#lespaul — Public Fediverse posts

Here's a new one. Taking a look at Imagine by Music Travel Love. Cool intro riff. Check the melody. Read more:

https://chordyes.com/chord/music-travel-love-imagine

#telecaster #lespaul #american #cover #acoustic #malevocalist #collaboration

Just finished these chords. Hurling to Лине (flows) by 5'nizza. The tone of this track is perfect. Belt it out here. Check it out:

https://chordyes.com/chord/5-nizza-flows

#telecaster #lespaul #ukrainian #malevocalist #reggae #acoustic #duo

Just finished these chords. Hurling to Лине (flows) by 5'nizza. The tone of this track is perfect. Belt it out here. Check it out:

https://chordyes.com/chord/5-nizza-flows

#telecaster #lespaul #ukrainian #malevocalist #reggae #acoustic #duo

Just finished these chords. Hurling to Лине (flows) by 5'nizza. The tone of this track is perfect. Belt it out here. Check it out:

https://chordyes.com/chord/5-nizza-flows

#telecaster #lespaul #ukrainian #malevocalist #reggae #acoustic #duo

Just finished these chords. Hurling to Лине (flows) by 5'nizza. The tone of this track is perfect. Belt it out here. Check it out:

https://chordyes.com/chord/5-nizza-flows

#telecaster #lespaul #ukrainian #malevocalist #reggae #acoustic #duo

Just finished these chords. Hurling to Лине (flows) by 5'nizza. The tone of this track is perfect. Belt it out here. Check it out:

https://chordyes.com/chord/5-nizza-flows

#telecaster #lespaul #ukrainian #malevocalist #reggae #acoustic #duo

Here's the breakdown. Leaping to Dayak Cega by Tino Ame. A very expressive tune. Fun to play. Check the harmony. Breakdown:

https://chordyes.com/chord/tino-ame-dayak-cega

#telecaster #lespaul #indonesian #malevocalist #dayak #reggae #compliment

Chords for this are now live. Playing through Bedo Agomo by Ngudak Swara Qomariah. Give the vocal score a look. Website:

https://chordyes.com/chord/ngudak-swara-qomariah-bedo-agomo

#telecaster #lespaul #indonesian #duet #malevocalist #femalevocalist #dangdut

Chords for this are now live. Playing through Bedo Agomo by Ngudak Swara Qomariah. Give the vocal score a look. Website:

https://chordyes.com/chord/ngudak-swara-qomariah-bedo-agomo

#telecaster #lespaul #indonesian #duet #malevocalist #femalevocalist #dangdut

Chords are now available. Engulfing to Dont Say by Han (한). The atmosphere of this song is spot on. Start harmonizing. Article:

https://chordyes.com/chord/han-dont-say

#telecaster #lespaul #korean #malevocalist #rap #emotional #hiphop

Chords are now available. Engulfing to Dont Say by Han (한). The atmosphere of this song is spot on. Start harmonizing. Article:

https://chordyes.com/chord/han-dont-say

#telecaster #lespaul #korean #malevocalist #rap #emotional #hiphop

Chords are now available. Engulfing to Dont Say by Han (한). The atmosphere of this song is spot on. Start harmonizing. Article:

https://chordyes.com/chord/han-dont-say

#telecaster #lespaul #korean #malevocalist #rap #emotional #hiphop

Chords are now available. Engulfing to Dont Say by Han (한). The atmosphere of this song is spot on. Start harmonizing. Article:

https://chordyes.com/chord/han-dont-say

#telecaster #lespaul #korean #malevocalist #rap #emotional #hiphop

Chords are now available. Engulfing to Dont Say by Han (한). The atmosphere of this song is spot on. Start harmonizing. Article:

https://chordyes.com/chord/han-dont-say

#telecaster #lespaul #korean #malevocalist #rap #emotional #hiphop

Added this single. Moving on to Uma Vida Standard by Mauricio Pereira. Give the lyrics a look. Music:

https://chordyes.com/chord/mauricio-pereira-uma-vida-standard

#telecaster #lespaul #brazilian #portuguese #malevocalist #acoustic #storytelling

Ouch

I’m too old for this shit.

Shoveling, I mean. I felt okay when I first came back inside after shoveling, but now that a few hours have passed… Ouch town, population me, bro. Every inch of me is sore, and despite having two of the best nights sleep I’ve had in ages over the last two nights, I am completely exhausted.

I don’t know if I have the energy to do anything other than sit on the couch for the rest of the night. I think we were already planning on ordering out for dinner tonight. Maybe I’ll be able to crawl to the door to bring the delivery in.* I mean, really… that’s asking a lot.

It is a good thing I managed to put rhythm guitar tracks onto two RPM Challenge songs this morning before I shoveled. I don’t know if I will be able to do any more than that tonight, though I really need to. We’ll see how the pain goes. For now though, it’s just couch time. Much needed couch time, believe me.

Here’s a few guitar pictures to hold us over until next time.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54316576981/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54316806444/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54316994390/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54316805879/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54316805869/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54315686237/in/datetaken/

#365 #365Challenge #365Project #exhaustion #Gibson #GibsonGuitars #GibsonLesPaul #gibsonday #gibsunday #Guitar #health #LesPaul #Music #Nikon #nikonZ5 #pain #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography #Recording #RpmChallenge #rpm2025 #shoveling #shovelingSnow #Sleep #Snow #snowShoveling #SongWriting #sore #soreness #Weather #winter #z5

It Was Just a Matter of Time

May 8, 2021. The musical nerd moment I lived today has been inevitable since May 8, 2021. On that day, my 50th birthday, my beloved bride bought me the best birthday present ever. A new guitar. A Gibson Les Paul Standard 50’s. Since that day I have been living the life of a glutton who owns two, that’s right, two Gibson Les Pauls. I’ve had a Les Paul Custom since 1990, and now I have two. From that day on it has been inevitable that I was going to be a total nerd and record some music with the guitar parts doubled using both Les Pauls together.

Today became that day, of course. I put rhythm guitars onto five RPM Challenge songs. In each case, the guitar coming out of the left speaker is my Les Paul Custom and the guitar coming out of the right speaker is my Les Paul Standard.

Yeah… nerd.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54314748814/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54314762328/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54315308744/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54314195197/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54315307919/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54314195117/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54315319038/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54315308629/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54315319728/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54315504755/in/datetaken/

#Gibson #GibsonLesPaul #Guitar #LesPaul #Music #Nikon #nikonZ5 #photography #Recording #RpmChallenge #rpm2025 #SongWriting #z5

Friday

It’s Friday. One week from today I am going to be writing about how I only have an eight hour work day standing between me and a full week’s vacation. I am already hyper focusing on it. Crazy.

I just watched the season two finale of Silo. It was very good. I sort of screwed things up though. The show is based on a series of books. A few weeks ago I got tired of waiting to see what was going to happen on the show so I started reading. I’m going to finish the third and final book probably this weekend. When the super confusing twist happened in today’s episode I knew what it was and I knew it was coming. I spoiled myself. I don’t care though because the books are good, the show is good, and the books and the show are just different enough that I can still feel engaged with both.

This week I also watched the season (series?) finale of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew and I am down to the second season (series?) finale of The Alienist which I am enjoying a lot even though it’s creepy as hell. Fortunately season two of Severance came out today. I’ll watch that tonight before bed, I think. Silo is over, but I still have a Friday show to watch out for. That’s nice.

Last night I watched a video on the youtubes. Five Watt World’s Short History of the Les Paul Deluxe. My first “real” guitar was a Les Paul Deluxe. I didn’t learn how to figure out the date on a Les Paul until years later so I have no idea what year it was made. I think it was very late 70’s or very early 80’s. I bought it in 1988 at Russo’s Music in Lowell, MA. All of the knobs had cracked off of it and I never replaced them. I was a kid. I didn’t have the money or even the know how of how to get replacements that would fit. It also had a nasty gash in one of the frets, and I seem to remember that one of the inlays was coming unglued. I didn’t care. I loved that guitar. I adored that guitar.

On a Sunday night/Monday morning in November or December (pretty sure it was December) of 1990 it was stolen out of my car. That was pretty much the end of the world for me. I have never really recovered from the violation of it all. I bought my Les Paul Custom a short time later and that is still my number one guitar… but some days I really find myself missing that Deluxe. I would have loved to have taken it to a good shop and had all of the negatives fixed up. It would have been epic, mini-humbuckers and all.

Watching this video made me feel all the feels. Steve Hackett, Pete Townsend, and me. All of us, Les Paul Deluxe veterans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBWhGc6jxaw

Okay. Time to stop farting around and get ready for work. Happy Friday, everyone. The weekend awaits.

#appleTv_ #dust #fiveWattWorld #Gibson #GibsonGuitars #GibsonLesPaul #gibsonLesPaulDeluxe #Guitar #LesPaul #lesPaulDeluxe #severance #shift #silo #skeletonCrew #StarWars #starWarsSkeletonCrew #Television #theAlienist #wool #YouTube

The Jackson 5 – Tito’s Guitar Solo

https://wgom.org/2024/09/17/the-jackson-5-titos-guitar-solo/

#gibsunday with a real burst. This is a 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard, named “Louis.” Easily the lightest LP I’ve ever played. Thx to blackmagicguitars for letting me experience it 🤘

Hear it here ⬇️
https://youtu.be/M1fz6aPGEuI

#gibson #gibsonlespaul #gibsonguitars #gibsonguitar #lespaul #1959 #burst #guitarphotography #guitar #guitarist #guitarplayer #guitarpedals #songwriter #musician #music

Is the hashtag supposed to be #GibsonDay or is it #GibSunday? They both work. Should I just use both of them?

I haven’t played today, but I did get a couple of pics for whichever hashtag is the right one. I am so unhip.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/53931843078/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/53931932694/in/datetaken/

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/08/18/gibson/

#Gibson #GibsonGuitar #GibsonGuitars #GibsonLesPaul #gibsonLesPaulStandard #gibsonLesPaulStandard50s #gibsonday #gibsunday #Guitar #Hipstamatic #iphoneography #LesPaul #lesPaulStandard #lesPaulStandard50s #photography

I put rhythm guitars onto five more songs this morning. My schedule is all topsy turvy and I’m not sure if I will be able to do anything more today, but five songs worth of guitar tracks is a nice haul for the morning.

I am actually out of songs that need rhythm guitars now. I still have two that need leads, but we’ll be getting to those soon enough. I want to write some lyrics tonight so that I can have at least five songs ready for a car vocals in the morning.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/53914313113/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/53914312163/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/53914513930/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/53913178722/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/53914416499/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/53914066491/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/53914415774/in/datetaken/

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/08/10/five-more/

#20245090Challenge #365 #365Challenge #5090 #5090Challenge #GibsonLesPaul #Guitar #LesPaul #Music #Nikon #nikonZ5 #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography #Recording #Songwriting #z5

It is Friday, at last. Every single day this week has tried to trick me into thinking it was Friday (there must be something wrong with my brain’s calendar function) but this time it’s real. This time it actually is Friday.

Insert the sound of an emphatic sigh of relief here.

The weekend is one 8.5 hour work day away. The best part? My step daughter is coming over tonight! She’s going to a work conference tomorrow and is stopping here on the way to it. We haven’t seen her in ages. I’m really looking forward to her visit.

Musically speaking? I played some guitar before work this morning. 50/90 progress. I put rhythm guitars on two songs and leads on one. I took a bunch of pictures with my Nikon. I had the 28mm lens on it for all but one. I swapped to the 40mm and took one more pic just to make sure it was working. It was. That lens is so much better than the 28mm. I’ll keep the 40 on there for a while. I really love that little sucker.

Here’s the one 40mm pic. It’s the choice for the photo a day thing for today.

https://flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/53912381450/in/datetaken/

Note the guitar case in the blurry background. That’s my other Les Paul. The one Jen got me for my 50th birthday. I’ll be swapping them out the next time I record guitars. The birthday Les Paul is the only one of my electric guitars that hasn’t made it onto a 50/90 track yet. That will change, probably tomorrow morning.

Now for a bunch of faux artsy pics with the 28mm lens.

https://flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/53911043922/in/datetaken/

https://flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/53911043832/in/datetaken/

https://flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/53912179078/in/datetaken/

https://flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/53912286524/in/datetaken/

https://flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/53912179148/in/datetaken/

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/08/09/musical-friday-morning/

#20245090Challenge #365 #365Challenge #5090 #5090Challenge #Family #GibsonLesPaul #Guitar #Kids #LesPaul #Music #Nikon #nikonZ5 #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography #primeLens #primeLenses #Recording #Songwriting #StepDaughter #StepKids #z5

I had another crummy night’s sleep last night, but today is looking okay so far.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/07/11/a-good-start-2/

#20245090Challenge #365 #365Challenge #5090 #5090Challenge #GibsonLesPaul #Guitar #iphoneography #LesPaul #Music #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography #Recording #SongWriting

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. When I die, this sucker is going into the casket with me.

I’m probably taking most of this stuff with me too.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/05/17/taking-it-with-me/

#365 #365Challenge #Gibson #GibsonGuitar #GibsonGuitars #GibsonLesPaul #GibsonLesPaulCustom #Guitar #LesPaul #lesPaulCustom #Nikon #nikonZ5 #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography #z5

I managed to sneak in some guitar playing today in between my doctors appointment and punching in to work. The recording project I am trying to work through right now had three songs that needed lead guitar tracks. I finished off all three of them. My playing was poor at best, but who cares. Bad playing is better than no playing, right?

Here’s where things get super nerdy. I had three songs that needed work… and I used a different guitar on each song. My only regret is that I didn’t have a forth song to work on so I didn’t get to use all four of my guitars. Oh well. In further nerd news, I took a picture of each guitar with my Nikon Z5 and… well… nerd… I took a selfie with my iPhone of me playing each guitar too. Thanks, camera app on my Apple Watch that has a timer built into it.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/05/16/sneaky-guitar/

#es335 #es335Pro #Gibson #GibsonGuitar #Guitar #iphoneography #LesPaul #lesPaulCustom #lesPaulStandard #Music #Nikon #nikonZ5 #photography #Recording #Songwriting #z5

My 2000 Les Paul Standard 50’s has new strings. Now if I just had calluses on my finger tips and had the nine songs on my to-do list all practiced up and rehearsal ready. Ugh.

Hipstamatic shake to shuffle to celebrate.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/04/06/new-strings/

#365 #365Challenge #Gibson #gibsonLesPaulStandard #gibsonLesPaulStandard50s #Guitar #Hipstamatic #iphoneography #LesPaul #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography #shakeToShuffle

Sunday evening, trying to learn the solo on Nothing Else Matters… #music #metal #rock #metallica #nothingelsematters #solo #gibson #gibsonlespaul #gibsonlespaulstandard #lespaul #lespaulstandard

Current status: trying to learn this Zakk Wylde stuff… 😅🎸 #guitar #electricguitar #gibson #gibsonlespaul #gibsonlespaulstandard #lespaul #lespaulstandard #zakkwylde

I promised myself I was going to do it on Thursday and then failed to do it. I did not fail on Friday though. I played guitar this morning. I put rhythm guitars onto three songs. Breath that sigh of relief!

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/02/16/friday-morning-guitars/

#365 #365Challenge #GibsonLesPaul #GibsonLesPaulCustom #Guitar #LesPaul #lesPaulCustom #Music #Nikon #nikonZ5 #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography #Recording #RpmChallenge #rpm2024 #SongWriting #z5

I feel gross using the facebook/instagram owned twitter alternative app, Threads. Really gross. 

That isn’t quite enough to stop me right now though. I am such a social media hypocrite/whore.

Anyway, someone asked, “what are your guitar goals for 2024” or something along those lines. I responded with a few. I figured I would port the response over to this post and maybe add a thing or two because I ran out of characters on the app. First, does the embed code work? I tried just sharing a link the other day to see if that pulled anything in, but it didn’t. I found that each post includes some embedding HTML code. Betcha a dollar it doesn’t work…

Post by @reallytallredhead View on Threads

https://www.threads.net/embed.js

Based on the preview function in the editor, it didn’t work. Oh well. Here’s the text I wrote:

I want my cover band to finally get back together after a covid-hiatus and an exiting singer.

I want to write a shit ton of songs, record listenable demoes of all of them, and maybe have one or two that don’t objectively suck.

I want to play a bar gig for the first time since Feb 1, 2020.

After getting my 1978 Les Paul refretted a couple of months ago, I want to do the same with my 1979 ES-335 along with maybe getting a new wiring harness so that all four of my guitars will be in gig shape.

Me: https://www.threads.net/@reallytallredhead/post/C1ch8b9LyTx

Yes, kids… I just quoted myself. I dun did that.

Anyway, there are a couple of things to add.

I want to replace all of my guitar straps with heavy, leather straps like the one I have on my 50th birthday present Les Paul Standard. I have amazon shipping one for my Les Paul Custom and it should arrive tomorrow.

I want to buy either a Gibson Les Paul Junior, a Gibson Firebird, a Gibson Les Paul Standard with P-90 pickups instead of humbuckers, or a Gibson Les Paul Deluxe. The order I wrote them is from most wanted to least most wanted. The chances of me buying any of these is about 0.0000001%… so there’s a chance.

With all of these goals in mind, mostly I would just settle for playing more. That’s what I really want to do.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2023/12/29/thread/

#000000 #00000026 #2024 #999999 #apps #CoverBand #Gibson #Gigs #goals #Guitar #GuitarGear #LesPaul #Music #newYearsResolutions #socialMedia #SongWriting #tech #threads #twitterAlternatives

I didn’t play guitar at all today, but I did take a few Hipstamatic pic of my #1, my Les Paul Custom. Shake to Shuffle and all that stuff.

HoHoHo

https://robertjames1971.blog/2023/12/24/xmas-eve-les-paul/

#1 #GibsonLesPaul #GibsonLesPaulCustom #Guitar #Hipstamatic #iphoneography #LesPaul #lesPaulCustom #photography #shakeToShuffle

I’ve been spending so much time stressing over my old Les Paul that I thought that today’s photo a day picture should be my new Les Paul. This is the one Jen gave me for my 50th birthday and I love it that much more because of her.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2023/11/10/the-new-les-paul/

#365 #365Challenge #gibsonLesPaulStandard #gibsonLesPaulStandard50s #Guitar #LesPaul #lesPaulStandard #lesPaulStandard50s #Nikon #nikonZ5 #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography #z5