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Post by The Bicycling Guitarist on Oct 30, 2012 4:10:24 GMT
Hello fellow fab four fans.
I am The Bicycling Guitarist. Since the early 1980s I have ridden tens of thousands of miles "no hands" on a bicycle while playing guitar at the same time. Here is a YouTube video filmed last February of me riding inside a school gymnasium (INDOORS) while playing the Beatles song Help!
My YouTube channel also has a parody I do of Day Tripper plus some of my many original songs some of which may have been inspired or influenced by my exposure to the Beatles. Peace.
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Post by Mr Kite on Oct 30, 2012 19:16:58 GMT
Hello Bicyling Guitarist welcome to the forum glad you could join us. Right . I have questions . I take it your a Beatles fan and will be joining with disscussions about the Beatles etc etc. etc. Do you have Bicycle clips ? Can you do Bike by Floyd ?, which would be very apt , just a suggestion . Do ever put a playing card in you spokes as a kinda backing instrument , just another suggestion . Ever thought of trying a UniCycle , now that would be impressive . I know , poor attempt at Bike humour . If there was a Hurricane on it`s way to your end (that`s northern for home/place) would your park your Car under a tree ? Queen ! Fat Bottomed Girls and Bicycle Race ! more suggestions! White bicycle ! Nazereth ! Do you still get chalk in Punture outfits ?
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Post by The Bicycling Guitarist on Oct 30, 2012 20:36:05 GMT
Hi mrkite and thanks for the welcome! I was born in 1960 and have three older sisters who were Beatles fans. I heard Beatles tunes a lot when growing up. When I was a teenager I went through a phase of buying and listening to many Beatles albums. I lost some respect for the Beatles later. I thought that they were overrated as musicians and songwriters, but the past couple years I have come to appreciate more how advanced they are musically. I know from learning to play Beatles tunes on guitar that they are not as simple to play as one might think. Also I read a scholarly paper about the chord progressions in many Beatles songs, that they would use substitutions from related keys at certain places that pushed the song's theoretical structure to the edge of almost not being music. The Beatles may not have consciously done this. I mean they did compose the songs obviously, but I don't think they analyzed the music theory beforehand and said oh I think I'll do a substitution here from a related key. I think it probably just came out that way from their incredible musical talent and all the practice they got getting tight as a band playing those clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg. And of course a song does not have to be complicated musically to sound good. If it sounds good, it's good. I have some bicycling guitarist jokes: - I have been called a traveling minstrel, so my Schwinn is a Minstrel Cycle (but only if I play ragtime!)
- What's the hardest thing about being The Bicycling Guitarist? The pavement!
- Ouch! My asphalt to the ground!
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Post by Mr Kite on Oct 30, 2012 20:46:07 GMT
. Hey Bicycle Guitarman ! You came back . You sound like an interesting man Hope you can join in on this Forum . I have a feeling you will like it here . Great jokes by the way . See ya Bike Man !
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Post by sheepdog on Nov 1, 2012 13:12:14 GMT
lol, awesome video
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Post by The Bicycling Guitarist on Nov 1, 2012 13:53:03 GMT
lol, awesome video ty sheepdogbullfrog. I see you're a dog groomer. I have a friend who would love to have a job like yours. She loves dogs. I'm more of a cat person myself, but it is great to see someone getting paid for doing something they love. From 1m 10s to 1m 15s in the video you can see me change direction in the gym from clockwise to counterclockwise. That size room is about the smallest I would consider bicycle guitaring indoors. Even one only slightly larger would be easier and better for me. This is in a middle school gymnasium. Last year the local YMCA would not let me ride in their skating rink but were willing to let me use one of their badminton rooms. I tried for twenty minutes before giving up. It was so close. I swear if the room had been only six inches wider so I wouldn't hit the wall in my turns, or if it had a carpet instead of slick wooden planks I could have gone slower and turned tighter, or if there were no walls I could make the turns within the floor space. If any of those were different, I could have done it, but I would have been doing nothing but making a continuous tight turn the whole time and the music probably would have suffered as a result. I am glad you enjoyed the video. I only wish it had a higher-resolution recording. It was filmed using an old Blackberry. The photographer has a new Android now that takes much better movies. I don't know if I'll ever play Help! that good again though. At the time this was filmed I had been practicing that song intensely for months prior, but I haven't played it nearly as often since then.
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Post by sheepdog on Nov 2, 2012 17:51:13 GMT
Cool, good song choice as well . As im useless on a bike it looks pretty difficult to me. And yes, it is an awesome job, its great to meet all the different dogs and be paid for something you enjoy doing..most of the time
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