What are you listening to?

I just notice her guitar playing has such a special sound because she is playing the guitar left handed but the guitar is strung right handed. While most guitar pickers will play the base notes with their thumb she is playing the treble notes with her thumb and that gives her guitar playing a distinctive sound.

Maybe Hendrix's inspiration.

Recently I have been listening to a number of videos by this amazing little chap:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdI1ampbBhI

Here he is a little older I think:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb3AdjKGlXA

He is now aged about 9, and his talent has continued to grow.

He seems to exhibit savant like skills without showing problems in other respects.

David

[Ninshub]

I just notice her guitar playing has such a special sound because she is playing the guitar left handed but the guitar is strung right handed. While most guitar pickers will play the base notes with their thumb she is playing the treble notes with her thumb and that gives her guitar playing a distinctive sound.

That's interesting. I just researched this a little online and found this post about left handed guitar players on a music forum:

It strikes me there at least four varieties of left-handers:

1. Those who play a right-handed guitar, just flipped over and unchanged. Ie, with strings and controls reversed (bass strings on bottom, controls on top).
Albert King, Otis Rush, Doyle Bramall, Elizabeth Cotten, Eric Gales, Jimi Goodwin, Gruff Rhys, Dave Wakeling, Bill Jennings (AFAIK), Bobby Womack, Bob Geldof, Karl Wallinger

2. Those who play a left-handed guitar - with the controls on the bottom as normal, but the strings reversed.
Dick Dale, Rusty Burns, Jimmy Haslip, Uffe Steen

3. Those who play a LH guitar, but string it normally. Kurt Cobain, Paul McCartney, Tony Iommi, Elliot Easton.... orthodox left-handers. (Of no interest to this thread, I'm guessing.)

4. Those who play a RH guitar flipped over, but strung normally (bass strings uppermost). Jimi Hendrix. Anyone know any more who play this way?

Intriguingly, B B King (in a radio talk on youtube) remembers meeting Hendrix when he was with Little Richard, and seems to suggest he had his guitar strung in reverse then. He noticed he was playing a RH guitar left-handed and says he asked him "why didn't you change the strings?", and that Hendrix replied that was just the way he learned. However, a pic of Hendrix with Little Richard clearly shows his guitar (a flipped RH Fender Jaguar) strung as normal (bass strings on top).
 

https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index....wn.975819/


I also read another bit about Maybelle Carter, who played the guitar right handed, but played the melody with her thumb:

[Laird]

I really liked that. Good find. My favourite track from that album is Koka. I've been listening to it a lot. My second-favourite track is It's An Unknown Jungle.

The album generally brought to mind - appropriately or not; I don't know - Gotan Project, especially the only two albums of theirs I'd heard until looking them up again for this response:

La Revancha Del Tango (2001, although that's a link to the 20th anniversary version - the only version I could find on YouTube) and Lunatico (2006).

Hauntingly beautiful. From the moment I first heard it, I was captivated.

This sounded to me like an Asian and mystical rendition of the sea shanty Drunken Sailer.

Still on the theme of "This reminds me of...", the introductory guitar of this song (prior to the vocals) reminded me of a cross between the guitars on FIND NO ENEMY by AKALA and the introductory guitars on Nobody's Wife by Anouk.

I really liked that. Good find. My favourite track from that album is Koka. I've been listening to it a lot. My second-favourite track is It's An Unknown Jungle.

The album generally brought to mind - appropriately or not; I don't know - Gotan Project, especially the only two albums of theirs I'd heard until looking them up again for this response:

La Revancha Del Tango (2001, although that's a link to the 20th anniversary version - the only version I could find on YouTube) and Lunatic (2006).


Hauntingly beautiful. From the moment I first heard it, I was captivated.


This sounded to me like an Asian and mystical rendition of the sea shanty Drunken Sailer.


Still on the theme of "This reminds me of...", the introductory guitar of this song (prior to the vocals) reminded me of a cross between the guitars on FIND NO ENEMY by AKALA and the introductory guitars on Nobody's Wife by Anouk.

Good comparisons! I think Óró sé do bheatha abhaile pre-dates Drunken Sailor, or at least parts of the tune may go back to even before the rebel song serving a tribute to Gráinne Ní Mháille the pirate queen.

I feel like I've heard of Akala in the past, great musician regardless.

Also Gotan Project is up my alley as well, enjoying Chunga's Revenge right now heh.

Anouk sounds familiar but never heard of her before. Good stuff though.

[Laird]

I think Óró sé do bheatha abhaile pre-dates Drunken Sailor, or at least parts of the tune may go back to even before the rebel song serving a tribute to Gráinne Ní Mháille the pirate queen.

Oh, it's an Irish song too - I had been under the illusion that it was Asian given that you slotted it in between two songs by an Asian singer. It sounded almost Mongolian to me, like the throat singers. That explains the similarity with Drunken Sailor.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwCh4spYRwg

This reflective piano music by Erik Satie does seem like a good morning listen, a way to move from dreaming to wakefulness. Though I'd be happy to keep this mood with me throughout the day. It conjures up so many images for me too.

Erik Satie: Gymnopédies & Gnossiennes

Cue-point is set to 14:47, Gymnopédie No. 1.

[Ninshub]

And the space between piano notes (the high ones) is liking watching the space between thoughts when you meditate. Nice mind-calming effect.