Jen

Music

Jen's Listening Habits

I basically listen to two kinds of music. Accordingly, I have two pages, one for each. Lately I've been on a female vocalists trend. Lately being the past five years or so. This has merged into a folk and celtic music trend. I leased a car that has a 6-cd changer in the trunk. To save energy, I've been burning compilation cds to keep in the changer at all times. I've put those playlists here, too.

• Female Vocalists (framed)
• Female Vocalists (unframed)
• Other Stuff
• Compilation CDs

Guitar

Another thing that Scott made me do as part of the learning process was figure out how to play songs by listening to them. I got to be pretty good at it. Then I discovered OLGA. Now I'm lazy. Bad me. I did figure one song out and I even bothered to html-ize it. Here you go, here is You're Aging Well by Dar Williams. Oh. Scott helped a bit. :->

For my first few years of playing, I played rock and heavy metal, like Metallica, Spinal Tap, Nine Inch Nails, Faith No More, Black Sabbath, Ozzy... you know, the classics. That was great fun. I had the Les Paul, and I bought a little Pig Node amp. So darn cute.

I have a 12-string Seagull acoustic. I love it. It has beautiful action and a rich, full, sound. I didn't intend to buy a 12-string, but I played it and it was so gorgeous. I fell in love with it. Of course, I still had Scott play it to ensure that it was a good guitar. He approved and barely let me take it away with me.

Mostly I play folk stuff, now. Call me an old fogey. I try to play stuff I can sing to. Singing and playing at the same time is a new talent for me, so I'm loving it. My friend Mike taught me how to strum, something Scott had tried to teach me, but I just was too poor a player then to understand. Finally I got it. Playing is much more fun now.

Voice