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PunkStar
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Location: Wodonga, Australia
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 Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 3:08 pm Post subject: Post Requests Here |
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I'm always looking for ideas on what to write about next. If you have any suggestions, just whack them in here and I'll get to them when I can. Just remember I'm doing year 11 at school at the moment and then year 12 next year. So I'll probably get a bit of homework over the next two years. So just keep that in mind when you leave an idea for me.  |
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Steve
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Joined: 17 Feb 2004
Posts: 620
Location: Santa Cruz, CA
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| Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 5:19 pm Post subject: Re: Post Requests Here |
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| PunkStar wrote: | | ...I'm doing year 11 at school at the moment and then year 12 next year. So I'll probably get a bit of homework over the next two years. So just keep that in mind when you leave an idea for me. |
What?
You don't eat, sleep, and breathe guitars?
Guitar idolatry is a major subject at many Universities!
BTW, I need to find out how to play those descending cascades of Rockabilly riffs utilizing open and fretted strings like my friend Joe Macnamara, the regional Martin rep, can do.
See if you can pick his brain for me?
Someone directed me to a Guitar Player magazine that showed that stuff, but you explain thibgs better and I'm a dim-bulb when it comes to learning from pages in magazines or books.
Please send me a video: VHS or DVD will be fine.
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PunkStar
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Joined: 27 Sep 2003
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Location: Wodonga, Australia
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| Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | What?
You don't eat, sleep, and breathe guitars? |
Did I say that? I just said I get homework. I still eat, sleep, and breath guitars. As well as keyboard, bass, and vocals.
Rockabilly scales list will be added to the list of tutorials to write. I'll have to see if I can find a copy of the scale somewhere.
Action: Runs off and makes a list.
I'm surprised the magazine didn't have a cd with that stuff on it. Normally they do. I haven't actually read the article, so I can't really help explain it to you. But I'll see what I can find on some rockabilly playing. |
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sharring
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Joined: 04 Feb 2004
Posts: 815
Location: Texas
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| When Johnny Cash passed away last year I read his autobiography and picked up a couple of his live CD's...Live at Folsom Prison and Live at San Quenton. On the latter John had a novelity hit called "Boy named Sue" which had some cool little guitar fills. I had never realized till this time that was Carl Perkins. So I went out and got a Carl Perkins compilation CD and I've been checking it out the last couple of weeks. Great stuff-blues and country together in a distinctive style all its own. When "rock" first hit in the USA in the mid 50's it was really rockabilly coming out of Sun Studios. IMO it wasn't rock until Chuck Berry. Be God's-scott |
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Steve
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Location: Santa Cruz, CA
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Brian Setzer has the style in Rockabilly that really makes the guitar center stage nowadays.
Even though he's doin' his big band "swing" thang now, it still sounds like Rockabilly when he solos.
I learned how to play "Buckaroo," by Roy Nichols (Buck Owens guitar/fiddle player). A bit more Country than Rockabilly, but towards that end I think.
Carl Perkins was a player!
I like all those Telecaster slingers.
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Brian
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| Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Steve wrote: | Brian Setzer has the style in Rockabilly that really makes the guitar center stage nowadays.
Even though he's doin' his big band "swing" thang now, it still sounds like Rockabilly when he solos.
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Indeed, Brian is an awesome musician and the swing band is the real deal. The Gretsch has a mighty unique sound for a swing band.
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Brian
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| Steve wrote: |
...I like all those Telecaster slingers.
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| Hey Steve...Don Rich was Buck's lead man. Roy Nichols was Merle Haggard's lead player. Both were responsible for the Bakersfield sound though. |
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Herb
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Joined: 07 Mar 2004
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| Steve wrote: | | Carl Perkins was a player! |
There was a video about 5 years ago, a Carl Perkins tribute, with George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and just a bunch of monster players. In the middle was old Carl (with his trademark rug on his head) just a wailin' away on a Peavey guitar, puttin' 'em all to shame. He was a great player, and a great writer. Since the Lord took him, I sure miss him. He left a lot for us. |
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Steve
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Location: Santa Cruz, CA
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| Anonymous wrote: | | Hey Steve...Don Rich was Buck's lead man. Roy Nichols was Merle Haggard's lead player. Both were responsible for the Bakersfield sound though. |
"D'oH!"
I knew that.
Duh.
I can't keep anything straight anymore. I need a brain transplant.  |
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pretty.rock.machine
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Joined: 12 Feb 2004
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Location: SE Kansas
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Hey Punkstar, could you put up something about building up pinkie strength. I have small hands, and I'm developing callouses on the outer side of my pinkie cuz of stretching it over. It's not necessarily difficult for me to stretch, I just need more strength.  |
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PunkStar
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| Yeah, no worries. That one won't take long. The basis of it is to just keep using the finger, but I'll add some exercises to help as well. |
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pretty.rock.machine
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Location: SE Kansas
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Yeah, I've been trilling using my index and pinkie (on frets 1 and 4), I was just wondering if there were any exercises that just targeted working your pinkie.
I think I just have short pinkies. I just don't think my callous should be as far off to the side as it is. Sometimes I find myself, when I play a lick, quickly sliding down to get my pinkie positioned just right. And if I don't I can't get it positioned close enough to the fret. Maybe I need to get a surgery to lengthen my pinkie... lol. |
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sharring
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Joined: 04 Feb 2004
Posts: 815
Location: Texas
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Just a thought PRM: Most major guitar companies use one of three guitar scale lengths. What this means is that the frets are closer together on a Gibson than on a Fender, with a Paul Reed Smith somewhere in between. I know you've already got your axe, but it's something to consider on your next one. (There will be a next one  ). Next time you are in a guitar store see if you can find a Gibson Faded series guitar. They make a Les Paul, an SG and a DC faded and they are all very cool. I especially like the yellow DC faded (like brother Steve's). Now the good news-we are "fearfully and wonderfully made, and that my heart knows quite well". With enough of the right kind of practice your fingers will adapt. Just try to shift your hand so that your pinkie comes straight down on the string rather than on the side. Maybe keep your thumb behind the neck and move it toward the fret you are fretting with your pinkie. Better yet-get a professional teacher's opinion! Be God's-scott |
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Steve
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Location: Santa Cruz, CA
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| sharring wrote: | | ...I especially like the yellow DC faded (like brother Steve's). Now the good news-we are "fearfully and wonderfully made, and that my heart knows quite well".... |
Psalm 134 aside, a Rickenbacker 325 has a 20.5" scale! Even more compact than my DC, which is Gibson ES scale (24&3/4").
The RICS are tough to keep in tune with that short neck, but I could pretend I was Tal Farlow (who had BIG hands, like Jimi Hendrix).
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