I’m not new to guitar, just to fast Metal. I’ve played a lot of Sabbath and Doomy stuff like Eyehategod and Sleep. I played Bluegrass for a while so the speed thing is not completely new either. I just don’t really know where to start with this genre, so much of it seems completely inaccessible. I was thinking maybe just go and learn a bunch of songs by the band Death. idk, what do yall think?
So far some my favorites have been, The Exorcist, Salems Lot, It, A Head Full of Ghosts, Ghost Story by Peter Straub, Pet Semetary, A Heart Shaped Box, any suggestions on what I should read next?
Sometimes I think about this, I’ll never read It, or Salems Lot, or The Exorcist for the first time again. I’ve read a good chunk of horror so far so even the highly recommended books come across as not all that sometimes. (I wasn’t crazy about Last Days recently by Adam Neville, and there’s others too). Right now I’m reading Ghost Story by Peter Straub, I DNF’d it a couple years ago and recently picked it back up, I’m a little over halfway and it’s definitely a slow burn, but what made me pick it back up is I was searching for a sort of small town character driven story like Salems Lot.
I’m looking to compile a list here of albums that you think every Bluegrass guitarist should hear, all recommendations are welcome, thanks!
So I’ve played music my entire life. I love it, it is my favorite thing to do, still to this day. I’m 27 years old, I make most of my living playing in a very active, somewhat successful Bluegrass band. However, as I got deeper and deeper into Buddhism it definitely improved my mindset and helped me so much with just being in my own head, but it started to make me feel like music was just something that is an attachment, that all the things that go with it are just attachments and should be realized as being such and let go, like practicing and creating and what not. I don’t want to let it go, if that means at worst that I reincarnate again and have to do it for another life, fine, but this is what I feel like I am here to do. I just don’t know how to reconcile these 2 important parts of myself. It feels like I have to step back from one or the other, when they both are so important to me. I’ve tiptoed between every belief system I could get my hands on since my early teens and Buddhism has always been the one that helped me and spoke to me the most, but now it almost feels like I have to choose. I’m hoping someone can help me out with this. I think it’s ironic that one of my favorite singers is Peter Rowan, a Bluegrass legend who is a lifelong devout Buddhist who is in his mid 80s and is still touring to this day, but obviously I cannot get into his head or know what his thoughts are on this, I don’t know how he balances it, but I sure wish I could find a way to.
I’m mostly an acoustic player, I play guitar in an active Bluegrass band. I play electric at a church every Sunday and here and there with a couple bands. however, I just hate my tone, I’m playing a strat into a deluxe reverb, I’ve got a tube screamer, a ge 7, as well as a super overdrive and a couple other pedals like delay etc. I feel like the entire time I have an electric guitar in my hands, it’s just trying to get a tone that I don’t hate, especially solo lead tone. I don’t know, I feel like it’s not the gear that’s the issue, it’s making me hate playing electric . Any advice?
I’m mostly an acoustic player, I play guitar in an active Bluegrass band. I play electric at a church every Sunday and here and there with a couple bands. however, I just hate my tone, I’m playing a strat into a deluxe reverb, I’ve got a tube screamer, a ge 7, as well as a super overdrive and a couple other pedals like delay etc. I feel like the entire time I have an electric guitar in my hands, it’s just trying to get a tone that I don’t hate, especially solo lead tone. I don’t know, I feel like it’s not the gear that’s the issue, it’s making me hate playing electric . Any advice?
Everything feels so scattered. I went to my first NA meeting at 17 years old after drinking cough syrup everyday for a week straight and the getting caught and forced to an NA meeting by my mother. That went on for about a month, I started a dating a girl and fell back into using drugs and alcohol, just whatever was around. After her and I broke up I shifted more towards alcohol, idk if it was for easier access or it seemed less destructive. Right after my 21st birthday I did my second stint with recovery, that time with AA, lasted a few months, started back drinking again, moved to Florida. Throughout the next few years there would be times where I would stop and go to AA some. Here and there, but nothing really stuck. Then something finally hit me and I quit drinking for good, it’s been almost 4 years, and I haven’t worked the steps or really been involved with AA at all for that time. I still smoke pot and use Kratom, which I’m trying to stop. I’ve had times of full sobriety, but I find myself simply not happy. I don’t know what to do. Part of me feels like I worked step 1 four years ago and then never touched the rest of them. I feel like I should get involved with AA in order to learn how to live a happy sober life, but I feel like if I walk in there with 4 years alcohol free time that they will think i am not a real alcoholic. I don’t know. I just feel stuck in my sobriety, it doesn’t feel like this is a happy life like this. It’s like I’m just here now, still with all those reasons that I drank in the first place, but now I don’t have a crutch.
I feel like one of these days I’m going to get pushed over the edge. I do okay most of the time when things are normal, or happy. But if something bad happens, or if work gets really stressful, that’s when the thoughts really really roll back in. I start to tell myself I can just get high, and it’s almost like a coping mechanism when things feel crazy. It’s hard for me to feel like things in my life are outside of my control and then just go home and sit with that. Or wherever I am. I don’t know what to do with it. It doesn’t seem to really get better, that thought of, well I can just get high, is always there. I understand that I am wanting to use it as an escape, I don’t know how to get rid of that.
Im a guitar player, I’ve been playing since I was 14 years old, I’m 27 now. I love Bluegrass music and i love listening to it more and more as I get older. I’m struggling with the motivation to want to practice at home a little bit now, I feel like sometimes it gets a little repetitive. One thing that has helped is I’ve started learning fiddle, I bought a good one about 3 weeks ago and got Brittany Haas course (I love old time) on Artist Works, and I’ve actually made a decent amount of progress. But seeing as how I’m the guitar player / singer in an active Bluegrass band, I can’t just let my guitar playing go to the wayside. I’ve also started messing with some of the jazzy stuff like Tony and Grisman did, although I’m just taking basic jazz courses over on Truefire, I feel fairly intermediate to advanced at Bluegrass but at Jazz I am a beginner, lol. But that doesn’t exactly light my fire, maybe I should try gypsy jazz. Idk, anyone been through this? Surely some of yall have.
I also got sober about 2 months ago, which is great for single every other aspect of my life, except for my motivation to sit down and play my guitar. Haha. Thanks guys, love yall
I’ve done the Michael Dave’s Artist Works course before, I’m open to it again I guess, but I’m wondering what you guys do to practice your harmony singing at home. I live alone btw. I play in a band and we gig quite a bit and practice here and there but it’s hard to get everybody up sometimes. I do a pretty good job I think, but I’m looking to improve.
Let me start by listing what I would consider (not the best necessarily) but my favorites, yall know how that goes. These are not in any order. I’m needing some good new stuff to read.
Like.. is it normal to have a little, I had a little bit on my HD28, and I just bought a brand new D18 about a month ago. When I got it there was 0, but the factory action was just too high for me, brought it down to 2.5 mm and had a little bit of buzz, so I
took it back up between 2.5 and 2.75 and now there’s none really, unless I really dig in on the 2nd fret of the D string. Idk man this whole thing is driving me crazy, I feel like guitar is the most quiet instrument in the band so especially if I’m playing acoustically I have to dig in a little bit. Idk, it’s driving me crazy, I wish I could just stop worrying about it. I have noticed though that in those Bluegrass Album Band albums Tony has quite a bit of buzz going, and it doesn’t lead to being unpleasant sounding. Idk, I’d like a little lower action I guess, I’ve noticed that even when playing other people’s guitars I get a little here and there. Can someone tell me that I’m overthinking it please. Is it really that big of a deal?
This is really something that’s bothering me, my routine for a long time was going home in the evening, eating a gummy, and then just playing away until it was time to go to bed. I had about 45 days, picked back up for a week, (for this reason) and now I’m about a week in give or take, I still feel this way. It really sucks and I hope it passes. I live in a tourist town in Florida, I play in a band, and music is how I make about half of my living, and it feels like something I don’t really enjoy anymore without getting high. I try to make myself do it sometimes but I don’t want to have that relationship with it, anyone else been through this, is there any hope in this passing?
I feel like this is something that has been ingrained in me since my formative years as a child. I’m in recovery, and I do Recovery Dharma as my recovery community. For those who aren’t familiar it’s fairly similar to AA, but makes an attempt to sort of iron out all the things that don’t quite sit right with a lot of people about AA, and follows Buddhist principles like the Four Noble Truths and Eight Fold Path as a basis for recovery rather than the traditional 12 steps. Anyways. I’ve been clean for quite some time now, and this path has TREMENDOUSLY helped my life, my mental health, everything. The one thing that keeps eating at me though, is that I have a fear of Christian hell. As someone who was raised in a Christian society, it’s deeply ingrained. It’s easy for me to not worry about it too much today, but I worry as I’m taking that last breath one day, this worry will still be with me. This isn’t to say that I have any problem with Christianity, or any more problems than the people on this sub likely have encountered. I love the teachings of Christ, and I actively try to apply those principles to my life. One thing that bothers me with current Christianity, is that the Bible said Love Your Neighbor, it did not say, Love Your Neighbor… unless they’re gay, transgender, an immigrant, whatever. It just says love your neighbor. So I do understand that the true message of Christ is a beautiful thing and I have nothing but admiration for the actual message. Simply put, I find the Buddhist teachings to be more applicable into my life, they help me, a lot. I don’t know what to do. I’m sorry for rambling, I just felt like maybe someone on this particular sub could help me out. Thanks so much, nothing but love ❤️.
Online resources would be great, books, anything. Thanks. I feel very drawn to the Tibetan tradition, and I’m looking to learn more about it and how to practice. Coming from someone with a general understanding of basic Buddhism, but no experience in any specific sects.
So I got sober a while back using Recovery Dharma, which is what got me back into Buddhism after a casual interest as a teenager and in my early 20s. I’ve just been thinking today, I’ve spent the whole day listening to Dharma Talks, reading Thich Nhat Hanh, all that stuff, and I just feel like there has to be a balance somewhere, and right now I’m over the line in my Dharma Intake, haha. I always feel like I just don’t quite understand enough though, it feels like I need to just keep digging and digging. Just looking for some advice from my fellow Dharma enthusiasts, thanks 😌
I think sects is the right word, I’m hoping for something maybe a little deeper than just the 3 main schools. I’m interested in learning about Tibetan Buddhism, but I would like something that kind of sums up a lot of the different traditions. The only one I know of already is The Dalai Llamas one teacher, many paths (or something like that). Any recommendations?
Right now I’m extremely interested in both Buddhism and Hinduism, but it seems conflicting because of Hinduisms basic belief that everything is God/Brahman and Buddhisms belief that well nothing is God, and there is no unchanging soul underneath everything. I’m not sure how to progress through this hang up, but I think it’s the next step on my path, what do you guys think?
I’m not sure of a good sub to share this in, so I figured I would try here. I’m somewhat of a selfish person, and I’m trying to grow. I do not do AA, I am somewhat active in Smart Recovery but nothing over the top. I live in a fairly mid sized city in Florida, not a super small town, but definitely not a big city. I do believe it’s big enough that there are volunteer organizations and things like that. I want to volunteer some of my time in helping people that need it without any expectation of personal gain. Any recommendations on what some stuff like this would be? Thanks so much, I hope this is okay to post here. I feel like this is a helpful part of my recovery, therefore worthy of being talked about here.