OneDittyADay

The name for this video comes from the NOEMATA Random Name Generator. Sorry it’s a bit late, but I just got a nice eight hours sleep. Ahhhh.

I’ve been working hard on some graphics and design aspects of the site. I’ve just recently finished a fretboard picture which should do a much better job then ASCII text at portraying a scale. I’m also working on a redesign which is going pretty good, but is still a couple of weeks off. In the meantime last night I wrote two more ditties that are fairly decent I think. I’ve been really trying to spend more time writing them so you don’t get three chord or five note wonders.

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This tune was dedicated to a young girl that was a friend of our family. She passed away suddenly last year. Her name was Rylynn…

Andy

Simply beautiful. Another one under CandyRat Records.

I get a lot of people searching for tab for this one. Andy offers it for sale at his website. I think it’s quite affordable.

This one is a little wierd. I saw a video a few days ago where a guy had a capo covering only the top four strings and thought that was neat. I found that if I turned my capo around I could achieve the same effect. I imagine he was using some sort of special tool for the job.

On top of that I was trying to play The Entertainer before I started working on the videos. The Entertainer is drop D and so are all the ditties I wrote and recorded that day.

Does anyone have any information about these hybrid capos? It was something completely new to me.

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He speaks! I think this is the first time I’ve ever said anything. This video took me a few tries, and on this particular take the fridge turned on just as I mashed the record button. As a result I lost around thirty seconds of precious record time.

I wrote this one while I was watching Heroes on NBC. Pretty good series. I still have a few more to go but so much to do on this website that It’s going to have to wait.

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