"My biggest problem is trying to make a country guitar sound like a country guitar –ala Don. "
Only way to do is have your heart broken many times, or at least have a dog stolen.

Don my wife is a dog lover and she read your post -- now she won’t talk to me.

John C.

Maybe she is but in high frequencies that only dogs can hear

Bachus....I read this when you first posted. I waited to reply to see how many members would be interested in the video. Very encouraging to see so many members ARE interested in further honing their skills.

I don't know where you found this but I'm glad you did. I studied it for days and got so good at playing guitar parts on the keyboard that Don Mason came to me for lessons!

Mark

Arent we all allways looking to improve our skills, from beginner to advanced, there is allways room for improvement...

However, its much harder to discuss playing skills then it is to discuss technollogy, partly because everyone is at its own level, but also becaus ethere are way less video's and examples around... its so much easier to discuss hardware..

Glad you could help Don Mason with his playing skills. Asuming you are not joking, everyone can learn a thing or two from everyone else, as long as he is open to it and ready to learn...

Nigel you have a good point, nice insight. I believe in prayer and my favorite prayer is:

“Dear Lord, please make my wife love me like she loves the dog”. Hey, no smiling here, this is serious. (smile)

John C.

Hey, we all can use some help! But I think Mark had his tongue in his cheek! He'd be teaching me accordion licks.

I WAS joking!!! I hope Don sees this disclaimer before he puts out a "contract" on my life!!!



I don't know......I've had to go it alone most of my career. I have a lot of musicians friends, though many who I know only casually, who are not "ready to learn" and refuse to talk "music" talk or get together and trade ideas or even work themselves on getting better and reaching maximum potential. Now that I think of it, I've had so little inspiration (from anyone) over the years, that's probably why I've lost my own ambitions and desires to make better music.

Many are only too happy to play and try and impress you with their playing abilities but few are willing to get together and share knowledge and ideas.

Wow, I must be living on mars. Every Friday at 10:30 AM I visit my 93 old friend and we play guitar and exchange music ideas. At 8AM on the same day I meet with a sax player I have known for many years. We do very little small talk; our conversation is mostly about music and how to.

I traded music with four men who are no longer with us. Music made our friendship stronger. They all gave me their Kn7000 keyboards when they passed away. The Technics jams here in Florida were all about sharing their knowledge. I went home with CD filled with other people’s knowledge.

Bill Norrie created a website so we could share each other’s music and ideas.

There are musicians out there who loved to share.

John C.
PS, I have tried to bring harmonizing a song to Synthzone but it went nowhere. I find playing the chords that are written are boring without taste.