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Hey Ken,
Checked it out with a song and it works perfectly. I think you are much more musically advanced than I am -- I play by ear, but have been playing for about 30 years and it took me about 15 years before poeple didn't immediately get up and leave the room when I played, but I do continue to improve. Anyway, I have sent the song I put in their up to my domain for you to check out. What is a CV? Anyway, it is at http://ssor.net/Sheet/ I realized that you can build a whole songbook with it. Ross "Ken Johnson" wrote in message oups.com... Ross, I'm glad to hear that, I'll add Garbage Reminding Service to my CV ;-) Actually I don't have a CV, I've been teaching in state schools for almost 29 years and am looking forward to retiring at the end of 2009, then I can do all the Excel I like. Excel is so complex even if I live to a hundred I'll still only know a tiny fraction of its workings. What sort of guitar do you play? The best guitars come from USA.I've got an old Epiphone acoustic that I bought second hand in 1978. It's got a lovely mellow tone and is really easy to play. I've also got a Gibson ES 175D but I haven't played it for a long time. One of the plastic tuning knobs perished and broke and I haven't yet been able to replace it. I love the Beatles' music (who doesn't) and I try to play jazz. I can't improvise unfortunately, but my chord playing is OK. I know it's not guitar, but I'm a big fan of Bix Beiderbecke. I had a go at playing the cornet when I started teaching, which was in a country town, Finley, with a population of just 2000 and a 7 hour drive from Sydney, where I grew up. I joined the Finley Brass Band and was taught how to play. They were pretty desperate for players. They even supplied the cornet, which was an American long cornet, just like the one Bix played. I was gobsmacked. However, my playing never came within a bull's roar of sounding like Bix, I rarely got to play solo cornet and my lip got tired very quickly. Still, I did manage to play in the band for most of the 9 years I taught in Finley. By the way, have you heard of a band called Spider Bait? Their lead singer,Janet English was Girls' School Captain at Finley High School when I was teaching there. Before Spider Bait had even formed I was playing (rhythm guitar and the occasional cornet for a laugh) in a 50/50 Bush/Rock band and we called ourselves Blinky Bill, which was partly a reformation of an earlier band called Mulwala Bill and the Far Canals (Finley is in the Riverina Irrigation area and gets its water from the Mulwala Canal). After I left Blinky Bill, because I was moving back to Sydney, Blinky Bill became Spider Bill. I still don't know if the name Spider Bait was just a coincidental similarity or whether it was a deliberate copy. Spider Bait would have formed after Spider Bill. My favourite jazz guitarist is John Scofield. He has played in Australia a few times and I've seen him twice, quite a while ago now. I'd better go now I have to deliver about 450 local newspapers today. My daughter starting doing it about 4 years ago, quickly lost interest and left it for me to do, which I don't mind, I need the exercise (Doing Excel exercises the mind but not the body!) and I get paid for it. Ken Johnson |
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