| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Gene Wooten Lick from Dobro Rhumba | | Date: | Thursday, June 21, 2007 13:47:10 (-0400) | | From: | Jim Norman <rezn8r @.......net>
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| In reply to: | Message 6933 (written by don.hergert) |
Hey Don,
Maybe I missed some of the responses to your question about slants. I don't
know, I don't seem to have all the messages that have been flying about
lately. But I wanted to make sure at least one person told you this: doing
slants by moving the bar with you fingers is absolutely A right way, if not
THE right way to do slants. The wrist manuever is preferred by some because
there's less chance of dropping the bar. But unless you do that old time
technique of dropping the neck and raising the back of the guitar (like
trying to be picked up by a single raised microphone), backward slants using
the wrist are darned hard on the wrist. Moving the bar with the fingers
takes some practice but if you watch guys like Randy Kohrs and Rob Ickes,
that's what they are doing. It's easier with a flat edge steel, like the
Stevens, but can be done with slant-edged steels, too. In my opinion, the
way you're going at it is the right way to go at it.
My two cents.
Jim N.
----- Original Message -----
From: <don.hergert@verizon.net>
To: <resoguit-l@elistas.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 5:41 AM
Subject: Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Gene Wooten Lick from Dobro Rhumba
> Many thanks to you all for responding. I'll push on with the finger
> flips, they work for me and I can do them naturally and fast. I just need
> to work on intonation and muting more, that'll come with time. If I
> continued trying the wrist flips I would probably just quit trying to do
> slants altogether, and I don't want to do that.
>
> This question came from the Huck Finn festival where I had a guy at a jam
> tell me that I was doing it all wrong, that you had to hold the bar with
> the index finger over the top and that wrist flips were the "only right
> way" to do slants. I know him from other jams and he is a somewhat
> respected and accomplished musician, but the squareneck is not his primary
> instrument so I wanted to hear more about this from people who specialize
> in it...
>
> I appreciate hearing the other side of this coin, here, where the real
> experience is. Thanks again!
>
> Best,
>
> -- Don
>
> = = = = =
> "Wayne Langdon" <wlangdon@hot.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>> From what I understand list member and one of the best loved pickers in
> the
>> country Tut Taylor plays with thumb and forefinger on the bar all the
> time.
>>
>> Wayne
>> Copperas Cove, Texas
>>
>>
>
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