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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-
Draw unemployment-
Draw my bath- |
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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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