YOu forgot one...you.

taken for granted these days .For the first time I feel I can call myself a guitarist. I can play almost anything good enough, a few things very well and I am  a passable gypsy guitar player. I used to wonder if I can ever play a Django Reinhardt piece and these days I can

I am going to get a Martin D-45E Retro for my self this Christmas. I love the sound of martin guitars. I already have three Martins but they are rare so I do not take them outside. I need one I can take into the park and not worry. These retro guitars fit the bill.

Did you ever get that goth guitar you wanted...I think it was a grave digger or something...he! he! he sorry!...... Graveyard Disciple

I believe there was one girl on here that play or have learned to play her name is not comming up in my memory bank at this moment.  

Amber said she was practicing...dont know how far she progressed. She said she was taking classes.

I used to... but for Hindi music...I play the harmonium since it suits the Ragas more. We tend to include the guitar accompaniment for the chords.

I went to a blues fest last week. I saw Tedeschi-Trucks band with Dereck Trucks who used to hangout with Clapton, also Ronnie Wood and Mick Taylor whom he replaced in the Stones. Also there were Natalie Cole, Robert Plant, Bobby Womack and Chris Rea. 

They were showcasing a few Chris Rea Fenders, here is a video he did last year. 

Indian ragas are 5, 6, and seven note scales and the chords would follow the scale in the standard 1, 3, 5 degree of the scale as usual. I follow Indian music in the normal way.  I guess the feel would come in the chord substitution and fillers as well as getting to feel the mood of the scale or raga.  I remember a movie song sa re ga ma pa..which is actually the Western Ionian or major scale being used  by a girl to teach her boyfriend to sing

lucky you. I like these festivals. I used to attend Newport all the time. Have not gone in a few years now. I think I will try to do so next year.

I am currently studying the Bhopali raag, also known as Bhoop, Bhoopali or Bhupali, is a Hindustani classical raga. It is a pentatonic scale (uses 5 notes , Sa Re Ga Pa Da, in ascending and descending scale). On the harmonium it's possible to play most of the chords along with the melody. With the guitar, I would follow the tabla beat and strum along in harmony and may add in the alternating base notes.

Here is a sample of one of the classical in the Bhopali Raag that I have studied, in the Key of D. Note the melody is written in the 5 notes but the tabla beat is Teen Taal (16 beat).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qteRjnqvWMQ

I will try it to play it but it looks like it will take time. Those slides are subtle and everywhere and I do not have a feel for it. 

It was a breeze for me

That's a nice relaxing piece there Mits.

I can play it but the semitones produced by the slides are a bitch. The scale is easy. I went on U tube and quickly grasped it but you have to have a feel for the music the way one feels jazz or blues. It sounds better on a jazz guitar. I used a gibson l-5. I also stayed in standard tuning because the recommended tuning turns your guitar into a five string guitar

You can try bending the notes or use a slide like that used with the Hawaiian guitar. The flute interlude at 2:40 sounds kinda jazzy. On the harmonium, to get that slide tone I would hit the FLATS with 1/32 to 1/16 effect; the fingers have to literally fly. But, then as you say you have to become familiar with tune. This has made me into a very aggressive listener for those subtle notes.

Chami, this Bhopali raag is suitable for early morning and meditation. In the Hindustani classical music there is specific raag for the various time of the day. No one really observe this.

'Jyoti Kalash Chhalke' is a song heralding dawn. In the morning, the rays of the sun awaken everything. They bring splendour to everything they touch. 'Jyoti' means light. 'Kalash' means an urn or water pot. 'Chhalke' means overflowing. The poet expresses his joy at dawn with the phrase 'Jyoti Kalash Chhalke', which literally means that an urn of (divine) light is overflowing.    

Dawn    

    The lyrics of 'Jyoti Kalash Chhalke' evoke a series of positive images. Clouds turn from red to orange to yellow in the morning. The home, the courtyard and the garden are flush with nectar like light. The earth is lush green. Dew laden flowers are a visual delight.

Hope Chura Liya Hai Tumne  is of musical interest.

Chord arrangement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eg69TWe7PQ

Tutorial :          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB6GRzkTlGU

Asha Bhosle live version:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q55DYoDaFTk

Hi still playing n taking lessons.  The best way to relax in front of a fire place, a glass of Harvey n a guitar. 

good for you.

just played it from beginning to end matching it note for note!!! got all of those nifty slides from F#to B and back to D. Interesting lesson. Toward the end it is a bit difficult to get the shape of the sound. I had to play it on a strat with a line 6 pod and pedal

Congratulations! You made my day. I have to sing it and play the music with tabla and dantaal accompaniment tonight.

Best wishes for the holidays and the New Year.

Cham, it's a get together with a satsangh group at a house to celebrate the holiday season.

PM me details on wakes at this end. Perhaps I can give some time, depending on the weather. And I don't do it for money.

Best wishes for the holidays and the New Year.

How does one not know the deceased persons but yet go to their wakes? Part time job perhaps, hmmmm.

Oi Mits, doan worry with dat woman yeh, she'll have u doing that song at least thrice a week.

Cain, seriously, in our Hindu Dharma, it's one occasion where one does not need an invitation. I am blessed with a gift to help in comforting the grief stricken with my soothing bhajans, geets and music. I consider it my "seva"

(Selfless service) so I cannot charge for my services. I do get gifts; cash is turned over as donations to the temples.

Mits, look banna. Three, count em 1...2...3...selfless services in in one week is nuff banna, dats all I warnin yo rass about where dat woman concerned. U see how she does find nuff dead people dat somebody know dat she mite know.

Do they all have to be from Guyana or elsewhere also> I might have a few for you to check out.