Bill's songs

im sorry bill, but i just cant seem to get them to work. I clicked on them, it opened a new window, and played automatically, but it just wouldnt play for me. I tried to save target, but when i right clicked, that wasnt an option.

i would like to hear your music, but unfortunatly i cant :/

 

hey bruda
the problem i had was for whatever reason the files wouldnt work in winamp but did in media playerby the way rhastadude do u sing?
i would like to hear ur music with u singing as u play
to me that enriches the music very spiritually

yo bill bruda
i was thinking about what u said about flattery as I drnak my coffee and let one go

well
its not flattery essentially at the root
Its thanks and praises
to the most high

Flattery then is a form of spiritual communion.
Thanks and praises to the way!

 

ah, alright then. When ever i open a file it went in winamp, so perhaps i could fix that.

as for singing, i do a little. On my website i put one song i sang in, "blowin' in the wind" by bob dylan. Usually in my songs i just play the melody of the vocals on guitar, but on that one i did sing. Im still working on my vocals... they, at least to me, still sound very weak.

I plan on doing a few more covers later in the up coming months with singing cause i believe, as you said, enriches the music. I will post a thread when i post them.

 

yea
my vocals can be weak too
but thats only 'cause there is power
i have found chanting to be incredibly strengthening to my vocals, and espeiclaly this yogic exercise called breathe of fire, and recently to fix my vocal tone I started playing scales and saying DO RAY ME LA DA DEY TEE GEE oo AA EE etc bla bla BLEEE in tone
its really fun

my neighbor just gave me a cheapo acoustic steel stringer
im gonna put it into open D(do u like any open tunings?) and gain some love with this little glass slide

 

check out seth riggs for singing method, works well esp. with tone and strength of voice and really utilises your diaphragm.

what have you acted in?

 

look ill just put it into this thread at any rate..

(adds the saying)

 

thanks for PMing me that new song bill sounded good

 

good stuff, bill! I like your voice mucho... good use of doubling and nice melodies. I'm sure once you get in the studio they'll flesh out nicely; just make sure you know exactly what you want to do before you go in, then make the engineer do it

 

studio productions are way overrated

 

great music, nice vocal style

the only thing bad is the sound quality

 

Ok i remixed and added an older song of mine, that i did around the time i did the earlier ones here.

its called Johhny (doubble h is in the name)

kudos to the person who can work out what its about

and for teh record, i dont really like johnny that much at all anymore.

 

of course hendrix knew scales...he started on blues....so he knew pentatonics...you cant solo anywhere on the fretboard...you gotta know pentatonics to play jimi

 

he used scales that were a bit more complex and deviant than penatonic lol

but saying that he knew scales.. i mean, did he learn scales or did he just work out scales from listening to blues and stuff? i think the latter

 

His stuff was majorly pentatonic-based... that doesn't mean it's the regular pentatonic shite. I mostly mess with pentatonics, but I like playing with chromatics and mixing things up...

I prefer acoustic stuff...

 

well he was talkin about minor and major pentatonics i assumed

you know

e-0-----3-----
b-0-----3-----
g-0---2-----


etc

 

lol all the guitar parts in johhny are like that

 

I actually don't know the scales in my mind... I learned them by heart before I understood them. I really don't know what they are sometimes... it just kind of became logical by playing so much, but I've picked up most of my electric playing from a handful of modern people... Jimmie Vaughan, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, Eric Johnson, and Derek trucks... but despite the fact that those for are all white blues/jazz musicians, those are very very general playing techniques... most of them derive from Albert King, Jimi Hendrix, Robert Johnson, Chuck Berry, Buddy Guy, BB King, Albert Collins... it can be very racially divided by some people. You can't see color in music. You can only hear. As BB once said, playing the blues is being like black twice, stevie missed on both counts, a lot of black people really don't like white blues musicians because they think they stole the music, but you just can't hear that. I just say if you can do it, you enjoy it, and you wish to preserve it, why not. I mean, guys like Clapton, I have respect for as far as his historian ability and preservation of his playing styles and influences go. It's just kind of amazing, because I notice two new african-american musicians.. Keb Mo (folk-blues) and Robert Randolph (gospel-blues) and guys like that seem to be more towards innovation... I don't know. It's strange. I analyze it quite a bit.

 

i remember the visual shapes of the scales i learn. or i find an odd scale someone is using and extend it. but i generally have trouble moving up and down the fretboard.

in terms of who can play music.. i think its pretty silly. black people invented the music because of their culture. i dont think its part of their genes. maybe it is. in the end i dont view blues as anything holy so its not much of an issue. in fact i recon blues sounds better when a white dude plays it someteims, caus its not expected

 

well some persons say white boys shouldnt have dreds
but uh, marley was half white