EssentialTension

It doesnt matter how old you are, you can get better. If you start at forty you will probably never be as good as if you started at four but that doesn't matter.

[quote name='Treb' timestamp='1498836835' post='3327486'] If that were the case then why do some high end guitar builders still do it by hand? [/quote] Because some people still believe hand is better?

[quote name='Sibob' timestamp='1499777869' post='3333527'] It's heeerrrreeeeeee, more later Si [/quote] Nice.

The Mickey Baker book is excellent.

The Jazz bass he holds up in the first video looks like an Antoria.

Here we have one dot-reader reading and one dot-reader playing from memory. Mind you the one reading probably knows quite a lot of the dots from memory. Either way very soulful if you ask me .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9YowLzeC0c

[quote name='KingPrawn' timestamp='1499633862' post='3332669'] I have found myself in a really odd situation. I'm involved with a band that has 3 other incredible players, two are classically trained and play day in day out orchestras etc. The lead singer is fab and decent guitarist. But.... There is a barrier in that the two highly trained players have to have the dots in front of them. They are really struggling to make the transition to learning a song without the dots. Equally the lead singer is struggling to get to grips with being handed lead sheets, as she is really an intuitive player. I find myself as piggy in the middle. I can just about hold my own with work between rehearsals. I really want it to work as when it gels it sounds great. Just wondering if any of you BCers have any tips to make this work? wheres the middle ground? [/quote] The middle ground has to be where two of you adopt a less formal approach while the other two accept a more formal approach ... and all meet somewhere in the middle. But everyone will need to understand what is expected of them or it ain't going to work.

[quote name='LITTLEWING' timestamp='1499711394' post='3333091'] I've always said that people who have to read music to play have no musical soul.... [/quote] I've heard some people say that other people who have to use frets, or amplification, or electronic tuners, or even a plectrum, have no soul at all, and certainly not a musical soul. Of course, I don't myself agree with them.

This is The Yardbirds version of Bo Diddley's 'I'm a Man' that Bolder refers to in the interview ... [media]http://youtu.be/nLIzRBelEf8[/media]

[quote name='dmccombe7' timestamp='1499423151' post='3331459'] Really good VID. [/quote] Excellent, thanks for posting.

[quote name='Northy' timestamp='1499349154' post='3330918'] ... "I think either of them would do!!" ... [/quote] Although I personally prefer the G natural, I think your guitarist is correct either will do. You can even get away with bass/guitar/harmonica not all doing the same - it's slurred, it's passing.

Here's a guitar/vocal sheet music (with tab) that has G# in the guitar part ... [url="http://www.onlinesheetmusic.com/the-jean-genie-p396281.aspx"]http://www.onlinesheetmusic.com/the-jean-genie-p396281.aspx[/url]

[quote name='scrumpymike' timestamp='1499337742' post='3330806'] ... the 'feel' of it. The Bolder version is, well, 'bolder': a bit less 'poppy', a bit more edgy with ominous undertones ... [/quote] Yes, the blues scale flat third G natural is, well, bluesier, sleazier, dirtier, bent a bit 'off-key', it's the blues and not the neat tidy unflattened third of the G major scale. And isn't the second G natural played under an A chord making it flat seventh not flat third, in that case?

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1499338217' post='3330808'] has anybody found an internet tab that shows the correct way of playing the main riff? I haven't [/quote] Here's piano sheet music with left hand showing G natural .... not that it is any guarantee of anything ... although personally I would trust notation more than any internet tab: [url="http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0065616"]http://www.musicnote...p?ppn=MN0065616[/url]

[quote name='hiram.k.hackenbacker' timestamp='1499289977' post='3330610'] This is me playing G# all the time and definitely no-one noticed [/quote] Very good. Try playing G and see if anyone notices!

As I hear it on the original version, Bowie's harmonica playing is a little ragged and his semitone down bend G# to G is not always wholly accurate ... but hey, it's rock 'n' roll ... and the blues scale G natural is only a passing note anyway ... and little variations are fine like EEEEAG ...and if someone played G# occasionally most people ain't going to notice.

The Jean Genie and the G is natural not sharp.

Q1: Why can't a singer sing a song in a particular key? A: Because the song in that key doesn't suit the range of the singer's voice - and while the range of a singer's voice can be extended with practice, it is also limited by physiology. Q2: Why can't a guitarist play in, for example, the key of Eb? A: Because guitarist hasn't bothered to learn all the chords and their inversions.

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Sold Liam some used strings, neat and tidy business.