| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] New member | | Date: | Saturday, September 23, 2006 19:25:09 (-0400) | | From: | AJ Azure <azure.music @.......net>
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| In reply to: | Message 4812 (written by Gene Paquette) |
Use the third finger if you already know how. You lose nothing. You gain a
lot. Faster runs may require the thumb and first two fingers more often but,
you get four part voicing and more interesting picking with 4 fingers.
_A
> From: Gene Paquette <genep2@cox.net>
> Reply-To: <resoguit-l@elistas.com>
> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:19:58 -0700
> To: Resoguit <resoguit-l@elistas.com>
> Subject: [RESOGUIT-L] New member
>
> 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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