Body, neck and guard

My next guitar is taking shape

If you wanna be

 

Naviarhaiku638 – darkness cocoons

The poem shared by Naviar Records this week comes from Wagga, where Anne joined the Stay Cool workshops.

I've taken to the idea that silence disappears, using a pedal to loop the ukulele.

New album: Bout

Last year I searched through files from previous years to compile my first album since 2021. 

A lot has happened since then, and the music was diverse and a challenge to sequence for my new album: BOUT  

It was part of a bigger project to gain skills in mastering audio that was supported by a Country Art Support Program grant from Western Riverina Arts and Create NSW through financial assistance from the NSW Government.

Disquiet Junto 0743 Make It Happen

Since watching a video of Angine de Poitrine I have been wanting a double neck guitar.

Then I remembered that guitar and bass can sound really conventional together. 

So I have used an electric ukulele and a Chase Bliss Habit pedal with bass. 

I've been saving these

 

Throw the towel in

Yesterday my youngest asked how to make the drums sound better.

Aside from showing him how to use the tuning key, I mentioned Ringo's recording technique.

Now it looks like washing on a rainy day and sounds like Lars' cardboard boxes on Justice For All to me, but my son was into it and played solidly for about an hour.

Naviarhaiku637 – first light

 

The poem shared by Naviar Records is another result from the workshops that Red Earth Ecology ran last month.

While my photo doesn't show a fig tree, it was taken near one. 

Chord Progressions

I put this in front of my son recently and he wrote a song.

Disquiet Junto 0742 Sensitive Math

The instructions this week are to "Record a piece of music that exemplifies the “sensitive math” genre."

I decided the sensitive part was going to give a reflective feeling, while the math component would be varying time signatures.

Last night I did most of the composing and thought I'd come back and add a melody to be a focal point.

However, when I listened back, it seemed there was enough happening and decided a lead instrument would be too demanding.

Then I looked at Archive.org for a video to suit the track and realised it was perfect for a chick flick. 

Wrangling angles

Recently saw this idea to reverse the bridge pickup on a telecaster and realised I'd arrived at something similar with an upside-down stratocaster.

It really is refreshing to hear the zing on the low strings while taming the earache on the high ones.

I'm wondering if the angle on the pickup was originally a way to add more bite to dark-sounding wiring on early electric guitars?