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estrela - Everytime I see you post I get more and more hungry!!
My best friend in highschool was from Rio. His grandma made the best food. Man I was bummed when she went back to Brazil. I need some black beans and fagion (spelling?).
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Matt Dorado
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I just got done analyzing "The Jody Grind" by Horace Silver for guitar class. Pretty easy blues piece with some tri-tone subs. Over the next week I have to write my own melody over the changes. I hope he gives us a solo break. It would be fun to jam over. Can you say lydian -dom!! Oh well, I have a Chem mid term in an hour, should go good. I studied all day yesterday.
Cheese - April 24 is nearing. I hope you get to come up a day early.
Michelle Look out for falling icicles !!!
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Wed Jan 26 '05 9:10:11 am
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Matt Dorado
Portland, OR
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Michelle - Time to move to VA.
The endangered Virginia big-eared bat — Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus — would become the official state bat
Another beautiful day in Oregon, CLouds and Liquid Sunshine, 55F for a high.
SOTMorning - Somewhere I Belong, Linkin Park
Mikesb - Memories!!
Who knows what tomorrow brings
In a world, few hearts survive
All I know is the way I feel
When it's real, I keep it alive
The road is long, there are mountains in our way
But we climb a step every day
CHORUS:
Love lift us up where we belong
Where the eagles cry on a mountain high
Love lift us up where we belong
Far from the world we know, up where the clear winds blow
Some hang on to "used to be"
Live their lives, looking behind
All we have is here and now
All our life, out there to find
The road is long, there are mountains in our way,
But we climb them a step every day
CHORUS
Time goes by
No time to cry
Life's you and I
Alive, today
CHORUS
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Thu Jan 27 '05 5:17:26 am
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Matt Dorado
Portland, OR
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I want his hat - Try
Power Tabs. There are a lot of tabs availible. It is free and with the software you can write your own stuff also. Feel free to ask more detailed questions as there are some great players here with lots of knowledge.
EDIT: forgot an 's'
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Matt Dorado
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Powerslave - If you string the from the headstock to the bridge, you lock the strings in the bridge then give just a little bit of slack and start winding. Now one other thing that I do is make sure that I have a few windings around the peg so that if I break a string at a gig, and I normally do this right at the bridge saddle, I can loosen the nut slide the string down the 1/2 inch that I need and retune. This makes for a fast restring and more importantly gives me a string that has beeen stretched and all that, so I stay in tune for the rest of the show. Since I am doing bar gigs that could be four hours. Like on New Year's when I broke a string at the beginning of our second song.
kd6aaj - Ed if you can give me the time stamp for the passage, I will Power Tab the section out of my Autographed (had to put that in) Flying in Blue Dream Book and email it to you tomorrow. Either post it or send me an email. In fac,t if you want to send me or tell me what Powert Tab you are using, I can compare it to the Cherry Hill version and get back to you.
EDIT: Can't type!!
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Matt Dorado
Portland, OR
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H E L P
Guitar wiring question. I put in my new pickups per the JEM wiring diagram. But when I flip to my neck pick up I get a lot of feedback. Any suggestions?
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Fri Jan 28 '05 8:06:31 am
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Matt Dorado
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Big bad moon - Crush of Love is a good lesson in ear training. Not too technical and not too fast. Give it a good try. A couple hints to get you started ; Key of Am (or C ) most of the action takes place around the 12th fret. If you get really stuck try Power Tabs.
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Matt Dorado
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kd6aaj - Got the email, thanks. Weird about the other civgeek. I went through a bunch of different mutations of Civil Engineering Geek before I found one in yahoo that didn't have a number with it. Oh well some much for being original!!
Steven - You have a good weekend too. Not sure I'll be around this weekend. The wife and I are without kids for 36 hrs. WOOHOO!!!
Michelle - I just killed a big ass spider about the size of a quarter. I know it wasn't one of those Aussie spiders that ride on the mud flaps but hey I did my husbandly duties. Stay Warm.
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Matt Dorado
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kd6aaj - I looked at the TAb you sent and it is identical to my Cherry Lane copy. Probably copied.Through the section your working on it is all the legato technique. One suggestion would be to watch one of the videos, DVD or off www.foever joe, just to make sure you see what's going on. I know that has helped me in the past.
Grey fox - on tech I used in school was to assign a value, note duration, rest name, to the face of a die and then roll dice for my composition. Theat would give you a very modern feel to your piece with the randomness.
NO KIDS FOR 36 HOURS!!!!!!!!!! OH YEAH!!!!!!
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Matt Dorado
Portland, OR
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ED - I knew there had to be a way to convert those files. AVI huh. I'll have to look into that. My mother-in-law is coming to stay with us for a while and she has a 60" TV. Concert videos are going to be so big it will be almost like being there.
Parker - That sounds cool. Post a pic of the new stick-n-strings when you get a chance.
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Matt Dorado
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I got my test results back for Chem today. 73/100 Not as good as I would have hoped or so I thought until she posted the class spread and I was 30 points above the average. I never know if it is the students are stupid or the teachers just don't teach as well. I know that in my case I made some stupid mistakes that cost me points but a class average of 43/100, C'mon!!
Steve T It must be a West coast thing because Portland has been absolutely beautimus lately. Snowboarding is at an all-time low but hey my tan hasn't faded!!
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Matt Dorado
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Steve T Medford? Were they all related? LOL Up here the southerners are thought of as well ... Southerners. We Northerners are a bit more "so-fist-toe-cated" ya'know. All kidding aside (Sorry Cheese) my wife and I moved here with the intent of moving on after a year. 11 years later were still here and not planning on going anywhere , with the possible exception of Ireland, but I'm finishing school first. I am hoping to be in NYC this summer as part of "PA Invasion 2005." I'll make sure I keep ya'll up to date.
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Matt Dorado
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Michelle Too bad Deary!! You picked the wrong guy. I am man enough to admit that I was a HUGE Partrige family fan when I was young. However MY Michelle is going to be mad at you as I'm going to sing that for the rest of the night. LOL
Cheese - Corvallis ? Corvallis?. You know how to get to Corvallis from Portland? Drive south 'till you smell it, drive west 'till you step in it. LOL
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Matt Dorado
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Mike McKaigg - Mike, did you play trombone at Chabot about 13 years ago? If so, I played guitar and my wife Michelle played flute and sax. Let me know.
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Parker - Yes I did. I play an RG also except I have a H-S-H config instead of the H-H that yours has. Does it play better than the Peavy?
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Matt Dorado
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Big Bunny - For the record I have a bunny. He goes by the names of Fat Boy, Mr. Nibbles, Pooper, Bunnicula, Nutmeg, and Dinner. Depending on the mood of the addresser.
Comment: (eg. with little pink bows in your hair & wearing a Wiggles t-shirt) that is some funny stuff. That crack was definately Michellesque. Keep that up!!
Good night Jazzy, you Post Whore!!
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Matt Dorado
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Weather Report for Portland, Oregon (Sorry Chowds)
TodayAM Clouds
hi 54°F - lo 39°F
TomorrowAM Clouds
hi 54°F - lo 42°F
Looks like another great day in Paradise while I'm stuck in class looking at a computer monitor or some old guy rambling on while trying not to drool on myself as I nod off.
Mikesb - Do you want to do my Geology for me? What wacked out crap. I love the theory, volcanoe, plate tectonics etc, but the calcs are not cool at all. We are doing Slope Stability. Blah!! No chance of me switching majors!!! Geology or to EE. I felt sorry for some of the people in my circuts class on the last HW. There was a lot of Diff/EQ. It's not a prereq for the class but they have us doing it anyway. Well, you know how intuitive that crap is. Who is going to come up with a Ke^-st as a solution unless you've been shown how to solve second order differentials. It's f%^$ing stupid.
Rant over
I have Guitar class today so atleast one good thing will happen today.
Anybody from Vancouver,BC? - I'll be up there in the first week in April. What's there to do?
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Matt Dorado
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Cuthbert - Newton was a freak and an ass. Plus I'm not convinced he did it all by himself. Regardless, the math isn't that hard if you have been shown it. I'm still looking for the engineering field that doesn't require math. Haven't found it yet, but transportation is real close. I swear half the time at work we are just pulling numbers out of our asses. It cracks me up. Plus there is really no liability. cause it is for all intents and purposes and opinion based on assumptions. Change your assumption set change your answer and argue why it makes sense. I love it!!
JUJU - I would like to have 40F and snow. All our ski parks are closed. No boarding this year I fear. My profs suck this qtr. I hope for better next qtr.
Big Bunny - We've had him for about a year now. He's three years old. He has finally gotten social. when we forst got him he didn't want anything to do with us. Now when we come into the front room (yes he's an indoor bunny) he runs over to the edge of the cage and stands up with his front paws on the cage walls waiting for us to rub his nose. Weird ass rabbit. He pretty good now about NOTchewing on the furniture now which has been a blessing. He did a little damage at first but now he jus t hangs out. He's such a lazy shit. Anyway, enough procrastination back to Geology.
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Matt Dorado
Portland, OR
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ibanezghsman - Perry, How do you like your DXQM? I've been looking at that and the one with the Bubinga top (for the drop-D bridge). How is the trem? it seemed beefy to me and I liked the idea of the bearings instead of an edge. Gimme' your thoughts.
962 - Tone Zone I just put one in my RG. I like it. I have been having some feed back problems but it may be the way I wired it. I have it in the Neck (reversed polarity) with the stock single coil Middle and a Fred in the Bridge. Contrary to Perry I don't mind the clean sound and use it a lot. However my clean patches have a lot of grease on them so that may account for my opinion.
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Matt Dorado
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Almost Amateur - I have had my RG 560
for almost 20 years it's been all over the country and has been my main guitar since I got it. Other than new pick ups and some periodic saddle adjustment it has been a great guitar.
962 - The harmonics pop pretty easy for me. But I don't have trouble getting harmonics out of almost anything. I even used pick harmonics like Roy Buccanon (spelling) on acoustics where you finger a chord and then pick harmonic the chord shape with your right hand. It actually a cool effect and makes the chord chimey. As for feedback I have to look at my wiring cause I get a lot of feed back which is pissing me off but I figured it is my fault not the pickups.
Big Bunny - The Holy Grail is definately one of my all-time favs.
VFRocker - Great story. That is one of the stories that makes you sit back and be thankfull for all that you have. Plus it gives you an advantage over your kids. I tell my kids that if they can think of it I have already done it so don't even try to get over. And I work for a consultant.LOL
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