Big Accomplishment!

Subject: Big Accomplishment!
From: black walnut
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 05:07 PM

Guitar....jamming....this weekend....for hours and hours....I did it!

~black walnut (who usually leaves all the guitar playing to the other guys...)

Subject: RE: Big Accomplishment!
From: Sorcha
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 05:08 PM

Huzzah Huzzah Huzzah!!!

Subject: RE: Big Accomplishment!
From: Amos
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 08:34 PM

Yeeehah! Pick that thang.

A

Subject: RE: Big Accomplishment!
From: Big Mick
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 08:58 PM

It only gets better from here, my friend. Remember that before you can be good you must be bad. Every one of these folks around here was bad in the beginning............even Rick............hahahahahahaha. Go for it, pal. Play every single chance you get secure in the knowledge that it gets better every single time. Good on you.

All the best,

Big Mick

Subject: RE: Big Accomplishment!
From: Margaret V
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 09:13 PM

Cool!!! Congratulations and keep at it and have a ton of fun. Margaret

Subject: RE: Big Accomplishment!
From: CarolC
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 10:27 PM

Congratulations black walnut!

Carol

Subject: RE: Big Accomplishment!
From: kendall
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 10:30 PM

Good on you!

Subject: RE: Big Accomplishment!
From: RichM
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 10:37 PM

Doing it, and doing it again, and again... Big Mick is right; you only get better...

Congratulations

Rich

Subject: RE: Big Accomplishment!
From: black walnut
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 08:07 AM

Next step: Capo!

~'nut

Subject: RE: Big Accomplishment!
From: balladeer
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 08:11 AM

Way to leave that wallflower behind! Now let's see you jam on your harp....

Subject: RE: Big Accomplishment!
From: black walnut
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 08:16 AM

You know the trouble with harp jamming, 'deer? By the time I get 36 levers in the right position everybody's on the next song in a different key, that's what!

But, yah....

~'nut

Subject: RE: Big Accomplishment!
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 08:56 AM

Wihee! Sounds like fun, BW

Kris

Subject: RE: Big Accomplishment!
From: JeffM
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 09:27 AM

I can tell when I'm not needed any more.

Subject: RE: Big Accomplishment!
From: black walnut
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 09:38 AM

JeffM,

Don't make me laugh.

Well, okay. Make me laugh.

~'nut

Subject: RE: Big Accomplishment!
From:
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 11:51 AM

Its my first time writing on Mudcat. Me thinks you had a great time...

Subject: RE: Big Accomplishment!
From: black walnut
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 12:40 PM

Well now, look who's here!

'Guest' is my husband. Who didn't go on the weekend. Who knows I had a great time.

I have a 'Guest' living in my house...how odd!

~'nut

Subject: RE: Big Accomplishment!
From: JeffM
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 04:58 PM

I wonder how long he's been spying on you, ~'nut. Oh to be an e-fly on the wall.

Subject: RE: Big Accomplishment!
From: GUEST,Maggie
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 06:47 PM

Well done BW !!!

Subject: RE: Big Accomplishment!
From: black walnut
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 07:28 PM

Thanks for the encouragments, everyone.

Well, almost everyone. Go walk on a ceiling, Jeff.

~b.w.

Subject: RE: Big Accomplishment!
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 07:54 PM

Congratulations Black Walnut! I can totally relate. I had the same experience during my Dwight Diller banjo workshops last week in Michigan. But I feel so 'spent' and overwhelmed I have not yet figured out how to describe what happened.
I guess these meaningful moments hold an unspoken joy that is difficult to put into words. The accomplishment is so personal.

Bonnie

Subject: RE: Big Accomplishment!
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 08:45 PM

There's hope for the jam-ically challenged? Thanks, Walnut. You can be my hero.

Subject: RE: Big Accomplishment!
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 02:51 AM

What did you play? Give us an earful. And don't stop jammin'

Seamus

Subject: RE: Big Accomplishment!
From: black walnut
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 07:29 AM

Seamus, do you mean what pieces did we play, or what chords did I play?

We played pieces that were, you know, folk music. On Sunday morning we played stuff people knew. Like Bill Gallagher and Gordon Lightfoot and John Prine and Traditional and Bob Franke and Gospel and other stuff. The day before we spent an afternoon sharing songs on the theme of death. Songs with murders were encouraged. Very lively session, that was.

Chords I played included C, A, D, G, E, F, e minor, d minor, a minor, C 7, G 7.....

I remember being a bit embarrassed in the middle of one song when someone pointed out to me that I was playing all the right chords, but that it would sound more together with the group if there was a capo on the second fret. I hadn't even noticed....

~'nut

Subject: RE: Big Accomplishment!
From: black walnut
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 01:25 PM

Oh, and since my hubbie popped into this thread for a visit, I should thank him here for looking after the kids so that I could go away with my jamming friends for the weekend...Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

I'd have almost no folk music life if it weren't for that man.

~'nut

Subject: RE: Big Accomplishment!
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 11:44 PM

Oh, yes, the old missing capo bit! bw, I meant the names of the songs and tunes you played, but thanks for throwing the chords in anyway. Jamming is fun. Keep enjoying it.

All the best.

Seamus

Subject: RE: Big Accomplishment!
From: GUEST,Seamus Kennedy
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 11:45 PM

Where the hell is my cookie?

Seamus