To be fair he’s only had it for a couple of days and isn’t as tech savy as you my good friend 
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Haha. As you well know James, I’m not in the least bit tech savvy. 
But I’m not posting a tutorial video. 
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I’d settle for a blues improv demo. It’s been a while since you fired up the trio. Hasn’t Richard’s post ignited your trio fires again?
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Absolutely! 
This is not an ‘unboxing’ event, purely for the entertainment-
He’s trying to demonstrate how it works and hasn’t a clue…
He has my light ‘flashing fast’ 
Having said that, I’m glad he’s positive about it and plays well.
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Actually he has! I promise my next AVoYP will feature my Trio+. Probably not a blues though.
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I couldn’t help myself - This pony’s gonna learn a new trick!
Lyrics
Mr. Coles
Calling Mr. Coles to the playground
The lesson’s over join the fun outside
Welcome Mr. Coles to the playground
It sure is nice to have you by our side
You lead us round in circles counting up to five
And teach us how to substitute our chords
Running after- school clubs, not just the nine to five.
The ingrates - still shout out for more
Chorus
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, guitar man
Write me a ditty as fast as you can
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe
Gabba Gabba Hey! Let’s go
Chorus
When kids are misbehaving you can spot the fool.
A gentle word will always set things right
The seven years I’ve known you, you never lost your cool.
Even (religion/cussing/politics ) won’t start a fight
Calling Mr. Coles to the playground
Remember to write and play your songs
Won’t you stay in our playground
You never know who might just play a long
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I’m lost for words Brian.
Jeez Louise!
I’m humbled, heart-warmed and gladdened in equal measure at the inspiration you have taken and the creativity you have sprinkled.
You’re inimitable and we wouldn’t want it any other way.
Smiling lots am I.
ps
Here’s a little trick that is a doozy.
F#7 → Bm
It is the note E (being played here on the open E string up top) that makes the b7 needed for F#7.
It might help to think of it as a 4-finger Fmaj7 shape moved up one fret.
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Hi Richard,
Hope you are well.
If this was heavied up a bit I could hear it having a Thin Lizzy vibe - get those twin electrics going.
Loving the bass.
Digger
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I wish I had 1/100th of your creativity and eccentricity. 
You are such positive person, Brian! I love the song!
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worth it for that alone 
More pearls! 
Tbh I forgot that was an F#7
I never did learn the ‘small F’ so I think would find that fingering a bit tricky, but I see that you’d have both E strings ringing out which might accentuate the 7th quality? 
(I don’t know what possessed my to try to sing that dominant C7 without practicing properly )
Hey Digger, it’s been a while. Good to see you pop up again
I see The Cure are back in business- any chance of something strange from you 'n Katja? 
err… spare time and thick skin goes a long way, but thank you
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This one fell out of my pocket today.
I thought I’d try something in the key of A (well, why not) and my only other idea in advance of shaping it occured when I wrote down the word ‘rocky’ … meaning a little uptempo, driving sort of thing.
This came along after a bit. Seven layers of guitar plus bass & drum from the Trio+.
When I listen to it now (with fade out added after the fact) I have in mind the outro to a longer song where some motifs and melodies from earlier all recur and overlap in a big ending.
More fun than you can shake a stick at!
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Whoopsie - just dropped another one.
I’m finding this whole business of spending some time playing, having fun and being creative just a little addictive.
The story behind the track.
I decided to create something in the key of D major using diatonic chords.
An online die randomly generated the numbers 3, 4, 2, 6, 2, 5. That gave me a chord progression.
| F#m | G | Em | Bm | Em | A |
The online die had not given me a tonic chord so I knew that placing one after the dominant V chord was a good option. That gave me a 7-bar progression. A little unconventional. So I placed a tonic D major chord at the beginning also. I had this progression.
| D | F#m | G | Em | Bm | Em | A | D |
I wanted slow-ish tempo so I programmed a 72 bpm drum beat to follow for my loop. From there I just added layer upon layer of rhythms and arpeggiated chords and more as it came to me. I devised a melody then a harmony part to go along with it.
But, I wanted more. So I wrote a second section. I took more control over this. I decided to stay in the same key and simplify things, choosing a progression of:
| D | F#m | G | A |
Some more layers and noodling and I had two pieces to join together.
Which is verse / which is chorus?
Who knows.
Does it matter?
I did a little drum then bass intro thing and a fade out. But other than that this is how I made it.
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Another good one Richard. What a great set of chords to put together in a progression.
John Lennon’s ‘Woman’ uses a similar progression for a completely different end result. I wonder if he knew the theory behind it all.
Thanks for the listen and nice comments Gordon.
The Dice Man Cometh!
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Who would have expected that?
The first one is a little bit messy for my taste …&7 layers 
that’s super fun, I really have to do that sometime ,
but the second one is really wonderful to listen to… 
at the bottom of the topic I almost missed it… that was a real shame otherwise
Greetings
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Yeah … that one I named outro is rather muddied up.
Thanks for appreciating the most recent.
I must say … I’m disappointed that neither you nor @sairfingers nor anyone else has commented on the title of that one!
Mellow-D
Major
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Hey Richard. I don’t know what multi-fx or trio plus are , but I’d love to know more. These sounded great!
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Hi Jay.
It is a looper with bass and guitar built in.
And more.
The Pedal Guy has many great, easy to follow videos on it. https://youtu.be/bhhj83O5was?si=K7kVS1IzK-PER0oA
And this songwriter is a fan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiXHmzy3Lc4
Just call the whole thing “double six”.
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Thanks, Richard. I’ve been thinking my songs are sounding the same. This looks like it could be just the thing to help me break out of common patterns to create something new. I found the Pedal Guy link particularly helpful.
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