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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Tupperware quote-- "Puttin' On The Ritz, by FALCO"
Is that the one where Peter Boyle sings...
"Puh-in oh ah Reeeeh" |
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Location: UK | Al DI ME LE O LA 'mexican sun dance' blindfolded with oven gloves on |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | "Al DI ME LE O LA 'mexican sun dance' blindfolded with oven gloves on"
May God bless you, Andrea. |
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Location: UK | Actually Weaser P , if truth be known its Blackbird |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Well, that's ok, Andrea. He'll probably bless you nevertheless. ;) |
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Location: Whitecourt, Ab | I usually play an E chord, letting each string ring, to check and see if I'm in tune, or close to it. Then some 12 bar blues in A to loosen up the fingers and wait for some inspiration. |
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| "i try not to play anyone else's music (i don't know if that 's is in right place). i think that learning existing pieces is a waste of time, because i will never be able to play it like the man who created it, so i play only own compositions.."
I'm with you on this one Humble. For a couple years I've been focusing on songwriting, Every morning I do about 3 pages of free writing,just as an exercise, whatever comes into my head. Takes maybe 15 mins. then I sit with whatever guitar I choose and just doodle and see what comes out. Lately it starts with finger picking a bluesy open string thing but sometimes just a driving rhythm with some open chords. The whole exercise is incredibly relaxing and has really spawned some good songs, if I do say so myself.
I only work on other peoples songs if I'm inspired to put one in my show. I learn it the way it was written as best I can and then make it my own in the performance.
Pretty sure I'm not going to get rich or famous at this point, but its so much more rewarding doing originals, besides I haven't got rich or famous the other way! Now I at least try to nurture my creative self, a little at a time.
I went for years and years without at least trying to write, and I've finally gotten some discipline and its very rewarding. The most important thing to remember is everything you write isn't going to be good,so I don't beat myself up. Just by writing you develop as a songwriter and the work just seems to get better.
Or maybe the world does need one more performance of Brown Eyed Girl, just for old times sake! |
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Location: wva | not a song but to lossen up the fingers and mind i just run thru the chords i know(all 4 lol) with a bit of finger pickin |
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| Usually I just play whatever comes to mind when I pick up the guitar; there's some jazz riffs and chords that I go back to absent mindedly so either that or whatever I've been practicing lately.
For the past week or two I've been messing with open tunings and with DADDAD my 1621-4 will drone like a set of bag pipes so I've been working up some things that sound like a lament but I still haven't arranged it all into one piece.
In standard tuning this guitar has always seemed a bit dull (electric bridge & shallow bowl I guess) but with open tunings it has beautiful colouration and sustain. I can go to the fridge to get a beer and the guitar will still be going when I get back..lol |
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