new vid..

benwalker · Post by **benwalker** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 11:04 pm

more acoustic twattery in dadgad. tune is "L'alchimiste" by a french/algerian guy called Pierre Bensusan

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greetz...

arcadedave · Post by **arcadedave** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 11:27 pm

That was beautiful man, great job.

Post by **Mike** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 11:37 pm

That's some tasty fingerpicking, chief.

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 1:01 am

holy crap your good.
thats it, i quit, i suck.

benwalker · Post by **benwalker** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 1:04 am

thanks - officially sick of practising this thing but seems to be worthy of a whorehouse post...

does it count as shortscale if the guitar is 24 3/4" for an acoustic?

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 1:10 am

yeah sure since most people like martin and i think there standard scale is 25.9

benwalker · Post by **benwalker** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 1:51 am

robert(original) wrote:holy crap your good.
thats it, i quit, i suck.

ha! just saw that - i think that every time i see other people play. even guys who've been playing for two weeks, play three chords, but still manage to arrive at something totally unique that i'd never have thought of. you just hear it and think "...damn...". technical is all well and good but doesn't beat having imagination (... hmm, maybe that should be tattooed onto malmsteen's forehead... and maybe i should go expand my mind or summat...)

it's funny - i can practice enough to play stuff like this (marginally better than practising 7 hours of shred-metal maybe..), but then i didn't write it... so at the moment it's been a case of playing other people's music (yet again...) until something i write falls out of the ether.

could be a while...

robert(original) wrote:yeah sure since most people like martin and i think there standard scale is 25.9

i could never get on with big dreadnoughts. good for strumming but always feel too distant for fingerstyle or classical-type stuff. the shorter scale aspect of that acoustic is only just starting to sink in after having it for around six weeks. it's that stupid trick that gives you more confidence in hitting certain chords and risking bigger stretches - and then you go play on a 'normal' acoustic and it's back to "argh! can't play it any more!..."

Chorlton · Post by **Chorlton** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:25 pm

very nice playing a and a pretty tune too.

othomas2 · Post by **othomas2** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 12:57 am

Lovely playing !! how do you go about learning this ? Music notation or can you get tab ?

When I performed a Bach prelude for my A Levels years ago, I had to transcribe everything to tab... as I can't read music on the guitar but can on other instruments. Just wondering how you go about it... would love to expand my horizons further again...

Have you tried BAGDAD tuning ?

benwalker · Post by **benwalker** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 10:15 am

I had to go with the tab route - link - I've since bought his book, which is entirely DADGAD, and is more difficult but probably a challenge..

the notes are there, which helps for left-hand fingering, but since the tuning is different I couldn't figure out where I was meant to be playing each note without the tab. The stretches are mad in places...

Most guitar music, beyond the stuff that they give you in grade exams, seems to be tabbed out anyway. If you can read other music, guitar notation is a bit like piano - but instead of being on separate staves, it's all on the same one: note tails point up or down to distinguish between parts and it's up to you how you play it. Haven't played a Back prelude in years!

Writing "The ode to saddam" at the moment..