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Post by jack1982 on Mar 31, 2024 7:49:34 GMT -6
Happy Easter everybody! Well here's a preliminary recording I made of "Going to California." I thought it had lots of problems but Griff said it was A-OK That was a surprise. I'm still working on this, trying to get it smoothed out and then there's that pesky mandolin part. I've got that maybe two-thirds memorized; hopefully with another month of practice everything will come together. Hope you guys are all doing well
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Post by bluesbruce on Mar 31, 2024 8:44:57 GMT -6
Wow, Jack, I thought that sounded fantastic! Very nicely played. I remain on "injury reserve", but can appreciate that my wrist and base of thumb are clearly improved. We're going to Europe the last two weeks of April, so I think I'll continue to lay off of playing any more until we come back from that. Maybe by then all this tendonitis and arthritis will be a thing of the past! I'm going to restart very conservatively - probably set a timer for 5 minutes or something like that. Maybe the layoff will serve to re-motivate me some.
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Post by cunningr on Mar 31, 2024 15:24:14 GMT -6
Jack excellent playing! I have been busy, but last weekend had show 2 went well took my Blues Jr tone was excellent first time been able to actually use it live. Only issue was I was really loud in the mix, dont know why we have a sound tech if he isnt going to help get our levels sorted. So we are starting on a new set list for june. I did have a panic attack end of song 1 and part of song 2 visually could see my hands shacking.
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Post by jack1982 on Mar 31, 2024 19:38:00 GMT -6
Thanks so much you guys! Bruce, good to hear you're at least a little bit better. Sometimes I wonder about arthritis - my hands definitely don't feel like they did when they were 18 years old Rich, glad your show went well! And you sound like you're about as comfortable in front of an audience as I am lol!
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Post by wannaplayblues on Apr 1, 2024 2:51:41 GMT -6
Happy Easter Everyone!!! Jack - outstanding playing, and also thanks for starting the thread, I was busy celebrating Easter with friends and family Had a good week. Lots of practice and am on the verge of recording BGIB - I Got The Blues. Hope to do that today (Monday) Also this week I had a go at lowering the action on one of my guitars - think it went well. I bought feeler gauges and a guitar "kit" from Amazon as well as an old second-hand book on maintaining your guitar. Hope to do more of it in future. Played around with my recording setup and think the result is a bit better. Changed my pedal arrangement for better gain-staging and i think this, too, is an improvement ... now I just need to prove it with better playing All-in-all a good fun week!
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