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Location: Tampa, FL | Have others found this valuable? I don't have access (read time) that allows me to participate with other muscicians. And those that I do have contact with tend to be a little casual regarding performance polish. Would I be better served to invest in time with with an instructor? Perhaps it is something of a both have merit situation.
Just looking to punish the parishioners a little less. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | I know several folks who really like this product for home practicing/recording......
Band In A Box |
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Location: East Wenatchee, WA | Understand what you mean. I am by no means more than a novice, but certainly want to live up a certain standard when I lead worship in church.
I am blessed with a fairly nice PA set-up that I have used to support worship teams and bands in the past (hey...I have a good paying job and 25 years to accumulate the stuff). I just ordered a Tascam 2488 hoping that it would do two things.
1) Sharpen my own skills and expand the scope a bit. I tend to be a "good enough" sort of personality, so I need to work on getting things better than good enough.
2) Encourage me to get back into song-writing and recording (that have only been for family and friends to date), which I have put on hold for about 7 years now.
I figure winter will be a good time to drive this as I can get very bored when not able to do things outside.
I have thought about lessons and may still do that as I am self taught on all 12 or so instruments I learned to play (well except the clarinet in 5th grade). Funny part of that, is once I started playing guitar, my musical discipline went out the window....something about chords instead of reading complex scores for the clarinet, saxes, trombone etc....really made me lazy. |
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Location: SoCal | Jeff, what you need to do, seriously, is read the complex scores for the wind instruments and learn to play them on guitar. It will give you unique phrasing, but be very melodic. I know of at least one very famous guitar player who claimed that he used to take clarinet solos and play them on the guitar. |
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Location: closely held secret | How many chords did he know? |
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Location: closely held secret | Seriously, Band In A Box is a great tool. It's a lot of fun, very easy to get started with, and it's wonderful for setting up simple arrangements in a matter of minutes to practice with.
With a little experience, you can actually set up some very complex arrangments with it. I've used it for backing tracks. |
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Location: East Wenatchee, WA | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
Jeff, what you need to do, seriously, is read the complex scores for the wind instruments and learn to play them on guitar. It will give you unique phrasing, but be very melodic. I know of at least one very famous guitar player who claimed that he used to take clarinet solos and play them on the guitar. Now where did I put that Clarinet book of Sonata's. What an idea. I need something to motivate my desire to learn to read sheet music effectively again. I practice scales on the guitar, but that get pretty boring after a while. That's the way I taught myself the instruments I used to play. A piece of music I liked, and a fingering chart. Wonder if I still have it in me??? |
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Location: North Texas | PG music make two great products, Band in a box, and Power Tracks pro. Either progam will allow the user to open up a guitar window, with any midi track, and see the notes on a fretboard being played. The tempo can be slowed down to any speed. These are great tools to help a guitarist, bassist, keyboardist, or even a ukeman, learn riffs, licks, and chops. There are millions of standard midi files available for no cost downloading. Power Tracks is very inexpensive for it's capabilities. Biab is great for songwriters. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Another secret outed. I was first chair clarinet in high school back in the sixties. Haven't played it since. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Use a casette tape player. Play the rhthym part, then solo over it. Play along with records. Just record yourself and see how you sound. |
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