I have a few questions for you fingerstyle guitarists out there who love to play Cockburn's music: Do any of you assign the thumb of the right hand (for...
Hi Spencer, The answer to question 1 is yes, that is the standard way to assign right hand fingers and thumb. When Cockburn plays lead he uses his thumb up...
Spencer, I think Bryan hits it on the head. The only thing I would add on question 1 is to be flexible and try what feels right. For example I find on After...
I never had "formal" lessons on finger-style playing and there are several techniques, Travis the most common. I use both my thumb AND index finger for bass...
Spencer, A great question in my opinion. I've been looking at this for a while. Rev Gary Davis and many other Roots blues player used only thumb and index...
Hi guys, I'm about to buy myself a new computer (with Windows Vista) and was wondering what people usually use to record their music to their PC? I know a...
Hi Alain I can't reaslly speak for PC, but have you ever thought of going the MAC route ?? The Macs come complete with a recording program already installed...
Bob Oldfield
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Jan 19, 2007 12:28 am
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Sony's Acid Studio (I have V.5, which is over a year old) provides project-based looping and arranging capabilities and comes with some bass/drum loop tracks....
If you're looking for something fairly cheap that's fairly easy to learn, I have the Line 6 Toneport and have been pretty happy with it...though I use it more...
Hi Bob, ... Yes, I had checked out the archives previously here and found a discussion on recording too and "Garage Band" came up numerous times in that...
Honestly Alain Macs are no better or worse than a PC Macs were better many years ago but really only because the top end programs were only written for Mac. ...
Michael
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Just joined the goup and my new year's resolution is to plays song I love so I hope one of you can point me to the tabs tor provide advice on how to play the...
Stefan, Welcome to the group and happy New Year. Here's one of them - may be my favorite... Steve HOW I SPENT MY FALL VACATION Transcribed from the Humans...
... Hmmm... It never really occured to me to use something 100% non-PC- based (trying to put everything in my PC: TV, DVD, Video, Music, etc. -- if my PC...
I would not say that a PC-based system is not as good...in fact it may be better and you can do a lot more things in regards to tweaking and editing with a...
Thanks Randy. I think I'll give Audacity a try while I learn more about these external recording devices such as Boss, Zoom, Korg, etc. Alain ... some ... ...
Hi i'm looking (me too) for an equipment for PC home recording. In fact i want to record songs and video to send to Youtube and for my pleasure make cd....
At the risk of turning this forum into a music software forum here is another FREE open source program which does BOTH audio and video with pro features:...
Hi, i understand that this forum is not a recording software forum but we can do something really interesting here. As an example, we can upload our music...
Hi, I'm Bob in Orland Park , Il and new to this forum. I think that it would be great. We all have some thing we could (contribute and) learn (especially as PC...
The following cockburn-musicians poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: Favorite Song from World of Wonders? Closes January 31st. ...
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The following cockburn-musicians poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: What's your favorite Song from Life Short Call Now? CHOICES...
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Someone posted this to Humans, one of the other Cockburn mailing lists. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWCKL_MHRoU You gotta love the guy....
Friggin brilliant I would love to see him and Bruce together. _____ From: mgrace00 [mailto:mike@...] Sent: Tuesday, 27 February 2007 2:35 AM To:...
Michael
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Hi there, Considering how few postings there have been lately, I thought it would be ok to go a little off topic. But to establish a connection, Leon is...
Hey Everyone, Juast wanted to say what an amazing show Bruce had at the Tralf music hall in buffalo last week. His playing was truly remarkable and he played...
Every so often I toss this out to the group. It's time again, What songs are folks working on these days, if in fact you can find time. I'm working on: 1. All...
Hey John, I am working on a few... at the moment I am on a CSN kick, so I have been doing some of their stuff, as well as the perennial BC ones I am always...