Tim Cheatle

After going over to Ernie Ball Earthwood strings 10-50 I have to admit the gauge is way too light for me.
So instead I'm heading back to D'Addario's and switching back to the tried and tested EJ16 Light Phosphor Bronze.
12-53 feels like the best acoustic guitar gauge to me.
I think I'll stick with these forever now.

We all go through moments of not feeling motivated to play our instruments.This is natural but we need to find ways of combating this.
This video is excellent and gives you plenty of good ideas to re-spark that fire.
Worth watching.

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A performance of mine from eight years ago.

TIM CHEATLE PLAYS @ The RMA TIM CHEATLE PLAYS @ The RMA - Captured Live on Ustream at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sweet-memories-record-shop

After sticking with D'Addario strings throughout the Summer I decided to change the gauge and make to Ernie Ball Earthwood strings 10-50 on my guitar.
I've been listening a lot to Jimmy Page's acoustic playing recently and he uses these so I thought I'd try them too.Lighter than the set I had on but they feel and sound so much better.
Barry from Street Level in Portsmouth always swears by Earthwood strings.I now can see why :)

There are some great guitar teachers on YouTube.
I recently discovered Barney's page.
I love how he uses number stickers on his fingers.Why don't more try doing this because it makes it so much easier for learners to follow.

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Practicing slow and accurately sometimes feels counter intuitive but it is the only way to end up having speedy fingers playing the right notes on your fretboard.
Guthrie's advice is 100% correct.

Steve knows

I can't argue with Keef about this.

Noel's spot on!

Now that the festival shows have finished things get a bit quiet on the gigging front.
Cheatle Wilson and maybe some solo shows are possible in the future just waiting for the right show at the right place to come along.
It would be nice to do some studio recording either as a duo or solo as it's been some time since I have recorded anything to put out since all my anthology of ten albums was put out online for all to hear by Shambotic Recordings.
I'm always looking at ways to improve what I do on the guitar.This year I traded in what I had and got myself a new Tanglewood acoustic and it sounds fab live.So down to one good guitar and settled on just using D'Addario accessory products as they are always reliable and fairly easily available from physical shops or online.The second hand Laney acoustic amp I picked up a while back works just fine when I've used it for any practice or gigging.I'm not endorsed by any of these companies so just good choices on my part.
Been to some inspiring gigs as a guitar fan boy this year.Probably my favourite five are 1) Johnny Marr at Victorious...2)Mike Dawes at Ashcroft Arts Centre...3)Gordon Giltrap at St.Cuthberts Church...4)Francis Rossi at New Theatre Royal...and 5)Katie Spencer at Portsmouth Cathedral.
Studying wise I have done some online courses and workshops.Mainly either intermediate/advanced Jazz stuff or real beginner refresher things to combat my memory issues.Hopefully some of the information has been retained.
I've been guilty of not practicing enough this year as I have mainly concentrated on repertoire rather than what I don't know or vaguely remember. As I had intended to do a duo project with an old band vocalist I used to work with in my distant musical past I did spend a lot of time going over the songs we used to play together.Sadly that fell through so my gig that I played at the Spring Arts Centre in Havant ended up being a 90 minute two set solo performance of those songs.
With Cheatle Wilson we have got a nucleus of songs and jams we work with live.With Philip's poetry/spoken word and percussion things are always interesting.Every so often friends and musical guests up on stage with us add something fascinating to the proceedings.
I promise to keep you all posted here if anything new happens.
Thanks for your continued support xx

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I now have reached 800 followers to my music page.
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I agree with Joe.

In this excellent video Andy talks about filling time either live or on record.
It's a subject that doesn't get talked about enough.
From a guitarists or any musicians perspective any genre of music requires these considerations when performing.This video covers Bluegrass.
Being able to throw in suitable licks and being able to improvise something fitting is incredibly important.
This is worth watching.

The importance of Filling Time -- Rocky Road Blues http://andyslessons.com/classes

You can catch CHEATLE WILSON live on Saturday at Victoria Park in Portsmouth.

All musicians need to heed Miles Davis's advise.

This is a very interesting video that is worth watching.
Steve Reich's compositions are amazing.
Nice explanations about Reich's style.
Anyone interesting in composing music will find these tips very useful.

Steve Reich - minimalist techniques for any composer. :00 intro00:34 Music for 18 Musicians & basics01:32 Piano Phase - phasing melodies04:06 Accumulation & melodic offset05...

CHEATLE WILSON will be playing two gigs on Saturday,September 2nd.
We'll be playing at 11am at the Gosport Sunset Festival and then at 9pm at the Weekend Offender Records End Of Summer Cider Festival at the Fifth Hants in Southsea.
Hope to see you all at either performance.

This is a lovely instruction video from YouTube explaining how Philip Glass uses Polyrhythms in his sound.

Philip Glass Polyrhythms | Minimalist chord trick | Instrumental Form :00 intro00:30 basic ideas02:18 2:3 polyrhythm instrumental form05:29 applying it to a chord progression07:40 conclusi...

CHEATLE WILSON had another excellent practice this evening.
More new songs and ideas thrown into our sound mix.

I'm a forever white belt guitarist so this is very real.