Stuck at home with the toilet paper blues!
-- R
-- Rich
On 3/23/2020 10:02 PM, DJ X wrote:
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…PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE!
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
