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Watch him carefully... His fingers cover 6+ frets with ease. Like a guitar was ever meant to be played like that lol!
Another thing that makes me envious....
When his ring finger and long finger are pressed to the fretboard, his index finger and pinky still move with a lot independence, freedom and fluidity. I wish that my left hand could do that so well, but it doesn't. It just doesn't.
This man was born to play. Like Eric Johnson and his ET fingers.
Watch him carefully... His fingers cover 6+ frets with ease. Like a guitar was ever meant to be played like that lol!
Another thing that makes me envious....
When his ring finger and long finger are pressed to the fretboard, his index finger and pinky still move with a lot independence, freedom and fluidity. I wish that my left hand could do that so well, but it doesn't. It just doesn't.
This man was born to play. Like Eric Johnson and his ET fingers.
Hey Sunset! When I was studying music, my piano teacher gave me finger dexterity calisthenics. They really work to make each finger independent. Basically, they’re like this, with many variations. Hold the 1st, 3rd, and 5th finger down on a flat service. Then play 2 t0 4, 4 to 2, etc. Start very slow, but evenly. Gradually increase speed. Then hold down 2 & 4, while playing 1to 3 to 5 to 3 and repeat. Or hold down 1 & 2 and do the same playing with 3 to 4 to 5. Anyway, there’s thousands of variations. After several months of this routine, I guarantee your fingers with be more independent. About a half hour each day.
Watch him carefully... His fingers cover 6+ frets with ease. Like a guitar was ever meant to be played like that lol!
Another thing that makes me envious....
When his ring finger and long finger are pressed to the fretboard, his index finger and pinky still move with a lot independence, freedom and fluidity. I wish that my left hand could do that so well, but it doesn't. It just doesn't.
This man was born to play. Like Eric Johnson and his ET fingers.
Hey Sunset! When I was studying music, my piano teacher gave me finger dexterity calisthenics. They really work to make each finger independent. Basically, they’re like this, with many variations. Hold the 1st, 3rd, and 5th finger down on a flat service. Then play 2 t0 4, 4 to 2, etc. Start very slow, but evenly. Gradually increase speed. Then hold down 2 & 4, while playing 1to 3 to 5 to 3 and repeat. Or hold down 1 & 2 and do the same playing with 3 to 4 to 5. Anyway, there’s thousands of variations. After several months of this routine, I guarantee your fingers with be more independent. About a half hour each day.
Just damn! I can play drums, and I can finger pick a guitar... but I've never been able to make my hands do two different things at the same time on a piano!
I dont know anything about the world of very good and excellent musicians, but she seems gifted to me. That flourish that she did at about 1:40 sounded flawless and gorgeous to my ears.
I think her real gift is in the arranging the songs for her finger picking style. It's like most music, aside from classical and jazz, the genius is creating it, not so much copying it. Most competent musicians can do this, just as most competent musicians can play every note the BEatles ever played, but then there's that little part of they came up with it. It is beautiful finger picking regardless of whether or not its virtuistic
I used to think she was just some random girl, but then i saw her playing with Tommy Emanuel, she seems older with him but still nice to have a celeb endorsement. shes a views machine... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHVzFLsfZ8
Some folks are born with "gifted fingers"...long spidery fingers like Robert Johnson pictures show...Terry Bradshaw was asked what made him a great quarterback..his answer?? "Have you seen the size of my hands?? All good QBs have coal shovel hands...gift of birth....guess it's simply the same with guitarists who learn to play..they can reach more frets and strings..not like my stubbies at all
And I guess what John talked about... practicing lots...is key in developing the muscle memory that playing with two hands...guitar or piano or flute etc ...requires
I think that is behind that saying about 10,000 hours of practice at anything makes you an expert...or competent or...??
If writing ever becomes work I think I'm going to have to stop
What makes you a great QB today is size, strength and speed, lol everything.
At one time you could be the slowest guy on the team not move an inch and still be a super bowl quarterback, not any more. Even the defensive linemen run the fortyin under 5. Linebackers as fast as running backs.
But I still think vision is what makes a quarterback great. The abliity to find the open man while under pressure, is a gift not many have. Tom Bradys specialty, and he;s 6"5, which alot of teams wont even consider drafting you unless you are 6"5. Smaller guys have made it too, but its less predictable. Hand size yes, important for being able to grip the ball. Have you ever tried throwing a pro football? I can throw it 25 yards if im lucky....
I think her real gift is in the arranging the songs for her finger picking style.
That's why I keep coming back to her videos. She is one of those people who can feel their way through a song and it comes out beautifully because these arrangements are something born within them.
I dont think that she is the same woman who played with TE. That woman's face and facial features appear rounder and blunter to me. Not sure.
That link is on her youtube page. She does look alot different, strange.
But credit to her, on her bio on her website she doesnt even mention playing with him, and i dont believe her views are because of that. She just seems like a school girl who loves her dad and helps her mom bake cookies.
This kid has half a million subscribers... 7 years old covering Max Weinberg...of Springsteen E Street band. Gotta love how he sings the song just as Max often does... lol
Saw this last night on a facebook add, got to thinking man I wish I could play like that which would be cool and all but I grew up listening to singer songwriters and always wanted to be a wordsmith. 2 of the best in my opinion John Prine and Nanci Griffith "both recently passed away" kept the music simple and captivated you with the lyrics. Prine used common chords and just moved the capo around although he had a unique finger picking style. Nanci played in a lot of open tunings where 1, 2 or no fretted strings made a chord but they both wrote songs I only hope to emulate. They didn't have radio songs but long careers, I've been listening to them since high school along with Dylan.
If this is not inspirational, you are not human...maybe
Very very nice. Do not agree that if someone listens to it and does not feel overcome by emotion and connection to God...that they are less than human. I mean jeez. That's a powerful condemnation over not responding to a song.
I don't listen to the radio much, I have all the cd's I could ever want. Most of what I listen to never made it that far, but I heard this the other day. It's like 4 songs in one. I think it's wonderfully crafted, I find inspiration in that.
I don't listen to the radio much, I have all the cd's I could ever want. Most of what I listen to never made it that far, but I heard this the other day. It's like 4 songs in one. I think it's wonderfully crafted, I find inspiration in that.
I was listening to it in the truck today. It's the type of song that makes you listen closely, being drawn in by relatable circumstances.
My Mom had all of JD's records back in the day... She has an old recording of her playing and me singing "Grandma's Feather Bed" when I was 8 lol. Takes me back
I’m not sure if this lady has ever been mentioned here before..she has a fascinating story....she passed away in 1996 from cancer virtually unknown...about 5-6 years later her album sold 10 million copies...she was unknown, not because she couldn’t get a label to sign her, many wanted to...she turned them all down because they wanted to make her into their image and she said no....that takes guts
Eva only sang covers but made them her own...like these ones....
Sting heard her version of Fields of Gold years later and said it was the best version of the song ever done...including his own and said he would never sing it again in public....he gave a copy to David Foster who contacted Michael Bolton who did a duet of Fields of Gold with Eva using tracks from her album ....Mick Fleetwood was a friend of hers and would sit in on some of her gigs in Washington
A great inspiration for me is Joni Mitchell, and the humility she has kept throughout her career and life, and specifically, her song "Both Sides Now." I find great inspiration in her second recording, late in her career, of the song.
It helps me stay in touch with how small I am...how small we all are, really...in the face of the vastness of space, time, and the mysteries of the universe. That, for me, is also a lifeline to "wonder" and retaining a sense of it as I age.
"Both Side Now." Wrote it in her early twenties, it became her signature tune, at least of her initial folk period. It's lyrically, at first glance, a song about her realizing how little she knew, how much she had to learn, and how life was going to be a great adventure:
And she sings it "on top of the beat" eager, anxious...and it all fits...
...and she goes on to have a remarkable career, with several distinct "periods" --and then decades later, towards the end of her career, her voice nicotine soaked, ragged and several notes lower, she revisits the song, singing these same words, "I've looked at life from both sides now/From win and lose and still somehow/it's life's illusions I recall/I really don't know life at all"
--and it's a really powerful moment. We know she wrote and sang the song in her youth, and that it took her writing the song, living a life, and then revisiting the song (much later in life) to lead to this moment, and to me it's devastating in it's beauty: she's singing behind the beat with a kind of jazz swagger now, she has lived and learned, and yet, she's still in touch with how "small" all that living and learning is in "the bigger picture", and is affirming that for her, life is STILL a questing, an adventure. Something beautiful ("life's/love's illusions") to render us speechless might be around the next corner. It's the most vulnerable, honest thing...and whenever I feel a need for inspiration, I want to re-connect with "wonder" and humility, I reach for this later performance of "Both Sides Now."
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Fate doesn't hang on a wrong or right choice Fortune depends on the tone of your voice
-The Divine Comedy (Neil Hannon) from the song "Songs of Love" from the album "Casanova" (1996)
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