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Post by slidingwolf on Apr 4, 2014 19:44:26 GMT
This track is currently on the Voyager space craft, somewhere beyond our solar system, in order to prove to alien life forms that there is intelligent life on Earth. Seems fair enough. Wha? - after hitting that octave chord - he LOOKED down at his tip jar ! Whoops! It's not actually BWJ - this is from the Wim Wenders video of the Martin Scorsese series on the Blues. The player in the video is Chris Thomas King, playing the part. I read somewhere that he put contact lenses in which made him look blind.
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Post by slidingwolf on Mar 21, 2014 21:12:21 GMT
Bernd, I'll be very interested to see what you discover. I "did the right thing" and paid the PRS license fee for the cd I produced (I would love to think some distant relative of Blind Willie Johnson gets a few pence as a result). But that covered cd reproduction only, not broadcast on other media forms.
Most bizarre!
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Post by slidingwolf on Mar 21, 2014 21:00:18 GMT
Sometimes the modern world just feels like a foreign country ................
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Post by slidingwolf on Mar 21, 2014 20:57:31 GMT
Now I realise that this will make me sound a complete technodolt but how the **** did my stuff get on spotify when I don't even know what it is??
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Post by slidingwolf on Mar 17, 2014 19:55:17 GMT
Excellent.
Enough said.
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Post by slidingwolf on Feb 11, 2014 17:49:27 GMT
John is a wonderful player and a wonderful teacher. If I was anywhere near I'd be there like a shot.
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Post by slidingwolf on Jan 12, 2014 17:23:59 GMT
Another vote for Tabledit
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Post by slidingwolf on Jan 7, 2014 17:10:33 GMT
Absolutely agree. And hearing other's slide stories is a real treat so I really enjoyed your post. I've done a few informal workshops and people invariably ask what is the "correct" way to play and can get hung up because they think they must use this finger or that type or length of slide. A friend of mine started by using a big brass slide on the pinkey because that's what she had been told was "the right thing to do". But she has small, thin fingers and was fighting to get the slide under control all the time. Once she switched to the ring finger it suddenly felt more natural and controllable and she was well away. Bonnie Raitt uses her middle finger and BWJ used a cut throat razor and their sound is waaay better thna anything I could hope to produce, so what do I know anyway!
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Post by slidingwolf on Jan 7, 2014 16:40:59 GMT
Should sound very nice. They are well made guitars and that National cone will make a big difference.
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Post by slidingwolf on Jan 7, 2014 16:31:37 GMT
Some very good advice her, but remember: there are no rules! I have been taught by players who use glass, brass, chrome, on ring finger and pinkey. Some have a piece of metal tube jammed on their finger down to the first knuckle, others have a glass bottle neck that is loose down to the base of the finger. They all sound different, they all sound great, they all have their own style. If you use your pinkey with a heavy slide, you may get pain if you play a lot of this style, and some will tell you that the ring finger will give you better control. But it does limit your ability to shape chords. I suggest you do what feels comfortable and stick with it while you are learning. Using different slides and different fingers will impede your progress. I've used all sorts of different slides and there is an element or re-learning with each one (just like there is with a new guitar.) But that is part of the fun of it. As for damping behind the strings, let that come with time. I would concentrate more on the vibrato and accuracy of the note to begin with. Just keep your fingers lightly on the strings behind. Hope that helps.
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Post by slidingwolf on Jan 4, 2014 17:18:44 GMT
Slide? The work of the devil !!! Oh yeah!
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Post by slidingwolf on Dec 24, 2013 20:07:06 GMT
Have a good one everybody.
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Post by slidingwolf on Dec 23, 2013 20:42:58 GMT
Thanks for posting. Big big fan of JH.
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Post by slidingwolf on Dec 20, 2013 13:08:50 GMT
I was taken to see TE some years ago by a guitar-freak friend of mine, and my first reaction was "Oh my God this guy's the most amazing player I have ever heard." And I thought that about the second tune. And the third. But after about half an hour of the blizzard of technique I must confess I was looking at my watch wondering what time the bar would be open.
A wonderful player who deserves all the accolades he receives, but not really my thang.
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Post by slidingwolf on Oct 27, 2013 20:41:04 GMT
Whereabouts in the South East? Have you tried these? guitarvillage.uk.com/ in Farnham. Don't know about lefties but they will source things for you. (I pass no comment on the advice given to you above, except to say that these poor souls have been hanging round here so long their GAS addiction has reached such crystal meth proportions they could probably get bit parts in Breaking Bad. You have been warned! )
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