Topic: Dank Bank Deposits - dank's soul is claimed! - New music Nov 30th - page 69. (Read 128893 times)

FTFY.

Are you kidding? dank is obviously the world's best guitar player. He will become famous, living in a mansion, selling marijuana pipes and shit.

I want to say that it's really bad guitar playing, but it's not even guitar playing.  It's the equivalent of my cat walking across my piano.  I could teach ANYONE a chord or two and some basic strumming patterns in ten minutes.  If you give anyone a guitar who has the least bit of musical inclination, or even general curiosity, they will figure out a basic chord or at least a musical riff of some sort after a few hours. 

I don't even believe that a person needs traditional lessons to become good.  I've been playing 20 years with a total of five or six lessons over the years and have become good to the point where I've done some touring and studio work with an established band.  I mostly learned from trading licks with friends and TAB books of my favorite bands.  With motivation and an internet connection or some TAB books, face to face lessons are not a necessity (though, they certainly can help).  Have you ever googled a beginner's lesson?  Hell, google something advanced, and you'll probably drag some knowledge away from it.  What you've been doing is not in any way playing a guitar. 

Thank you for the feedback.

http://soundcloud.com/dankm/untitled-95
http://soundcloud.com/dankm/untitled-99

There's some slight improvement, at least.

Work on your tone quality. A note should not sound like a screech.

http://soundcloud.com/dankm/untitled-85
http://soundcloud.com/dankm/untitled-84
http://soundcloud.com/dankm/untitled-83
http://soundcloud.com/dankm/untitled-87
http://soundcloud.com/dankm/untitled-88
http://soundcloud.com/dankm/untitled-89

Can't read comments on sound cloud, btw.

Yeah yeah, I know.  Gonna have some more guitar samples up tonight.

That's not what most people mean with Eastern 

I just meant non western, eastern.  It's cool to listen to a variety of music, too many people have a limited taste and miss out on all the good music.

Yeah, I don't think I'll be taking up that instrument, but its sounded very nice and added a touch of eastern influence to my music.

That's very Sensible.

I don't mean don't have goals or dreams, I just mean don't make expectations.  Just live in the moment.  And, thanks, regarding your other post.

Two things, not setting expectations and goals (though they have to be realistic) will not help anyone, I lived for a long time thinking if I expected the worst I could only be happy when the real outcome was better, actually this is not the case.

If you don't have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?

Regarding ego I agree, have you tried Ego Death? If you take disociative/psychedelic drugs they can give you an interesting experience https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_death

That you senbon?

Dank words of advice:

- Don't set expectations and you can't be let down.
- All problems manifest within your mind, you create them to be.  Nothing is good or bad, go with the flow.
- Your soul is comprised of your conscious and your ego.  All thoughts and actions are based off one of these.  Ego is what we use to learn in this world, conscious is our 'god' energy which connects us all.  Ego destroys love and love destroys ego, duality.  Ego is a parasite, constantly trying to feed itself, trying to help yourself rather than helping others.  Right now, our society is very much ego bound, resulting in greed, division, war, disease, and all around negativity.  As you become consciously aware of your ego, you can choose to act out of your ego or conscious.  Acting out of your conscious, or love, spreads positive energy to whomever you may interact with.  We are all one soul, if all humans acted with our conscious, there would be no troubles in the world, as the world would be full of love.

I've applied these to my life, helping me greatly.  As a child, I was very egotistical, which led to a lot of problems in my life and eventually, depression as a teen.  One thing that got to me was that I was overweight, even though the doctor said I wasn't, creating confusion as to why I looked bigger.  I've tried to lose weight since, playing sports, working out, whatever.  Years of effort to no avail.  In the last 5 months, after learning these things, I've completely transformed into a different person.  It didn't take hours of working out, either, the only changes in my life were that I stopped dwelling on my problems and that I stopped sitting on a computer all day.  By learning to act with my conscious, helping others before myself, being friendly, releasing good vibes to others, I ended up getting in shape in such a short period of time.  Not to mention I was multitudes happier.

This is why I believe in karma, because it has worked in my life and shown to be true.  It makes no difference to me if you believe or not, I wrote this here to spread helpful information that changed my life for the best.  While it's not always easy to control your ego, being aware of it and it's impact on your life is a good start.  Use these words as you wish.

Well, I suggested to Dank that if he drew a forum avatar for me, we could forgo interest on the 5-week loan. So it was a sort of barter arrangement. I'm not sure if that qualifies as Islamic-style, but you were my inspiration when I suggested it.

No problem, thank you.  Enjoy your avatar.

Confirmed. Dank paid me back early and even threw a little bit extra on top of the principal (we had negotiated an interest free loan).

Thanks for everything, Dank!

IveBeenBit's 12 BTC principle returned.

New tracks, 70, 71 and others come.  Tuned guitar thanks to senbon.

http://soundcloud.com/dankm

Lower volume @ 75