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Got this Watermelon toy as a present from my youngest son (3yo) today
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Nice toy!
super nice of your kid to give you a gift.

Hey Papa, do you have youtube videos or publicly posted audio recordings of you playing the guitar?

​​​​​​​Would love to hear you play. Hope you dont mind my asking. 

Sure thing Adi! Here is a little jam I did with a friend of mine. Imthe guy to the right with that polar bear hanging on the headstock  https://youtu.be/OWVHr_UmKSI?si=XNeapxju7fhgGMxS

Nice!! Thanks for sharing.

I enjoyed the Jam, and I absolutely loved the title: Quilter Superblock US (no other pedals used,

Guess Happy Birthday then Papa Che! I loved your family band!

I somehow saved Tonglen to my soundcloud library ages ago and think it's amazing 

Oh my b-day is in January! This was just a present from his box of vegetable toys He somehow thought Im in need of a watermelon on top of my studio monitor  

Ah that was a fun collab here on DhO!  

Cheers Adi! I only wish I have moved on from that style of noodling! Im in need of a guitar teacher to point me into other sonic directions and open up the fretboard more as I seem to noodle in the same scale for ages now. Ah well ... maybe one day when Im in pension! 

https://youtube.com/shorts/az9mmZYWCvc?si=rho65okiPNKzTKD1

Do you use any open tunings? They are themselves great teachers. Also myself and a few friends often found that a great way to open up the world of guitar... is to learn Bluegrass.

Amazing tone off that superblock and great playing. 

Thank you! 

​​​​​​​I think open tunings are "lazy tunings" They do stuff for you by using the same fingering as in usual tuning. I only tune lower. Mostly D standard and C standard. I guess all tools are ok to be used in creativity. Even AI to make music and call it "my own"  
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A lot of open tunings are based on tunings for other instruments and many of those other instruments may have multiple tunings, there's multiple different ways to tune a mandolin for example in the context of Irish folk music. Some of the guitar greats I grew up listening to, people like Paul Brady or Bert Jansch would use 3-4 different tunings in one set, John Martyn might tune differently for every song. It's an approach I find that tends to open up a whole new spectrum of fingering and tonality. There's ways to play a guitar in DADGAD that you just can't do in standard. There's blues John Lee Hooker plays in open A that is next to impossible to play in standard, same for Willie McTell.

It is a very traditional thing I suppose, most of my favorite blues players or folk players tend to use a lot of different tunings, there were a lot of different tunings around me growing up both on records and in bars, open mics, etc. I find it's nice to leave standard scale positions behind and just explore the natural resonance of the instrument, it's just you and your chops, a friend of mine often says "That's what separates the boys from the men".

​​​​​​​A lot of the players I know who use open tunings tend to be very technical though I find there's plenty excellent lazy players out there. 

Edit: or something like this, it's just not doable with the same level of finesse

I think Sonic Youth also had several guitars tuned differently for each song I cant get my head around all that. Not that bright nor eager.

There is this book which I feel you might enjoy... It kind of reminds me of mctb, but for guitar ;)

Working on harmony, perhaps using a keyboard instead of or as a complement to the guitar, might be helpful as well to develop new directions. This one is full of interesting stuff, though a bit linear/classical/schoolish to my taste and, I am sure, yours. Still, well worth spending time on, ime. Don't be fooled by the title, many pro musicians I know would likely learn a lot from that book, imo.

Oh my! You scared the s..t out of me with those books! I do get your suggestions to use keyboards but I have already decided to buy a drum set big enough for me and my boys! Im more of a groove fellow than notes and harmonies and clever chords etc ... I still feel that a good song is always connected with a very good groove. Can be basic chords but get an interesting groove going and man sooo good! 

I shall post a pic of the drum set once we get it! Luckily we live in a country side and I have a separate studio apartment to bash at them while the kids sleep in the main house! 

How much we progress definitely depends on our own choices and circumstances. I don't agree that a good groove is the essence of any good piece of music, have to say!

There is to me no real separation between groove and melody. !!!!!