Lorraine's Diary Year 2023

13 November 2023 - Song Set I Play By The Who

There are many songs from The Who I enjoy playing. I play from the sheet music in The Who Definitive Collection guitar recorded version along with The Who's original albums. With regular guitar practice I have learned to play the following song set written and composed by

Pete Townshend.

Tommy:

Overture (It's A Boy)

Acid Queen

Amazing Journey and Sparks

Pinball Wizard

We're Not Gonna Take It (including See Me, Feel Me and Listening To You

Quadrophenia:

The Real Me

I'm One

5:15

Sea And Sand

Dr. Jimmy

Who's Next - Life House

Baba O' Riley

Behind Blue Eyes

The Who By Numbers:

Squeeze Box

They Are All In Love

Meaty, Beaty, Big And Bouncy:

The Seeker

Substitute

Odds And Sods:

Pure And Easy

9 October 2023 - Song Set I'm Practising by The Who

Since about 1976, I have really enjoyed listening to the album ‘Quadrophenia’ by The Who. I really like the sound of it as well as it being a concept album with a story to it. So I ventured to learn to play guitar along with a few tracks.

The first song I learned to play with guitar from the album Quadrophenia by The Who was ‘The Real Me’, which I consider quite moving and dynamic and a song I love to play. I actually had the chance to play ‘The Real Me’ in a band at an evening rhythm music school back in 2007, and had the opportunity one time to play it with electric guitar with the music school's band out at one of the local venues.

In the past year I have learned to play a few other songs from Quadrophenia, ‘I’m One’, ‘Sea and Sand’, ‘Dr. Jimmy’, and since early this autumn I have been practising ‘5:15’. I play these songs along with The Who’s recorded music. Many of these songs have quite an incredible variety of movements from one rhythmic progression to another, which I find makes the song fun and interesting to play with guitar. I usually choose the rhythm guitar part if there are multiple guitar parts. With the song ‘5:15’ I have really gotten a chance to use my fingers, however, from one movement to another in a variety of ways. For the outro in the song ‘5:15’ , I chose to play the shuffle rhythm and 4 measure excerpt from the verse rhythm while I played along in simile with the extraordinary lead guitar part of Pete Townshend.

Above: Lorraine Juhl with music sheets 'Baba O' Riley' , music and words by Pete Townshend and CD (Compact Disc) 'Who's Next' by The Who. Photo August 2023.

12 August 2023 - Experience Practising

Lorraine Juhl writes about her experience practising with guitar the song, ‘Baba O’ Riley’ by

The Who and reflects upon a few songs which are a part of her song set by The Who.

The Who’s ‘Who’s Next, is quite impressive work of music. I listened to The Who’s ‘Who’s Next’ for the first time when in 1975 during the first semester at a Fort Lauderdale high school which I was enrolled at, a boyfriend, who was a classmate of mine, heard that I really enjoyed the movie, ‘Tommy' and gave me The Who’s, Who' Next’ album as a gift. I loved ‘Who's Next’ the first time I played the album on the record player. So I ended up buying other albums by The Who and also a magazine about the history of The Who out of my pocket money. Later during the 1990’s I acquired the ‘Who’s Next, on CD, and in the 2000’s on streaming. I still listen to ‘Who’s Next’!

Earlier this year I played acoustic guitar along with other string and percussion instruments drawn from a collection of songs by The Who. The guitar solo from the song ‘Pure and Easy’, involving acoustic and electric guitar brings me into delightful ecstasy, while the banjo solo from the song ‘Squeeze Box’ involving acoustic guitar and banjo is really fun. Then there is the interlude from the song ‘They Are All in Love’ involving acoustic guitar and piano which I find quite pleasant. Of course I could elaborate citing other examples, such as the instrumental works of ‘Sparks’ involving guitar and drums, which is absolutely moving.

In August 2023, I took on a new song practising guitar along with a violin via the song 'Baba O’ Riley, by The Who. Since the first time I listened to ‘Baba O’ Riley’ back in 1975, I have always enjoyed listening to it. Currently I have been playing guitar along with ‘Who’s Next’ the song ‘Baba O’ Riley’. The intro, verse, interlude and chorus are straight

forward for me to play along with the Arp Synth arrangement. Although, in the outro where the violin, drum and guitar play in simile requires a bit more concentration.

I have been spending a bit of time listening to the tone nuances of the violin, played originally by Dave Arbus on the ‘Who’s Next’, which seem to play a key role in knowing

when to change chords between the major and suspended chords which Pete Townshend plays on guitar. Although the sheet music is accurate, I have discovered that the outro

to the guitar part to the ‘Baba O’ Riley’ is more easily learned by listening to the violin. The ascending tempo and the varied rhythmic change between the major and suspended chords in the outro gets a bit tricky. Though, I have given it a go and I am making progress.

Plectrum Which Are Great Picks

6 August 2023

The right type of plectrum really matters. The Who-Pete Townshend plectrum set is ideal for playing my Les Paul electric guitar and Gibson acoustic guitar. The sound quality, size, and thickness are excellent. Nonetheless, the colourful decoration graphics artwork is aesthetically appealing and quite memorable of The Who-Pete Townshend. Thank you so much!

30 May 2023 - Trip To Greece

I travelled abroad this past week to the Peloponnese, Greece. My travel journal of the trip is available at my public blogger. To read further tap the following link: Trip To Greece

10 July 2023 - My Latest Tracks

I am working on writing songs and making recordings. The songs are being produced as music podcasts in MP3 format and are available at SoundCloud.

MY MARSHAL MICRO AMP

22 March 2023

I was able to get my new Marshall MS-2 micro amplifier set up and working like I expected. It functions remarkably well with my Epiphone Les Paul electric guitar. For such a small speaker cabinet and control box this 1 watt micro-amp not only sounds incredibly good, but additionally is suitable for my at home room.

In addition to basic volume, tone and ON clean channel/ OFF/ overdrive controls, I can adjust

the controls remotely with the volume and tone controls on my Les Paul electric guitar while playing after presetting the Marshall MS-2 micro-amp controls. I certainly found it immensely fun and electrifying playing The Who’s, “The Real Me”.

THE PICK REALLY MATTERS

23 March 2023

I replaced using my used up, bent out of shape picks with new Gibson picks thin, medium and hard plectrum, as shown in the photo above. I mostly use the medium plectrum. Ever since replacing them, I have noticed a real improvement while playing my Gibson acoustic guitar across various guitar styles such as the arpeggios, strumming and solo.

25 January 2023 - I'm Playing Guitar With The Who

There was a time in which I dreamed of playing guitar with The Who. And these days I can do so

conveniently with recorded music. Typically, I will listen to a song from my recorded collection,

then venture to play the song by freestyle solo guitar along with sheet music for a period of time, at least until I am familiar enough with the song's chords, riffs and structure.

Apparently, many songs which I choose to play have more than one guitar part. Essentially, I end up selecting my favourite guitar role to play. Being the best at rhythm guitar, I usually choose the rhythm guitar part to play, inevitably over dubbing the original guitar which I chose to emulate. I find the experience a great delight and exhilarating during these types of sessions with the band as the additional instrumental sounds and vocals provide a more overally diverse sound effect and musical spirituality. Of course, not only does playing guitar along with other musicians require listening more carefully to keep in time and play at the same tempo, but additionally allows me to concentrate on hearing some of the more subtle nuances from Pete Townshend, guitarist in The Who.

One key issue in playing acoustic guitar along with streaming is adjusting the equilibrium and

balance between my guitar playing and the recording transmitted from stereo speakers. The Gibson acoustic guitar which I play can easily overwhelm a recording even without using a pickup. Turning the volume up is not always a viable solution to reaching equilibrium, but preferably adjusting the position where I play my acoustic guitar to a closer distance between the speakers. This arrangement improves sound balance and, not only more enjoyable, but better, group performance.

10 January 2023 - Free Style Playing

Up to recently, I have been doing quite a lot of solo freestyle guitar playing while keeping the

timing and tempo myself. I feel a great sense of tension being released and lifted humour playing guitar solo on occasions when I am in the mood for freestyle soloing. I simply open up one of my booklets of sheet music, which I prop up on my music stand, and select a song which suits my mood and start to play. I have a whole collection of sheet music transcribed from the recorded works of The Who, ranging from the 1960’s to the mid 1980’s. So, that does not include The Who’s album, Endless Wire. Still, I have an astonishingly varied collection of songs to select from, being I have the sheet music to all of the original albums of The Who’s works up until and including the album, It’s Hard. My relative enormous familiarity of The Who’s songs makes playing guitar freestyle relatively easier, being I can hear the song in my head while I solo freestyle strum.

3 January 2023 - In the Mood for Strumming

I began the new year strumming to a song I am learning to play on acoustic guitar, the song,

They Are All In Love, by The Who. I particularly like to listen to this pleasantly calm and

enjoyable song when I am in the mood for some relaxation. And I am finding it a great delight strumming along to the absolutely beautifully sounding piano part which has been transcribed for guitar sheet music. The guitar and piano accompaniment is admirable,along with the flowing vocals. Most of the chords for this song are familiar to me, so it has not taken me too long to get on board with playing it.

Prior to the Christmas holidays I purchased my life long dream guitar, a small body Gibson guitar. The acoustics of this guitar are superb. Since acquiring the guitar I have been playing it regularly to such songs as They Are All in Love, Substitute, and The Seeker by The Who.

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