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Zopiclone bandit said:
I am ok, I can string a few chords together but to Bar Chord is impossible for me, I am very badly dyspraxic so many of the more fancy chords are impossible for me to play, it's why an open tune 3 string "guitar" will be perfect for me to play.
What may take you a day to learn on one of these will take me maybe 2-3 days but it won't be impossible.
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Funnily enough, I cracked Bar E chords during my first few months or so of having an acoustic guitar age 17 or so. That was when my enthusiasm and motivation was as high as it's ever been. And the muscle memory now seems to be there for ever thankfully. That's possibly one of the most technical things that I can do, and weirdly I don't find it difficult, not even on an acoustic guitar without a capo. I think if I hadnt learnt it with all my youthful determination and perseverance I probably never would have been able to learn it at this stage.

Of all the chords I learnt first time round, If I don't play in years I'm rusty as hell, but it only takes a few days of practice for the chords and quick chord changes to start coming back.

It makes no sense that I can play Bar E's but cannot do Bar A minors, which is just moving the whole E chord to the A minor position. Its just the same shape, but just moved up a bit.

I dunno if you like the acoustic track "Society" that Eddie Veder recorded for Into The Wild? But that is just 4 very simple chords, a fairly simple strumming pattern, and it sounds amazing imho, and should be relatively easy to learn to play, apart from it having a sodding B minor chord, which requires the Bar A minor shape. I can form the chord but it just takes me forever to get my fingers in and out of the shape, from the previous to the next chord with that one in between. :|

However I solved that problem by buying a capo, and wacking that on the 1st or 2nd fret, and that does the trick and enables me to play B minor.

My problem is that I cannot regularly apply myself to practice. Despite having passed the frustrating beginner stage, and making it to somewhere on intermediate level, although admiteddly not very far along it. But this is where things start getting a lot more fun and rewarding. It makes no sense to get to this stage, and then stop. But that is exactly what I have done. :roll eyes:

First time round I got most of the chords and chord changes down, but it wasnt until the covid lockdown that I got the hang of quite a few new strumming patterns.

Previously I'd been limited to playing downstrokes only :oops: which can actually work for certain styles of punk, post-punk, or rock style rhythms, and some tracks by professional musicians are played entirely with downtrokes. I especially liked damping the strings with the ball or edge of my right hand for the sound effect that creates with the downstrokes on the bar Es.

I seem to need tons of free time to be able to find the headspace and mood to play though. I just cant get in the mood if the days are too busy and full. Like most days seem to be unfortunately.
 
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I smashed up my acoustic guitar because I didn't want to be another bloke with an acoustic guitar.

Also, I'm never going to play like Neil Young or Joni Mitchell. Not even with years of practice in prison. Used to play a lot, but was always more of a rhythm player on electric. With accompanying vocals, sometimes in the right key, sometimes well wide.
 
I'm in Amsterdam, is the coke the street dealers sell any good? I expect not, buy any of you guys take the plunge?
 
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Perkins : Reborn said:
Also, I'm never going to play like Neil Young or Joni Mitchell. Not even with years of practice in prison.
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I'm not so sure, look at Leadbelly or my hero Robert Pete Williams.
All you gotta do is have a man give you racist abuse, fill his belly with lead from a .45 semi-automatic & you can learn to play like this.

Fucking Neil Young & Joni Mitchell sure ain't Lightning Hopkins I know that much.



Recorded in Angola Prison while facing Life with NO PAROLE btw.
 
Bleaney said:
Funnily enough, I cracked Bar E chords during my first few months or so of having an acoustic guitar age 17 or so. That was when my enthusiasm and motivation was as high as it's ever been. And the muscle memory now seems to be there for ever thankfully. That's possibly one of the most technical things that I can do, and weirdly I don't find it difficult, not even on an acoustic guitar without a capo. I think if I hadnt learnt it with all my youthful determination and perseverance I probably never would have been able to learn it at this stage.

Of all the chords I learnt first time round, If I don't play in years I'm rusty as hell, but it only takes a few days of practice for the chords and quick chord changes to start coming back.
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You got more skills than I have.

I want 3/4 strings tuned to Open E or Open D & then it's Slide / Bottleneck time.
To me "normal" players of guitar can never get the guitar to sing back to their words, that's only possible with a Slide & you can get that "dirty bass" twang in the open tuning.

It's like Mississippi Fred McDowell said "I sing a word the guitar gonna sing it right back with what I say" but each to their own if you prefer Oasis to The Delta Blues men.
 
I swear to God I got a copy of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius a few days ago & been reading it really slow, I wanna fully digest his words but to put what he says into actions is harder than what The Aghori Hindus have told me to live my Life by.

Marcus imho is the most BRUTAL Stoic out there, he would bitch-slap me for being so weak.
His book has kinda broken me mentally.
 
Zopiclone bandit said:
I swear to God I got a copy of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius a few days ago & been reading it really slow, I wanna fully digest his words but to put what he says into actions is harder than what The Aghori Hindus have told me to live my Life by.

Marcus imho is the most BRUTAL Stoic out there, he would bitch-slap me for being so weak.
His book has kinda broken me mentally.
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Heavy stuff.

Never actually read him, but know the odd quote and bits and pieces. And the fact he didn't like Christianity, although as usual they tried to fake the fact that he did.
 
Zopiclone bandit said:
I swear to God I got a copy of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius a few days ago & been reading it really slow, I wanna fully digest his words but to put what he says into actions is harder than what The Aghori Hindus have told me to live my Life by.

Marcus imho is the most BRUTAL Stoic out there, he would bitch-slap me for being so weak.
His book has kinda broken me mentally.
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Have you watched Ryan Halliday's Daily Stoic channel on youtube? (Edit: I've just seen that you have and you've posted it on the you tube thread!)

He's great at making a pretty heavy going book more accessible and updated imho.

I've only briefly tried the audio book tbh, and I found it hard going. I should probably get the physical book. But then there's Ryan Halliday already there doing the hard work and explaining and expanding on all the 'Meditations'. And adding extra context and background. Kudos to you if you can digest that book with no kind of guidance.

It's a great you tube channel. Absolutely rammed with great content. I think you might really like it a lot, if you don't already know it.

He doesn't just talk and write about Marcus Aurelius, he expands on all of the main figures of the movement.

I love stoicism. It's a fantastic outlook and task of character development to try to work towards.

I also find it interesting how many of my interests can kind of tie together in time. I mean, I already knew of Marcus Aurelius from one of my all time favourite movies, Gladiator. So I already knew what kind of man Aurelius was from the portrayal of him in that film, and it's kind of funny, the way most youtubers introduce him as 'the last of the Five Good Emperors.' I guess after him they were all as self serving and wicked as his son Commodus, superbly played by Joaquin Phoenix as the dark and power-hungry son whose character was known for his treachery and ambition, ultimately leading to a dramatic confrontation with the film's protagonist, Maximus (played by Russell Crowe.) The film truly brings all these historic characters fully vividly to life.

It's a fantastic movie if you've not seen it. It also featured the legendary Oliver Reed's last ever performance. In fact Reed died during the filming of the movie, and several aspects of the movie had to be re-written so that it could still work, with whatever limited footage of Reed they had before he died on location in Malta.

What a fitting end for such a legend of an actor. To go out on such a high like that. I'm delighted for him.
 
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I really don't understand a lot of what you say. If that means it's part of your job to make people laugh, then you need to work on it. Or otherwise, maybe leave the humour to someone else.

Perhaps something is lost in translation.
 
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