Women's Blues

We did two run throughs of the songWomen's Blues today. Jenny sang while I played a fast single note six string twleve bar blues. I used a pentonic scale to play the blues as I always do. I am not yet able to smoothly improvise the blues at the speed I play it at. I try but I mess up.

We are learning some labour songs today.

Jenny picked out three labour songs for us to learn. I will be able to play Women's Blues right away as it is a twelve bar blues tune. I have not looked at the music for the other two songs but I will try to learn the music today. We may play a few of these songs February 6th or 7th weekend at a union event.

The new amplifier is beautiful

The new amplifier is really sweet. I have it playing through my PA cabinets at the moment. It has a good rough sound and is loud. I may buy the amp its own cabinet.

I paid off the amplifier head.

I now own a Trace Elliot guitar amplfier head. I got a ride around town with a union activist and we went to the Song Bird store and I paid the final payment on the new amp head. I brought it home and put it under the tree.

Another new song written

I am playing my six string more. I wrote some nice pop punk song chords and again recorded this on my iPod using my iTalk microphone.

New guitar amp and still shopping for the cabinet.

I am buying a guitar amplifier and it is only the second guitar amplifier I will have owned. This amp is a trace elliot guitar amp although the company is a bass guitar amplifier company. The amp produces signals at 80 watts for 4 ohms. I spent some time looking at a local builder's offerings for the speaker cabinet. The shop manager helped me price a few combinations of speakers in the local builders solid pine cabinets but as he said the store has much cheaper cabinets. The amp will be paid off in middle January so I can wait awhile now to do more thinking about the cabinet. I also have some PA cabinets that will at least work for now.