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Hi all, I hope you’re staying safe, following all the guidelines. I’m finding that difficult but I know it needs to be done. I’ve been staying well. I don’t think I know anyone personally who’s sick. I do know people who know someone who’s sick, which wasn’t so a week ago. I fear the further spread; if I were betting on it, I’d put money on hitting the peak in NYC around April 16 (based on a chart I saw).
I’m working my way through the consolidation. I foresee finishing it up sometime tomorrow, when I’ll post them all at once. I hope that sounds good. I’m doing my day job from home, so when I receive work there, I drop everything (hopefully remembering to save).
I made a recording and put it on my SoundCloud page. It has many techniques and licks I picked up here, but it’s pretty rough-sounding and a call started coming in at around one minute; I don’t consider it a submission for the Challenge, but I will be working on developing it.
What follows is COVID-19 info I’m using for emails to friends and in social media, please feel free to share it.
If you’re concerned about C-19, this is the best practical info I’ve seen. It’s a mostly reassuring, factual 48-minute video by Dr. David Price of Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City with information about how to protect yourself and others, and what to do if you do get sick with COVID-19 (short story: the only time to go to the hospital is if you’re having trouble breathing). Take care, stay well!
Don D.
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nice playing, Don. Not sure why you don’t want to post it as a Challenge contribution. You could still work on it later. Had me smiling though, when the phone ring came in at 1:00. sounds like an Ocean liner taking Course at your house and if I am not mistaken, you started playing a bit faster on it.
Thanks for the doc’s advice!
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Hey Don, it looks to me like you are too much of a perfectionist, and too self-critical. That was some fine picking there, and all you need to do is call it a challenge response. Maybe you should just record some of your playing while we are in lockdown and keep the links on hand for future monthly challenges.
Sunjamr Steve
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Hi Don,
Your playing here was one of the finest on this site so I say we include that in the challenges. That would give us a total of 77 participants this month and an absolute record! (it’s gotta be, right?) Brian already commented on it (put a stamp on it!), so now you have no choice but to include it 😉And thanks for the COVID-19 video as well, I’m gonna listen to it later.
🎸JoLa
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Don. couple a feed backs but overall you got the picking my friend.. I’m 15 miles from you and share the same concerns daily.. all we can do is hope for our own,, trying to keep clean .. I don’t go anywhere but out of necessity (food shopping) I have a few masks I start wearing them precaution at the food store many last few days wearing them.. on the local news they even said it is a good idead to wipe lyson handwipes on any store containers around here shheshh.. i been doing that last few weeeks!.. I also spray my soles bleach part water mist my soles and vehicle car mat pedal.. wipes are a must.. I am just trying to disinfect for my elderly parents I take care as much as humanly possible but yeah it’s spreading.. daily like I never thought could be .. sucks quite honestly! .. okay man be safe as possible! And ty Don for being a wonderful good guy here on am my friend!
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Thank you my friends and teachers, thank you Kevin, Dieter, Blue, Phil, Brian, Bryce, Sunjamr Steve, JoLa, Scott, Sunburst John, Rick, John B, Wilfried and James, thanks to all of you for listening, for being generous with your comments! I appreciate the confidence you pass along to me. The phone call interrupting me was the final thing that kept me from considering it. I did many takes on that song (I threw many away without counting them as soon as I stopped playing), I can’t say exactly why, but I think that was the best one, and I think I’ll have a better one soon.
I bought an unusual guitar from a friend who needed money for a big move (now the trip is delayed indefinitely). It’s a reddish Japanese=made 1966 Teisco single-pickup electric with the speaker right in the body. I like the sound when I get up in the higher strings and frets—but down on the low ones it sounds like a grumpy cement mixer. You’ll hear it pretty soon.
The second song on here, “You Upset Me Baby,” was a little more than an inspiration—it was the source of the riff and the energy. Enjoy this record!
Don D.
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