| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] "right way" vs "other" ways? | | Date: | Monday, July 2, 2007 16:30:41 (+0000) | | From: | reso-man <reso-man @.......net>
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Hi List.....and you too Tommy!
The "right way" vs the "wrong way", hey I dunno, if it WORKS....how can it be
the "wrong" way. Ok I'll concede *most* people do something a certain way, but
how can you tell Tut Taylor he's holding the bar wrong? Or look up Bobby
Koeffer, the great non-pedal steel guitarist on You Tube sometime, and tell me
he's holding the bar wrong......I don't think so! For HIM, (Bobby holds the bar
like Tut does sorta) but for Bobby and Tut.....whatever they're doing is working
just fine, thank you. Bobby can block by just rolling his left hand in EITHER
direction....geez!
I just (survived).... came back from a wonderful extended weekend picking party
we have in these parts wayyyyy up north in Maine, (and nope, I didn't bring home
any Lobstahhh rubber bands), but I saw, and played, a "home built" reso, that
was the ROUGHEST thing I ever hope to see!!! The "builder", a nice old fella
named "Curley", simply sawed out guitar shaped top and bottom outa whatever wood
was available (tone woods? Perish the thought!!!).....couldn't bend the sides
......so he bent them out of metal, I think aluminum? I remember him telling me
he cut the spider from a metal stop sign.....and the coverplate was cut from
another piece of some sorta metal, with holes punched thru it.....no attempt at
any sort of pattern, just holes here and there......well you can imagine....oh,
and I remember the "screen holes"....they were made from those little "cup
things" that you find on sliding closet doors. He did have a half decent cone he'd
gotten somewhere, and took the neck from
some guitar he'd picked up....etc. etc. etc. I also think he mentioned a
internal brace similar to what DeNeves have.....
TRUST ME FOLKS, Paul Beard and Dick DeNeve don't have ANYTHING to worry about
from "Curley", but the funny thing......(Curley does know about scale lengths,
etc.)......the funny thing.....THIS GUITAR SOUNDED AND PLAYED GREAT! The metal
sides seemed to kinda give it a "old timey" Duaolian kinda sound, to my old worn
out ears anyways. It was a little light on volume, but actually, I kinda woulda
liked to have.......STOP IT RICHIE.....YOU'VE GOT TOO MANY RESO'S ALREADY!!!
(That was the voice of reality folks)....... You would've had to seen this
thing, really. I wish I had a picture of it. I heard one of our fellow listers,
mostly a lurker, plans to record this guitar? Dan, you've GOT to let me hear the
results of this, I'm begging......
So to conclude this, what IS "right"?
Obviously, what's working for the "A Team" like Jerry, & Mike, and Uncle Phil, and all, is the way to go....or TRY to go.....if you are just starting out. But then again, these "A Team" fellas have
already done their thing.....so if something is working really well for
you.....then it can't be too awful wrong now, can it?
Wishing I had "Curley's" homebuilt to take to Reso-Summit in Nov., to confound
Tom with, ummm.....if it was available, I'd sure try and make room in the car for
it, hmmmm? Hey, is this FUN or what???
Richie
-------------- Original message --------------
From: Tom Foote <footet@evergreen.edu>
>
> On Jul 1, 2007, at 3:34 PM, Hugh Ashton wrote:
>
> > On 01/07/2007 22:30, "Howard Parker" wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> It's a necessary technique on (evil electric) steel guitar
> >> because it allows you to block.
> >
> > What are you blocking with when you use that technique?
>
> I seem to recall, from my sordid youth playing steel (sort of)
> that the blocking was mostly with the fleshy part of the extreme
> end of the right hand. Jeff Newman told us that we should
> pretend
> we were holding a ping pong ball in the right hand... that was
> supposed
> to roll your hand around the imaginary ball and cock your
> hand roll it away from your body..then it's a kind of bouncing
> motion as you move up the strings from low note to high note.
>
> Note: Jeff invited Doug Jernigan out to demo his stuff..and
> doggone if he didn't hold his hand flat as a pancake and straight
> out. Of course, I was obliged (with Jeff standing there) to
> tell Doug
> he wasn't holding his hand right.. (according to Jeff..) got
> a big laugh..
>
> > This is the most
> > difficult part of the whole slide thing for me to master, I think.
> > I seem to
> > be blocking, unconsciously, using my left hand by lifting the steel
> > slightly, or sometimes damping with the heel of my right hand. I
> > certainly
> > am blocking (my notes have a beginning and an end), but I'm sure
> > it's not in
> > an "approved" way (assuming there is such a thing).
>
> don't know about "approved way"... it's whatever works for
> you after
> you try them all.. for instance, at the Wintergrass Academy
> reso workshop
> last Feb someone asked Rob Ickes if he pick blocked.. he said
> he only blocks
> with his left hand... meanwhile, Orville Johnson, great
> Seattle player,
> uses pick blocking a lot.. and I believe Mike Auldridge uses
> both hands
> in blocking... but Mike also plays steel and uses steel style
> right hand blocking,
> on reso...don't know if he uses pick blocking.
>
> re: rolls... Mike favors Thumb/two.. or T-2 for two finger
> rolls... he feels the third
> finger is stronger and the resultant note is more
> powerful...and given the
> opportunity, he'll hit a thumb lick whenever he can... helps
> make that incredible tone he
> gets.
>
>
> > Tom
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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