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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on May 2, 2014 at 3:54pm

Watching paint dry and grass grow are perfect times for CBG meditation and contemplation.

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Permalink Reply by EarthLvr71 on May 3, 2014 at 12:10am

I totally agree.

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Permalink Reply by robert jones on May 3, 2014 at 1:07am

Ahh, mowing and painting...

One Saturday back in my teen years my Dad told me to cut the grass.

Not wanting to do it and feeling my oats that day I replied with,

 "It's your house right?"

 "Yeah"

 "It's your yard right?"

 "Yeah"

 " Then you cut the effing grass"

When I woke up...my face hurt and the grass still needed cutting but I had learned a valuable life lesson. After I got the yard done Dad handed me a cold beer said "Good job" and went back inside.

The subject was never discussed and the lesson didn't need repeating.

So later on when me and my buds got caught egging a house and Dad told me I was going to scrape and paint the entire house for the folks to make up for it...guess what I did that summer?

Just to prevent the wrong idea my Dad wasn't a drinking man a 6-pack would last him a month. He was 6' -1" 240lbs of career Army drill sgt.

 

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Permalink Reply by EarthLvr71 on May 3, 2014 at 1:47am

lol... love it :)

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Permalink Reply by EarthLvr71 on May 3, 2014 at 12:09am

Nah I think that would make it worse.

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on May 3, 2014 at 7:13am

Playing by ear can be painful. Makes more sense to use yer fingers, before turning your left earlobe into a pick.

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Permalink Reply by BUGGY (C) on May 3, 2014 at 10:15pm

I mainly play in open d 3, 5, 7 for blues and use a blues scale

Feel and listen to the mucic you like and think about string expression. pull offs, snap, on bends, slide up etc

I started with a pick, but recomend thumb and index finger. The thumb thumps a bass beat out of the bass string

whilst the index pics notes. I use the back of my index as a pick to run down over the strings.

You can pick 4 notes and with string expressions and feeling it sounds great.

learn a blues scale to add notes between the typical blues chords frets 3 (or 0) ,5,7 on open tuning.

and in blues sing to the notes you play.

Google Alan Lomax archive on youtube and see how simple songs can be, but with some feel sound awesome.

Borrow some rifs from this..

Less can be more.

Blues is a load of your favoiurite riffs string together into a song

also see Uncle Johns blues song blogg on how to write a song..

Hope this helps.

BUG

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Permalink Reply by BUGGY (C) on May 3, 2014 at 10:17pm

I cant teach but here are some attempts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTHQWywjMeE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_x2stMysdY

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Permalink Reply by BUGGY (C) on May 3, 2014 at 10:20pm

But melons dont make very good slides, but everything else does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ODGGFUU2Hk

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Permalink Reply by EarthLvr71 on May 4, 2014 at 1:03am

O.k. I'm very interested in learning the thumb thunk and finger pick :) Got a video? Also I'm gonna google that and see ::))Thanks a bunch.

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Permalink Reply by Muddy Creek Guitars on May 6, 2014 at 3:57pm

Here's some basic chords for a four string guitar with your tuning: GDGB

Hope this helps!

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