From: owner-wanderer-digest@smoe.org (wanderer-digest) To: wanderer-digest@smoe.org Subject: wanderer-digest V3 #24 Reply-To: wanderer@smoe.org Sender: owner-wanderer-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-wanderer-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk wanderer-digest Tuesday, December 16 2003 Volume 03 : Number 024 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Best Guitar Picking Albums?? [Susan McNamara ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 11:18:39 -0500 From: Susan McNamara Subject: Re: Best Guitar Picking Albums?? Hi Kate: Your welcome. The guitar site is a treasure trove, and you don't even have to say open sesame! It's still my favorite place in the world. Recently I've been practicing I Think I Understand which is just drop D tuning but the picking is great (especially the loud bass string at the end of the chorus). It's amazing to me how Joni's style goes from EXTREMELY intricate on the first two albums to looser and looser (until the strings are flapping on The Wolf that Lives in Lindsay). Joni never bores me. Hope you are all well. Here's the link for Marian's tab of ITIU: http://www.jmdl.com/guitar/ithinkiunderstand-mr-c.cfm take care, sue At 3:37 PM -0800 12/14/03, Kate Bennett wrote: >Hi marian & bill! I agree with marian that the early songs are where you >can here joni playing the most (cuz its just her voice & instrument for >the most part)... I learned to play That Song About The Midway & >performed it recently thanks to marian & sue's excellent tabs! >Here it is : >http://www.jmdl.com/guitar/thatsongaboutthemidway-mrsm-c.cfm >It is very easy to learn & sounds soooooo beautiful! Thank you so much >marian & sue for I would never have been able to figure this out on my >own! Kate > >>I think JOni's first albums are the best as far as "guitar picking" - >>Song To A Seagull, Clouds, Ladies of the Canyon. Particular songs >which are interesting to me in terms of the intricacy of the guitar >picking are: Tin Angel, The Dawntreader, Ladies Of The Canyon, I Don't >Know Where I Stand, The Priest, Michael From Mountains, The Gallery, >That Song About The Midway - there are certainly more, but these come >immediatly to mind. >Hope this helps. >Marian< > >>I am trying to find one or several Joni Mitchell recordings that would >>give my ears a real close show of a variety of Joni's guitar playing as > >>well as tuning changes, so I can pay close attention to the how-to? >> >>Thanks for the suggestions. Bill - -- Susan McNamara Assistant to the Dean of Students Cornell University 401 Willard Straight Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 Voice: (607) 255-1115 FAX: (607) 255-8082 E-Mail:sem8@cornell.edu ------------------------------ End of wanderer-digest V3 #24 *****************************