| Subject: | [RESOGUIT-L] Technique | | Date: | Thursday, June 21, 2007 14:29:16 (-0400) | | From: | Ralph Falkenburg <falkenburg.r @.....com>
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| In reply to: | Message 6934 (written by Jim Norman) |
> 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.
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I think the only place where you can make any judgemental comments on
technique is with Classical Guitar. If even then. There is enough
difference in the hands from one indiviual to another that any so called
'rule' only begs to be broken.
Rafael
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