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    People Magazine's 100 Most Beautiful

    in The Gibson Lounge

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    I don't think we're doing the Morbidly Obese any favors by calling them Beautiful. Same could be said for the Dangerously Underweight, anorexia is not beautiful.

     

    Can't walk up a flight of stair, can't walk across the grocery store more than once, can't fit into a public Restroom Stall, can't order one Meal from a menu, Can't ride the Roller Coaster, can't wipe all your ***........

     

    That's Handicapped, a Self Induced Handicap that can be avoided and treated without drugs. Seriously, what's so beautiful about that?

    Revelations

    in The Gibson Lounge

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    Great advice. Unfortunately' date=' to get there takes years of practicing (scales). I'm getting there.

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    It does take years, but not so much "practicing scales" as using them, and it happened a little at a time. for me it happened with E and A minor pentatonic first, then the blues b5th, then the full minor and relative major scales. I didn't know what to call them until after I could play them, which was another couple revelations. Finding out that the scales I had "Figured Out" had names like A minor Pentatonic. I knew it as "The Blues Sale", which I thought was a colloquialism. found the "Diatonic" scales I was using were the Minor, Melodic Minor, Major, and whatever. Thought I figured out a "New Hybrid Scale" made up of element of the Major and Minor scales.........turned out it was a mixolydian scale (or mode...whatever).

     

    And....I don't think we should measure guitar playing in years, but rather hours, Like aircraft pilots. It does take hours and hours of practice and jamming to really get to know the fret board.

    Revelations

    in The Gibson Lounge

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    When I realized you only have to push down on the strings hard enough to sound the note. Excessive Pressure just deadens the note, wears out frets, Slows you down, and tires out you hand.

     

    Feel the neck, literally. Just touch it hard enough to feel it. The day I figured that out was the day I got fast and accurate.

     

    Then there was the day all the "Positions" just melted away, leaving one big scale all over the neck. The day I stopped thinking in "positions" and started playing the Whole Neck, I got better.

    Song Association Game

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    Oh;I can't decide on :

     

    Ohio - Neil Young.

    Nebraska - The Boss.

    New York New York - Frankie.

    New England - Billy Bragg.

    Etc...etc...

     

    You' date=' dear listener, can choose![/quote']

    Relax - Frankie Goes to Hollywood

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