Saturday 25 January 2020
by Wulf
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One of the things I’ve been experimenting with this week is the 3 note generator effect on my Helix LT. Most of the effects take an incoming signal and transform it but this, as the name suggests, generates three notes … Continue reading
Thursday 23 January 2020
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Solo bass for me at Loughborough Acoustic Club tonight, and I performed the following songs: Fly Me to the Moon Mack the Knife Mona On the Sunny Side of the Street Three of those are jazz songs, with all the … Continue reading
Wednesday 22 January 2020
by Wulf
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Don’t worry – nothing scurrilous about this post. Instead, I’ve been learning a bit more this morning about controlling page spacing in Lilypond, my musical typesetting system of choice with commands such as ragged-bottom. I had a song I’d scored … Continue reading
Tuesday 21 January 2020
by Wulf
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Apologies (moderately sincere) for the blatant misquoting of E M Forster’s famous phrase but it came to mind when I was thinking about my latest banjo revelation, namely that it isn’t too dissimilar from a guitar. In general terms, it … Continue reading
Friday 17 January 2020
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I’m typing this with chilly fingers, after walking back from church this afternoon. In part, that is because the skies have cleared, revealing a beautiful sky after earlier overcast and wet conditions. Another way of saying that is that the … Continue reading
Wednesday 15 January 2020
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It might be stretching the definition of gig a little, but I did my first public banjo performance this morning, supporting a song at the toddler’s group at church. Not much more than three basic chords and not a great … Continue reading
Sunday 12 January 2020
by Wulf
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I went to my first Café Live event tonight. It runs as an open mic event and I took my bass along. It turns out to have been a good choice for keeping busy – lots of guitarists but I … Continue reading