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originalpmac

Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 1, 2018 - 07:37pm PT
And not just bluegrass, though that is a great thread. I love playing music. Some of the best times in my life are those moments when you're in the pocket. It happens climbing, happens in music, hell it even happens in playing pool. Those moments where everything just lines up and things happen without effort.

Those are The Times to live for those times when time just ceases to be and you're purely in the moment.

Here's one of my originals from a few years back, I call it "Tamara's Tune"

Share yours if you feel

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matty

Trad climber
under the sea
Feb 1, 2018 - 08:36pm PT
I hit things.
NutAgain!

Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
Feb 1, 2018 - 11:57pm PT
I’m pretty sure I shared this at some point, can’t remember when:

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mooch

Trad climber
Tribal Base Camp (Riverkern Annex)
Feb 2, 2018 - 08:24am PT
Does a paper comb count?


Nice, Nut! Love me sum Blind Faith. A slightly darker version of it by Swans.

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neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Feb 2, 2018 - 08:27am PT
hey there say, originalpmac... this is fun! thanks for sharing... thanks everyone, too!!

hope more folks add in, :)
Rexi

climber
Feb 2, 2018 - 08:36am PT
Fun thread! Great seeing the stuff you guys are playing. I´m a guitarist and here are shots from a couple of fun gigs in 2017
Some original music as well https://open.spotify.com/track/1LU8gJ9X1NcMfy9XKYdDnk
originalpmac

Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 2, 2018 - 09:13am PT
Nice pickin Nutagain. Love that song.

This is my old man. Pretty sure I've shared this on the bluegrass thread. Playing a 1910 Larson.

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originalpmac

Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 2, 2018 - 10:51am PT
I wrote this for my lifelong friend T.M. shortly after he died from an overdose. He was a good man and a good friend. Cheers y'all.

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originalpmac

Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 2, 2018 - 11:00am PT
Wow, Timid, GREAT voice you have there. Nice cover. Really really nice.

Edit to add: Sewelly that's a great picture. What kind of guitar is that? Looks like start obviously but the head stock is throwing me off.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Feb 2, 2018 - 03:13pm PT
My little solid top travel guitar. I think it sounds better than a baby taylor yes I do play some bluegrass but more neil young allman bros, dead, neil young, country, neil young, willie, Pink Floyd, folk. Etc I have just barely enough original material to play one set of my own stuff.
NutAgain!

Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
Feb 2, 2018 - 08:30pm PT
Great stuff all! We should have a supertopo musicfest :)

Here’s a link to some electric stuff, all of it from 5+ years ago.
  https://www.bandmix.com/6stringscott/

Somehow I didn’t get to recording anything good in the last long while,
but performed probably 60-80 different cover tunes.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Feb 2, 2018 - 08:33pm PT
cool stuff everyone. :)
Larry Nelson

Social climber
Feb 3, 2018 - 07:48am PT
Really good stuff guys.
Nut...I love the original tunes on your link.

I started pickin guitar when I was 18...but never got any good...sigh.
Taught myself a bunch of Leo Kottke finger picking stuff many years ago.
Now I just goof with friends doing arrangements on R&R or Blues covers.
Bought a Fender Jazz Bass last year so I could jam with friends in a Jazz band...always too many guitar players, never enough bass players.
Started watching CD's on music theory to refresh myself, and it's explained a lot of the mystery I found in jazz.

Thanks to all for the videos.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Feb 3, 2018 - 08:42am PT
wish I had recordings of my origionals but I don't. just some stuff buried in a cd from a Luau party with a highly intoxicated train wreck accompanying me.....
seano

Mountain climber
none
Feb 3, 2018 - 03:30pm PT
Some of the best times in my life are those moments when you're in the pocket. It happens climbing, happens in music, hell it even happens in playing pool.
I played classical guitar back in the day, which is possibly one of the least useful skills known to man. I was never more than mediocre, but I got to the point where I could struggle through the Bach lute suites. In some way, the flow of playing incredible music while on the ragged edge of failure felt like soloing, though of course the consequences were far less severe.

You'll never play this thing as well as John Williams, but struggling through it still feels great...
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NutAgain!

Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
Feb 3, 2018 - 04:22pm PT
Seano, that piece sounds cool and pretty hard to play. Parts with independent thumb/fingers and challenging chord positions and leaps to unexpected notes. Hearing that inspired me to revisit classical guitar. I used to listen to it a lot but I’ve been on classic rock and lounge music for a long time.

I played a bit of classical in college days, mostly Carcassi studies. I was very lucky to have Celine Romero in weekly 1:1 lessons, but I was immature and unfocused and squandered the opportunity. I still learned a lot but not nearly as much as I could have and I essentially quit (busy with other classes after changing my major) when I could have continued for another year.

seano

Mountain climber
none
Feb 3, 2018 - 05:03pm PT
Koshkin's Usher Waltz and Bach's lute suites were similarly difficult for me, but the former was written by a guitarist, while the latter were written for the lute, which isn't quite a guitar, and which Bach didn't even play. They're all incredibly hard pieces, which I could barely handle while practicing 1-2 hours per day, but contrapuntal music is especially tricky to perform on the guitar. Maybe someday I'll get back to it.
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Feb 17, 2018 - 10:59pm PT
hey there say... originalpmac...

i really loved hearing that music from you dad, there...

nice shares, everyone...
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Feb 17, 2018 - 11:03pm PT
hey there say, originalpmac...

just heard your piece, too, that you started the thread with ...
very nice!

am getting a fast share to put in here...
not original...

but, i will work on some enhanced thing, later...
this is just some fast, almost sloppy, share, just to
get one in, for fun:

(will put it up, here in a few minutes) ... :))


https://youtu.be/hMZVA3fM_uA


https://youtu.be/F_ZPKwE4J2M


https://youtu.be/kfkC9dN8z6o



NOW-- you have to understand:
this was 'spur of the moment' in the local thrift store...

there were ABSOLUTELY NO SPOONS! in the whole
thrift store, and-- i did not have mine with me...
so-- i used a SPATULA and a small soup ladle...
so, this is a 'bit rough' :))

and-- the lady playing that piano is ONE HUNDRED YEARS old!! that is
her husband, and he is about 87?


https://youtu.be/OVTS1bkcTJo


fast practice (to many days, skipped, in between)... very rough...
but wow-- someday, soon, i hope to REALLY get to practice each day,
and refine and memorize more of these... :)

and, you know what?

YOU FOLKS, YES!! YOU, do that too!!
make time!!!


https://youtu.be/5sBPdytipL0

justthemaid

climber
Jim Henson's Basement
Feb 18, 2018 - 05:07am PT
Little known Maidy facts- I was trained as a classical musician from the age of 5 starting as a pianst and at 10 I picked up clarinet. I was good enough at clarinet to get invited to join a couple of symphony orchestras in high school and was offered a music scholarship to CSUN.

Problem was- I never had any real natural talent and to keep up the skills required 3-5 hours of practice every day. I much preferred piano but would have been locked down with clarinet had I continued. I also had no desire to become a music teacher for a living and was kind of over all the time required for practice- so I quit for good and went into the art department.

I do miss being invoved with the orchestras creating music. I don't miss having to be disciplined enough to stay competant at it.
I stick to listening to other people play these days.

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