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Guitar Chord Grid Diagrams
It seems guitar players can never have enough guitar chord grid paper around. So to be sure you don’t you can download a copy of this guitar chord diagrams sheet and draw and analyze chords from G to D13b5b9 until your heart’s content. This is formatted in US Letter (8.5″ x 11″). I might make an A4 version too if I get some requests for it. Just let me know.
I also have a link to a copy of this on the Get Free Stuff Page so it is easy to find in the future. Searching through blog posts gets kind of tiring after a while.
eBay Got Hacked
FYI in case you have not heard: eBay got hacked
Details: http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/21/technology/security/ebay-passwords/index.html
They are recommending users change their passwords so you can continue to safely add to your Rare-Vintage-Ukrainian-Thimble collection.
Shop Safe.
Can You Hear Me Now?
Even if you can hear with your ears it is important to learn how to truly listen with all of your senses.
I lost all of my left side hearing as a result of craniotomy surgery because I was diagnosed with Superior Canal Dehiscence Syndrome (SCDS) a few years ago and have screaming tinnitus all the time and have been fitted with special “BICROS” hearing aids to help my right ear hear things going on to the left of me as well as take care of some minor high frequency loss on the right side. It has been an ongoing tweaking process with my audiologist to get the programming just right. I have hearing aids that have 4 programs for specific types of audio environments and they can listen and switch automatically to the appropriate program. Unfortunately, even with all of this technology, they are still a double-edged sword and at times go into feedback in response to some particular sound. There are days that I like them a lot and other days that I can’t stand them and I leave them on the shelf. I was quite depressed and frustrated with my hearing loss at first, but then I became more hopeful later as I accepted it as a new aspect of who I am. In addition, listening to the story of Evelyn Glennie, a deaf classical percussionist who lost her hearing when she was a child, inspired me a lot to really listen with all of my senses and I feel that today I am a better listener that I was when my ears were 100% functional. Besides Evelyn Glennie, another inspiring deaf musician for me is Hector Tirado, a deaf double bassist. I have included videos of both of these people below to help inspire you.
If you are losing your hearing, I recommend first of all having an exam by an ENT physician to evaluate you and then get a referral to some reputable audiologists. If you are also a musician, explain in advance that you are a musician and ask them if they have experience in working with issues unique to musicians.
Hector Tirado
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDdU2xUs4XQ[/youtube]
Evelyn Glennie
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU3V6zNER4g[/youtube]
The Orchestra
Well I’m back in the orchestra world again as I joined the Everett Music Hall Orchestra today.
Getting ready/setting up
Happy Easter
| John 20: 1 – 9
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| 1 | Now on the first day of the week Mary Mag’dalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. |
| 2 | So she ran, and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.” |
| 3 | Peter then came out with the other disciple, and they went toward the tomb. |
| 4 | They both ran, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first; |
| 5 | and stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. |
| 6 | Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb; he saw the linen cloths lying, |
| 7 | and the napkin, which had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths but rolled up in a place by itself. |
| 8 | Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; |
| 9 | for as yet they did not know the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. |
California Dreamin’
Thanks to my day job I got to spend a week in San Diego during the huge cold snap and ice storm much of the USA has been enduring during the first week of December. Hey, it’s not even officially winter yet per my calendar. What happened to “global warming”? When I was a kid, the “experts” back then were warning of a new ice age….maybe they were right after all. Or maybe this is just typical earthly climate variation and we shouldn’t freak about this stuff, but just get on with life. Anyway, it even affected southern California with the temps dipping down to an unbearable 59 degrees causing the locals to don sweaters, scarves and winter coats.
I was able to escape from the conference room dungeon long enough to make a trip over to Carvin Guitar and Pro Audio. I posed for this pic just seconds before the rain started coming down.
Dear Santa!
The axe I “axually” liked the most is the semi hollow body hanging in the center right above my shoulder. It is a Frank Gambale FG1 Semi-Hollow Carved Top Guitar. It is an orange burst on quilted maple with an ebony fretboard (you don’t see that much these days) and is even available with an RMC pickup and synth access, a piezo pickup plus a C22B bridge pickup and a Frank Gambale designed FG22N neck pickup.
Some nice basses in waiting too.
This guy has an awesome head of hair. I’m talking about the dude on the right.
The worst part of the trip was when I ended up at the receiving end of a 2 car rear ender and the two rear enders sped off and did “hit and run”. Because I was on 911 immediately I got the license and description and the cops got the offenders a few minutes later as they were stuck in San Diego afternoon I-5 “gridlock”. I hear it is a one year suspension for hit and run in California. “So you had a bad day?”
