Bill's Conversational Musings

Speaker Design - Yesterday vs. Today

Speaker Config

So, found this going through some old boxes. My friend Scott used to make some THUMPING subwoofer systems back in the day. Those who went to high school with me will know what I'm talking about. We were always in the front lot, early in the morning.

Back then your …

Fretbo.ar - Fretboard Visualization

Fretboard Image

https://fretbo.ar/

Very cool site to help you visualize your fretboard. Good for scales.

Fretbo is a tool to help you visualize the fretboard.

After hearing a few guitar virtuosos explain they visualize the fretboard in terms of intervalic functions from the root note of a scale, I knew …

DAW signal routing

Somebody on a FB group asked the question about routing a signal through a plug-in in their digital audio workstation or DAW. Then, 1/2 through the chain, send that signal somewhere else (another pedal), bring that signal back in to finish processing it, send it one more time to …

Scales

https://tones.wolfram.com/

At WolframTones, they have an amazing list of scales. I noticed they did not have a few scales so I have copied the list here so I can add/change them and add personal comments.

This is something I have wanted to explore for a very …

ChordPic - Easily Create Guitar Chords

CMaj7 Guitar Chord

https://chordpic.com/

Here is a quick bookbmark for creating guitar chords. ChordPic generates a clean, downloadable image. You can even change the shape of the notes and lable them too. There is a color option as well.

When you are done, you can download it as a .svg vector …

Our words and deeds

Going through some old notes I found this nugget of wisdom.

"Although the idea is noble, if the execution is flawed, it leaves the customer's story about us crafted by our words and deeds, unfavorable."

It's a good quote that basically says to do what you say you are going …

Alternate Picking 01

Paul Gilbert Pattern 01

On Facebook, I made a post about a 1980s Paul Gilbert Guitar Player article back in Feb. 2020 about alternative picking.

Essentially, this is the exercise he posted in an old Guitar Player magazine and the example is what you see below. It wasn't until the long, pandemic, stay-at-home that …

Vehicle Comparison Worksheet

Vehicle Comparison

I created this document because I could not find a good car comparison worksheet. I found many calculated MPG, TCO, and other metrics. Those did not resonate with what we were searching for.

So, I created a spreadsheet and modified it as time went along. Usually, it was a result …

2021 Revlog

Well, it's 2021. I'm testing to see if this old thing still works. I should have been blogging AND vlogging during all of 2020 but I did not.

So, I thought I would dust this thing off and see if all the parts still work. So far, so good.

I …

Hybrid Picking

A Minor Arpeggio

A question came up about hybrid picking and if there were any lessons about how to do it. Below is an example of how I use hybrid picking in certain situations. This is from the song Eugene's Trickbag and is the opening A minor arpeggio.

As much as I tried …

Action, Plot & Complications

Much of what we understand and feel about people comes from watching them act in relation to others and the entaglements they create as the action proceeds.

R.V. Cassill, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Fifth Edition, 1995

The same can be said about people in their personal lives …

Conversation Engaged

His face was sweaty and dirty. The sun shone on his face. The day was hot.

Nick turned his head carefully and lookded at Rinaldi. "Senta Rinaldi. Senta. You and me we've mad a separate peace." Rinaldi lay still in the sun breathing with difficulty. "Not patriots." Nick turned his …