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[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1375036163' post='2156018'] Always take your own food as a precaution! [/quote]Actually it probably did me a favour as I've been feeling bloated all week. Better get me some activia (mmmmmdanone - other yoghurts full of bacteria are available )

Well that's that then. All went off OK. Remembered all the songs, though forgot I started one of them. Typical wedding gig. Not much reaction early on but at the end good. Shame the DJ came straight in with a song as we finished the last set, when I think they could have done another. Still... It would have been nice if when I was lending the keys a tuner for his guitar the others had come and found us to say the food was on, instead of coming out smacking their chops and saying we're back on in 5 - so yesterday I had a bowl of cornflakes & a cheese sandwich but never mind. Should have more deep work as required, so that's good, a couple of first calls is useful to have, even if they're not often, its something else to do.

[quote name='cloudburst' timestamp='1374966557' post='2155399'] Huh? CB [/quote]I mean on the guitar, open G at the third fret, D with th shape around the second fret and open E or Emin

Back from this weeks dep. A new dep, but there might be more as it went well played both the fretless (which doesn't get used enough) and fretted L2500's & they sounded sweet through the rig - well to me anyway. Another set of songs to learn, most of which I've heard but never played before, so it was fun to do some different stuff. Everything from Van Morrison to Van Halen so a fair old cross section, but nothing to drastically difficult & I am a sucker for a bit of cheese. Nice & local so early bck - though I still need to wind down. Wedding & in a marquee so the sound was a bit ... but it came together. Now then. Wedged up and off to the For Sale section

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1374960405' post='2155348'] As a musician the most important skill is to learn to listen and grow good or 'big' ears. [/quote] Well quite. It's what I relied on for tonights dep, 2/3 of which we hadn't done at the run through session last week so it was watching, listening & knowing nods [quote name='BottomE' timestamp='1374945879' post='2155129'] Done so many covers over the years that a lot of the time i can visualise the chord changes. Play the track on stereo whilst driving and then just imagine where the next chord is. Add to this that if you have a starting key, the minor/major stuff works itself out by just knowing a tiny bit of theory. Some songs are just weird but you get a sense from listening to them and do a bit of a run through alongside YouTube to get it. Works most of the time but have been caught out on occasion. Then i find its best just to stare at the keyboard player and pretend that its their fault. [/quote] Yup playing stuff I've never heard before in the car & I can often visualise changes. Things like the G D E type progression on the guitar (3 2 0 on the neck) just jump out at you

In a thread resurrection this has been bouncing around the cavity my brain is supposed to be housed in recently rying to get a s***load of songs under my fingers for tonights dep. Variously I have used:[list] [*]Initially finding mp3's of the tracks to play along to [*]for anything thats a bit more fiddly try to find the dots (if available) and work with them [*]play along to the MP3's [*]slow down twiddly bits (the bridge in Cee Lo's Forget You?) in Xgear to about 80%(ish) and play along to that speeding up as I get comfortable [*]have a loop of MP3's on a memory stick in the car & listen to them on the way too & from work visualising the neck & positions [*]generally wander round in a semi daze humming basslines (possibly internally but I fear I [i]may[/i] be the loonie on the bus & be a bit more vocal) and again visualising the neck and wiggling my fretting fingers [*]for a few I also sat and charted out the chord / root from memory (not the actual line, just the gist) [/list] That seems to have got them to sink in over the last week. Time & tonight will tell!! Lots of looking & listening to what's going on around me & toes crossed (my fingers will hopefully be hitting the right notes!) Edit - so in terms of the vote that'll be all of them

That's what I'm relying on :-)

[quote name='lazzer' timestamp='1374651866' post='2151228'] Have done 2 different deps the last 2 sat nights.... As I refuse to use a music stand I just wrote the set list in marker & gaffered it to the monitor, with keys & notes next to the titles! Both gigs went very well, I always remember more than I think I'm gonna! [/quote]Yup, I think that's what I'll end up with this time

Well that's one out of the way. Took some notes & managed to busk through the correct song from memory of listening to it on the radio & at parties, having found a completely different song to take notes for - Freedom : Wham was what I should have worked out, Freedom George Michael was what I had worked out ... DOH!!! Dep drummer to work in for a different band tonight, then more to do to get close for Saurday's dep. Like I said - I love a challenge and, more to the point, getting out & playing

...and now, an email with a list of 5 songs I had worked out to be swapped out for 5 more I dont really know at all and will have to have a stab at tonight instead of brushing up on the others Oh happy day I love a challenge me

I have a r/h for the dep this Sat, next day is with my long term lot to run through the set with a (known in the sense that we have variously played with him n other bands) drummer, then the dep. I've been away for a week and only had the dep in the diary for a couple more than that. 30-40 songs in the set in the vein of 'well I've heard them but never played them'. Some a fairly straightforward busk. Son a bit more involved, and I've been writing out bits of notes. Chatted with the bandleader tonight re the r/h and another possible deep later in the year and I made some off the cuff comment like 'if I don't really cock up Sat', which was followed by a comment re a prviou dep having had a music stand & 'not very rock'. Looks like I need my remembering head on! :-) Wish me luck, I'm going in again!! :-)

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I'll have some of that :-)

As a boy I learned piano and trumpet to a reasonable level along with which came theory exams. Taught myself guitar by playing along to records - starting with Electric Warrior - and the Beatles songbook. The theory is pretty much gone, but I still prefer to write the gist as dots for deps rather than the dreaded TAB, which I find more difficult to read than dots anyway! Was complimented for leaving space, but that may have been more to do with lots to learn and not enough time

Right now whoever will have me Alibi 70's rock covers Epsilon assorted prog covers Neither play much so the chances of you catching either are slim to ball & more likely to be depping

Nowadays not nearly often enough. Years ago when we were doing originals, all the time. Very rarely was there a gig without at least one or more new numbers. There's always the ones you 'have' to play, but variety is the spice of life. Somewhat sadly i have had more enjoyment at recent dep gigs where i have had to be on my toes for stuff outside my comfort zone, than the 'drudge' of our standard covers set

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1372696223' post='2128730'] I wasn't even aware of this solo album though I'm not a huge Flower Kings fan so their side projects tend to pass me by (I have some Karmakanic though) and liking what I'm hearing so I may have to tracks this down on Amazon or somewhere. [/quote]Kaipa is another of his (along with Transatlantic of course) Another of the FK solo projects that I like is Hasse Froberg Musical Companion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjCttSp_3_Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXcehjVzk2w

Ah no, they're generally OK. A couple of doors up have a party and band in the back garden every couple of years. Now then, lets get the full rig running