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my songs and should be viewed in conjunction with my earlier post my early love of music it was actually written whilst my only instrument at home was piano which i could barely pick out a melody on and a set of homemade drums which i had cobbled together from cardboard boxes a toy drum set and biscuit tin lids the uke part in this video was put together in a few minutes and which i had played for practice about 3 4 times hence a little hesitation and deviation joke from a uk radio quiz show info for overseas readers lol see the lyrics on my poetry pages where you will find more song lyrics from now on see comment below posted by john dyhouse at 17 08 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels acoustic original song ukulele vocal thursday 20 february 2020 a ukulele journey chapter two my first guitar well thanks for waiting but here it is at last i don t know how i have managed to hold back except it was all so long ago and photos and memories are sadly few and far between the photo here is me honestly around 1967 8 really looking cool or bloody silly depending on your vintage in an earlier post i alluded to another photo but although i have seen it recently it seems to have been put away safely have you got places like that you will at my age so safe that i can t remember where to even begin looking so what can i say the guitar an arched top hohner or hofner with f holes was a christmas present from my parents sometime between the ages of 12 and 14 i learnt to play from bert weedon s book play in a day of course what you were able to play at the end of the first day was not explicitly stated however i persevered and learnt to play a few chords and how to pick out a melody this latter basically from my early attempts at the piano and an ability to play by ear if you are unsure that means hearing the tune and being able to assess where each note was on the fretboard with at least only a few near misses not that i used my ears in the way that jimmy hendrix used his teeth very soon i was frustrated at my progress and took out a subscription with my own pocket money to a postal course this taught me how to use all six strings to form a chord which could be moved up the fretboard the dreaded barre chord an expensive way to purchase a few sheets of paper but it came thru the post regularly with enough time to practice the contents i also purchased books on finger style folk country and blues the latter i had not really been subjected to before but i soon took to it because of course r r was king and driven to a large extent by the blues sonny terry and brownie mcghee soon became firm favourites a few years later having the pleasure of seeing them at the birmingham town hall on a tour of the uk around this time 1967 8 i also started dating my wife and attending the jug of punch folk club run by ian campbell at digbeth civic hall a couple of his band later joined groups such as fairport convention and steeleye span over 50 years later we still see the latter as often as we can still touring after all this time although there have been many changes in the line up but i am running ahead of myself i was playing rock folk blues and country and of course by now i had heard the shadows firstly apache in 1961 this changed my life hank marvin was my first real hero and i started playing their music this of course meant i needed an electric guitar with a tremelo arm i purchased a cheap solid model very faintly looking like a strat i am unhappy to say i cannot remember the make i have no photos or any other recollections of this guitar it filled a gap for me and i always felt the need for a fender stratocaster which took until i retired in 2000 to fill i used to play the cheap guitar through the reel to reel tape i described in chapter 1 it never seemed to warrant a more expensive amplifier as a last ignominious mention i cannot remember what became of that guitar no memory at all the arched top model lasted a good number of years but it was knocked over and the neck fell onto a chair the tension in the strings of course simply pulled the neck out of the body i attempted repairs but it was never the same and i swapped it a number of years later for a beat up old amplifier for another guitar which i then had but this is the end of chapter 2 more about that next guitar then a younger cousin showing you the guitar i intend to include a couple of videos over the next few posts of songs which i wrote using this red guitar some of my very earliest songs from the time of my early teens probably will seem to be quite simple and bland but of course i like them being biased thanks for reaching the end posted by john dyhouse at 23 06 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels acoustic arch top f holes guitar ukulele journey tuesday 11 february 2020 my early love of music it is not a very exiting subject but the story has to start somewhere my father had a love of music and could play almost any instrument which he tried mostly piano accordian and spoons and a saw not forgetting an harmonica playing a musical saw and musical spoons have you ever seen anyone play a saw by bending it to produce musical notes i must have gotten a taste for music from him something for which i am eternally grateful my first instruments were using the family piano badly but i could pick out a tune or two a plastic trumpet upon which i learnt a few military calls such as come to the cookhouse door and the last post no i never considered a military career but the notes for the calls were included with the instructions for the trumpet i can also recall a mouth organ and a penny whistle neither of which i seemed to be able to master at the time around about and probably before i was ten i know it s not that young really nowadays i was bought a reel to reel tape recorder that really got me going i used it to record music from a small b w tv which sat in our living room taking pride of place i still remember some of those songs and a favourite still today was buffy st marie singing universal soldier yes i know donavan recorded it in the sixties but it was a poor cover of the original buffy st marie a canadian cree indian i also used the tape recorder for recording myself and sometimes my sister singing my mother often said that she could not understand how we managed to learn so many songs it may be relevant to mention that i was chosen for the school choir at 7 or 8 years old but on reflection it may be because of the power of my voice rather than the pure tones which i produced the choir was entered for many school festivals but i do not recall ever winning anything as an aside i would sing all the time at home and to demonstrate how far my voice travelled mom used to get comments from neighbours who lived further away than i could have ever expected mentioning my mother also reminds me that we used to have a radio on in the house most of the time tv was only one channel and only on a few hours a day to start with i guess i am remembering when i was 5 or six years old a song i still remember from this time is vera lynn singing the little boy that santa claus forgot the first time i heard it i was in inconsolable tears because i thought that the little boy was me i still sing this song at christmas and may even have a video on my pc which i may look up and post on the blog before i finish this instalment i would like to mention two other memories the first was that used to collect lyrics sometimes i copied them from my tape recorder and sometimes cutting them out of magazines such as the record song book published in the 60 s and 70 s one last memory concerns a home made set of drums using a bass drum from a toy drum set as a snare drum without the snare various boxes and tins and i remember a circular biscuit tin lid into which i punched about two dozen nails hitting that cymbal gave a wonderful swishing sound i mostly used pieces of thin dowel sanded to round the ends as drumsticks but dad was able to get me a pair of steel brushes from a work mate who actually played the drums i did actually begin my song writing at this time i could not yet play an instrument to play along with the songs i could play a melody on the piano but not well enough to play along as a backing so i knocked out a rythm on my drum kit songs were very simple and quite limpid as you might expect from a 10 year old at least that is the best guess of my age at the time unfortunately i can no longer remember any of them or even their titles must say something about them apart from buffy other early inspiration came from elvis buddy holly billy fury and so many others that i am not going to name them here most of them are not well remembered anyway ok this post is rather longer than i expected but despite everything as i actually typed it in i kept remembering odd bits of my musical experiences and i haven t even mentioned the zither maybe another time posted by john dyhouse at 20 28 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels acoustic drums early love of music guitar music song writing songs sunday 9 february 2020 the nearness of you acoustic ukulele version of this great song just indexing some of the many videos i have recorded of me and my uke over the past few years and came across this one which shows a different style plus it is a song i really like hope you like it too i am going to take another opportunity to advertise ukulele central shirley uk further information is available on the previous post if you play the uke live in the solihull or south birmingham area and are free on wednesday evenings why not think about joining us for some fun from 8 00pm most of us are there from around 7 30 to 10 30pm or sometimes until we get kicked out if we are enjoying ourselves all abilities welcome posted by john dyhouse at 22 57 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels acoustic ukulele nearness of you ukulele central uk vocal thursday 30 january 2020 cover creep acoustic ukuklele vocal i belong to a fairy small ukulele club ukulele central shirley i first heard this song at one of our meetings in a new song book it has become a favourite of mine i just wanted to have a go and find how how it worked on an acoustic ukulele a little rough in the vocal but that s me ukulele central are group of friends who meet twice a month on average to enjoy a little convivial company and to partake of a little strumming to exercise our right arms it s what your r arm is for we jam for a couple of hours playing hits from the present day back to the 1950 s at the shirley club solihull whilst we recognize the skills and expertise of one g formby we prefer to work out on covers of more modern songs but are always open to suggestions if you play the uke live in the solihull or south birmingham area and are free on wednesday evenings why not think about joining us for some fun from 8 00pm most of us are there from around 7 30 to 10 30pm or sometimes until we get kicked out if we are enjoying ourselves we are always looking for new players at all levels enthusiasm and a desire to improve is all that we ask we are a very friendly crowd we perform at a few regular during the year year we do mostly charity gigs large and small so you will be able to showcase your skills in public at whatever level you play many of central s members played with pudselele a ukulele band set up to support children in need they played at both carfest north and south two years ago and also the bbc birmingham raising money for children in need join our face book group or email us at ukulelecentral14 gmail com f or further information posted by john dyhouse at 17 34 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels acoustic cover central ukulele shirley central ukulele solihull central ukulele uk creep ukulele ukulele club ukulele jam tuesday 19 march 2019 a new original song i have said many times that this blog was about songwriting and mainly about my attempts at that i have filled in with music videos of some of my fave artists and their songs as over the past too many months and years to contemplate my own songs have dried up i guess that i found more opportunity and expression in writing poetry rather than lyrics in my poetry blog i have tried to explain this to my own satisfaction by suggesting that it was due to my usually writing songs by starting with a chord riff or two and adding melody to match using words lyrics as placeholders with this in mind i tried to write lyrics first but often forgot the melodies after a very short time even if i had had a clear worked out idea in my head usually this was because i was not backing up those ideas with the chord riffs giving them an existence maybe i was away from home or just not being thorough i have tried recording a few of the latest song ideas very shortly after they have appeared in my head i have been sitting in front of my pc with a ukulele on my lap and using the built in webcam it doesn t make for a very good video technically or in performance terms however i do then have this to fall back on when i find time to suit down to work on completing editing the song this has saved much scrap paper with unused ideas being cast aside as an example i am posting here a video of one of these half formed ideas the lyrics need final editing i am playing a backing which i am making up as i go along to harmonise with a melody which is changing from verse to verse but it does hold the germ of what i think is a good idea hopefully i can take this to a decent conclusion which i will post at some future date i tried to post the video quite humorous in a crappy sort of way but blogger does not seem to enable the posting of videos and i did not feel able to post it on you tube until polished a little watch this space in the meantime you can check out the new lyric on my poetry blog cheers posted by john dyhouse at 11 53 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels music new original song writing tuesday 17 april 2018 pink floyd on the ukulele anyone wish you were here a little bit of an experiment wanting to see how it migh sound once again i record myself because my own opnion is very important to me but i have to hear it dispassionately to be able to really tell how it sounds see more on my channel on you tube posted by john dyhouse at 17 59 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels acoustic cover wish you were here pink floyd ukulele older posts home subscribe to comments atom my zazzle store guitarist_hands by artyfax view more guitarist t shirts the text reads guitarists do it with their hands blog archive blog archive february 4 january 1 march 1 april 1 march 2 february 2 november 3 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