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| bio | website | varlogrant.blogspot.com |
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| location | Indiana | |
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| visits | member for | 2 years |
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Nov 6 |
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What is a good solo to learn in the major scale? I think it depends on the instrument. For guitar (which I play), yeah, it's scale patterns, and as long as you can say "This note is A, this scale pattern is a harmonic minor scale, that's where the anchor should be, so this flurry of notes is in A harmonic minor." But that scale pattern (except in the most abstract sense) is useless with the piano, and I'm sure it's all out the window with horns. |
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Nov 1 |
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How can I evaluate the quality and value of a violin? corrected spelling |
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Oct 31 |
answered | Which online resources can I use to learn how to play the harmonica? |
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Oct 30 |
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How can I evaluate the quality and value of a violin? Ahh. 233 named Strad violins. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stradivarius_instruments |
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Oct 30 |
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How can I evaluate the quality and value of a violin? added 18 characters in body |
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Oct 30 |
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How can I evaluate the quality and value of a violin? I am talking volume. There are something like 150 known Stradavari violins, and the shop had been closed for centuries. |
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Oct 30 |
answered | How can I evaluate the quality and value of a violin? |
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Oct 26 |
answered | Silent, extremely portable instrument to learn music |
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Oct 18 |
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Are there any (experimental) guitar strings whose cross-section is not a circle? But flat-wound is about the winding wire, not the core wire. This (stringsandbeyond.com/hex-core-vs-round-core.html) says that many strings are hex-core. I can't really comment more. |
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Oct 18 |
answered | Useful tuning for 7 or 8 string guitars |
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Oct 17 |
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Guitar Action for practicing and learning @Tony, I'm 90% with you. Buzz is the sound of strings vibrating against frets, and you can get fairly low action without getting near that problem. High action beyond that point is either someone wanting to play a dobro without the high nut or someone not caring about the instrument. But, while you carve divots into your fingertips pushing down all that way, at least there won't be any buzz. That's the only possible benefit of the too-high action you often see on intro-level guitars. |
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Oct 17 |
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Guitar Action for practicing and learning I agree with your "depends" point, but I think high action is easier in the top five frets, where the strings get closer to the fretboard because you're near the nut, so thick-string high-action dreadnoughts are the standard heavy-strumming bluegrass style. Or, am I restating your point while thinking I disagree? |
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Oct 16 |
answered | Guitar Action for practicing and learning |
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Oct 15 |
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On the guitar, if I play a song which is in the key of D, where should I put the capo? In this case, yes, capo on 2nd fret. But while it is true that you can play in all keys without the capo, you may want to have the right open strings ringing, which is what the capo is there for. |
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Oct 10 |
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My high E string broke after one week of replacing my guitar strings. Could that be an installation issue? One broken string is not a pattern. Once you have to replace it a few times, should that happen, you'll get a sense of what the issues are. |
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Oct 9 |
answered | How do I get pinch harmonics during solos? |
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Oct 8 |
answered | Scruggs Banjo Tuners - are they necessary? |
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Oct 2 |
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Restringing a 12-string guitar with heavier strings - is it possible? Talk to local shops and ask about getting a nut cut. I did that for a low-end Tele copy and it was less than I thought. |
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Oct 2 |
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Restringing a 12-string guitar with heavier strings - is it possible? An issue with the old 12-strings was that the bracing wasn't up to par, and the tuning down was for the instrument's continued survival, not the artistic choice of the player. (Not that Leadbelly didn't make it work, of course.) |
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Sep 27 |
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What are the Five Most Important Things to Learn? edited body |
