November 23rd, 2006
In keeping with the feast or famine nature of this blog, here’s another post so soon after the last yet so far away from the one before that!
A technique I use a lot is where I strike the lower strings with my nails as well as the fleshy tops of my fingers. In the past, I have used the flat pick but I tend to find that the volume difference between the pick and fingers is too much. As a result, I developed the idea of using my nails rather than a pick and I find that this gives a much better overall balance. One does have to pay more attention to get the notes to ring clearly while playing this way but I find that this disadvantage is more than offset by the balance I can get across the strings.
Moving on, the start page idea has been going really well so far. If you haven’t already set your words, please click here to check it out now.
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November 22nd, 2006
Well, I suppose it’s time for another little flourish of writing. With regard to this blog, I have to say when I get the opportunity to write I really enjoy it what I am really glad that one of my early posts outlined how I would probably write a few posts over a few days and then mysteriously disappear for a period of time!
While I suspect that I’m probably not psychic, you would have to agree that it turned out to be an uncannily accurate description of what has occurred here ever since.
Among all the things I have been working on, grappling with how e-mail filters are affecting the e-mail list has been one of the main headaches I have been dealing with from an Internet point of view. Almost everything that’s ever been written about promoting anything on the Internet (including some of my own posts) stresses the importance of growing and maintaining an e-mail list.
Unfortunately, spam has created a problem here as it has done with so many other things on the net. So in a moment of weakness and possibly madness I have decided to temporarily suspend the e-mail list and provide a useful page that people can set as their home page instead.
Basically, I have partnered with Google to provide a search engine and there are some other useful links on that page as well. To check out this search/start page please click here.
The idea is to provide a page that you can set as the home page in your browser. From there, it will keep you up-to-date with any news, downloads, and tutorials posted on the site.
That’s about it for now but if you are familiar with this blog you will know to probably expect a number of posts in the next few days and then, as usual, I’m likely to go little quiet for a while. At least if you are using the start/homepage you’ll have a nice clean functional page that works!
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