Comments for Patrick Stack

Comment on Titling Posts “Who Dat” Is Already a Cliche, But I Do Like the Win by Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:03:43 +0000

Five *pitchers*? God, I miss college towns.

Comment on Titling Posts “Who Dat” Is Already a Cliche, But I Do Like the Win by Pat

Pat — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:02:15 +0000

In addition to you being wrong about that game being good, a friend at the Super Bowl party — who doesn’t really follow hockey, is from the DC area but clearly knows my hometown — asked me if I am a fan of the Washington Capitals. She said her bro is a hockey fan, so I told her to go tell him she asked a guy from Pittsburgh if he likes the Capitals and see how he reacts.

Comment on Titling Posts “Who Dat” Is Already a Cliche, But I Do Like the Win by Rich

Rich — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:14:23 +0000

There was a good hockey game on Sunday as well.

Comment on Three Favorite American-History Figures? by neal

neal — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:56:37 +0000

hmmmm…good one.

In no particular order…

Thomas Jefferson. TJ was the shiznit.

General George Patton. Just love the guy. Poet warrior from the old school.

Mark Twain. Seriously where would we be without that mans wit?

But you can’t go wrong with Abe or TR either. And BF has one of my favorite quotes of all time “Beer is God’s way of letting us know that he wants us to be happy.” Sweet.

Comment on Final Semester at Ross by Pat S.

Pat S. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:27:30 +0000

It’s cool, I’m back there all the time. We’ll find some time for food.

Also, I didn’t know you had a site! Looks good!

Comment on Final Semester at Ross by Eileen

Eileen — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:22:35 +0000

whoops – are you gone already? Sorry if we missed your chicago days again :-/ But I guess it won’t be that much longer before you are back!

on another note, I like the new background design

Comment on It’s Official: Soundgarden Reuniting! | Spin Magazine Online by Liz

Liz — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:40:24 +0000

what, audioslave wasn’t cutting it for you?

Comment on The Obligatory New Year’s Post by Pat

Pat — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:53:00 +0000

Thanks! I’m going to check out that Shearer stuff in particular. It’s interesting that you find what the students like ahead of time and then go from there when teaching — seems like the best way to find innate motivation.

Comment on The Obligatory New Year’s Post by danny

danny — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:51:52 +0000

I’d suggest learning a little bit of both the classical technique and the casual/rock technique. The major difference is where you hold the guitar. When playing classical guitar you rest the guitar on your left leg while you place your left foot on a stool. The right hand technique is finger picking. When using casual position the guitar rests on your right leg and you use a pick. Being able to play use both right hand techniques is useful. Classical guitars are generally more difficult to play because of a wider neck and nylon strings. If your classical guitar is set up the same way, then you’ll find it much easier to play when trying out an electric or non-classical acoustic guitar.

I’ve never used any software for the guitar, so I can only share what books I use for teaching. For classical technique, I usually have my students play some exercises from Aaron Shearer’s “Classic Guitar Technique, volume 1.” Almost all of my students prefer playing rock, country, metal, christian, or jazz music though. These students either work through Mel Bay’s Modern Guitar Method 1 or Berklee College of Music’s “A Modern Method for Guitar.” The Mel Bay series has 7 books. You’d be able to fly through the first half of volume 1. There are some nice arrangements as you get into the series. I found a complete method for the Mel Bay one time, so I bought it ($30 for the complete volume compared to $7.95 each individually). The Berklee book introduces reading chords much more quickly than the Mel Bay book does.

In the end it depends on what you want to play. What you can do on the guitar is endless. From classical guitar to easy open chord songs like Bob Dylan to power chords of so many rock bands to jamming out like Hendrix to playing chord melodies like Joe Pass (or Joe Negri) to playing acoustic percussive like Michael Hedges to the modern virtuosos like Satchriani or Eric Johnson. Good luck on your journey.

Comment on The Obligatory New Year’s Post by Pat

Pat — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:16:44 +0000

I got the guitar; I bought a classical one in Bolivia, but just haven’t gotten around to learning it. I did get some software – any particular pointers on learning classical guitar vs. regular?