fascinating. cut up credit cards make good picks, too. They come
in a variety of thicknesses/
On the paint, I never got around to playing with the rattle can
color changing paint. Seems like an appropriate app for it.
cute baby! Happy looking couple.
Mary
After a coupla false starts with strings, I
finally got a set of Hawaiian steel stings for "open E" tuning,
along with a (harder to find than hens' teeth) tuning chard for
that tuning scheme. I put 'em on tonite and after a little
learning curve in gettin the string tension right (a hell of a
lot tighter than bass strings, that's for sure) I was able to
get the thing set the way it's supposed to be.
Rick, yer gonna love this. Jim, I dunno if you've messed with
these critters before, but they'se a totally different animal.
Anyway tuning is (from low to high): E - B - E - G# - B - E.
Don't ask me. I jsut report 'em, I don't 'splain 'em. But I
was able to find several ways of picking triplets and I found
that I prefer using my fingers rather than finger picks...so
far. Don't ask me next week.
I was also able to play rhythm guitar part on several blues
songs in E and a couple in A by transposing up 5 frets. I
didn't say that I played 'em well, but it's the best I've done
since I got the thing 4 weeks ago
Now I need to see about painting/getting it painted and striped.
Kandy tangerine metalflake or Kandy emerald green flake. I may
try it with rattle cans...or I may see if I can find someone
locally who wants to trade some photo work or bass lessons or
something.
Now it's time to play with my organ before bed. I've found a
practice regimen that's working for me for the moment. If my
damned legs would quit tryin to head for parts unknown, I'd enjoy
it more. "A night without RLS is like a day without attacks from
demon spawn." And they've taken the only effective medicine (for
me) off the damned market (Darvocet.) I gotta confer with the
witch doctor.
Ohh..yesterday was granddaughter Josie's 1st BD party. She held
up better than the adults:
And I finally got a nice smile shot from my eldest son's wife (a
beautiful, but shy woman)
It was a good day.
r
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