| Subject: | [RESOGUIT-L] New member | | Date: | Saturday, September 23, 2006 16:19:58 (-0700) | | From: | Gene Paquette <genep2 @...net>
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Hi all
I believe that I found my error! I spelled Resoguit with a "Q" instead of a
"G". Message follows:
I'm a beginning Dobro player who just recently bought a nice
Wechter/Sheerhorn square neck from Tony Hatton. I have always have had a
yearning to play country music on the slide guitar, and have been a country
music fan for years.
I presently play traditional Irish music on various size Irish whistles in a
6 member band; I also play at a number of sessions - including one country
music session here in Phoenix, AZ.
My country music listening goes back to the "old Coffee drinking nighthawk"
Lee Moore from WWVA in the 1940's, so I thoroughly enjoyed the thread about
him on Resoguit-l.
I'm looking forward to learning to play the Dobro and bought a number of DVD
courses to get me started. The DVD's courses are from Ickes, Heffernan,
Phillips, Cox, and Cindy Cashdollar. I noticed that they all teach playing
with a plastic thumb pick, and two metal finger picks for the index and
middle fingers. Is there a reason why no one uses a metal pick on the 3rd
finger? Since this technique is never mentioned in any of the courses, there
must be some reason against using a pick on the third ring finger? Or is it
just easier to play with just the two finger picks? Or is it connected to
players previously first playing the banjo with the thumb and 2 fingers?
Should I stick in learning the dobro with the standard thumb and 2 fingers,
or is it OK to also use the 3rd finger as a beginner?
Gene Paquette. genep2@cox.net
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