Now there goes a sweet instrument (no pun intended) that I've always like, the
flute and all its variation...
Shannon, have you recorded yourself playing the flute?
Regards, DJX
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Shannon Williams
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Hi J and list,
Could you also send these lessons or archives to me? I'd love to try a new
instrument. My brother plays guitar as well so maybe he could benefit from
these lessons as well. I know basic piano and can also play the flute.
Thanks,
Shannon
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Hey Jay and Chris, might any of you guys have anything recorded for beginners?
I've been contemplating picking up the instrument again, and now I just may
have the time lol. I'm mainly a keyboard player but also play Ukulele among
other things (mainly percussion). I tried getting into the guitar some years
back, but the guitar someone gave me absolutely sucked, and the tapes from Bill
Brown I was using just weren't cutting it, so that was that...
I'm thinking of getting an acoustic for learning the chords and rhythms and
such, but then add the electric. I'm looking to purchase the recent Yamaha
APX600, as I hear it's good for electric and acoustic players, since the
strings aren't so high and the neck is not as wide as most acoustics.
I'm thinking I'll teach myself a few country/western chord progressions and
styles, then write a song about toilet paper (or lack thereof), publish on
iTunes and get my break lol!
But seriously, just saw your post earlier and figured that may be a good start,
since we are all practicing social distancing, or are suppose to, many of us
stuck at home, what a better time to learn write a compose!
Regards, DJX
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Hey Folks,
First, I teach guitar at Palen Music store here in Columbia Missouri. Due to
the whole corona ordeal, we aren't doing lessons at the store for a while, so
all of us teachers are having to do lessons online, or temporarily suspend
student accounts until this thing calms down, which means we lose money.
I have all these audio guitar lessons that I got from a third party about 15
years ago. The company that produced them mostly doesn't do anything now but
video. In fact, all these lessons I have on CD and downloaded to my hard drive
aren't even being sold anymore, they are not even supported by that third party
company at all.
The cool thing is that I can send the MP3 files to my students, and each MP3
has an accompanying PDF that goes with them.
I have hundreds of these things, A different library for blues, rock, jazz,
country, and acoustic finger style, slide lessons, the works! Everything
from Joe Pass to Jimi Hendrix to Merle Travis!
The PDF files help with my teaching in that I can provide visual material to my
students.
I'm not selling these things, not at all, but I would be happy to share them
with any of you that are interested.
Second, when Bill mentioned the amazing slowdowner ap, it made me think of
Transcribe. Are any of you familiar with Transcribe? For those that don't
know what it is, Transcribe is a product that runs on your computer and allows
you to pull in MP3 and wav files and slow them down in playback so you can
learn the music. It is amazing! I can mark a section, even if its only one
note I want to isolate, and then loop it over and over at extremely slow speeds
without pitch change.
And to date, I have never found Transcribe to have any accessibility problems,
it is wonderful! It does more than what I've described though.
So, what I can do is take any of these MP3 lesson files, and load them into
Transcribe, and slow them down and learn licks exactly as performed.
I don't think Transcribe will allow Apple formats, but with Sonar, I can just
record a song direct off my iPhone, then save it as an MP3 and then import it
into Transcribe.
I don't know how much Transcribe costs now days, but I think I paid around 40
bucks or so about 6 years ago.
Let me know if any of you are interested in the guitar lesson files, no charge.
Living love, loving life,
Jay Pilkington
