| Subject: | RE: [RESOGUIT-L] New member | | Date: | Monday, September 25, 2006 11:42:29 (-0700) | | From: | Gene Paquette <genep2 @...net>
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Thanks for your reply. I have yet to hear of a good reason against using the
ring finger to pick, other than the problem with tablature's only offered
for 2 fingers. So I'm going to go for it, and try to learn using a pick on
the third finger.
Gene
-----Original Message-----
From: AJ Azure [mailto:azure.music@verizon.net]
Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 4:25 PM
To: resoguit-l@elistas.com
Subject: Re: [RESOGUIT-L] New member
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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