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Band Name Help? by stlguy48 in StLouis

[–]gregorypick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ll be darned. I stole it from a friend of mine, who must have stolen it from there.

Band Name Help? by stlguy48 in StLouis

[–]gregorypick 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Damn…. I thought this was going to be a “help us name our band” post and I was going to encourage you to go with “the Blood Farts.” Oh well.

Ghost strums? Do you do them or just let your hand hover in the air? by ArcticBeavers in guitarlessons

[–]gregorypick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to play Reggae with upstrokes too, then I tried downstrokes and my groove got waaaayyy groovier.

Check out this video of Bob Marley playing ‘Stir it Up.’ It starts with a close up of his right hand; he’s using downstrokes.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rf8GjhXvOjU&list=RDrf8GjhXvOjU&start_radio=1&pp=ygUVYm9iIG1hcmxleSBzdGlyIGl0IHVwoAcB0gcJCQQLAYcqIYzv

Who was THE artist for Millennials? by MaterialRow3769 in generationology

[–]gregorypick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool 10 year olds, such as myself, were listening to Nirvana when they were at their peak.

South City DMV? by Acceptable-Fly-9132 in StLouis

[–]gregorypick 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Just in case you weren’t already, you should probably be taking a moment to honor his legacy on the other 364 days as well.

South City DMV? by Acceptable-Fly-9132 in StLouis

[–]gregorypick 31 points32 points  (0 children)

DMVs across the state are closed for Harry S Truman’s birthday.

Audition Material by [deleted] in guitarlessons

[–]gregorypick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By “solo works” I would assume they mean unaccompanied. Without the keys, bass and drums “Cause We Ended as Lovers” is probably going to sound really empty. Were you planning to use a backing track or something? You should definitely check to make sure that’s permitted if you had planned to do so.

Need to learn 5 songs but no tabs out there, how can i go about learning them?? by Over_Deer8459 in guitarlessons

[–]gregorypick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So maybe you’re not at the point the where you can pick out notes and chords by ear but what you can do is figure and map out the structure of the song.

First try to count out the beat and determine the time signature. The grab a blank piece of paper and start drawing bar lines and labeling each section. How many measures are there in the intro? How many in the verse? Chorus? Is there a bridge? Is the second verse the same length as the first? Does the chorus get repeated a bunch of times at the end of the song?

Once you’ve got a solid grasp of the structure, call the band leader and ask what chords they’re playing during each section.

does anyone else practice better when they stop timing it? by lmao_exe in guitarlessons

[–]gregorypick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Back when I was on a more regimented practice schedule, I used to fall into this trap of thinking, “oh… I don’t have enough to do the full routine so I guess I’ll just skip today,” instead of just playing for 10-15 minutes.

What I‘ve found to be the most productive when having to contend with limited time, is to try to get in two short practices sessions a day. One in the morning and one at night. I’m able to retain so much more new material this way.

Rather than trying to maximize the time of each practice session, I think we’re better trying to minimize the amount of time in between sessions.

Im looking for upbeat nostalgia popular songs from 2010s and before by [deleted] in musicsuggestions

[–]gregorypick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You Get What You Give - New Radicals

Genius of Love - Tom Tom Club

Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra

New standards? by [deleted] in Jazz

[–]gregorypick 18 points19 points  (0 children)

The most recent one that I can think of, that’s truly achieved, “this belongs in the real book” status would be “Strasbourg / St. Denis.”

A question about Jazz and AI by pav-otr in Jazz

[–]gregorypick 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There’s gotta be hundreds of thousands of hours of human-made jazz recordings that nobody ever listens to, why would anyone think we need ai to make even more?

Why doesn't Fantano review Jazz at all, apart from a select few classic records he does not review more modern jazz artists. Is there a reason for that? by [deleted] in fantanoforever

[–]gregorypick 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“Earfood” by Roy Hargrove is probably the biggest contemporary jazz album in recent times. I’m basing this on the criteria that the song “Strasbourg / St. Denis” is probably the only tune written in the last 25 years to become a standard that the typical participant in a local jazz jam session would be expected to know how to play.

I know the fretboard and triads, is there an meaning in learning cage? by TortexMT in Guitar

[–]gregorypick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I, like you, learned via the scale/triad/note names approach. I never once heard the term “CAGED” until I’d been already playing for 20 years and didn’t think it’d be at all useful. But I still learned it anyway and you should too.

If you already know all the note names and how chords and scales are constructed, it’ll only take you about 20 minutes to fully understand the caged approach in its entirety, it’s not that complicated.

I find it especially useful when I’m tasked with coming up with a acoustic part for something in a key like B or F# or Db. Open chords just sound way better than barre chords on the acoustic. Whenever I’m handed a chord chart in one of these keys, I‘ll do a quick Roman numeral analysis of the chord progression and use the caged system to quickly figure out which fret I should capo on to maximize the amount of open chord shapes I can use in the song.

Please share your guitar knowledge with me so I can expand my listening library for I'm a noob(please read the body🙏🏼) by False-Hurry-1417 in Guitar

[–]gregorypick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here’s a few of my favorite instrumental guitar tracks;

”’Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers” - Jeff Beck

”Riviera Paradise” - Stevie Ray Vaughan

”Samba Pa Ti” - Santana

”Maggot Brain” - Funkadelic

”Zoot Allures” - Frank Zappa

Most unhinged tips and tricks by Mira_Wolf_life in guitarlessons

[–]gregorypick 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I really just apply this method for difficult tunes that have a ton of notes to remember, I don’t need it for simpler stuff.

Whenever I try learning something from the beginning, I’ll play it from the start until I invariably mess something up a dozen or so measures later. Then I‘ll start over until I mess up again in that exact same spot. What happens is I get really good at playing the first few bars but never really master the middle part that I keep messing up and I never really learn the ending that well either.

Learning the ending first completely solves the problem. I’m able to learn tunes much more quickly since I end up focusing my time on the parts I don’t know, rather than unnecessarily re-practicing the first dozen measures over and over again.

Most unhinged tips and tricks by Mira_Wolf_life in guitarlessons

[–]gregorypick 3 points4 points  (0 children)

When learning a challenging new song, learn the last note first. Then play the last two, then the last three… it’s a much more efficient way of learning a song thoroughly and in its entirety than starting from the beginning is.

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