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Cool stuff Shaver.
stay with me for a second…
I ordered octave mando strings from an Amazon reseller 5 weeks ago because most online places that ship to France were sold out. They STILL have not arrived. Also my Arrow Gr 5 string mando is in the shop for some work. These recent ‘gigs’ would have been a lot easier with those mandos because they have some low end, but I have moved back to guitar to compensate for the loss. ( A bunch of my one song vids have me on guitar.)I just spent an hour re-acquainting myself with a whole pile of covers I used to do on guitar but dropped when I spent most of my time playing mandolin. I realised while doing this that I have never been really happy with anyone else playing my material on guitar. I may need to get back into and do it properly.
I will start with Eric’s 30 day challenge tomorrow morning (after my French lesson). But I bet when I do, the strings show up, the Arrow comes home, and I go right back to mandolinny things. 😉
Daniel
PS Annnnnnnd true to form… My luthier has just texted to say the Arrow is ready. (Ha!)
Matt, the Soundbrenner metronome software is a free download and syncs to the Pulse and the Core devices. It has clicks like a regular metronome.
Been practicing a LOT this week. We (my wife and I) started doing daily FB live single song events. Did that for 3 weeks and then we turned it up a notch. Three 6 song sets on three consecutive evenings. FB live, Youtube Live, and Zoom.
So I’ve been working up sets all week.We finished tonight. I’ll go back to one song a day on FB for a while. We’ll definitely do FB live on Thursday night and Zoom next Saturday as well. (Happy to comp you in in you’re interested. 😉 )
I’ll spend time practicing tomorrow. What a gift I have been given…
Daniel
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They are interesting little beasties. Quite literally fluffy dinosaurs, as Matt H says.
They will eat anything. They come running when we go outside, and then they peck at our pant legs if we don’t feed them something. Emmy Lou is gentle and Dolly is forceful but not to the point of causing pain. Linda seems like she suspects us of something. She might be the smartest of the three. 😉Daniel
Matt,
Do you know about the Soundbrenner Core haptic metronome?
https://www.soundbrenner.com/coreI don’t practice enough.
Small children home all day.
Wife working from home.
Garden needs tending.
Chickens need feeding.
And many other excuses.
<sigh>Silver lining: Being literally henpecked ain’t so bad and chicken shit could be much worse than it is.
😉Daniel
We’ve been told to continue in confinement until 11 May when France will enter a new phase. In the mean time production of materials like gloves, masks, face shields, hazmat suits, etc will increase.
After 11 May masks will be mandatory for a time in public, schools will reopen gradually, and businesses will do the same.The kids now have a date to which they can look forward (if all goes well here), a date at which they can seriously think about seeing their friends, their French grandparents, and my wife’s brother’s family.
I’ll be looking for work because I resigned from my job effective 21 April. (I won’t bore you with the details, but I will say don’t work for people who vote against their own business interests and those of their employees. It never ends well.)
In the mean time I am studying French every morning and living every waking moment with my family. It is an amazing gift for which I am grateful.
I’m trying to upgrade the daily FB live video, but failed miserably today. Apparently the browser can see only the mic OR the instrument through my Tone Port UX-1, though iMovie and Garageband can see both.
Looking into a Blue Snowball or Yeti.Been playing the Fender FM-988 lately. It desperately needs a set-up and new strings but it has a most lovely tone.
Stay well everyone!
Danielhttps://www.facebook.com/DNN12/videos/649704399146131
I live streamed “Speed of the Sound of Loneliness” a couple days ago. Feeling a bit raw about his passing.Daniel
Doing “Speed of the Sound of Loneliness” with Claudine on guitar and Gisèle on backing vocals this afternoon on FB live. 17:30 local, 11:30Eastern, 8:30Pacific. (and the video will be available on my FB page after)
Angry and sad at the loss of John, Ellis Marsalis, Bucky Pizarelli, and all the others.
Many expletives uttered. I feel like I’m watching the best parts of my culture die away while other less humane parts of my culture flourish like weeds in a hot house.
Singing itself is becoming resistance.
Daniel
Chickens are being let into he kitchen. Alive.
I keep saying, “This is how viruses mutate.” But they only listen when I shout, “Chickens stay outside!”😉
Daniel
Somewhere in the Bay Area a budding luthier has been nipped. He’s casting his tools to he winds. Follow that trail!
🙂
Daniel
Arr, matey that be true. Unfortunately we are fresh out of rum.
We got wine, pastis (anise derived liquor), gin, whiskey (Bourbon), whisky (Scotch), mead, and beer. But no rum.
Oh well!
DanielSaturday, here in L’Aisne, was dull, damp, cold, and grey.
That morning I printed off the form for essential travel and delivered some potatoes and a bit of one of Claudine’s cakes to my in-laws. My father-in-law came to meet the car and looked visibly distressed when I got out to hand him the goodies. He looks tired and worried. My mother-in-law came out a moment later and asked about the kids. She wanted to chat. So I spent some time in my horrible French sputtering away before getting back in the car I only drive once a week.
I rolled by the garden shop, but it was closed until 2pm. So I rolled home. No cops. No real need for the form this time. Very few people on the road. One was a kid in his 20s driving like he was doing the Monaco Grand Prix. Sometimes people see an empty road as an invitation to go too fast.
When I got home, the surreal nature of my hour out of the house made me want Scotch. I was about to go get it when I looked at the clock: 10:30am.
I couldn’t tell 10am from 4pm. First time in my life I’ve actually wanted a drink before 12.
Stay sane my friends.
Daniel
