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Noodling with scales 2008-03-04 02:42:40 How many useful scales are there – or how many would be of interest to me? Modes are one set of scales that seem to get an inordinate amount of attention from fingerstyle guitar players (and others) these days. I guess it’s their folky and archaic sound world. Arabic and other eastern scales have [...]
Noodling with harmony 2008-02-28 09:37:42 The guitar seems to have a tonal centre around G major meaning the further you go to the dominant and sub-dominant sides from there, the tougher it becomes to play. (I’m talking acoustic fingerstyle guitar as distinct from, say Jazz, particularly played on electric.) There is a jump in difficulty when you reach B major [...]
Modal chords! 2008-02-25 02:43:05 Now this is a term that crops up quite often on internet forums and even printed publications. I’ve even seen tables constructed in Microsoft Excel correlating chords
to modes. Modes are cool and their use as a basis for melodies will provide exciting possibilities particularly if the desire is to evoke a “folky” or [...] Read more:Modal
Another shameless plug! 2008-02-14 13:54:00 I’ve just been told by a friend at Soundclick about a new widget I can use all over the place. It looks cool, seems to work, and I might just port it over to my main site, my MySpace page and a anywhere else I can plonk it without anybody noticing! I think the streamed [...]
Causing Offence With A Song 2008-02-08 05:32:44 I have thought about this quite a lot. In the UK last year (or the year before) there was a theatre play in that was closed due to a particular group of people being offended by the content and demonstrating outside the theatre where it was being staged in order to get the play closed [...]
Payplay.fm widget 2008-01-12 12:52:04 I’ve just discovered it at a place selling my songs:
Dave Keir
Isn’t that cool?
I’m waiting for the first $0.88 to roll in.
I’m still waiting… Read more:widget
A Pickup On My OM-18V… 2008-01-12 12:47:23 … was installed at the same time as the aforementioned nut job, above. So far, and after only a quick audition in the store, it is all I expected it to be: like an acoustic guitar with a pick-up on it.
Let me be clear: the sound of an acoustic guitar with a pick-up, of [...] Read more:Pickup
My OM-18V nut job… 2008-01-08 09:09:43 …is done.
Just to recap (and to save me the bother of including a hyperlink) I suspected the string slots in the nut of this guitar had been cut so that the bottom and top strings were uncomfortably near the edge of the fingerboard, especially at the first five frets, or so. I had convinced [...]
Have a merry… ah… 2007-12-24 05:52:18 You know what I mean. If Santa is your anticipated benefactor tomorrow, may he be as generous to you as I suspect he is going to be to me. He always does me proud.
Eat, drink, and be merry. And be safe.
(Original) Guitar Notation and Tabs 2008-03-18 09:25:14 I have had a fun weekend with my favourite notation program writing out the guitar parts for some songs. I have been meaning to get down to this for some time and I’ve been postponing it “until tomorrow” for weeks. But I’ve been afforded some kick-back time while recuperation from a rather savage attack of [...] Read more:Guitar
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Care and Feeding of Guitars! 2008-03-28 07:55:09 Guitar care is a preoccupation among many acoustic guitar players - at least amateur ones. A lot of pros seem to take satisfaction from treating their guitars with a certain amount of careless disdain. On the other hand, there is a section of the guitar buying public that, in truth, are more collectors of guitars [...] Read more:Feeding
, Guitars
Tonight a session! 2008-04-04 03:14:57 I’m going to pop along to Stonehaven Folk Club tonight to see some friends and play a few songs. Stonehaven is my favourite club hereabouts. Nice folks and some good singers and players.
The only down side of session
s is that they are like song circles where everybody gets to play one song in turn. My [...] Read more:Tonight
Books 2008-04-13 05:03:31 Whatcha reading right now?
I go through phases. I get pulled in opposite directions: I spend half my time feeling guilty because I’m not reading enough, and the other half of my time feeling guilty because my time would be better spent (for example) practicing guitar instead of wasting it reading. Tough old life.
When I’m [...] Read more:Books
Tomorrow’s gig… 2008-04-17 15:15:37 … is at The Rolling Hills Folk Club in Melrose in the Scottish borders.
See ya there!
The Zone 2008-04-22 09:46:29 A recent thread on an internet forum got me thinking. The original poster criticised guitar players who concentrated too much on technique and not enough about putting their heart into it. Good point. Perhaps it’s a lack of confidence in playing accurately that causes some players to become a bit mechanical in their execution of [...]
Free will? 2008-04-26 03:52:15 Of all the topics that philosophers ring their hands over, this is the one that interests me the most. That is to say, I’m fascinated by the question of the existence of “free will”. Don’t worry, I’m not about to expound the arguments for or against its existence - I would not presume the philosophical [...]
The nakedness of ambition 2008-05-07 14:20:59 Well it’s good to have aspirations and goals and seek to improve your lot. But I have to say I’m more than a little ambivalent about the world view held by the ambitious type - those who proclaim a singularity of purpose and clarity of vision that (they say) are prerequisites to success. I think [...]
Wherefrom the songs? 2008-05-25 02:49:57 Sometimes I’m asked at gigs and catches me off guard. It’s always a difficult question to answer succinctly to a stranger, and causes me to stutter and stammer incoherently. “I’ve always done it”, is as lame a reason as it is true.
But to me it’s all rather obvious since it’s an internal life that [...] Read more:songs
Uneasy Listening - Would you like to be kept informed? 2008-06-01 04:55:07 Hi folks!
The pre-production of my forthcoming CD Uneasy Listening
is nearing completion! But there is still some work to do. If you would like to be kept up to date with the progress and be pointed to a place where you can download free pre-mastered mixes of the songs as they progress, please complete the [...]
I’m selling a recording and mixing console! 2008-07-12 04:54:09 Yes it’s time to move on. I no longer need a 16:8:2 mixing console. This Allen & Heath desk has served me well and I’ve reciprocated by giving lots of tender and loving care.
You can see the item at:
Allen & Heath Mixing Console on Ebay
I’ll be sad to see [...] Read more:selling
Bliadhna nan Caorach 2008-10-11 09:42:20 Or: “The Year Of The Sheep”
“But [the Scottish] hills are empty. In all of Britain only among them can one find real solitude, and if their history is known there is no satisfaction to be got from the experience.”
(John Prebble. From the introduction to his “The Highland Clearances”, Penguin Books, 1963.)
“Since you have preferred sheep [...]
New song - Living Is Easy 2008-11-02 10:15:17 It’s played on my Martin OM-18V.
I have a class of song that use I as catharsis in response to certain challenges I face in life. I call this class of songs my Catharsis Song Class . The challenge met by this particular example is the vicious circle of insomnia caused by a bum [...] Read more:Living
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