keyboards only

well, the guitar thing was nice for a while.  wrist problems came back, so it's back to the keyboards.  maybe a little with the e-bow, but it doesn't have the same sounds as that bridge pickup on the stratocaster playing blues.  right now the wrist feels good, but it can't take much guitar playing at all.  its weak.  also, it might be permanent, if it is focal dystonia, like i think it is.  look it up.  but i haven't been to the doctor, so i don't really know for sure.

coconut milk shake

E-Bow Blues in A

Saturday Morning E-Bow

back to the blues

well, why the switch to the blues?  basically, it takes fewer right hand gestures than ragtime.  I'm using a slow speed setting on the amp blues track.  I'm hoping that I can play a few minutes and come up with something interesting, and keep the wrist in good shape.  Still doing daily stretching, and it seems to be helping.  Slow is the key.

Also used a mic this time on the amp, and the results are really nice.  better than plugging the guitar straight into the computer.  now i can have the reverb that gives it some depth.  Also liking the bridge pickup on the stratocaster.  it's feeling more crisp than the hum buckers on the other guitars.  don't mind the auto-correct on this blog.  it has a limited vocabulary!

Thursday Morning Blues Riffs

Keep on Truckin Mama Interrupted

some more GCD riffs

carpal tunnel stretches

For almost a week I've been doing some carpal tunnel stretches, and it's really helping.  That's how I could put up the video of 20 seconds of finger style blues.  The pain has gone away, and my hands feel better.  The numbness is gone, too.  I'm going to be very careful and not overdo do it, of course.  Minecraft is banned for life!  I checked, and I haven't played since Feb. 1, 2014.  Never again!  My iPad use is almost zero -- just checking one email account once a day, Facebook once a day, and Twitter once a day or less.  I'm also cutting down on mindless online browsing.  I do the stretches throughout the day.

So my guitar plans for now are to go back to finger style blues and ragtime.  Limited playing and slowly building up the time each day.  Jazz is out, and electric blues is out.  Old school only!

20 seconds of GCD finger style blues

Focus: ambient electronica

https://soundcloud.com/robert-mccord-2/focus

ambient electronica.  guitar is a fender VG start played with an EBow.

ambient electronica 1

https://soundcloud.com/robert-mccord-2/march-22-2014

an ambient electronica piece I put together today.

tapping test

busy semester

no writing lately.  Busy time in the semester.  Good progress with the piano.  That is all.