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Post by grampalerxst on Dec 29, 2019 7:07:51 GMT -6
Last one for the year. With 9 consecutive days and counting off work, and no traveling, this has been an above average week. More time to play, and less been-in-the-office-all-day burnout dragging down my evening practices. Still pretty much doing the same thing as I've been doing--things are coming along. One small accomplishment I'm pleased about: If you google "Alex Lifeson chord" you'll get the F#add4b7(?) (244300) chord from Hemispheres. But to me what I call the Lerxst chord is a variant on an E5 played 022400. I've noticed only one other instance of someone using it, more frequently its analog in drop-D: 2224XX, but it's one that he uses frequently (Limelight comes to mind). For decades I avoided it. I wasn't able to do a partial barre on the second fret, and doing it with one finger per string (2 on the 5th, 3 on the 4th, and 4 on the third, or whatever) got me too knotted up. But after many months I finally do the partial barre well enough I can hit the chord pretty much whenever I want, and decided this week that I "got that one down". Small thing, but it made me happy.
Offline I typed up a year in review blurb that I'll paste into another thread shortly.
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Post by Phil on Dec 29, 2019 12:17:54 GMT -6
Last one for the year. With 9 consecutive days and counting off work, and no traveling, this has been an above average week. More time to play, and less been-in-the-office-all-day burnout dragging down my evening practices. Still pretty much doing the same thing as I've been doing--things are coming along. One small accomplishment I'm pleased about: If you google "Alex Lifeson chord" you'll get the F#add4b7(?) (244300) chord from Hemispheres. But to me what I call the Lerxst chord is a variant on an E5 played 022400. I've noticed only one other instance of someone using it, more frequently its analog in drop-D: 2224XX, but it's one that he uses frequently (Limelight comes to mind). For decades I avoided it. I wasn't able to do a partial barre on the second fret, and doing it with one finger per string (2 on the 5th, 3 on the 4th, and 4 on the third, or whatever) got me too knotted up. But after many months I finally do the partial barre well enough I can hit the chord pretty much whenever I want, and decided this week that I "got that one down". Small thing, but it made me happy.
Offline I typed up a year in review blurb that I'll paste into another thread shortly. Naming chords is the most variable thing there is in music. Everybody seems to have their own way. I would simply call that F#add4b7 an F11. The b7 is implied in the name just as it is in F9 or F13. F#add4b7 is certainly descriptive, but it's way to unwieldy for me and that "B" should be called an 11th in my mind. And adding "b7" to a chord name? I don't think I've ever seen that before. Then again, I haven't seen everything yet. So maybe I'm missing something.
I had an enormous aha! moment this week in the chord progression department. (There's no point in going into details. It was something that would be obvious to a normal person.) So I feel like I had a very good week .
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Post by jack1982 on Dec 29, 2019 13:26:12 GMT -6
Bad week for me, busy with Christmas stuff etc. Besides, it's okay to be lazy between Christmas and new year's, right? Yeah...it's just like every other week in that respect I did order a book - "Introduction to the Lute: For Lute and Guitar Players". Apparently you just tune the classical guitar to E, A, D, F#, B, E and the whole world of 13th century music is open to you. Of course lutes are like 12 string guitars, with the low strings doubled by one an octave higher and the high ones doubled by another in unison. They say that lutes, with their rounded shape in the back, are hard to play for people who have an equally rounded shape on their front, so I'll just stick with guitar for now
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Post by Phil on Dec 29, 2019 13:35:12 GMT -6
Bad week for me, busy with Christmas stuff etc. Besides, it's okay to be lazy between Christmas and new year's, right? Yeah...it's just like every other week in that respect I did order a book - "Introduction to the Lute: For Lute and Guitar Players". Apparently you just tune the classical guitar to E, A, D, F#, B, E and the whole world of 13th century music is open to you. Of course lutes are like 12 string guitars, with the low strings doubled by one an octave higher and the high ones doubled by another in unison. They say that lutes, with their rounded shape in the back, are hard to play for people who have an equally rounded shape on their front, so I'll just stick with guitar for now Jesus! Jack, you're a glutton for punishment.
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Post by cunningr on Dec 29, 2019 14:52:02 GMT -6
Well christmas festivities have reduced practice time working on a tune called playin with my friends, have the intro rhythm intro down and started on bb’s licks which have fairly well too.
Phil not sure you remember Marcel Norman TA, he passed away this week from pneumonia loved jazz.
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Post by grampalerxst on Dec 29, 2019 15:32:40 GMT -6
Last one for the year. With 9 consecutive days and counting off work, and no traveling, this has been an above average week. More time to play, and less been-in-the-office-all-day burnout dragging down my evening practices. Still pretty much doing the same thing as I've been doing--things are coming along. One small accomplishment I'm pleased about: If you google "Alex Lifeson chord" you'll get the F#add4b7(?) (244300) chord from Hemispheres. But to me what I call the Lerxst chord is a variant on an E5 played 022400. I've noticed only one other instance of someone using it, more frequently its analog in drop-D: 2224XX, but it's one that he uses frequently (Limelight comes to mind). For decades I avoided it. I wasn't able to do a partial barre on the second fret, and doing it with one finger per string (2 on the 5th, 3 on the 4th, and 4 on the third, or whatever) got me too knotted up. But after many months I finally do the partial barre well enough I can hit the chord pretty much whenever I want, and decided this week that I "got that one down". Small thing, but it made me happy. Offline I typed up a year in review blurb that I'll paste into another thread shortly. Naming chords is the most variable thing there is in music. Everybody seems to have their own way. I would simply call that F#add4b7 an F11. The b7 is implied in the name just as it is in F9 or F13. F#add4b7 is certainly descriptive, but it's way to unwieldy for me and that "B" should be called an 11th in my mind. And adding "b7" to a chord name? I don't think I've ever seen that before. Then again, I haven't seen everything yet. So maybe I'm missing something. I had an enormous aha! moment this week in the chord progression department. (There's no point in going into details. It was something that would be obvious to a normal person.) So I feel like I had a very good week . Oh, you fancy-pants jazz guys! I came up with that amateur nomenclature since the A# and B (third and 4th) are adjacent to each other, and the 7th is above the 4th rather than vice-versa. What's really characteristic about it is how it's voiced, any old F11 just won't do, so not knowing how to describe the tortured inversion I gave the fingering and clunky nomenclature (can only do this with F# triad on a standard-tuned guitar). I've also seen it described as F#7sus4, but the sus4 usually implies the 3rd is missing (often resolved to or moving away from).
If Big Al doesn't know the name at all, and John Petrucci names it the same way I do, I don't feel like too much of a rube.
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Post by Phil on Dec 29, 2019 16:53:22 GMT -6
Gramps, like I said, "F#add4b7 is certainly descriptive." You're right. F11 just doesn't capture that unique chord voicing. It's very difficult to name a specific voicing without showing a chord diagram. I guess this is a way to skin that cat.
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Post by bluesbruce on Dec 29, 2019 17:40:15 GMT -6
Oh, almost forgot to share the new guitars I got for Christmas!
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Post by grampalerxst on Dec 31, 2019 5:22:17 GMT -6
They say that lutes, with their rounded shape in the back, are hard to play for people who have an equally rounded shape on their front, so I'll just stick with guitar for now My double-ex-brother in law (a truly good guitarist) won an Ovation guitar that I tried playing once. Had the same problem. Actually, someone needs to make a guitar with a concave back! Both my Ibanez and Suhr have a bit of a belly cutout on the back which helps, but nearing the end of football/holiday seasons, when I play standing up it feels like the guitar is in the next room. When I play an acoustic instrument, even sitting down, it feels like my arms have shortened by a foot over the years.
To express it mathematically, I need to achieve grampa(2020) = 0.8*grampa(2019).
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Post by Phil on Dec 31, 2019 9:37:33 GMT -6
They say that lutes, with their rounded shape in the back, are hard to play for people who have an equally rounded shape on their front, so I'll just stick with guitar for now My double-ex-brother in law (a truly good guitarist) won an Ovation guitar that I tried playing once. Had the same problem. Actually, someone needs to make a guitar with a concave back! Both my Ibanez and Suhr have a bit of a belly cutout on the back which helps, but nearing the end of football/holiday seasons, when I play standing up it feels like the guitar is in the next room. When I play an acoustic instrument, even sitting down, it feels like my arms have shortened by a foot over the years.
To express it mathematically, I need to achieve grampa(2020) = 0.8*grampa(2019).
I had a neighbor who had 7 seven guitars - all Ovations. They were the most awkward, uncomfortable guitars I ever played. You might be on to something with that concave back thing.
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Post by jack1982 on Jan 1, 2020 7:58:22 GMT -6
I've never played an Ovation, though they certainly have some gorgeous tops.
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Post by wannaplayblues on Jan 5, 2020 14:52:23 GMT -6
Well - my intention is to write down my key focus desires for this year on guitar. I think I have too many fingers in too many different pies and what I need is a good deep slice of one-or-two. Yep... I'm in an analogy-type mood today
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