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magentaflame wrote: Mon Dec 07, 2020 3:12 am I just wrote in the Word association thread and couldn't think why i would spell "together" as "togethef" . Went back and corrected it. Then I couldn't work out why my "r" on my keyboard was typing as an 'f". It wasn't . I scrolled up and worked out I had a piece of something on my screen. ....... yes yes I'm cleaning it in a minute. Might vaccum the keyboard as well.

How many times do you guys clean your screen. Is there a proper maintenance thingy for a computer? Is it expected that people send it off for proper cleaning? Do you get "a man " in to clean it properly? How much gunk can a keyboard hold in it's casing?

FourPart wrote: Mon Dec 14, 2020 12:10 pm

magentaflame wrote: Mon Dec 07, 2020 3:12 am I just wrote in the Word association thread and couldn't think why i would spell "together" as "togethef" . Went back and corrected it. Then I couldn't work out why my "r" on my keyboard was typing as an 'f". It wasn't . I scrolled up and worked out I had a piece of something on my screen. ....... yes yes I'm cleaning it in a minute. Might vaccum the keyboard as well.

How many times do you guys clean your screen. Is there a proper maintenance thingy for a computer? Is it expected that people send it off for proper cleaning? Do you get "a man " in to clean it properly? How much gunk can a keyboard hold in it's casing?

I'm always getting exactly the same problem. It's even worse when I'm scoring my music. I see a note that doesn't belong, so I go to delete it, only to find it's a remainder of a sneeze or something.

I keep a roll of Kitchen Towel by my screen with a bottle of Car Windscreen Cleaner. Just spray the screen & give a good wipe down.

magentaflame wrote: Fri Jan 01, 2021 3:15 pm
I feel your pain.
I've been scoring music lately. (if that's what you call it) I had the tabs for a one stringed canja guitar for "blue eyes crying in the rain" ...found it doesn't quite work on a 3 stringed cigar box . So I'm rewriting the tabs for the 3 stringed. Gee it's an effort for a person who doesn't know anything about music except to say it "kinda sounds right" lol

Bryn Mawr wrote: Fri Jan 01, 2021 3:51 pm

magentaflame wrote: Fri Jan 01, 2021 3:15 pm
I feel your pain.
I've been scoring music lately. (if that's what you call it) I had the tabs for a one stringed canja guitar for "blue eyes crying in the rain" ...found it doesn't quite work on a 3 stringed cigar box . So I'm rewriting the tabs for the 3 stringed. Gee it's an effort for a person who doesn't know anything about music except to say it "kinda sounds right" lol

Transcribing tab from one instrument to another is a two stage process, convert the tab to notes and then convert the notes to the new tab - that is unless you play both instruments by ear and can just play the tune and write down what you play:-)

Best of luck, I’d love to hear the results.

magentaflame wrote: Fri Jan 01, 2021 6:02 pm

Bryn Mawr wrote: Fri Jan 01, 2021 3:51 pm

magentaflame wrote: Fri Jan 01, 2021 3:15 pm
I feel your pain.
I've been scoring music lately. (if that's what you call it) I had the tabs for a one stringed canja guitar for "blue eyes crying in the rain" ...found it doesn't quite work on a 3 stringed cigar box . So I'm rewriting the tabs for the 3 stringed. Gee it's an effort for a person who doesn't know anything about music except to say it "kinda sounds right" lol

Transcribing tab from one instrument to another is a two stage process, convert the tab to notes and then convert the notes to the new tab - that is unless you play both instruments by ear and can just play the tune and write down what you play:-)

Best of luck, I’d love to hear the results.

I'm sorry I don't know about notes. this is the extent of my knowledge.
1, I can tune by ear. I hear your letters by ear. You don't need to tell me what letter goes with the sound I just know the sound, or what a sound or in your words note sounds like.............if that makes sense.
2, 0.1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12. fret lines
3, three strings. Open G
4, I read the music like this-
-----4-----0-----4-----0-----4-----0---------
-----0-----------0------------0-----------0--- <------that is the intro to hank williams I'm so lonesome i could die.
-----0-----------0------------0..........-0---
It makes more sense to me. I don't understand letters with music. Finger positions and numbers just makes more sense. don't ask me why
Chords are finger positions to me and on a 3 string it's easy. One thing I can't fix is short fingers. but once again hence the 3 string.

5, I watch . then I copy and make my own stuff up to add to what they are doing.
Like this. I ignore what he is saying and just watch his hands because it's already figured out in my head . I should be able to play this within the month


i'm writing a song at the moment to thank all the people who have taught me stuff on youtube. But I have to finish the Blue eyes song first.

------------5---------------------5-----4--------------------------------------------------
-----9----------9-----0----5----------------5-----7----9------7------0-----5-----7-----9
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
____In__the_twilight__glow_I__see_her__Blue eyes _cry__in____in__the_rain.

the original 1 string is this ... 5----6----5----0----------3-----6---5--4---3

I'll embelish it later .

Bryn Mawr wrote: Fri Jan 01, 2021 7:58 pm

magentaflame wrote: Fri Jan 01, 2021 6:02 pm

Bryn Mawr wrote: Fri Jan 01, 2021 3:51 pm

magentaflame wrote: Fri Jan 01, 2021 3:15 pm
I feel your pain.
I've been scoring music lately. (if that's what you call it) I had the tabs for a one stringed canja guitar for "blue eyes crying in the rain" ...found it doesn't quite work on a 3 stringed cigar box . So I'm rewriting the tabs for the 3 stringed. Gee it's an effort for a person who doesn't know anything about music except to say it "kinda sounds right" lol

Transcribing tab from one instrument to another is a two stage process, convert the tab to notes and then convert the notes to the new tab - that is unless you play both instruments by ear and can just play the tune and write down what you play:-)

Best of luck, I’d love to hear the results.

I'm sorry I don't know about notes. this is the extent of my knowledge.
1, I can tune by ear. I hear your letters by ear. You don't need to tell me what letter goes with the sound I just know the sound, or what a sound or in your words note sounds like.............if that makes sense.
2, 0.1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12. fret lines
3, three strings. Open G
4, I read the music like this-
-----4-----0-----4-----0-----4-----0---------
-----0-----------0------------0-----------0--- <------that is the intro to hank williams I'm so lonesome i could die.
-----0-----------0------------0..........-0---
It makes more sense to me. I don't understand letters with music. Finger positions and numbers just makes more sense. don't ask me why
Chords are finger positions to me and on a 3 string it's easy. One thing I can't fix is short fingers. but once again hence the 3 string.

5, I watch . then I copy and make my own stuff up to add to what they are doing.
Like this. I ignore what he is saying and just watch his hands because it's already figured out in my head . I should be able to play this within the month


i'm writing a song at the moment to thank all the people who have taught me stuff on youtube. But I have to finish the Blue eyes song first.

------------5---------------------5-----4--------------------------------------------------
-----9----------9-----0----5----------------5-----7----9------7------0-----5-----7-----9
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
____In__the_twilight__glow_I__see_her__Blue eyes _cry__in____in__the_rain.

the original 1 string is this ... 5----6----5----0----------3-----6---5--4---3

I'll embelish it later .

So one of the fortunate ones who can use the second method

I used to play guitar and octave mandolin using tab because my sight reading was never good enough to play the tadpoles. I can happily follow the tab you’ve put down for the three string but I don’t know the canna at all, does it have odd fretting?

My eldest makes and plays cigar boxes and he’s just teaching himself to wind pick-ups for them. He’s used to winding the coils for his tattoo machines but needs to work out directions of rotation, wire size, etc. to get the best sound.