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Wife brought home some leftover potatoes from a restaurant she went to. I expended my mustard on them. So I had to make more. I...

I never use the term noodling. I have always used wanking or wankery as the abstract noun

Hey Rob, Remember this beauty: It is still the love of my life. I recently bought a custom uke for 5X the obscenely low price you...

but be careful. I snapped my first low G string back in the day because my ear was used to a high G and I absentmindedly tuned the low...

re-reading my last entry, a certain thought obtrudes. Why don't I just use the B.B. box which combines major and minor elements? After...

I haven't posted much musically lately because my thoughts aren't fit for public consumption. And that's saying something when you...

Not knowing the fretboard seems inconceivable in my life, but it isn't necessary. For example, if you want to play the A minor scale...

I have to agree. I've never been very much impressed with the Beach Boys although my parents had some Beach Boys vinyl that we listened...

I like to play geometrically by which I mean playing shapes and lines, rather than thinking about notes. I let the ukulele and its...

Not at all. I just contributed to a rival thread and since yours is more worthy I wanted to keep yours in the limelight.

And I have a hot take on the Beatles which I am not going to post in the hot take thread because I think the moderators should close...

In the kitchen, I've been playing around with burnt vegetables. Specifically burnt onion. I finely cut a white onion and I fried it...

Don't play the G string. The G string just duplicates the note of the A string. Play Bb as X123 and the C as X345. There's no rule...

well heck. We just need the outfits that Adrienne Barbeau and Farah Fawcett wore and we'd be in the cannonball run!

I am more of a proper 12 kind of guy because I like whiskies that are in your face like Laphroaig. And the non-smoothness of a Proper...