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From: Invisible
Subject: Skills
Date: 17 Aug 2011 04:13:25
Message: <4e4b7825@news.povray.org>
Does anybody here happen to know how to play guitar?


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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: Skills
Date: 17 Aug 2011 13:17:33
Message: <4e4bf7ad$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible escreveu:
> Does anybody here happen to know how to play guitar?

I think I saw someone here doing that on youtube.


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Skills
Date: 17 Aug 2011 16:19:19
Message: <4e4c2247@news.povray.org>
Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Does anybody here happen to know how to play guitar?

  Haven't you seen my videos?

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                                                          - Warp


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From: clipka
Subject: Re: Skills
Date: 18 Aug 2011 04:49:05
Message: <4e4cd201$1@news.povray.org>
Am 17.08.2011 10:13, schrieb Invisible:
> Does anybody here happen to know how to play guitar?

Yes - I do:

(1) Hold instrument in front of your body, stringed side facing away 
from you and long thin part ("neck") protruding to the left.

(2) To produce a sound, strike one or more strings with right thumb or 
other convenient body part.

(3) To alter the pitch of any string, press down firmly between frets 
with fingers of left hand.

Hint: Most audiences prefer consonant chords in a more or less 
consistent rhythm.


But I'd have guessed you knew that already, so why do you ask? :-)


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Skills
Date: 18 Aug 2011 05:31:04
Message: <4e4cdbd8@news.povray.org>
On 17/08/2011 09:19 PM, Warp wrote:
> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> Does anybody here happen to know how to play guitar?
>
>    Haven't you seen my videos?

Ah yes, I'd forgotten about that...


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Skills
Date: 18 Aug 2011 05:31:22
Message: <4e4cdbea$1@news.povray.org>
On 18/08/2011 09:48 AM, clipka wrote:

> But I'd have guessed you knew that already, so why do you ask? :-)

Who do you do that thing where the notes have silence in between them?

When I play guitar, it has plenty of harmony, but little in the way of 
rhythm. It's more like a constant droning of sounds.


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From: Alain
Subject: Re: Skills
Date: 18 Aug 2011 13:42:38
Message: <4e4d4f0e$1@news.povray.org>

> On 18/08/2011 09:48 AM, clipka wrote:
>
>> But I'd have guessed you knew that already, so why do you ask? :-)
>
> Who do you do that thing where the notes have silence in between them?
>
> When I play guitar, it has plenty of harmony, but little in the way of
> rhythm. It's more like a constant droning of sounds.

If you put a finger on a string, it will stop it from vibrating, if you 
place your hand acros all the strings, you'll mute them all at once, 
thus creating a silence.

And yes, you can hardly follow the melody. I tried once to sign along a 
guitarist, with the partition in front of me. I found it totaly 
impossible to know when to start, and after some time, about 1 minute, I 
realised that he was repeating the first mesure hoping that I would 
start. All I heard was a constant sound of varying pitch...


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From: clipka
Subject: Re: Skills
Date: 20 Aug 2011 12:51:08
Message: <4e4fe5fc$1@news.povray.org>
Am 18.08.2011 11:31, schrieb Invisible:
> On 18/08/2011 09:48 AM, clipka wrote:
>
>> But I'd have guessed you knew that already, so why do you ask? :-)
>
> Who do you do that thing where the notes have silence in between them?

Ah yes, sorry I forget to mention that. As Alain already mentioned:

(4) To produce a non-sound ("silence"), hold any convenient body part 
against the respective string(s).

> When I play guitar, it has plenty of harmony, but little in the way of
> rhythm. It's more like a constant droning of sounds.

Classic strumming with the right thumb, huh? In that case you may find 
the pinky side of the palm a convenient body part to mute all strings.

To add even more variation to the rhythm, first make sure you don't 
immobilize your right hand when strumming. From my observation, 
beginners tend to use the fingers of the right hand to keep their hands 
at a steady distance to the strings, and just move the thumb - which is 
good in the beginning because it helps hitting the strings properly 
(thereby avoiding early frustration), but is not very satisfying in the 
long run because you don't have much freedom in how you strike the strings.

Once you get your whole hand moving when strumming, you'll already gain 
more freedom in how hard you hit the strings. Add to that by including 
other parts of the hand in the action: Strike with your fingernails for 
a sharper sound; give the strings a firm slap to produce a nice sharp 
clap followed by silence; let your fingers glide (comparatively) slowly 
over the strings one after the other; grab the bottom three (g,h,e) 
strings with your right fingers and give them a pull, possibly pulling 
on the bass string (E/A/D string depending on chord) with your thumb at 
the same time. Vary this by pulling the strings at different times. Hey, 
guess what - you're fingerpicking by now!


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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: Skills
Date: 23 Aug 2011 16:15:58
Message: <4e540a7e$1@news.povray.org>
OK, so obviously I'm going to need to post some recordings to explain 
this one. To that end, I just fired up my trusty old 8-track, went to 
get my guitar... wait, WTF? My guitar is *gone*! O_O

At this point, I have literally no idea where in hell my guitar has 
gone. I'm rather distressed about this fact. It may not be the best 
guitar that has ever existed, but it's my property and it's a tad too 
large to just be /lost/ like that. I wonder where the holy hell it's got 
to... o_O

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Skills
Date: 23 Aug 2011 18:29:10
Message: <4e5429b6$1@news.povray.org>
On 23/08/2011 9:15 PM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> At this point, I have literally no idea where in hell my guitar has
> gone. I'm rather distressed about this fact. It may not be the best
> guitar that has ever existed, but it's my property and it's a tad too
> large to just be /lost/ like that. I wonder where the holy hell it's got
> to... o_O
>
Your neighbours finally got round to taking action :-P

-- 
Regards
     Stephen


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