#steel guitar strings

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

The Everly Brothers - All I Have To Do Is Dream

[rose-skunk]

It kinda sucks that my beautiful pink beast of a guitar will never be a good guitar for playing but the good thing is learning on this thing is like giving me a buff for future guitars I play. If I struggle this much with this one then everyone after it will be smooth sailing

[supercantaloupe]

SLEEPOVER SATURDAY. what instrument would you play if you hadn't learned oboe. i wish i learned bassoon as a kid, youth orchestra would've been a lot easier for me if i had. i'm also picking up electric bass again but that's not really that difficult because at the of the day strings are strings yknow

so at my middle school we were required to pick and instrument to play in band (or strings) when we entered 5th grade, so my actual backup options were french horn or percussion (and i chose percussion purely because it was a cheat code to play More instruments). i sort of wanted one of my backups instead of oboe because someone had told me how delicate/easy to damage an oboe could be and it made me nervous. but i was the only kid in the grade who even remotely expressed interest in it, and really i had been hooked on oboe as My Instrument from the first time i heard it demo'd to us in music class. that was going to be my beast it was fated

although in theory i could have gotten away with not picking a band instrument at all but rather joining strings as a violin player because (sasha lore reveal) at that time i was actually in violin lessons. i was a violin player before i was an oboist. but i only played for like two years, i quit pretty quickly after i started oboe. too much to practice all at once. whether you consider that dodging a bullet or the opposite is a matter of perspective

[ask meme]

[whosectype]

lesson learned, don’t play guitar for 9 hours straight

there are still indentations hours later on my left fingertips from the strings they look like this

[jfk-blown-away-blog]

Finally took on the daunting task of re-stringing the old Soviet. It's always a bitch to work with, but it really needed them replaced.

[phantom-does-a-thing]

getting hit with a guitar hurts like it would be a solid weapon

[crplpunkklavier]

i finished practicing guitar and now I have a sharp pain inside my fingers when I press down on things lol

yeah that'll happen bud. the calluses will come eventually but they also disappear again REAL quick if you take a break of a few days. alas being really cool always demands a sacrifice

having played piano since i was 5 has permanently changed the anatomy of my hands too (i can spread my fingers wider than most people. freakishly so), and all the passionate drummers i knew (had crushes on) had blisters and calluses on their fingers as well. that's rocknroll baby

[novelistparty]

string instrument tuning

I learned to tune by ear from playing cello as a child and now when I'm practicing on my electric guitar use a tuning fork and tune by ear. Today I was having trouble getting the G and B string to sound right and had the thought, "maybe the intonation is off for one or both?" and I was right. It makes me think back to being 14yo and trying to learn guitar on the shitty electric my friend Eric graciously lent me for a month. I never really liked the sound of it partially because couldn't get it to tune well. I bet the intonation was really bad. Or maybe I hadn't ever dealt with the guitar's particular version of just intonation before

[quinncesar69]

Jack Zevo - Terra Firma

A slight break from the acid / electro bangers... This has an elegiac piano motif, guitar harmonics, pizzicato strings, flute, a choir, pedal steel & the sounds of nature over a lazy trip hop like beat. It's all rather lovely.

[explodinglotion]

just played a classical guitar instead of regular acoustic and. i fear i misjudged. i kind of really like it and now want one.

[miltonq-lapsteel8a6]

Here's some Jazz on the Oahu Diana 6 string lap steel, by Steve Cunningham. Great musician!

[sautethehorrors]

I had a make up lesson with the woman who owns the music school I go to and holy fuck she actually taught me how to put all the pieces together and start writing a song!!!

The biggest thing I learned was once I've got the chords in mind and have started like blahblahblahing a melody, to find a random book and turn to a random page and just start singing the words from the book.

I dunno how to explain what this unlocked in my fucking brain but holy hell, I feel like I opened a whole new section of my brain.

Anyway the country song is about a cowboy who lives in the eye of a constantly moving tornado in a howls moving castle type contraption. Yes I was really into steam punk as a teenager why do you ask

[classicjdog]

man playing guitar hero with the actual guitar controller is really really fun. no wonder that shit was so popular back in the day. in my childhood i played a decent amount of gh with a normal controller, but playing it on the guitar is definitely more fun, at least once i got used to it

wish i'd inherited my older brothers' talent for the game but twas not to be unfortunately, no 5 star through the fire and flames on expert for me lmfao but i'm still having a lot of fun doing fairly well for myself on hard and barely scraping by on expert

the 2 songs that i've replayed the most so far are hotel california & eruption. hotel california strikes a really nice balance between being really fun & engaging to play while still being totally doable even for someone with my shitty level of skill. like it's not some super easy song where you're just strumming away at the same chord progression over and over for 5 minutes, there's lots & lots of hammer-on/pull-off sequences, but those sequences are very much on the easier end of the spectrum. it is, at least so far, the only song that i've 5 starred on expert, it's really fun and obv it's a super good song too

eruption is also very very fun cause it's literally just a 2 minute guitar solo and it's REALLY HARD. it's so hard that i really shouldn't be able to do it, like it's the final song in the van halen career mode which means the game places it on that same tier of final boss-type songs as like through the fire and flames & jordan & the like, but since it's so short it's actually just barely doable for me. at least on hard, i haven't even tried it on expert lol. it's also the only song where i've successfully done that both-hands-on-the-fretboard thing that i saw my brothers do back in the day. any time it could potentially be useful i'm usually too overwhelmed by the number of notes to even think to attempt it, but i'm pretty sure eruption is specifically designed for you to have both hands up on the neck of the guitar since that's literally what eddie van halen did whenever he played the song irl, which i do think is a really nice touch

[juniesfairies]

Not to do another low hanging fruit observational tumblr post but lately I’ve been thinking about how I’m part of the population who’s missing teeth. And I weirdly get reminded of this whenever I hear other folk guitarists using their long fingernails to pick the tuned down strings with such warmth and sharpness, almost like their biting the strings. I can almost taste the metal, feel my teeth vibrate, my tongue touch the cold, but always where my missing teeth are. I hope the spirit of the teeth that were never able to grow into my mouth safely find purchase in the fingertips on my right hand, into my PIMA, into their own guitar pics. I want to devour and consume my own sounds.

[rodgerdelany]

When I was told that I would have the opportunity to perform at the Texas State Songwriters Championship, I reached out to a handful of friends for song recommendations. Every recommendation was unique. That is, no two songs were the same.

Like every other performer, I wanted to win. I kicked around a number of strategies including hiring a singer and/or leveraging the band to provide a powerful performance. But, I wanted to make a good impression representing who I am as a writer and as a performer. In the end, I decided to keep it simple – an old acoustic guitar performing “Ray of Hope” as powerful possible in order to setup the intimacy of “Alright to Love (Christmas Again).” Despite not feeling 100%, the judges awarded me a prize for “Most Original Style.”

I am glad that I chose these two songs. “Ray of Hope” has been a highlight of the band’s performance for years. And, it is likely to be the title track for my new CD. I look forward to sharing the story and a studio recording of “Ray of Hope” in 2024.

“Alright to Love” is possibly the best song that I’ve written. A competition during the Christmas season presented the perfect opportunity to perform the song and share the story. “Alright to Love (Christmas Again)” is based on a true story. The song captures two beautiful moments early in my relationship with Kim. The chorus was inspired by our first visit to the former Pierre du Pont residence at Longwood Gardens. As we walked out onto the beautifully grounds, I held Kim’s hand and said, “It’s alright to love Christmas.” The line, “she dressed as Santa and danced by the fire,” is from our first Christmas together.

I am including a link in the comments to the version of “Alright to Love (Christmas Again)” that was recorded in at Philly Sound Studios by Rich King and included Mark Rogers’ WSTW holiday compilation (see photo).

Thanks again for all of the encouragement and support both with music and through many challenging times in my life. As I’ve shared previously, it is increasingly difficult to remember when I was miserable. I am blessed to share life’s adventures with the love of my life.

I hope you have a very Merry Christmas and a great new year!!

[abandoned-as-mustard]

Fun habits ukulele playing gives you: automatically strumming a guitar over the fretboard like. Discovering eerie harmonics.