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For all inquiries, please send an e-mail to haldavisguitar(at)gmail.com or phone 734 260 5059. Operators are standing by!
To book Tocando, please call Juan Alvarez at 239 595 0755
Hi Hal,
So, it looks like you have done this up real nicely! Did you do this yourself? I want to create 2 new web sites so if you have some advice or assistance, please let me know.
Thanks for the message and I can see that you are pretty busy. I have been also with 5 days in a row in Canada last week and hosting Hal Galper’s Trio during most of this week while they are in this area. If you can, come by CHS Friday afternoon, 3-5 as they are giving a little clinic and performance there. Then back to the Kerrytown Concert House, Sunday evening. If you haven’t ever heard Hal, this would be a good time to do so.
Keep me up to date and thanks again for your message.
ttyl,
Mike
Yes, I did it myself using WordPress (after a lot of coaching from my friend, Shannon). It took a while to research everything, but only an hour or two to actually assemble the website.
On top of the free WordPress.com (not WordPress.org) blog I added the following features which will bring the total annual maintenance costs up to around a hundred bucks:
WordPress options: no advertising, additional memory to support the music players
4Shared: an FTP site linked to Halspace so folks can download ringtones, mp3′s etc. (I also have a private 4Shared site where music buddies can store and download mp3′s and charts.)
GoDaddy: where I have registered the URL Halspace.com and redirected traffic from that URL to the new WordPress site (Really not necessary. If I didn’t do this, the url of this web site would be haldavismusic.wordpress.com instead of halspace.com.)
hope this is helpful.
kewl
cannot figure out how to friend you on facebook….
Ray, there’s a new Facebook button on the right hand column of this blog. Maybe that will help.
Hal,
I love the two tracks. Please post more of them and I look forward to hearing the band CD.
Hey Hal,
I’m really liking the sound of your guitar playing. Please let me know where and/or when I can buy a CD!
It’s great to be in touch again, would love to see you sometime and catch up. Let me know when your going to be in So. Florida again and I’ll definitely call next time I’m in A2.
All my best,
Hugh
Hugh
We’re working on a CD now. The first couple songs will start to leak out on this blog over the next couple weeks. (We hope to tempt you to buy the CD when it finally arrives.) We plan to be in Naples again next winter – a little under a two hour drive from your place in Miami. We could meet halfway and play some alligator swamp music!
Best,
Hal
I really liked the last two songs you posted and the sound of your new guitar. What are the chords to the intro to Black Orpheus? And how do you make that ringing sound!!?
Rick,
Thanks! A couple other people also asked about that intro to Black Orpheus. I just recorded some new videos, including a short one that shows how to play this intro. You can find it on my YouTube channel. (follow the link on the “Listen Up” page.
Hal, Nicely done as usual. You blew me away as a guitarist 20 years ago and continue to improve in leaps and bounds. The site tracks are great. One day I will figure out how to download the ringtones. I will be looking forward to the CD.
Not asking you to be an oracle here, but I’m curious.
I’m left handed, and I see you play left handed. Albert King is dead, and I presume Sir Paul won’t answer.
Everything I do with two hands, I’m comfortable in a right handed mode. Bowling, baseball, etc…
Single handed things I do left handed: shaving, brushing my teeth, stirring the pan.
But necked musical instruments: I play them right-handed. I have always thought that the “work” was being done by my left hand more than the right. (I play recorders, too, and there is actually a left-right construction for the two bottom holes, tilting left or right according to the player… But even for these I’m comfortable with the right-handed instruments, it’s not a big deal.)
So I guess my question is this (since Albert King is dead and Sir Paul presumably has better things to do): I see your work, and I see your right hand doing so much: have you ever tried to play right handed? Is this some OMG awakening for me, like when I picked up a mandolin, tuned in fifths??
Frank, Thanks for the comment earlier, and now this interesting question about left-handedness. I’ve been playing guitar since I was 8 years old. My right hand, while it looks like it’s doing all of the business, is actually the easy part. The strumming hand is the hard part I have to work on for hours and hours. That’s where the feeling part of music happens. The fretting hand can get complicated if you’re dealing with complex harmonic music, but there are many easy short cuts. I’ve always believed that it’s the strumming hand that limits most musicians. So I’m glad I learned “left-handed”. BTW, I think it’s interesting that somewhere around 1 in 11 people in the general public are left-handed, but the proportion of lefty musicians is closer to 1 in 5. (left-handed = right-brained = creative). I’m disappointed that guitar manufacturers have been so slow to accommodate. And note: there are NO lefty violins. How would you manage seating in an orchestra with the bows going in different directions? Hal
Wow, we should meet, maybe in a lab? I think the feeling is on the neck. BB King taught us to bend notes, and so on. And he did it with his left hand. And it looks to me as if your work is in your right hand (playing as a lefty).
I think that organized groups such as orchestras have a left-right bias because of the opportunities of collision; yet a left-handed first baseman in baseball has opportunities which don’t collide with those around him.
I play guitar, uke, mandolin, 6 voices of recorders, and I’m a confirmed lefty.
I just don’t get the righty bias on the stringed instruments.
HOWEVER: and this could be the closer? In classical instruments there’s a bow. Is the bow more relevant in cello, violin, etc than it is in other instruments?
I just can’t figure it. I have tons of classical DVDs and while I’ve seen plenty of five string contrabasses, I haven’t seen anyone bowing “against the stream.”
I’m just saying: I can’t imagine myself shaving right handed, and I can’t imagine myself flipping my guitar, or mandolin, or what have you.
And again (with a smile), Albert King is dead. (Funny how I bring him up, seeing as how as he never even flipped his strings. But the world is a wunnerful place, innit it?)
Please send me your email: I want to give my Dad a CD of your stuff.
I have no idea how you’d feel about replicating In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed, but I’m still looking at transcriptions of stuff like Mood Indigo, and I can’t see how the right hand does more work.
Maybe I’m stupid. But I do want to learn. And playing what the world calls “righty” seems like the most natural thing in the world, even though I have to acknowledge that right handed guitarists haven’t flipped their necks.
Again, not asking you to be an oracle, just asking you for your thoughts. You seem adept.
Of course, my saying “with a smile” that Albert King is dead doesn’t mean I’m glad he’d dead, only that I know he won’t be responding to any emails.
Great show last night at the Quarter Bistro! What a great crowd and range of sounds from the band. Thanks for playing for us!
hey uncle Hal!thanks for that lovely e-mail. i will try to work on him and it might work!!You did great @ Ann-germaine and Evans wedding!
see ya,
XOX,
jennifer
Hal, we met at The Bay House.
I like the music you’re doing and you play beautiful chord melody.
Your solo arrangements are really interesting and pleasing to the ear!
I’d like to leave you and Frank with this thought.
“I’d give my right arm to be ambidextrous”!