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Get in a room with a piano in it, press its sustain pedal and start playing your instrument. Echoes all over the place.
That's why Nyckelharpas and Hardingfeles have these additional strings - bring...

Sounds good, Jairo, even though I don't have a Victor needle ;) It has that innocent American early wartime feeling, and the arrangement probably does a more appropriate job than a full orchestra...

Prescription: playing real music yourself. What makes me uncomfortable about these songs is the unbearable urge to remember where I've heard them before. Apart from that, it all sounds boringly...

My nightmare of sitting at the wheel and having it wrestled from my hands by AI became true in a rented VW Golf with so-called "lane assist". The thing tried to steer me into oncoming traffic on a...

So much is mimicked in music (ask Rob Paravonian) that AI can hardly add any more of mimicking. The danger of AI lies in the ease of deep-faking and the loss of recording credibility. It may, OTOH,...

- with earphones to silently practise
- with sunglasses to do the ZZ Top thing matching my beard
- combination of both outdoors

I would add that (at least for me) getting derailed by one mistake can be caused by being nervous while playing in a group setting. Recently, I've been trying to get out and jam more but the first...

Getting derailed by one mistake is a sign of not really having the tune down. Derailment can happen to anybody at any time, so it's essential to be able to hop back on with missing no more than a...

Happy accidents happen :))

I'm just not trying to play all the notes, and in a way, fiddlers do the same.

Left hand speed can be the higher the less force is neccessary, and fiddlers have considerably less force to apply,...

That G buzz gives it exactly the tube-amp compression Led Zeppelin would have aimed for :cool: and you're not alone with this..

I have noticed two things:
#1 - when practising stubbornly on the same faulty phrase, the brain can learn how to do it wrong and stick to it.
#2 - when learning a new tune, the brain overwrites...

I tend to move around difficult tunes by practising other, easier tunes in between. This gives me a chance to slowly ooze into the castle of challenge by using back doors I found on the easy detours...

I have rheumatoid arthritis and going fine on MTX, but the pain is caused by an inflammation which must be adressed separately, in my case by injection of corticoid meds directly into the affected...

Yes. Longscale, that is, aka "plectrum guitar", but tuned GDAE.

Just in case you're hungry...

https://youtu.be/OmSFNptUi24?si=G1trnJAaUT0lVbJX

An older one of mine

https://youtu.be/P1D1KfJSwEo?si=cjbYkoXFXqQzxvMe

On Earth Peace.
Now that may be more than Santa can provide from his factory on that ever-dwindling polar ice shield...

in our sessions, we extend the last chorus with
...and whiskey on a Monday,
and whiskey on a Tuesday,
...
...
and whiskey on a Sunday.

A somewhat labyrinthine reel set with a faint hint at Christmas.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT8coLcSxx8

Those wooden dancers very much remind me of the song "Whiskey on a Sunday" - I have never seen anything like them before.

Man, Dagger, what breakfast was that? :disbelief:
I'll have what he's having.

Kate Thompson has the explanation - good read and telling you where all those things go. Tír na nÓg is littered with socks and (I assume) picks.

Hot town, summer in the city, what better to do than to celebrate the advent of hornets (and thus the demise of wasps) with a beer...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VODBJJwWJg

the first one where I use a midi controller keyboard to emulate non-GBOMs but pretend to play the real thing...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0QO-stKtms