The Caged Guitar Forum is now up and running.
So if you are interested in commenting or questions about the system (Featured in this very blog with a couple of introductory videos this past week) go register — for free — and check it out.
It’s something I wish I’d known about at least 20 years ago … but now I am getting more and more excited the more I explore it.
Wade
Basics Of CAGED Guitar System
Windsor McKay's Thanksgiving
I have spent hours browsing throught the oldies-but-goodies comic strips at Barnacle Press.
They have an awesome collection of newspaper comics from the past hundred years or more, and are always adding more.
Some of them are obscure and you’ll delight in discovering them. Others are familiar — some still printing today — and you’ll be amazed at how long they’ve been around.
I warn you — if you go there, you may not get anything else done the rest of the day.
WADE
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I’m always taking notes — when I read a book, talk on the phone — or I often record a workshope or seminar and pay to have it transcribed.
I find it keeps things in my mind more firmly — almost memorized — and I can refer back to my notes on computer with the SEARCH function to find whatever I’m trying to look up.
That’s why I’m so pumped up about this Note-Taking Nerd. He’s a marketing wonk and he is interested in the same people I am — Dan Kenned, Frank Kern, Gary Halbert and that gang. He’s got lots of his notes on his web site and is very generous about sending things out to subscribers of his blog.
Oh, yeah, he also posts videos.
Check out the Nerd — and you may become a nerd yourself.
WADE
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I learned to play guitar to accompany myself while singing.
It took me a while to work up proficiency to play in any key, but some songs sound better in one key than another. An “E” chord has a distinctive sound and a “G” chord has a different sound. If you like the key of E but sing in the key of G — what will you do?
Well, there is this little gizmo called a capo (KAY-poe) that adjusts the guitar strings so that you can play with your fingers on familiar chords, but be in a whole different key.
It also works great if you are jamming and the other folks play a song you know in a key different than what you’ve practiced.
Details and pictures after the jump —
So, you like comic strips? You like ’em retro? You like Steam Punk. You like absurd and just plain crazy?
I stumbled across Wondermark, by David Malki, a stupendous effort of gas-lamp era weirdness with a suspicious trace of LSD. The art is impeccable — perhaps scanned etchings of Victorian England, and the sense of humor works on so many levels.
“The Revolution Will Not Be Telegraphed!”
All very proper and tidy, y’know.
Check it out and be prepared to spend a little time there.
WADE
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Although I’ve played the guitar for more than 40 years now, I’m always trying to learn new things to make it fresh and exciting.
I only stumbled upon the CAGED system about a year ago — although I may have heard of it in passing.
It fit in with some other things I was doing and I had enough music theory to make sense of it.
There are a lot of good resources on the ‘net for CAGED, so if you want to follow up, just use your favorite search engine.
Here’s the 2nd part of the intro I started yesterday.
Here’s a fun blog — thanks to Joyville.
Someone seems to think Stan Lee gets a little over the top sometimes. Especially during his (drug assisted?) era 1965-67.
I always thought the Submariner talked like a wannabe Shakespearan ham, but here are some scans of covers and some snarky commentary on Stan’s writing prowess.
Read it and … uh … grin.
WADE
This is the craziest blog related to comics I hit myself against lately.
You know Stan? I’m sure you do! No man can serve two masters: Lee… Stan Lee, The Pretentious. Tittle in comics were never the same after his break in the world. Lo and behold the result, hosted by two of the nicest people you can find in the blogosphere: …LO! And they shall call him… STAN…?
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The CAGED system is a handy way of helping you to get to know the guitar and guitar music. Many guitarists have found this way of seeing the notes and chords an easy way to begin to understand guitar music and improvisation. The CAGED system is not for raw beginners. You need to know the location on the fretboard of the root notes of the chords C A G E and D.
Here is a video explaining the simplicity of using the CAGED system:
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Jane Russell Dead at 89
… Interesting —
Estelle and I lived in Palm Springs for a few years, and knew of Jane Russell as one of “The Ladies Who Lunch” — a bunch of Golden-Age stars who got together for coffee, cards, prayer circles and whatever. They included Lucille Ball, Dinah Shore, Loretta Young, Alice Faye and Jane. We weren’t really interested in what politics they followed — we just enjoyed their contributions to entertainment.
Jane Russell in The Oxbow Incident
Things you usually don’t think about. Doesn’t make me enjoy her work any the less, though.
WADE
Tags: charlton heston, conservative commentator, prayer circles, president ronald reagan, state condoleezza rice.
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