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Hyperborea
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Joined: Jan 29, 2007
Topics: 48 / Replies: 779
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Re: What do you do to warm up?

I do the exercises from the 10 Minute Guitar Workout, a sort of diagonal spider exercise, and some chromatic scales. After that I do some drills which...

14 years ago
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Re: Paint By Numbers

If I put paint onto a canvas which already has a black and white picture on it with colour codes am I a painter? Of course. Does it make you an ARTI...

14 years ago
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Paint By Numbers

If I put paint onto a canvas which already has a black and white picture on it with colour codes am I a painter? Does it make a difference whether I'm...

14 years ago
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Re: trying to do it right

Noteboat, I have to say I really appreciate your posts. I've been following the sight reading thread and your theory posts and they have been very hel...

14 years ago
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Re: Cleaning fretboard

Seriously, the guy in the shop told me he´d used it himself a lot, and that it worked for the whole instrument i.e body - front & back, fretboard...

14 years ago
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Re: Sight Reading

Leavitt's A Modern Method for Guitar (the Berklee book) is worth a look. It starts out reasonably gradually and all in first position though through t...

14 years ago
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Re: What happened with my guitar...? Weird sound..

Oh, ok. I've heard that sound too then. I've got a ceiling fan in the room I practice in and when it's on I will often get that in the background. It'...

14 years ago
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Re: this is a wierd guitar

Seriously, though - I don't really like it ...it almost sounds out of tune half the time while he is playing it. Oh, I get it - it's supposed to sound...

14 years ago
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Re: Best Chord Dictionary- Encyclopedia?

Ted Greene's Chord Chemistry?

14 years ago
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Re: Song Retention

I think I mentioned this on here before but many years ago when I was an undergrad I took a studying workshop on campus (I was always a bad studier an...

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Re: What happened with my guitar...? Weird sound..

I'd suggest changing the strings. Two months can be a long time depending on how much you play and you have no idea when those strings were changed, w...

14 years ago
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Re: Dragging knuckles

I've had it happen in the past. It was due to not holding the pick "properly" and a bit of angling the pick too much upwards on the down strum. Anglin...

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Re: triplet strumming pattern

All of these can be practiced. Spend some of your technique practice time doing picking drills. Play each pattern (D-U-D etc and D-U-D U-D-U etc) repe...

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Re: 3 months of lessons, performance upcoming

Is your company wanting something upbeat for the cancer charity event? How about the old Monkees song I'm A Believer? It's a pretty easy song acoustic...

14 years ago
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Re: Wiring Diagram

Hahaha, I see that I missed that the OP has a two pickup guitar. I thought he had a 1 pickup and a 3 way switch. Depending on the type of 3 way switch...

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