Songs I Am Listening To

[Macpherson]

 

[Doug Tait]

3 hours ago, Macpherson said:

 

Like that but my dog enjoyed it more

[Billhook]

Just a reminder to the World in the current climate

 

 

[Mark J]

 

[Mull]

 

Chuck Berry has a lot to answer for. Excellent!

[Billhook]

Another from the 1980s showing my age ( and Stubby’s)!

 

[Billhook]

A bit topical in the US

 

 

 

[Macpherson]

2 hours ago, Billhook said:

A bit topical in the US

 

 

 

 

Pretty good, didn't read vid title and was momentarily unaware that this was a cover... but I still think that Randy Hansen is the worlds closest to Jimi.

 

It's interesting that apparently JH  was a righty who played left and Randy is a lefty who plays right.. so both used there dominant hand on the neck where the norm would usually be the opposite .. including me.

 

As a righty, trying to play the music of J, Mayer has taught me the importance of the picking hand and I'm very grateful.

 

Sorry to be long winded but if you liked Jimi you really will  probably enjoy Randy's take on the songs of the long gone brilliant composer and they're playing  now to go to a gig is only around $25

 

 

 

[Billhook]

5 hours ago, Macpherson said:

 

Pretty good, didn't read vid title and was momentarily unaware that this was a cover... but I still think that Randy Hansen is the worlds closest to Jimi.

 

It's interesting that apparently JH  was a righty who played left and Randy is a lefty who plays right.. so both used there dominant hand on the neck where the norm would usually be the opposite .. including me.

 

As a righty, trying to play the music of J, Mayer has taught me the importance of the picking hand and I'm very grateful.

 

Sorry to be long winded but if you liked Jimi you really will  probably enjoy Randy's take on the songs of the long gone brilliant composer and they're playing  now to go to a gig is only around $25

 

 

 

As a leftie who plays leftie, also a chainsaw leftie, I do find the left right subject fascinating.  I also play piano and enjoy boogie woogie where my dominant left hand provides a strong rhythm where my right hand does the fiddly bits.  This is the same on my guitar, right hand doing the fiddly bits.

Hendrix is a massive influence ever since I heard Purple Haze in 1967 when i was 13.  I bitterly regret turning down an opportunity to see him and the Pink Floyd  and Clapton near here at Spalding as it was harder to move around in those days at that age and just a bit too far to bicycle!

 

50 years on from day Hendrix, Clapton and Pink Floyd played Spalding in UK’s ‘first-ever’ rock festival – The Voice

WWW.SPALDINGVOICE.CO.UK

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Colin Ward was – by his own admission – a rather naïve 17-year-old at the time of ...

 

[Macpherson]

14 hours ago, Billhook said:

As a leftie who plays leftie, also a chainsaw leftie, I do find the left right subject fascinating.  I also play piano and enjoy boogie woogie where my dominant left hand provides a strong rhythm where my right hand does the fiddly bits.  This is the same on my guitar, right hand doing the fiddly bits.

Hendrix is a massive influence ever since I heard Purple Haze in 1967 when i was 13.  I bitterly regret turning down an opportunity to see him and the Pink Floyd  and Clapton near here at Spalding as it was harder to move around in those days at that age and just a bit too far to bicycle!

 

50 years on from day Hendrix, Clapton and Pink Floyd played Spalding in UK’s ‘first-ever’ rock festival – The Voice

WWW.SPALDINGVOICE.CO.UK

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Colin Ward was – by his own admission – a rather naïve 17-year-old at the time of ...

 

 

I also find the which handed argument intriguing as essentially when you start you can't use either hand... so as a righty I've spent 52 years trying to get my left hand into line while my dominant right was lazily very much taken for granted, and totally wrongly as I've recently found.

 

In reflection if I was to start again knowing what I know now... would I choose to use my dominant hand for picking or working the neck.. I'm actually not sure, and although all this time that has passed in which as a practical engineering repair guy and would be musician I find myself increasingly more and more ambidextrous, which may be a more balanced natural state if we weren't pigeon holed L or H at an early age.

To test this I'm fairly interested in getting hold of a decent LH acoustic of the same ilk of my RH usual's just to see  if learning to play the other way is in any way terribly hard..  bearing in mind that now I know what I want the fingers to do

 

To me, regardless of what your led to believe at the early learning stage in life it can all be corrected with intelligent practice of anything.

 

Seems we are similar opposites in that I have a full size Korg electric piano which I would love a solid left hand for but I feel liked a complete novice with... although my right is  boogie central with no probs, but  I suppose that that's one of the challenges of everyday life when trying to get a grip with music,  cheers.