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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 1, 2018 - 07:37pm PT
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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
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I hit things.
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mooch
Trad climber
Tribal Base Camp (Riverkern Annex)
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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
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hey there say, originalpmac... this is fun! thanks for sharing... thanks everyone, too!!
hope more folks add in, :)
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 2, 2018 - 09:13am PT
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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
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 2, 2018 - 10:51am PT
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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
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 2, 2018 - 11:00am PT
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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.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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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.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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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.
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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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.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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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.....
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seano
Mountain climber
none
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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
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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.
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seano
Mountain climber
none
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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.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 17, 2018 - 10:59pm PT
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hey there say... originalpmac...
i really loved hearing that music from you dad, there...
nice shares, everyone...
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 17, 2018 - 11:03pm PT
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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
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Feb 18, 2018 - 05:07am PT
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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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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 18, 2018 - 10:03am PT
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hey there, say, skip... wow!! i remembered how you shared about your
piano-- on that you had to sell... one similar to mine...
but-- never knew of all your orchestra level!!! wow...
say, and that is so true... the hours of practice...
when i used to play, and was more fluent, well:
i was not a mom... and has hours on hand, every day...
later in life, one has to 'grab hours on the run' or:
we are missing a huge part of life, outside of our
practice times...
friends, family and loved ones, and-- the great-out-doors
beg for attention, >:D<
say, you can be like that 'fiddler on roof' picture (on the movie box)
and after a climb, sit on the rock and play the clarinet:
and, entice new folks to the rocks, to learn to climb, ;)
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Topic Author's Reply - May 4, 2018 - 10:13pm PT
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Just revisited this thread. Thanks, neebee! You're too kind.
Here is another from my old man. He is playing a Huss and Dalton. Sitka spruce top, Koa body and neck. Sweet guitar.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, originalpmac... wow! thanks, i just got to hear it!
very nice quitar... the kind that is so good to hear on the porch, in the evenings...
thanks for sharing... :)
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Problem was- I never had any real natural talent and to kwith eep up the skills required 3-5 hours of practice every day.
Don't sell yourself short on talent because you had to spend some time practicing, and inventing, to be good. Any musician who is serious about classical music spends hours every day with their instrument, not including their performance commitments.
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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I was actually a keyboard player in all of the bands I was in. I'm kind of a banger on the guitar, but most lead players like playing with me. This is me at a local open mike a few years ago with a friend (for some reason she wanted to be in the shadow).
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Topic Author's Reply - May 5, 2018 - 10:23am PT
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^^^^ GREAT song. My dad taught me that years ago.
Hey, T Hocking, I will bring a guitar if I can make it to the memorial.
Cheers!
Pierce Adams
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 24, 2018 - 09:35pm PT
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Here is a new song I just wrote the other day. It mentions beer, trucks, trains and women. Only thing it's is prison and and my momma!
Rough version.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jun 24, 2018 - 10:13pm PT
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hey there say, originalpmac... neat ... neat song, thank you for sharing...
(just, please, don't over-drink all that beer, to make the song true to life)...
:)
i could play my spoons, very nice to that song...
and, folks could dance nice to it too-- the mark of a good snazzy
song...
keep it up...
:)
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Matt Sarad
climber
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Jun 25, 2018 - 08:21am PT
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The main reason I gave up regular climbing? If messes up my fingers. I play in two bands, one is all blues, the other Dead, Hot Tuna, Haggard, Cooder, surf music. I practice mandolin and acoustic guitar for fiddle tunes, Bluegrass, fingerstyle, Jazz daily.
The last time I went climbing my fingers were sore and crippled for a week. I barely climbed 5.9 and the 10a sport Route was beyond me.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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My son is a pretty good piano player, and did a year playing sax in marching band (after a year or two of clarinet), then switched to bass drum in marching band, and this year trying the quads. He also plays sax in a woodwind ensemble and a drum kit in a jazz band and did a bunch of performances last year. He learned some guitar from me but his fingers were a bit too sensitive for guitar strings. So he wanted to learn sitar... this was a few minutes after I suggested this song on the first day we played together (his first weekend with the sitar). Just a few minutes ago.
Not quite pro-level ;)
but not too shabby for first day or so!
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#proudparent
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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I don't really play too much anymore, but I primarily play acoustic rhythm guitar, 6 and 12 string. Muck around a bit on the cajon and bodhran. Mostly 70s rock and some modern alternative.
Started off playing brass in school, trumpet and treble baritone. Enjoy playing drums, but we live in a condo so that is out until we get a house again :)
We usually have a pretty solid jam session during Facelift, "Timid Toprope and the Aiders" (Andy and assorted Taconians) keep folks entertained. We have a lot of talented musicians in our tribe.
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john hansen
climber
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Sep 16, 2018 - 11:05pm PT
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How can you post a M3P here? Seems you can only post a photo or video.
I have a few songs I would like to share.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Sep 17, 2018 - 01:53am PT
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Make the mp3 into a video (with a static image background at least) and share on Youtube, then link in here.
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skywalker1
Trad climber
co
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Sep 17, 2018 - 02:05am PT
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Man I tried to play drums but never got past the snare.
So I tried the Sax and wanted to be able to this...
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I couldn't get past more than the basics. But I gained a healthy understanding of what it takes. Kinda like climbing techniques sorta.
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