| Subject: | [RESOGUIT-L] Slants: Flips or Wrists? | | Date: | Thursday, June 21, 2007 12:42:15 (-0500) | | From: | Robert <rduke @...net>
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| In reply to: | Message 6934 (written by Jim Norman) |
Hi Don,
I have to agree with Jim Norman. I think what you are doing is the more
correct way. I do it both ways. It is easier with the Stevens and harder
with a Scheerhorn/LapDawg/EGSmith type since they have the slanted ends and
are a bit harder to grip to do the flips. I like my Scheerhorn bar the best
and next the Lap Dawg. However when a song comes along needing a lot of
slants I wish that I had the Stevens, but never carry it anymore. I just
like the Scheerhorn bar best.
RD
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Norman" <rezn8r@verizon.net>
To: <resoguit-l@elistas.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Gene Wooten Lick from Dobro Rhumba
> 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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