On the Beat - Episode 142 - Weekly Guitar video news wrap up November 23rd, 2012

tgjameela
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Fri Nov 23, 2012 5:21 pm

Hi Everyone,

The Weekly Wrap Up is ready!

Enjoy!

http://www.totallyguitars.com/blog/tota ... -2012.html



The big news this week, for me at least, was welcoming some new Target
members into the part of Community who have uploaded videos for
review. I got a chance to look at Robert’s version of Sister Golden
Hair, Terry’s take on Always On My Mind, John’s smooth version of
Linus & Lucy, and our long time member Jay’s rendition of Here Comes
The Sun. I certainly appreciate the feedback from everybody on how
helpful these reviews can be. I feel the same way about our Fly On The
Wall videos and hope to get back to some of those next week.

Along with the reviews, we added a very comprehensive lesson on If I
Were A Carpenter to the Target Library. The lesson looked at at least
three different versions including a Campfire one, Tim Hardin’s
original, and Robert Plant’s arrangement from the early 1990s.

After a few comments in the Forum I thought I would elaborate a bit on
a few topics and this made me break out a few of the books that were a
big part of my musical development as a youngster. Today’s props
included early Mel Bay books, a groundbreaking James Taylor book, and
a little more exploration and explanation of the World’s Favorite
Solos For Classic Guitar.

This then led me into a bit of a discussion about generally working on
particularly hard techniques and a couple of examples where I had to
really hit the grindstone to get the effect and result that was
required. Songs of mine that presented this type of problem included
Cobble Creek and Highway Robbery.

…back to family, friends and leftovers now…

Neil


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Fri Nov 23, 2012 5:56 pm

Well that are great promises Neil,,maybe I can start to try to copy you a bit,, :laugh: B) ''when I'm 64'' I think its worth teaching us (me)..

Hope they left you something to eat!!


very nice weekend

Willem


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Fri Nov 23, 2012 6:00 pm

Looking forward to the 'easy' classical pieces. They'll be popular I'm sure.

Now just waiting for Willem to go into paroxysms as Neil has played When I'm 64..


Edit:
Hah! He beat me to it!


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Fri Nov 23, 2012 11:08 pm

Neil

Thanks for rounding off the week in you usual interesting manner.

Easy Classical Music lessons.... that will be interesting for sure.

I purchased Worlds Favourite Solos For Classic Guitar last week after the news and it arrived yesterday.
Thanks for playing some of the solos. I recognised some of what you played (thanks) but wouldn't have known them by name.
It looks quite complicated for sight reading for mortal me but I'll give it a try :)

Thanks for expressing your view of difficult chord fingerings.

Have a great Weekend

Dermot


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Sat Nov 24, 2012 4:56 am

Excellent weekly wrap-up Neil,

I've yet to start working on tremelo, the piece "Recuerdos de la Alhambra" you began to play
is so beautiful. It would be an awesome addition to your classical lessons collection.


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Sat Nov 24, 2012 6:45 am

dtaylor wrote:
Looking forward to the 'easy' classical pieces. They'll be popular I'm sure.

Now just waiting for Willem to go into paroxysms as Neil has played When I'm 64..


Edit:
Hah! He beat me to it!

Hi Dean,,,When he played it I directly recognice it,,but goin into paroxysm was more on the tremelo he played,,,It looks like a awesome skill to learn,,

Willem


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Sat Nov 24, 2012 1:45 pm

What a great, great, great weekend wrap-up!!! Sorry for the enthusiasm but Neil, you really touched on several topics that are near and dear to me. I started playing a few years before you, about 1961 or 1962. My education was much less formal, consisting of a chord book and garage bands. About 1966 or 67, I moved into acoustic music, retiring the amp and electric for 6 string dreadnought.

That same James Taylor book opened new doors for me. In his playing, I heard things I wanted to be able to do. The book opened the door a crack or two... Now, more years later than I care to count, I can hardly contain my joy in going to Jamestaylor.com and watching him peel back a few more layers of those things that have still eluded me.

But more to the point of how you closed your wrap-up, I can say that over the many years and styles of playing I have tried to learn, that each new chord formation or rhythmic variation has presented itself as an obstacle. That seems to be one of the first constants of playing music. But the second constant is what I heard in your words. The more you learn, the broader your experience, the greater your ability to play the music you hear in your head and heart will be. Those alternate G chord fingerings opened up new worlds for me. And yes, I am still struggling to practice partial bars with my third finger. But I am going to get them down eventually. And those deceptively simple chord progressions that Taylor shows are slowly, slowly falling under my fingers.

Mel Hughes
Sparta, TN


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Sat Nov 24, 2012 4:14 pm

Hi Neil ... so, it looks like you write your own intros (shoulda known) ... I'll definitely read them end-to-end from now on.

A very fun weekly news video :)

Pierre


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Sat Nov 24, 2012 4:31 pm

Thanks for getting into some things Neil, always very interesting to hear your take on stuff!

Also you inspired me to pull my own classical guitar book out of the closet (which is I think quite similar as the one that you showed). I was brought up with playing the classical guitar/way and I do very much like to play it. Adds a whole bunch to right technique and such. So eventually this day was filled with classical playing, which was very nice!! So thanks for the inspiration!! :) :)

Ness


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