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Post by delb0y on Mar 13, 2015 21:07:56 GMT
Right hand techniques in flat-picking. Cross-picking, mainly. Trying to get the speed up and struggling.
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Post by delb0y on Mar 11, 2015 11:26:59 GMT
Thanks for the kind words about Ragtime Annie every one.
With plectrums I just use any standard sized heavy pick - just heavy enough not to give at all when I hit the strings. I couldn't tell you what make or width. Best one I ever had came from Sun Studios in Memphis (alas, I didn't collect it in person) - but that might just be because it was imbibed with rock'n'roll magic and Elvis once used it. Maybe. I'm the opposite with thumb-picks where I know exactly make and size (Herco Heavies) I want, and then I trim them down to my precise shape requirements :-)
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Post by delb0y on Mar 8, 2015 22:09:08 GMT
Hi Cams
I don't consciously use the Bryan Sutton scale positions in preference to Steve Kaufman's positions, but I do try and use my fourth finger as much as possible. If, by using my fourth finger on the fourth fret, I can keep my hand in one position then that's what I'll try and do. But it probably varies according to the day of the week...
Yes, I did the backing track to that recording myself. Steve K's versions do tend to be a little quick! I've probably still got it somewhere if you want it.
Cheers Derek
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Post by delb0y on Mar 8, 2015 18:46:16 GMT
Hi Cams
Another Bryan Sutton student here. I'm Derek_R on the site. I shall look you up.
I enjoy both finger-picking and flat-picking (and gypsy picking) which may be detrimental to my progress in any one of these genres, but then as I only really do it for fun it doesn't matter.
One of my favourite guitar players in any genre is David Grier - he's pretty much the reason I flatpick as well as fingerpick. I'm jealous of you getting to play in a regular bluegrass jam - I've not managed to track such a thing down round these parts.
I did a version of one of Steve K's PLP arrangements a while back (see below) - turns out my right hand technique is not ideal for flatpicking (according to Bryan) so that's where almost all my focus is at the moment. This focus is paying dividends - I'm getting a nicer tone, more power, more volume, and a little more speed. Trouble is on the finger-picking songs I have to revert to something different. Hey ho. Just recorded my latest VE (video exchange) this afternoon. It's full of mistakes - but I adopt the principle that if I wait for a perfect take then Bryan isn't seeing the real me.
Meanwhile, here's me doing Steve Kaufman's Ragtime Annie. This was a 40 day challenge - I pretty much focussed on nothing but this for 40 days and nights:
Cheers Derek
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Post by delb0y on Feb 24, 2015 22:35:27 GMT
I have this album and tab book tucked away in a box in the garage with all my other vinyls. A great album. I used to love those old Kicking Mule albums. I have quite a few of them...must try and get to that box!
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Post by delb0y on Feb 18, 2015 7:51:38 GMT
Great review. I've long hankered after a Furch/Stonebridge. Maybe a dread, maybe the G23. There's one in my local shop I keep going back to play :-)
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Post by delb0y on Jan 31, 2015 8:07:00 GMT
I've just started experimenting with using an acoustic amp as a monitor. It's way better for me than going straight into the PA - I can adjust the volume and tone to just how I want them, and also send a clean signal to the PA so the sound man (my duo partner) can do what he needs do to make the out front sound nice. I find I can play much better with this set-up. I use a cheap Cort acoustic amp. It's physically quite big but was cheap and as this was an experiment I didn't want to fork out too much.
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Post by delb0y on Jan 11, 2015 21:44:10 GMT
What 007 said above I'm a huge fan of country music. Much of what I play and listen to I consider country music - Steve Earle, Asleep at the Wheel, Townes Van Zandt, Joe Ely, John Prine, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, The Tractors, Johnny Cash, David Grier (and all the flat-pickers... that bluegrass is pure country), my all time fav guitar player Jerry Reed, Elvis... Not always keen on Country and Western, mind.
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Post by delb0y on Sept 24, 2014 6:38:29 GMT
Tremendous! Well done, Mark. It looks and sounds lovely. Jealous down here in the West Country!
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Post by delb0y on Sept 24, 2014 6:26:44 GMT
Love Eric Bibb! What a tremendous voice, he has? I have a couple of CDs tucked away - must get them out again. It's been a while. I also have an album called House of Guitars by Ed Gerhard where he plays a whole bunch of very cheap guitars (with very old strings) and makes them all sound wonderful. As you say, it's all in the fingers (and the recording technique)!
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Post by delb0y on Sept 22, 2014 6:33:06 GMT
First gig, I ever went to. Still love Canadian Pacific.
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Post by delb0y on Sept 4, 2014 18:46:52 GMT
Just posted a DADGAD tune in the key of G over in the Plucky Duck.
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Post by delb0y on Aug 21, 2014 19:18:19 GMT
I downloaded the relevant pages and was able to read them perfectly - and discovered that the interview is actually a video that is clickable from the original link and I didn't need to read any text at all. This modern world, eh? Whatever will they think of next?
Haven't watched the multimedia stuff yet... Something to look forward to later!
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Post by delb0y on Aug 21, 2014 12:21:04 GMT
Cool. Not seen Guitar Interactive before - it looks good. Except the standard view is too small for me to read and if I zoom in it's too close and I'm having to scroll up and down and left and right for every few words. Is there a way of controlling the zoom, do you know?
Regarding Pierre, Ben and Susan, I'm still enjoying the three CD Encore set, although it does range from the brilliant shiver sending utterly moving and scarcely imaginable imagination to the "Hmmm...probably won't be playing that one again!". Luckily the former more than make up for the latter!
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Post by delb0y on Aug 20, 2014 19:00:20 GMT
This is a truly wonderful book. Having read just a few chapters I wrote my first DADGAD tune which I'm sure I've posted here before: I've just been lucky enough to pick up a gorgeous used (but you wouldn't know it) Tanglewood TW40 at a bargain price which might well become my DADGAD machine. It's got a beautiful ringing shimmering tone and the intonation is spot on - both key for DADGAD. Also based on a Doug Young arrangement is this short version of Down By The Salley Gardens played on the new guitar: soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=12892259Doug's Young's CD are well worth getting too. I'm not sure there's anyone who both plays and records an acoustic guitar so well. I'm a Doug Young fan you can tell! Cheers Derek
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