(This is a carry-over from my tech-tips site. Seemed silly managing two sites.) Starting a running list of AI links as I start to use the tools more and more. (Updated 12/12/2024)
AI - A Commandline ChatGPT
AI is a client in BASH where you can have …
https://www.oolimo.de/index.php
Another cool site for visualizing the fretboard.
Oolimo covers the basics and theory with many good articles on the subject. They review the basic chord types like CAGED. And, there are chord progressions suggestions where you can see how progressions are used in different …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
"Vidya Intarweb Playlist | Video Game Music is a fantastic video game playlist maintained by Cats777 over at Aersia.net."
This is great for coding or anything you want background music for. Afterall, video game music is supposed to be in the background anyway.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Update: 8/24/2024 I am revising this post to include updates based on insights I have gained since my last visit a few years ago. I aim to incorporate new information and references that will be valuable for future reference.
I am working on a set of reference tracks …