{"id":918,"date":"2009-11-22T09:02:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T16:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=918"},"modified":"2009-11-23T16:06:59","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T23:06:59","slug":"the-filk-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/the-filk-last-night\/","title":{"rendered":"The filk last night…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…went pretty well. And I played about 5-6 pieces and screwed up a bit, but my fingers have no blisters, thanks to several days of noodling around and getting my fingers used to the idea. Considering I only remembered F, G, A, E, and D, D7 yesterday morning, I did pretty well last night. What I didn’t figure on\u00a0was my breathing—Lord! I’m not that long-winded in the first place, and when going full out to an audience, I usually vamp a couple of measures when I have to catch my breath, if singing solo. But last night I had to ask for a singalong, which means everybody charges ahead and I didn’t get my couple of measures delay. Worse, I couldn’t see the damn music, and I was having to skip between word on one page\u00a0and music notation on the other. The rest of me is in pretty good shape, but the eyes aren’t what they used to be, and even with a light behind me, the focus range was just wrong. I kept having to lean forward to see the music, on one page, and then lean further to read the words. So, well, but I remembered the chord fingerings, I got through it, and everybody laughed and was forgiving. We’re set up to do this again on January 2nd. By then I may have breathing under control and I won’t be trying to remember under fire which is Cmaj and which is Gmaj. And<\/em> I think I’m going to downtune and capo up, which will put me in standard range, but soften that first-fret deathgrip, which improves the clarity of the fingering: ie, if you can’t press the strings down hard enough, your note will be a little ‘off’. Lower frets are easier on the fingers, and downtuning and using a capo (bar that fits across the strings) redefines which is first-fret, assigning first-fret\u00a0to an easier, lower fret. I could file the ‘nut’ down a micro-bit, thus lowering the strings, but it’s inlaid, so you’d get into big, big\u00a0trouble if you muffed it, producing a strings-too-close-to-the-fretboard buzz. Easier to just downtune and redefine the frets via capo.<\/p>\n

Well, I should have more chord range and more adventurous songs by next time, and maybe more wind. We’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…went pretty well. And I played about 5-6 pieces and screwed up a bit, but my fingers have no blisters, thanks to several days of noodling around and getting my fingers used to the idea. Considering I only remembered F, G, A, E, and D, D7 yesterday morning, I did pretty well last night. What […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,46,28,40],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-cherryh","tag-filk","tag-jane-fancher","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}