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[quote name='EliasMooseblaster' timestamp='1507726096' post='3387494'] Ralph McTell. No, really: it seems everyone knows Streets of London, but a lot of people are very surprised when you point out that he had some exceptional acoustic fingerpicking skills. I'd like to present the jury with Exhibit A: [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28UrFz5PKto"]http://www.youtube....h?v=28UrFz5PKto[/url] [/quote] The world of blues fingerpicking (yes I know it's technically a rag but hey! who's counting?) is a closed door to most modern guitarists but there's some seriously good players out there. We're away for a few days ATM, but when I get back I'll dig some out.

Dunno if this is worth mentioning, but Springsteen's rhythm guitar work in the ESB was an important element in their sound but never seems to get a mention. Just a thought...

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1507712470' post='3387345'] ... and those of thousands more. [/quote] Including me. Our singer used to rave about him. Then again he didn't play guitar... and I did... In fairness, his acoustic work used to be ok back in the day.

[quote name='The Jaywalker' timestamp='1507588971' post='3386666'] More or less everyone has near perfect time built into their physiology: none of us have to think about walking down the street at a steady pace. [/quote] I take your point (and as always have the utmost respect for your opinions on matters musical), but unless I've missed something in the OP - and if I have then @Owen will I'm sure correct me - then this is one of those rare cases of an apparently complete disconnect between the innate and the conscious. Before I was a tutor I was a schoolteacher for the previous 15 years or so: a part of any decent teacher's skillset is the ability to develop strategies for helping struggling students. I have met and worked with plenty of students possessed of poor rhythmic capabilities. In the case I set out earlier the situation was - or at least appeared to be - different in kind. He was the only student I ever met who was discernably no better after 6 or 7 weeks of work than he was at the outset despite my - and his - best efforts.

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1507587983' post='3386651'] When do you say. Your not musical, sorry I can't teach you. ?. That must be so difficult as a teacher. [/quote] Well first of all you don't say it like that. I saw it as at least as much a failure for me as it was for the student.

I had one of these once. I did everything you've tried and more. He was a really nice lad too; very bright, highly motivated and worked really hard at it - which made the decision to call time all the more difficult for him, his dad and me. I hated admitting defeat with any student, and in a 15-year teaching career he was one of only two students I had to do this with. I felt terrible about it but in the end there was really no other option - at least not one that I found. Hope you find a solution. If you do, be sure to let us know how you did it.

Some waistcoat content here from yours truly. I would have been in my mid-late 40s at the time, but the drummer (who was barely 20 IIRC) had no excuse whatsoever. If you need to know, mine was a fetching little number in fake velvet and denim; his was from one of his dad's suits I think. Don't think I ever wore a hat though - I used to sweat buckets as it was! So did the singer: didn't stop him though. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiMLy1kvTVY"][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiMLy1kvTVY[/media][/url] I tried the shades at an actual gig once. Had to take them off after about 10 seconds of the first number as I couldn't see a f***ing thing. Happy days!

At first glance I read the thread title as 'Barefaced impudence switch'...

Or howzabout Andy Fairweather-Low? [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vshO-2lH0Bs"][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vshO-2lH0Bs[/media][/url]

Anybody mentioned Martin Simpson yet? [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQELHWJTdRU"][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQELHWJTdRU[/media][/url]

Dunno if it's from TOTP, but if it is then it would have been pretty much par for the course.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1506946747' post='3382145'] Adrian Legg. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buvVkRtTVCQ[/media] [/quote] Good call.

I'm pretty sure few if any around here have even heard of him, but I'd nominate Blues guitarist Michael Messer. He never seems to appear in lists of greatest slide guitar players, but people who understand the genre rate him up there with the very best. If anybody needs to know, here's a brief biog: [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Messer"]https://en.wikipedia.../Michael_Messer[/url] Plenty of his stuff on youtube

[quote name='petebassist' timestamp='1505811732' post='3374414'] Oh, and get ready to be mobbed afterwards by adoring fans... [/quote] That's generally reserved for singers and lead guitarists IME. You may get lucky by association though ... Congrats to the OP. Onwards and upwards.

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1505663213' post='3373413'] Dancers' outfits are not their choice, but the costume manager's. They shouldn't be harassed for someone else's choice. And if the dancers don't want to wear a certain costume, the producers will find lots of other dancers who will. [/quote] Precisely.

I used to work a lot with female singers, mostly in low-key duo format. I have to say I don't recall ever experiencing that kind of attitude, certainly not from the stage. Perhaps it was the settings and/or the acoustic style of the music (not to mention the talent of the singers ) but our audiences were always very appreciative of what we did. I know it happens, just never to me is all - at least not in those type of gigs.

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1505493170' post='3372388'] Yes, I remember reading that ancient Greece series, very good indeed. [/quote] Why thank you sir. The cheque's in the post.

[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1505455458' post='3371965'] Oh please do , sounds interesting [/quote] It's off, basically. Traditional Just Intonation preserves the harmonic series, while ET is a clever but ultimately compromised mathematical fudge to make things like transposition and modulation workable without doing too much damage to the pitch relationships (not to mention making - for example - keyboard instruments a whole lot easier to make and to play). If you want to know more, I wrote an article about it some years ago. It's buried somewhere in the Theory and Technique section as part of a series on the music of ancient Greece. That said, most people seem able to live with ET tuning. EDIT TO ADD: Just Intonation has it's own problems of course (try Googling 'wolf fifth' or 'Pythagorean comma'). Unless you're a real stickler for harmonic purity, Equal Temperament is much the better system.

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1505432140' post='3371941'] I sometimes tune to A @ 432hz, I've used A @ 417hz, that was quite dark sounding (to me). Like others have said, people tended to tune to each other, if the source tuning was out, then they'd all be out. [/quote] Concert A at 417Hz is almost exactly a semitone flat, which puts it (and you) into Nirvana territory IIRC. Might explain why it sounds a bit dark.

I would suggest that from a teaching viewpoint even a 3/4 guitar is way too big for a 4-year-old, but I doubt anybody would listen...

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1504708006' post='3366783'] OMGZ!!! I luv dat one, you got tab for it???* as they say on 'da interwebz'.. lol [/quote]

Aimed at nobody in particular, but perhaps a musical interlude might be in order: [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEhS9Y9HYjU"][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEhS9Y9HYjU[/media][/url]

[quote name='bassman7755' timestamp='1504599296' post='3365877'] Agreed, I've extensively A/B'ed a mid range shelf+sub and a similar pedigree pair of floor standers. The floor standers easily beat out the shelf+sub, it just sounds more natural and integrated in a way I cant get anywhere close to with the separate sub, and you get a clearer more distinct bass even though theres less bass if that makes any sense. [/quote] I'd have to agree with this. We have a pair of Rega Juras, which have what I'd characterise as a well extended bass response. In fact they're so good I use them for the surround sound system as well. Sub and centre not needed. Again though, how much this intelligence will benefit the OP is probably moot.

[quote name='steantval' timestamp='1504345387' post='3364210'] Now I have a bit more time on my hands I'm going through my large music collection and listening to stuff I hadn't heard for ages. Pulled out some Robin Trower stuff, I had forgotten how great this guys music is, wonderful stuff. Anyone else on here into Mr Trower ? [/quote] Not big time, but I do have 20th Century Blues. Great album and an awesome sound from - as I recall - a very simple setup. Recommended to me by none other than Dave Kilminster (who was one of my tutors at The Guitar Institute at the time).

[quote name='thepurpleblob' timestamp='1503736238' post='3360581'] Reading notation is just a handy skill and closes some things off to you if you can't do it but it's no more elitist than being able to play slap (I can't!). If you don't have time or don't care then no big deal. Like many things, if you *really* need it then you'll know. [/quote] Yep. I can identify with this outlook. Just in the interest of clarity though, I wasn't complaining about notation being elitist in and of itself; more the attitude of some of it's proponents. Most of the pros I've had the good fortune to share a stage with have been very easy to work with; but every now and again I'd meet someone with - how should I put it? - a bit of an attitude. As I said before though, it happens on both sides of the debate.