with the server. Cap'n, what about your Fogelberg tunes? |
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Location: Utah | Originally posted by CrimsonLake:
Seriously - I'd be happy to take on this project. If that's ok with everyone, start sending stuff my way and I'll get it going.
Brad - I've got yours - thanks! Are word docs ok? Tabs, chords ok? Maybe we could start a list of songs in the project. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | You guys ( girls ) are way too advanced for me...I do n`t even know how to post a picture here ...and Thanks !!!! , for the MusicSheets , I appreciate it :)
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Location: Michigan | OK Brad We just got home from Luigis and I didn't see you there.I am a man who pays his debts off no matter what they are.I was waiting around to buy you dinner and you didn't show.
I dont know what it takes to buy some songs...
It was a great Cajun Prime Rib with Pasta & Meat Sauce with Cheese all over it.
Sorry you weren't there.Maybe I will meet you there and pay you for the next NEW 100 songs I need , HA-HA .GWB |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | I can pretty much work with any format. I've already started combining what's been sent so far. Either post it here, or email me through the site. |
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Location: GA USA | Originally posted by CrimsonLake:
Seriously - I'd be happy to take on this project. If that's ok with everyone, start sending stuff my way and I'll get it going. Mike, did you ever do this? Now we have a couple hundred from Otto to add. |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Just a thought. There are several online "communities" (Yahoo Groups, Google Groups) that support file storage. Perhaps doing this online would be the way to go. This way people can download what they want. It also makes updating a lot easier. I'd be happy to look into it if you all think it's a good idea. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Jas - I have received a bunch of stuff - including Otto's. As a first step, I can put what I have onto my Comcast fileshare. I'll check it out tonight.
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Location: GA USA | I'm writing PDFs of Otto's DOCs for me. I can send them too when I have them done. It was quite nice of that young man to spend so many hours building a book so we could steal it. We need to keep that in mind when we consider what suckers to invite next year. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Ain't that the truth! |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Just for my own sanity and possibly Mike's also, is there a simple way to capture the files' info in a Windows Explorer folder and import into Excel for data sorting (finding dups)? 
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Location: Central Florida | Originally posted by Captain_Lovehandles:
It was quite nice of that young man to spend so many hours building a book so we could steal it. We need to keep that in mind when we consider what suckers to invite next year. Yeah,I'm a sucker, Jas. But I'm a lucky sucker. Finding the OFC, especially the Southern division has put me on a good road. I'm thoroughly enjoying making music again! I don't yak much so my posts may be infrequent but I check in regularly to learn. And laugh. With all that the OFC has given me, it is my privelege to share. By all means include my books!
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Location: GA USA | After watching Matt Smith's lesson about practicing effectively, I'm convinced there's more merit to these "cheat sheets" than we think. The one thing Matt says he "can't stress enough" is the importance of playing the standards in whatever genre you choose. If we want to be better acoustic guitar players, we need to learn "The Weight" and "Blowin' in the Wind" et al. |
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Location: GA USA | Here's a link to Otto\'s songbook (PDF), which I've cleverly titled
It's just over 2MB and 259 pages. |
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Location: south east Michigan | oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy,
oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!!!!
Lots of material to play with!
Thanks Otto!!!!
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Location: NJ | I have a ton of stuff I have not yet sent off to crimson lake.
all the real books and a bumch of other stuff |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Wow! That's awesome! Thanks a lot!! |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | I can't believe you've got 'Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport' in there Otto. :rolleyes: |
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Location: GA USA | You won't believe a lot of it. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Ditto to all the WOWS!!!!
Thank-you! |
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Location: Feeding Hills, MA | This is like hitting the mother lode to someone who is just starting to play...thanks! |
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Location: Winter Haven, FL | WOW!!!
Thanks Otto! That is toooooo cool. |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Well done Otto. Now if the legends from the last get together are true we need to sit you down and get you to sing them all. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Great stuff. Thanks! Now I have no excuse not to learn some more songs! |
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Location: GA USA | Originally posted by The Artist (FKA Richard):
Now if the legends from the last get together are true... It's twue, it's twue! He actually did sing Tony Orlando & Dawn. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Very nice. Thanks guys! |
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Location: Central Florida | Originally posted by The Artist (FKA Richard):
Well done Otto. Now if the legends from the last get together are true we need to sit you down and get you to sing them all. I'll certainly do my best Richard. You coming over to sing with me? Or maybe figure a way to get me to OZ! Almost went once. Back about '81 or '82 I was th-i-i-i-s close to making a big move.
Originally posted by Captain_Lovehandles:
It's twue, it's twue! He actually did sing Tony Orlando & Dawn. Huh?? :eek: Okay, maybe one or two bars... One rum and coke don't get a whole Tony Orlando song outta me! Uhhh ....did it??? Beggin... that WAS just rum and coke in that glass, right?? Oh geez...
Anyways, I sure am happy that some folks are digging the cheat sheets. My distinct and absolute pleasure, really! Makes me all warm and fuzzy knowing that I may have helped get some guitars off the stands and into the hands tonight. :cool:
Jas, thanks for the PDF version and the distribution efforts. That book cover is TOO MUCH! :D LOL :D You really are a creative madman. Can't wait to see what kind of Monster compilation we have when Crimsom gets through!
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Otto,
Stow away in one of AJ guitar cases. He'll be bringing so much junk back from the US, he'll never notice a bit of extra weight. |
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Location: Central Florida | Great idea!!
But if he opens the case and tries to strum me things are gonna get ugly.
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Location: south east Michigan | Well... Maybe not where your head is at in a therapy type of way, but we know where you are musicly.We know you like Dr. Hook, Croce & Donovan.And.... Uriah Heep!?!? (nice)"I Think We're Alone Now"... I see you are not afraid to go where the music takes you. My duo partner had to be dragged kicking and screaming into "Mrs Brown", now it's one of his favorites. He has drawn hard line at "There's A Kind Of Hush". He'll do it with me as long as it's the original Herman's Hermit version and not that sappy Carpenters cover. :) |
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Location: south east Michigan | (timed out edit)
Tea Garden and VanWinkle?!?! NICE!
The fun thing about lists like this is when "Wildwood Weed" is immediately followed by "Will the Circle Be Unbroken". :D
Half the fun is the challenge of "can I pull this off". Brian & I finally made "Won't Get Fooled Again" sound good. I hope I get to hear Otto's version someday."Love Hurts"... that sounds like a difficult one to handle.
"Let's Get Together", Canned Heat... very nice!! We'll follow it up with "Goin' Up the Country".
Before I end this epic post let me do a little thread housekeeping. It started out as an offer from me to send out my "Slipkid's Trinket" disc to those who do not already have one. It has all my song sheets on it tho it's not nearly as neat, organized and tidy as Otto's.The collection that Crimson and Lovehandles Jim are working on may or may not have my songs sheets.
Ya know... I've been making hard copys of the CD and sending them all over the world. Maybe I should post it where Jim posted Ottos. The Trinket is about 400mb. Anyone know where I can post it so folks can just download it? |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Brad - I do have yours. I have just been so swamped lately that I haven't been able to get to it yet.
I've been doing a little looking into someplace to post the stuff, but haven't found anyplace suitable (or free) yet. On Comcast, where my account is, you can only upload six files at a time and so far I haven't been able to figure out how to make them downloadable to the public. |
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| Mike - how big is the file(s)? I have some room on my allocation on UF's servers, so I could host it there on a simple web page. Let me know if you want me to do that. |
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Location: south east Michigan | A project like this takes time. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | To me, the goal would be to have everything in one format, either individually downloadable, or downloadable as a bulk file as the Capt. has done with Otto's songbook.
The individual files aren't that big, but there's ALOT of them.
Maybe the CD idea was a little ambitious - but with a little time could be done. My idea for that was to have it all in PDF format on a CD, with all of the songs linked to the TOC and indexed. The PDF part is pretty easy, linking the songs takes time, but is not horrible and burning the CDs obviously takes some time.
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Location: Okinawa Japan | Slipkid, Thanks for the generous offer and great idea. an email is on the way. |
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