The learning process isn’t helped of course by my total inability to read music – the band has kindly presented me with a folio of hand written dots, but they may as well be in Martian for all the help they are to me! What I do have however is a cd of live material containing about 15 tunes (or ‘sets’) in all. Unfortunately I’ve no idea how to play any of the tunes, which are all fiendishly fast and, on first listening at least, sound pretty much the same (but aren’t of course!!). Although everyone hopes he’ll be up and about again as soon as is humanly possible (all the best Andy if you are reading this…) they urgently need a dep for a couple of gigs in a fortnight. Rather rashly last week, I somehow seem to have taken on yet another short-notice dep gig… My local ceilidh band (containing a load of friends of mine I’ve wanted to play with for ages) has temporarily lost their mandolin player through ill health. I’ve also got a 90° template that is also really useful – if anyone has a need for one at a specific set of angles, let me know and I’ll knock one up for you! The template obviously gets destroyed in the process, but who cares – simply print another one out!.Then, with the items held firmly down to the template, simply weld away!.I tend to use largish metal ‘U” staples to fix round items (banging the staples astride the items into the surface of the supporting board), or using heavy weights to hold the bits and pieces down (I have made my own set of weights by filling a old tin cans (of a variety of sizes) with concrete) Find a way of fixing the items you want to join together, directly onto to the template.Spray Mount this (or use sellotape etc, whatever works best for you!) onto a flat board, sheet of metal, bench surface etc.Print it out on a sheet of A4 (or any size that suits).Here’s my preferred way of using the template: It’s really useful for welding legs / support structures together – I used it in the making of the legs for my Heavy Metal Flute stand for example, to make sure the legs were arranged at just the right angle.Ĭlick here to download the 120º template > I have also reduced the intensity of the fret board marker device. The first has as total of 16 of these diagrams on one page (surely enough for any burgeoning student!) and one with single, yet massive, example So, rather than being discouraged I have now produced the following set of diagrams, both showing just the top-most portion of the neck up to and including the fifth fret. Oh, and the devices I had used to indicate the fret board numbers were too dark and made reading and writing on the lines hard….! What is more, to fit the complete length of the 24 fret version on the page, the diagrams (through necessity) are rather small. To have a diagram that goes all the way up to 24 frets is therefore next to useless – she only fills things in on the uppermost portion (rendering that particular chart full) and only has three more available charts on that page. Being a beginner to the guitar, she really only plays things on the instrument that are located at the very top of the neck, well within the first five frets (and, to be honest, mainly in the first three frets) !) the other day about my free neck diagram PDFs… Although said pupil used them a lot and was very thankful for them, they didn’t really meet her needs very well. One of my guitar students was saying (or complaining. It’s nice to receive feedback on something, even when it’s pointing out one’s own omissions or short-comings!
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