Cooking, Cutting & Comping

[waitingman]

What vertigo feels like...

Having resolved to cook at home more this week, we promptly went out for dinner last night... well, had take-away delivered to a friend's house, so kind of going out for dinner. I had a spicy miso ramen that had quite an accumulative burn, which meant I only got just over 3/4s of the way through before giving up, as I couldn't feel my tongue any more & my face had turned a noticeable shade of red. Another nail in the coffin for my heat tolerance! At this rate, I'll be reduced to toast & butter by the time I'm 60... probably low-salt butter too

So tonight, we cooked at home. We've also dusted off & busted out the 'new' knife set we were given for our wedding... in 2012. The knives are still sharp though - ask me how I know... I cut my right hand at the base of my thumb, right where it folds into the palm, so it'll be a bugger to heal. Fortunately, there was no blood on the chicken & I'm pretty sure I washed the cut thoroughly, so there's no salmonella on me!

I have a list of cover songs to learn guitar parts for this weekend, but am having trouble getting an old riff, from an old song of mine, out of my head, so I keep playing that, then playing rhythm parts for it, then pick up the bass & try to come up with a part for that... meanwhile 'Hold The Line', 'Ordinary World', 'Dreams' & a bunch of other songs, remain untried & unlearned... Other than a party band in the late 80s, I've always been in bands that wrote their own material, which suited my self-taught & non-standard tuning ways of playing - I can't actually play a lot of cover songs, as the chord shapes are completely different to the ones I've come up with on my own, using the tuning I devised when I first picked up a right-handed guitar & played it left-handed... so the strings are upside-down as well... On the plus side, I've developed a style of my own, with its own voicings & phrasing. On the down side, it makes playing other people's songs embarrassingly challenging for me. Which is possibly one of the reasons I've agreed to take this project on - to see how I can deal with it

Comments

[basefinder]

Is there any comraderie/sharing of techniques among other left-handed guitar players? Or do you just have to invent what you need to do, one song at a time?

'Hold the Line' has been a favorite of mine since it first hit the radio.