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St. Pat's Irish Pub Set?
I've been building a chordpro fake-book sharing app for a while now, basically something similar to ultimate guitar but with things I wanted: - Offline capable (you can create and edit songs and sets even offline), - Easy edit/view mode, - Sessions - if I host a session, others can join and get the collection I've shared for the session, along with real-time transposition. It was mostly to see if I could, and because I go to family jams and they all find the same song in different keys... Anyway, long story short, I've got a collection of Irish folk songs here: https://gigwidget.vercel.app/shared/collection/1dae0155-1c45-4ffc-9c50-940910685826 Let me know if you find them useful, or if you'd like to see others added.
2 likes โ€ข 26d
@Connor McTighe done and added, https://gigwidget.vercel.app/shared/song/bc96bd98-c045-451d-87d7-1b23a17131d3
Who has?
Just wondering how many of you have actually named your guitars? Itโ€™s something Iโ€™ve tried to do but I have a hard time with it not becoming weird or some overly complicated thing. So if you did. How did you go about it and what helps you in naming them? Sadly I have on named the one I made as the angel guitar because of the image in it.
1 like โ€ข Mar 16
@Steve Hornstein there's just something about Gertrude. ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿฝ
4 likes โ€ข Mar 17
@Victor Penniman wow! I love that! I had a black acoustic I'd named Morrigan, but Boudicca!!! โค๏ธ
Chill throwback
This was shortly after I got my Fender ukulele when fender first released them, and a song that's quick and fun.
Chill throwback
2 likes โ€ข Mar 13
@Billy T Scrapper that's kind of my zone lol
2 likes โ€ข Mar 14
@Ronald Parada thanks, man! That means a lot!
Fingerpicking Exercise
An exercise to move the picking hand I picked up from my teacher and mentor.
Fingerpicking Exercise
2 likes โ€ข Mar 13
I've gotten a lot of mileage from the Pumping Nylon books, for both classical guitar and for ukulele. Mostly left-hand exercises, walking the frets and such. I'm looking for a decent clawhammer book, and something on Travis Picking hymns. ๐Ÿค”
How you learn?
Im wondering how did everybody learn to play? Did you have an actual teacher? Teach yourself? Do you learn by watching? Do you learn by tab? Me personally, my Stepdad taught me the major chords, and I watched him play some songs then I kinda just used tab and now use youtube lessons. Ive been playing 20 years or so, and can learn pretty much anything. But I know S**t about theory, scales modes ect. Haha
1 like โ€ข Feb 13
I found a book, a Carcassi guitar method book published in 1886. I was in a situation where I had time, and I needed to occupy both my hands and my mind, and I had known the basics of reading music from elementary school but forgot most of it. So I was learning to read music, learning to play guitar, and in the evenings I'd attend jams with a few others and learn more about chords and strum styles. My goal, originally, was to learn classical guitar so I could serenade my wife on our back balcony of a summer evening, sitting in the star-glider and listening to the crickets and music... She's now my ex-wife and she *hates* classical guitar. That was in 2009. In 2014, I picked up my first uke, and in 2016 my first mandolin. I play them all both strum-style and finger-style, depending on the occasion - but now, rather than play for someone, I generally play for me. Others can enjoy, and others can request - but I play to satisfy a crave of my own.
1 like โ€ข Mar 13
I was in a situation where my entire life had crashed down around me. I had time, and my wife and I agreed that if the situation was what it was, I **had** to use that time to improve myself. So I did, with all kinds of classes and self-guided education, pushing myself in all areas. Physically, mentally, emotionally, professionally... I was rewriting who I fundamentally was. And my one selfish surprise, I decided I was teaching myself classical guitar. I saw my wife and I, after we came out the other side of all that, sitting on our balcony on a star-glider, watching the sun set as I played quiet classical guitar to serenade her. Welp, she's now my ex-wife. Not because she didn't like classical guitar, though that definitely didn't help. ๐Ÿคฃ But yeah, I found a Carcassi method book from the 1880s, and spent a couple solid hours every day, six days a week, learning to read sheet, arpeggios, scales, runs, keys and transposition... That was the formal side. Evenings, there were a dozen or so of us getting together regularly to play more casual, popular music. So sitting around in a jam. Less about precise finger styling and more about chord shapes, transitions, playing with others, and learning to play and sing at the same time. That all started in 2008, and nowadays I play out pretty much wherever I go. For me, mostly.
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Tobias Parent
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Amateur musician, mentor in web dev communities around the web, yoga instructor, woodworker and puzzle creator and all around curious guy.

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