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by jimcjimc
Sun Jan 24, 2010 12:27 pm
Forum: Gear Heads Corner
Topic: Izzy's Sunday Morning Ramblings
Replies: 24
Views: 4976

Re:Izzy's Sunday Morning Ramblings

<t>I sympathize on the stringing topic. After I had my guitar about 3 months (and it never sounded right) I convinced myself the problem with the guitar sound was that the strings were old (not of course, it just sounded crappy due to my playing). <br/> <br/> I took the guitar into the shop - the gu...
by jimcjimc
Sat Jan 23, 2010 2:44 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers w/ Neil
Topic: Singing and playing
Replies: 14
Views: 3200

Re:Singing and playing

<t>I haven't tried this personally, but I have heard the following works:<br/> <br/> 1) Make an audio recording of yourself playing the song on guitar<br/> 2) Record your singing over the guitar recording <br/> 3) Listen to yourself (repeatedly) on the tape of you playing & singing<br/> <br/> yo...
by jimcjimc
Sat Jan 23, 2010 11:42 am
Forum: Life Outside of Music
Topic: Happy Birthday Neil
Replies: 53
Views: 13954

Re:Happy Birthday Neil

Happy Birthday!
by jimcjimc
Sun Jan 03, 2010 6:12 pm
Forum: Life Outside of Music
Topic: Metronome, any suggestions?
Replies: 14
Views: 3260

Re:Metronome, any suggestions?

Here is a cheap one (free), but with minimal features, you get what you pay for....

http://www.metronomeonline.com/
by jimcjimc
Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:44 pm
Forum: Gear Heads Corner
Topic: Another Collaboration
Replies: 11
Views: 2560

Re:Another Collaboration

Have you seen the Playing for Change collaboration on Stand by Me

by jimcjimc
Sat Dec 26, 2009 8:08 pm
Forum: Life Outside of Music
Topic: >>>"The Official" thread on guitar playing in movies..
Replies: 27
Views: 5333

Re:>>>"The Official" thread on guitar playing in movies..

I liked the previous one as I used to watch that show, but here is a Bob Dylan song - and pretty easy to play on the guitar

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by jimcjimc
Sat Dec 26, 2009 4:31 pm
Forum: Please Introduce Yourself Here
Topic: CA Bay Area new member
Replies: 25
Views: 5832

Re:CA Bay Area new member

<t>Thanks to all of the warm welcomes! I know I have a tendency to be more of a lurker than an active participant in these kinds of things, but we'll see...<br/> <br/> I do want to say that I feel comfortable with my decision to play right-handed and expect to keep playing and progressing that way. ...
by jimcjimc
Fri Dec 25, 2009 12:29 am
Forum: Please Introduce Yourself Here
Topic: CA Bay Area new member
Replies: 25
Views: 5832

Re:CA Bay Area new member ( on being left handed)

<r>Goldleaf asked:<br/> <I><s>[i]</s>Why, if you are left handed are you trying to learn to play right handed? I can't imagine the degree of difficulty it would add for me to play with my non dominant hand. Just curious.<e>[/i]</e></I><br/> <br/> I definitely am a left-handed person. I write and thr...
by jimcjimc
Thu Dec 24, 2009 2:48 pm
Forum: Please Introduce Yourself Here
Topic: CA Bay Area new member
Replies: 25
Views: 5832

CA Bay Area new member

<r>I'm 56 years old and started learning the guitar 2 years ago.<br/> <br/> I attended "Learning to Play" and several more guitar workshops of Carol McComb at Gryphon Stringed Instruments in Palo Alto - I live in Cupertino, near San Jose, CA.<br/> <br/> I have a Taylor 114 acoustic guitar. At Carol'...
by jimcjimc
Tue May 12, 2009 4:12 pm
Forum: Off The Beaten Path
Topic: Downloading Lessons
Replies: 19
Views: 6189

Re:Downloading Lessons

<t>Hi Everyone,<br/> <br/> Please do not download the content from the site. We want you to enjoy it and are looking at different ways in the near future to deliver the content to you. By future I don't mean in a year but can't say exactly when. <br/> <br/> So stay tuned but for now please respect o...