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Post subject: Keeping score
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 10:17 am
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Many people keep track of how many calories or points they eat, golf scores, baseball or football games. Tommy Tedesco in GP used to write a column with some date, instrument, music...column, back when.

'Got the idea to make (an Excel) spreadsheet of date, instrument, amp, comments for episodes of playing guitar. Began 1 January 2007. Continuing.

Most interesting, looking back at what instrument, amp / setting ('like modeling amps), music played, idle thoughts about it.

Anyone else do or thought of doing it?


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Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:16 am
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Although I always eat well, exercise, write notes on what I play, maybe some settings, I have no interest at all in numbers or stats, or to ever track that in an Excel doc.

Also, I play a lot of sports, but have no interest in sports stats (vomitously boring), "talking" about sports. I'll go out and play them and whoop-ass, but don't care to compare sports knowledge or stats, so to speak.


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Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 2:40 pm
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Many people keep track of how many calories or points they eat, golf scores, baseball or football games. Tommy Tedesco in GP used to write a column with some date, instrument, music...column, back when.

'Got the idea to make (an Excel) spreadsheet of date, instrument, amp, comments for episodes of playing guitar. Began 1 January 2007. Continuing.

Most interesting, looking back at what instrument, amp / setting ('like modeling amps), music played, idle thoughts about it.

Anyone else do or thought of doing it?


I'm going to guess you have a degree in engineering, some sort of tech or accounting?

Personally, I'd hate to breakdown my playing into a spreadsheet. For me it's all about emotion and I can't turn that into numbers without losing something.

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Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:46 am
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For decades, music was virgin-pure emotional / spiritual / expressive; never kept any kind of written-use records.

This spreadsheet was just a 'play with your mind-examine your life' experiment in data, which will surely go away.

Give it a go for a few days; you might like rereading your 'guitar diary.'

Who was the philosopher who said, "An unexamined life is not worth living." (???)

(And yes, 'started majoring in engineering, then on to architecture, next chemistry, history. Degrees tho are in business. Go figure.)


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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 10:14 am
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Yikes, that sounds like waaaaaaaaay too much work!

I do have a list of present and former guitars with serial numbers and prices played, but logging playing would be a P I T A.


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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 10:21 am
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JSJH wrote:
Many people keep track of how many calories or points they eat, golf scores, baseball or football games. Tommy Tedesco in GP used to write a column with some date, instrument, music...column, back when.

'Got the idea to make (an Excel) spreadsheet of date, instrument, amp, comments for episodes of playing guitar. Began 1 January 2007. Continuing.

Most interesting, looking back at what instrument, amp / setting ('like modeling amps), music played, idle thoughts about it.

Anyone else do or thought of doing it?


No, but I used to really like Tommy Tedesco's "Studio Log" column in GP magazine. He played on thousands of recordings and always was creative in playing and describing his experiences.

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