[musictlk] Playing The Guitar

Thu Jun 30 04:00:17 UTC 2011

Hi.  I thought that what Bill had to say was tremendous.  I'm a 
mostly-left-handed braille reader and have played guitar for 50 
years.  I used a part of the finger closer to the nails to play the 
guitar.  The part for reading braille was just a little "south" of 
that, so to speak.  I never had trouble with the two interfering with 
each other.  I played an awful lot of six-string and an awful lot of 
twelve-string, but I still kept a fast reading speed and had no 
difficulty wondering what the dot configurations were.
 From all the responses you've got on this question, we could start a 
50 guitar band with a couple banjos thrown in for good measure.
BestPen
At 03:14 PM 6/29/2011, you wrote:
>Hi Brianna,
>I am doing it backwards.  I am just now trying to learn braille 
>after playing guitar for many years.  I actually haven't played in a 
>while and my callasse have gone down somewaht but the result is a 
>loss of sensativity in my fingertips.  I would suggest to really try 
>to use only the very tip of your fingers to fret the neck...Thats 
>the way you are suppose to do it anyway just many people aren't that 
>precise.  Try very hard to arch your fingers as much as you can and 
>use only the very tip of your finger as close to the nail as you 
>can.  Try to be awaire of what part of your finger you use to read 
>and try to avoid letting that area touch the strings.  Oh and most 
>important have fun with it.
>Bills
>Bill Kociaba
>CRUISEONE
>Bill at Ycruise.com
>954 227 7772 or Toll Free 877 227 7775
>7600 Wiles Rd, Coral Springs, FL 33067
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Brianna Scerenscko" <bfs1206 at gmail.com>
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>Subject: [musictlk] Playing The Guitar
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>>Hello Everyone,
>>
>>My name is Brianna. So I finally decided to take a listen to my
>>Talking Tabs set of guitar lessons that an old VR councelar gave to
>>me. I like it so far.
>>I was just wondering if getting calisses on my fingers from playing
>>would effect my braille reading?
>>Hope this makes sense. :-)
>>
>>Thank You
>>
>>Brianna
>>
>>
>>On 6/29/11, Sarah Alawami <marrie12 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>lol. I have a dm 420 right now so I really can't buy another model, pluss
>>>it' sonly a year old but I listened to the review and niel of corse did a
>>>bang up job.
>>>On Jun 29, 2011, at 9:16 AM, Johnny Russo wrote:
>>>
>>>>Dear Friends,
>>>>
>>>>                I am totally blind and work as a sound engineer.  I also
>>>>record CD's for bands.  I have informed several companies who manufacture
>>>>recording equipment that speech prompts, added to their products would
>>>>enable accessibility for blind engineers and musicians.  Olympus is
>>>>listening.  They have released the LS7, a unit similar in size to other
>>>>Olympus digital recorders.  It has speech prompts for all menus.  It
>>>>features high quality condenser microphones, and an Omni directional
>>>>microphone, which can be turned on or off.  The unit will allow you to
>>>>record live shows or practice sessions in WMA, PCM, or MP3 formats.  You
>>>>can
>>>>record in 16 bit, or 24 bit resolution.  Neal Ewers has posted an
>>>>informative podcast on the LS7 on www dot, blind cool tech dot com.  I
>>>>spelled this out so screen readers will pronounce it clearly.  Olympus is
>>>>anxious to observe the response from the blind community in respects to
>>>>how
>>>>many of us purchase an LS7.  Olympus is interested in expanding product
>>>>features in future units, if enough LS7's are sold.  Various Olympus
>>>>dealers
>>>>can provide an LS7 for you.  You will be impressed.  FYII
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>John Russo
>>>>
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>>>Sarah Alawami
>>>
>>>If you  need an edit  done on a small project go to
>>>http://music.marrie.org/master.html for more info. If you need to contact me
>>>my info is below.
>>>
>>>MSN and AIM: marrie12 at gmail.com
>>>
>>>website: http://music.marrie.org
>>>Podcast: http://marrie.podbean.com
>>>youtube: http://youtube.com/marrie125
>>>
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>>Brianna Scerenscko
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