From a C.F. Martin & Co. ad:


"Your left hand is what you know; your right hand is who you are."


Peter (who, by that standard, is no one & knows less than Jon Snow)

 

~Gregory (who misses the old C.F. Martin III "hand-playing-a-guitar" ads..., and completely understood them...)

Quote from: cozmik_cowboy on June 29, 2021, 09:12:43 PM
From a C.F. Martin & Co. ad: "Your left hand is what you know; your right hand is who you are."

Unless you're Jimi Hendrix.

Bill, tgo

Quote from: lbpesq on June 30, 2021, 10:13:01 AM

Quote from: cozmik_cowboy on June 29, 2021, 09:12:43 PM
From a C.F. Martin & Co. ad: "Your left hand is what you know; your right hand is who you are."

Unless you're Jimi Hendrix.

Bill, tgo

I dunno; I watched Jimi Hendrix Electric Church, a movie about his performance July 4, 1970 at the Atlanta International Pop Festival, and I was amazed by how little his picking hand actually did - I mean, a lot of the notes, quite possibly a majority, were hammer-ons, pull-offs, and slides.  So maybe for him CFM's left-right division still holds - or maybe his right was both.

Peter

Nothing like a 100 watt Marshall amp on '11' for dynamics.

Quote from: gtrguy on July 01, 2021, 10:05:02 AM
Nothing like a 100 watt Marshall amp on '11' for dynamics.

Fortunately, Alembic & the Grateful Dead invented modern sound reinforcement in the '70s, so that kind of foolishness is no longer necessary.

Peter (who, as a soundman, urges everyone to get a 10-20w amp, and set it blowing across the stage; don't worry, I have mics - I'll make sure they hear you)

i never let the right hand know what the left hand's doing.  it's usually better that way.