| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] side story about learning the neck.. | | Date: | Thursday, November 15, 2007 18:34:20 (+0000) | | From: | reso-man <reso-man @.......net>
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Once you LEARN the neck, you can PLAY the tunes.....or try to. It's the New
Hampshire way!
Richie (still waiting to hear what ELSE Tom learned at Reso-Summit?)
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From: Tom Foote <footet@evergreen.edu>
>
> Yo, Resomaniacs!
>
> 3 or 4 years ago, I ran into Junior Barber at the Darrington
> Bluegrass Festival
> here in Washington. It's located up in Tarheel country in the
> foothill of the
> Cascade Mts. We got to talking reso and I asked Junior what kind of
> capo
> he used. He said, "I don't use a capo." So, I said, "what do you
> do when
> you want to play in Eb? He said, "I do this.." and launched into Steel
> Guitar Rag in Eb... then he played it in Bb, Ab, etc etc... all
> over the
> fingerboard. It didn't matter where he was. He was very comfortable
> playing anything anywhere on the neck... didn't matter. There's a
> lesson
> here for the procrastinators among us... ( who, me? : > )
>
>
> I recount this story to illustrate the importance of that terrific
> little comment
> Wayne made
>
> ==> Learn the neck and get off learning tunes and learn
> the instrument <==
>
> probably ought to frame that and hang it on the wall where I can see
> it when
> I open my reso case... sigh-h-hhh
>
> Tom, muttering away somewhere in the NW
>
>
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