Track Stand revisions

I've revised the Track Stand piece during the past few days - making it sound more like a 12-string piece, sometimes by adding arpeggios, sometimes by taking advantage of the octave courses. In this example, you can see the bass theme repeated in each of the 4 measures. In this original fingering for measure 16. The two 'f's in the bass required some quick moving from up around the 8th fret down to 1st position, and it was hard to do without breaking up this bass theme.

Making Movies

Since all you folks are into video now, here's a tip on how to get those 12-strings sounding good on YouTube. This article will explain how to record your sound separately and join it with your video using MPlayer and Mencoder .

Body Beat

So I'm slow and have no sense of time. Let's see if a metronome will help.

I went looking for some traditional type metronomes. Better to have one handy rather than have to trapse over to the computer to adjust the beat. I came across the "Body Beat" metronome that you can feel instead of hear. Hey, I can use it while recording!

Action - how low can you go?

Guitar Expo

Buddy Mike and I went to the Guitar Expo in Spartenburg on Sunday. We came back through the beginnings of a rare March snowstorm. The expo seemed to draw a middling amount of people, perhaps because of the impending storm, perhaps because of the recession. One of the dealers said the sales were not good.