Recent content by Craig Orndorff

Great write-up, SteveCS. Much appreciated. One thing that strikes me is how many of these books don’t treat rock as its own “thang.” I don’t know if it’s because they just figured rock was the end all and be all, and meanwhile Motown was just different enough to warrant its own exploration...

I was reading a book the other day that mentioned using the dial tone for tuning. It works, but talking about dating oneself instantly. I don’t think I had heard of that since I started playing about twenty five years ago, and even then landlines were slowly on the way out (before the iPhone et...

What I’d like to know if there’s any second hand sellers that offer associate programs….there’s plenty of material that’s interesting but only available that way. Also more obscure sellers like Rod Goelz at Santrella (?) might be willing to work out an agreement one on one.

I've been wanting to get into the YouTube game for a while, but I've had trouble coming up with a topic. By way of background, I've been playing bass off and on since 2002. I have also been a teacher for about twelve years. Over the past two years, following some medical issues, a car crash...

I’ve got one of those, as the current/backup plan. But as there’s a real dearth of drummers in my community, one can always dream of a little drummer girl coming from u She has expressed an interest in the drums, and I’d sorta like to get her started on something before the usual middle school...

You know, I think I may have seen a copy of that floating out in the Gray-o-sphere.

When you come down to it, even if you don’t know the spelling of various scales, it’s a bad value and a waste of paper to literally lay them all out, particular given no harder than it would be for a computer to work it out. It’s funny though…..I can’t say that there’s an app that I...

It’s an interesting one in that it chooses not be encyclopedic and ultimately repetitive (because what else would you call simply reprinting the same shape simply a fret up for pages on pages) in favor of actually helping in terms of application.

Here is the Jimi book I mentioned, and for the Uber curious, the back features a few other books for other instruments.

I am familiar with the Advanced Bass one (which I found a little odd in terms of what it covered), and not only are they part of a rough series, they also spread out into other instruments. There’s even one on “Rock” music theory with Jimi Hendrix on the cover! If I pursue this idea of mine, I...

Thanks for the anchored in the real world advice. Happen to have a channel name I could check out? Even if you prefer by IM?

I mean, for both the bridge cover screw (shown below for the first time) that has now become the primary problem here: I started with a relatively small Philips head screwdriver. I’m beginning to think that the issue is I was never taught, as someone noted above, the finer aspects of using...

And note that this is something of the iceberg’s tip, as it does not include my Kindle collection (which has seen a real proliferation of material, both of high and low quality, due to just how easy it is to publish for the Kindle), my Apple and Play book stores, my Hal Leonard myLibrary, and...

I’ll see your Carol Kaye and raise you: For the record, I’m not Michael, as should be clear (silly me, using a pseudonym even for a PGish forum, but that’s just how I roll). Her autograph probably won’t be worth too much after she passes, as she is one the most generous signers (for my money)...

Just to demonstrate how long I could continue with this, here is the heart of my collection. I have to other shelves with mostly Paul Wolfe books but also the Idiots guide and the weird “Rock Bass” and “Rock Bass Bible” books the Mel Bay distributes and is probably better than anything they...