The Secret to Life

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The Secret to Life

Post by vbuskirk » Sat May 29, 2010 12:55 pm

Doesn't this look like the most fun?

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Re: The Secret to Life

Post by el presidente » Sat May 29, 2010 1:05 pm

Oh yeah,they sound great :headbang:
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Re: The Secret to Life

Post by Rambam » Sat May 29, 2010 2:12 pm

I should`ve learned to play the guitar :banghead:
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Post by jimyritz » Sat May 29, 2010 2:38 pm

Awesome.... :headbang: :headbang:

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Re: The Secret to Life

Post by mattcantwin » Sat May 29, 2010 3:24 pm

I can't even wear a cool hat. :shrug:
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Re: The Secret to Life

Post by vbuskirk » Sun May 30, 2010 3:30 pm

Rambam wrote:I should`ve learned to play the guitar :banghead:
It's not too late. It only takes 10-20 years, and arthritis probably won't really set in until your 70s or 80s.
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Re: The Secret to Life

Post by vbuskirk » Sun May 30, 2010 3:32 pm

mattcantwin wrote:I can't even wear a cool hat. :shrug:
Can't say the same. :whistle:
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Re: The Secret to Life

Post by ezcheese » Mon May 31, 2010 9:05 am

vbuskirk wrote:
mattcantwin wrote:I can't even wear a cool hat. :shrug:
Can't say the same. :whistle:
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Re: The Secret to Life

Post by el presidente » Mon May 31, 2010 9:10 am

vbuskirk wrote:
Rambam wrote:I should`ve learned to play the guitar :banghead:
It's not too late. It only takes 10-20 years, and arthritis probably won't really set in until your 70s or 80s.
:clap: :clap:
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Re: The Secret to Life

Post by el presidente » Mon May 31, 2010 9:14 am

Pikachu is a virgin!

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Re: The Secret to Life

Post by matt.wu » Tue Jun 01, 2010 9:51 am

vbuskirk wrote:
Rambam wrote:I should`ve learned to play the guitar :banghead:
It's not too late. It only takes 10-20 years, and arthritis probably won't really set in until your 70s or 80s.


Wow Chris - very nice.

LOVE the hat shout-out. LOL :roll: :roll: :thumbsup: :cheers:

You most definitely CAN wear a cool hat.
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Re: The Secret to Life

Post by vbuskirk » Tue Jun 01, 2010 9:29 pm

Thanks guys!

I was being serious. In the opinion of 1 late bloomer, "You should definitely take a crack at it." Make those fingers bleed ...
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Re: The Secret to Life

Post by ezcheese » Wed Jun 02, 2010 4:45 am

Yeah, work through the first week or so of painful fingers. After they recover, you're good to go!

Unless you're Stevie Ray Vaughan... then you play until your fingers are bleeding, and then play some more. :shock:
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Re: The Secret to Life

Post by vbuskirk » Wed Jun 02, 2010 10:28 am

I used a classical, nylon string guitar for the first few months. The fret board is too wide (for those of us with hands like Matt.wu), but otherwise it is much easier to play for noobs.
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Re: The Secret to Life

Post by matt.wu » Wed Jun 02, 2010 10:49 am

vbuskirk wrote:The fret board is too wide (for those of us with hands like Matt.wu), but otherwise it is much easier to play for noobs.
I assume you mean massive, muscular hands. :tap:

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Re: The Secret to Life

Post by f4nt0m4s » Thu Jun 03, 2010 7:35 pm

I disagree on the 10-20 years part. Mozart wrote his first symphony at age 8 or 9, and he was a piano and violin master before that.

Also, if you injure your hand you just learn how to play guitar in more creative ways. Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. I'll digress....





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Re: The Secret to Life

Post by vbuskirk » Thu Jun 03, 2010 8:11 pm

I especially liked the 2nd one. :clap: (& it's encouraging to know someone else plays with their mouth. e.g. minute 4:00 of the 2nd video)

Sooooo, can anyone name the watch?
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Re: The Secret to Life

Post by ezcheese » Fri Jun 04, 2010 5:24 am

f4nt0m4s wrote:I disagree on the 10-20 years part. Mozart wrote his first symphony at age 8 or 9, and he was a piano and violin master before that.
I'm somewhat of a Mozart buff.

Here is the second movement of his Symphony #1, written when he was 8. You can already hear him experimenting with syncopation, slight dissonance and playing with layers, even though he played around within the constructs of the time.

For those of you not into classical music, the second movement was almost always done in a 3/4 time signature. I'm usually pretty bored with these.

The first movement of this piece is much cooler IMO. It contains his "signature" key change and some other hallmarks that he would later improve upon.

Not too bad :raised:

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Re: The Secret to Life

Post by f4nt0m4s » Fri Jun 04, 2010 11:45 am

vbuskirk wrote:I especially liked the 2nd one. :clap: (& it's encouraging to know someone else plays with their mouth. e.g. minute 4:00 of the 2nd video)

Sooooo, can anyone name the watch?
I can't tell the watch, the huge strap makes the size look deceiving. I want to say it looks like a fashion watch you'd get at the mall, but it could also be a midsized quartz watch.
ezcheese wrote:I'm somewhat of a Mozart buff.

Here is the second movement of his Symphony #1, written when he was 8. You can already hear him experimenting with syncopation, slight dissonance and playing with layers, even though he played around within the constructs of the time.

For those of you not into classical music, the second movement was almost always done in a 3/4 time signature. I'm usually pretty bored with these.

The first movement of this piece is much cooler IMO. It contains his "signature" key change and some other hallmarks that he would later improve upon.

Not too bad :raised:

I'm not a Mozart buff, only in the sense that I know that the accompaning parts in his music...the || de de de | de de de | de de de || repeated ad infinitum are no fun to play or rehearse.
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