First Principles

[Mikey]

Now, if I could only get him to play a decent three-tom fill!

[Mikey]

I say, you both play a $100 Squire next gig, the whole gig, and see if anybody notices.

Oooppps! Sorry, back to the thread!
Anybody want to borrow my Duane Eddy two-fer cd? Learn where the surf dudes got their stuff?

[Mikey]

BTW,
I've got an awfully strong gnawin' inside that I need to pick up one of those Fender out-board Reverb/vibrato things to run with my Tubegarden Princeton.
I just love surf music!
Any thoughts on the re-issue?

[Kap'n]

BTW,
I've got an awfully strong gnawin' inside that I need to pick up one of those Fender out-board Reverb/vibrato things to run with my Tubegarden Princeton.
I just love surf music!
Any thoughts on the re-issue?

No trem in the Fender Reverb Box, but they're supposed to be decent.

OTOH, build your own Weber kit! It's as easy as the Princeton kit was. There's no instructions, but it's essentially the same thing. Make sure you get a 6K6 driver tube, it makes a lot of difference.

[Mikey]

I thought about it once. I gues I have to check into them again.
I know HOG has one of the Fenders sittin' back there int the pile of amps. Been there about three years. Maybe I can get a price.
OH, are we talking the Revibe here?

[Rickenjangle]

Yeah, what are you complaining about?

Thanks for the kind words guys.
I guess I feel stuck in a rut. I can hear things I'd like to play in my head, but I don't have the theoretical knowledge to do them. And sometimes I hear stuff on record and realize it's easy, but it's not stuff I know how to achieve.

Tele-Bob, you are one of those guys who always knows how to play modally/chordally and yet your playing never seems studied or mechanical. At the jam, you did a lightning fast arpeggio run with 16th notes where each set was a from a different chord, working down the fretboard, and I was just blown away.

OSA, those Setzer solos are worked out in advance. I couldn't create a diminished run on the fly. The best I can do is work the major/minor pentatonic for additional color, but it's an ear thing more than a knowledge thing.

[Rickenjangle]

Now, if I could only get him to play a decent three-tom fill!

LOL! I always lose it by the time I get around to the floor tom. Probably because I haven't learned to work my paradiddles and paradaddles

[Kap'n]

I thought about it once. I gues I have to check into them again.
I know HOG has one of the Fenders sittin' back there int the pile of amps. Been there about three years. Maybe I can get a price.
OH, are we talking the Revibe here?

No the regular reverb unit. Weber's got a kit for about the same price or maybe a few $ less than the Fender unit, but it's all PTP wired.

The revibe is a tough circuit to build. I bought the kit, but built a much simpler tremolo circuit in it than the one that's in there, which is the white/tan harmonic tremolo.

[Offshore Angler]

Here Gianni

Diminshed is easy. It's very geometric on the board. Just start say on the A of the Low E at the fifth fret, then using your pinky play the C, then move up one string and one fret and play D# to F#, do the up a string and up a fret again and repeat and so forth, remembering to add a fret at that blasted B string. All you're doing is going up by fixed b3's intervals. And since diminshed chords repeat themselves every four frets, you have a landing zone chord almost anywhere on the neck. Try it over the 4 chord on a 1,4,5 progression to spice it up and listen to how it resolves back to the 1.

Music theory isn't like Maxwell's equations. It's really just simple stuff that has complicated names. Example - you might not be a keyboard player, but if I showed you where the C was on the keyboard you could very easily play me a C, Cm, C7, and Cmaj7 by just counting up keys fron the C. The only difference with the guitar is it's two dimensional instead of one dimensional. So for the piano you would do the same scale as above effortlessly the first time by playing the A and then hitting every 4th key. But since the guitar strings go up by 4ths it makes things a little more complicated. But we all know where the root is, we know up a string is a fourth, and down a string is a fifth, so finding the 1,3, & 5 tones is a breeze. I "think" in terms of the low E and A strings. Buy spending two minutes and knowing where the natural 3, 5, and 7 is relatve to the root note on either of those two strings (Stupid easy, since up a string an down a fret is a third, we know where the 5 is from hueristics, and the 7 is one fret below the root ), and then just flatting the specific interval(s) I have the scale I need. It's dumb, but it works for me. Then I count the sharps or flats in that scale and the circle of fifths tells me the note to use for the root of a C scale fingering pattern to be in the correct mode. That's why you can see me saying "Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle" to myself all the time. :) Natural scales of G,D,A,E, & B!

[Rickenjangle]

Thanks, OSA. I'm gonna have to print that one out and work it out one step at a time, 'cause after awhile my poor eyes glazed over. About the time you used the word 'heuristics' in a sentence.