| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Deacon Brumfield and Double Thumbing | | Date: | Monday, July 2, 2007 08:27:31 (-0700) | | From: | Tom Foote <footet @.........edu>
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On Jul 1, 2007, at 3:34 PM, Hugh Ashton wrote:
> On 01/07/2007 22:30, "Howard Parker" <hlpdobro@intr.net> 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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