Jimi Limpet’s one hundred and five comments

While there are obviously some breathtaking DADGAD players; in my experience, most guitarists I’ve come across who tune their instruments that way, do it so their lack of skill doesn’t sound quite as obvious when they’re noodling around… more…

@Michael Eskin: “It’s too easy to fall back on the “memorized” version, ornamentation and all, as though one is reading the sheet music in one’s mind.”. more…

@Wodanaz: Quite apart from your one-size-fits-all description of rock music being palpable nonsense, I think you should probably reflect on the word “degenerate”, especially as used throughout the last century. more…

I think the end of the Outlander theme is (as CreadurMawnOrganig says) a single note ‘D’. It sounds like it’s being played on a double bass, with a bow. That’s where the flanging/phasing effect comes from. more…

Sorry if you’ve thought of this, but are you sure the recordings are at the same bitrate? The times I’ve tried to synch two tracks - one at 44.1kHz and one at 48kHz is ridiculous! more…

Ah… I didn’t read it properly. Sorry! more…

Yes! more…

$50?! For $50 I’d want the bloody thing to change the strings and polish the frets! more…

“…the piano-accordion is designed to be a ‘one-man band’, so it doesn’t fit neatly and unobtrusively into an acoustic ensemble - not that it can’t, but that it takes some doing.” - Meself more…

“I’m sorry I shouldn’t have asked. I should know by now not to ask stupid questions and that I’m kind of annoying when I ask them. I should have stayed away. I apologize.” more…