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Month: June 2009
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Moving House!
The studio has been decommissioned (except for some editing and podcast recording) and the acoustic treatment is just about to get torn down. We’re moving to Edinburgh from this rather remote part of the world – at least culturally. Pretty as Deeside is, there are damn’ few places to play guitar. Anyway, we’ll be out…
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Acoustic Guitar Setup and Repair
Within limits I do my own tweaking. I can mess around with saddles and truss rods quite happily confident that “I know what I’m doing”. The only setup issues that I would want to take to a professional would be anything to do with the nut. I’ve never felt the desire to get into the…
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Caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol
A recipe for a contented (albeit a shorter) life. The world would be a little grayer without these little pleasures. This view is not very fashionable but there’s little about me that is fashionable. And this urge to live as long as possible: if an eternity of oblivion awaits then a lifespan of forty years…
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There are three types of musical memory…
…that I can think of: namely; (1) muscle memory which enables the fluent playing of the guitar, (2) that which enables aural recognition of intervals when hearing them and, (3) that which enables recall of which chords are diatonic to which keys, their voicings, and their placement on the fingerboard. All three need attention on…
