This was my view today mowing for a customer.
Looking East - the Pennine fells just the other side of the fence.
South
West - towards the Irish Sea
North - towards home. My spot is the other side of the hill, top centre.
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David @BurnsRhythm
I tended to skip around the lessons as well in Grade 2 for various good reasons.
In terms of the direction I want to go, not really appropriate to set it out here but I am due an update to my LL and will add it then and flag it up to you.
Michael
PS seen the your photos, is it not late to be cutting hay or is this a second cut?
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Iām fascinated to see your answer Michael, so Iāll look forward to your next log update.
The grass is to make silage for cows and haylage for sheep on an upland sheep farm.
When others are taking first cut silage in spring, his mowing fields are full of sheep for lambing time before returning to the fell. The grass didnāt grow much once the sheep had gone back to the fell in June because it was so dry and so heās about a month late cutting his one and only crop.
Dairy farms round here are mowing 3rd crop silage this week!
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David @BurnsRhythm
Thanks for the clarification which has extended my very limited knowledge of farming which I picked up as a teenager. My parents had a cottage in the upper Yorkshire Dales and we used to help the local farmer out at hay time which was I think late June or early July. Donāt recall there ever being a second cut. Great fun learned to drive a tractor, a little grey Massey Ferguson, no roll cage in those days. 
Not sure you would be allowed to do that these days or even then.
Michael
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Ahhhā¦. affectionately known these days as the ā Little Grey Fergie ā
My Dad had one years ago and I remember driving it.
This one was used to carry the coffin of a relative about 3 years ago.
There were no roll bars when you were driving one Michael, but they became mandatory.
The one above doesnāt have one and no brackets for one either, so maybe there are exemptions.
There are still a lot of Grey Fergies about. People do them up and put them in museums or take them to vintage shows. And there are still many on farms. They wonāt be doing much work, kept mainly for nostalgic reasons.
The rear wheels on the Grey Fergie are smaller than the front wheels on the tractor I drive now! See photo up thread, early June.
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David @BurnsRhythm
Apologies to the rest of the community that we have wondered away from guitars.
Yes thatās the little fella, looks in better trim than the one I drove. Am I right in thinking you started it on petrol and then switched to I think paraffin. Great memories. The framer had a big David Brown, but I never drove it, probably a wise decision by the farmer.
The current range of tractors are huge in comparisons, not sure why.
Michael
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Nah, no need to apologise Michael, you seeā¦thereās a relationship between tractors and learning guitar! Why?..well I nearly always have the radio on, listening to music, so my learning continues while Iām workingā¦ā¦well thatās my excuse and Iām sticking to it 
Yes the earlier ones were started on petrol and switched to paraffin or TVO
If my memory serves me correctly, I think we had one that only ran on petrol and you started it with the gearstick. You put the stick in a certain position to engage the starter motor.
Tractors and the machinery used with them keep getting bigger and bigger and a lot more technology in them as well. One driver is able to do more and more. The price tag gets bigger and bigger too! The one I have is 15 years old, youād have a heart attack if I told you the price of its new equivalent!
But at least Iām still able to learn guitar 
There, that brings it nicely back round. 
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My guitar is a Burns.
Rhythm is first and foremost what music is all about.
So I put the two together to remind myself to learn to play rhythm rather than just chasing the fancy lead stuff.
BurnsRhythm -
Burns flagship guitar model is the Burns Dream. Fancy looking thing!
All the reviews are good so Iāll hunt one down someday and at least give it a try. Ā£1500 ā¦ā¦eeek! -
āBurnsRhythm living his dream playing in a band with a Burns Dream guitarā
ā¦ā¦kinda catchy!
I put this on the Username thread today. Thought I would put it here too, cos you just never knowā¦ā¦
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I just checked out the Burns Dream with Mr. Entwhistleās āNoiseless Pickupsāā¦ looks pretty cool!!! I love the headstock & bridge!
I donāt think Iāve ever heard of that brand before your comment in the username threadā¦ for that matter Iāve never heard of the name Entwhistle before todayā¦ some things just arenāt that common this side of āThe Pondā!!!
Tod
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Also David, couple of thingsā¦
First, I was looking for a picture of your Burnsā¦ have you posted one?
Second, I have a 17 year old grandson who lives in a semi-rural area in Northern Colorado (he just started his last year of high school today) who works on a farmā¦ I showed him the pic if the āLittle Grey Fergieā because he loves everything farm related but especially tractors . The farmer he works for works a LOT of landā¦ even for several of his neighbors who are absentee farmers & has numerous tractors, mostly the big John Deere onesā¦ at any rate, he has a several acre garden that he grows various vegetables for personal use - to feed his family & workers- that he uses a small Massey-Ferguson tractor for! My grandson says it looks a lot like the pic you shared!
Technology has really shrunk this world 
we live in, hasnāt it? Didnāt mean to hijack your Learning Logā¦ā¦ 
Tod
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Hi Tod, yeah technology getās everywhere. That Grey Fergie doesnāt even have lights. The dynamo on the side of the engine charges the battery which powers the starter motor. Just about every function on the tractors of today are electronically controlled, computer controlled. They can be steered by computer for field work via satellite GPS and itās accurate to within one inch! They are even developing driver-less tractors!!
Burns guitars arenāt particularly common over here either. Mine is a Club Series from 1991. Similar shape body and headstock as the Dream but fairly low budget. Cost new was around Ā£300. Itās the one in my avatar photo.
Here are a few internet pics of the Burns Dream
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Oooh Baby! I LIKE that blue one! Iām partial to blue guitarsā¦ are they still being made? I know nothing about Burns.
The reason my grandson got the job with the farmer is because my son-in-law is the manager of a John Deere dealership. Itās truly amazing how much they can do & how much they cost 
!!! My grandson was heading to the wrong field one time & the farmer calls him on the comm system in the tractor to let him know to go to the correct oneā¦ then a few minutes later calls again to warn my grandson about a new irrigation ditch that had been dug a day or two beforeā¦ he didnāt want his $800,000 machine to wind up āWith the muddy side upā!!!
He was tracking his machines with GPS & knew where everything was!
Crazy! 
Tod
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@CATMAN62
Thereās some seriously big expensive kit about these days. Wrong side up in a ditch is the last place you want to be with it!
I like the blue one as well but my favourite is the black and red one.
Iām not sure if they are still made today or not. Burns guitars seem to have come and gone over the years with different incarnations. I hope they are still making them.
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Oh yeah! The black & red one is Sweeeeet!!! Hope your dream for a Dream comes true someday!!!
Tod
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Hi David, you have a very good reminder here! No Rhythm= No fancy cool stuff! 
Beautiful pictures! I also live and always had in the countryside and green is my favourite colour! 
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Hi Silvia.
Oh yes, itās all about the Rhythm. We all have it within us - getting it out through the guitar is the hard part. Weāre here learning to do that.
Iām surrounded by green here in the countryside, so green isnāt my favourite colour. Burns also have a green Dream guitar butā¦.arghhh no, I donāt want a green one! I have more than enough green! They also do a Cherry Red one (not in my photos) ah, now that would be better!
Iām guessing the Dream guitar is far too blingy for most people but as I live in a world of green and brown and often up to my neck in muck and mess - I donāt mind a bit of bling for a change! 
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Nowā¦ when itās guitar time in the day it must be special! 
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I didnāt write an update at the end of August because my practice through the month wasnāt as regular as Iād hoped it would be and Iām not much further on than I was. Time and life just seem to fly these days!!
Instead, this has happened in the last few daysā¦
After the Solfege thread last week, I decided trying to sing Do Re Mi along with the guitar might be a good way to improve my very poor singing. I tried the open Cmajor scale. Oh dear!! That low C is already getting high enoughā¦.and the top end of the scale, well donāt ask!
I looked up the vocal range of some singers who I thought would suit my voice:
Johnny Cash D#2 -B5
Chris Rea A2-E4
Kenny Rodgers G2-C5
Barry White C3-A4
Leonard Cohen C2-G#4
Lee Marvin C3-D#4
(I used to annoy my Mum with my impression of Lee Marvin)
Then I did an online voice test to see if I matched any of them. Well, I was quite shocked to find that I can go down to B1 and then A#1 at a push. ONE!!! An octave lower than any of those guys!!!
Maybe my rendition of Wandārinā Star was an octave too low - no wonder Mum was annoyed!
Ah wellā¦all those guys are good singers and Iām not! I struggle to find the pitch, then struggle even more to stay on it. Do Re notMi
So thatās me done with singing - back to where I started. Trying to make my guitar singā¦.
šø David
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David @BurnsRhythm
Are you sure no expert but sounds very low, worth checking on another site.
Michael
PS Try this app found it quite accurzte
@MAT1953
Well no, Iām not sure if you say there could be a discrepancy between these voice testers. To be honest, I donāt want to try it again because Iām past caring about it. Iāve never been able to sing and I know I have a deep voice because everyone tells me. Itās been described as ādistinctā and was once described as āShakespeareanā - whatever that means!
Iām in awe of people who can really sing. We can buy a better guitar but we canāt buy a better voice.
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