It's ok to cry... fawgedaboudid

evolucian

Scotty Anderson - country boy... he even has the hair and everything. Two clips - one from an instructional and one from a spot right at the end of the gig where he just puxhes and pushes... quite remarkable.

*Parental guidance is advised*

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I will say this about his instructional though - frikkin brilliant. He just carries on throwing ideas at you - kind of in the same vein as Eric Johnson's Total Electric Guitar. The same thing happened to me on this instructional vid as it did the Eric Johnson one... jaw drop, put guitar down... watch... remember to wipe drool away. Get it if you can... if you want to advance hecticly.

Anyway, just my 5c

Manfred-Klose

wow thats amazing

i really want to learn to play that kind of style, but i dont know where to begin to educate myself, i can do the basic, but its those chromatic things that grabs my attention

Nicholas-L

I wish my hands could work together like that now!!!! :sorry:

evolucian

Manfred Klose wrote: wow thats amazing

i really want to learn to play that kind of style, but i dont know where to begin to educate myself, i can do the basic, but its those chromatic things that grabs my attention

Get yourself some Hal Leonard books... get to learn the form. http://www.amazon.com/Hal-Leonard-Country-Guitar-Method/dp/0634039490/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325663850&sr=1-1 Thats a cool one by Greg Koch. Then just some other country books will help... Steve Trovato has quite a few books and videos and is a mean player too. (Greg Koch is a super mean player). Then theres the songbooks... like the Hellecasters (destroyed my hands).

If you ever see a Brent Mason video - don't get it. I like the guy a lot, he's quite a character in the video (never stares at the camera and terminologies all go wrong for him. Kinda makes me think guitar jock - although that is not true - but if you watch that vid, you'll see why I said this). The Scotty Anderson video - well, for when you're brave enough. Well, mostly anything from Arlen Roth's Hot licks series will do (where these two came from).

Regarding the chromatics, they are approach tones to the chord tones or to the scale of the chord. Get yourself some Buster B Jones videos. Youtube is your friend to get an idea of his level (jaw drop) but his teaching is first class, a real country gentleman too. If he makes a mistake, "oh... sorry, excuse me). He shows you how to make licks, and where they actually came from... in a very easy to understand way.

Good luck man ?

deefstes

FARK! This guy is evil. ???

Manfred-Klose

thanks evo.

will go check out some of those guys on youtube.

i have the speed and the technique and knowledge of theory, but not the know how, which i still have to figure out.

Manfred-Klose

well my brain melted a little now

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evolucian

Hehehe... at least you found out for yourself on that one ? I didn't wanna ruin the surprise ?

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Now you can cry ?

domhatch

:'(

Manfred-Klose

i'll raise you some classic chet atkins

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i downloaded a few of the buster B vids from youtube, so i am gonna take 1 guy at a time and see if i can learn a little bit from each.

the things i have figured out now by watching buster b is:
*your thumb, and the angle you use it at is important to get the correct sound out(if you playing without a thumb pic like me), and also the amount you dampen with the right hand thumb.
*the melodies seem to sustain as long as they can to make them seem larger than life
*its a good idea so silde in with the note before your first note you are playing.
* a good melody line i figured out now to start something out of E is :

from low to high, Bb > B > C# > E > G#

----------------0---4-----------------------------4--2--0--- bla bla
------------2--------------------------------------------------
------3/4-----------------------------------------------------
---------------------------2-----2---------2----------------
------------------------------2---------2-----2-------------
---------------------0--------------0----------------------

slide the Bb into the B
once you hit the high G# you can start the rhythmn on the E chord with your thumb and play the melodies with your middle finger and ring finger

dont know if that makes any sense.
but i am starting to get the hang of it slowly.

AlanRatcliffe

Manfred Klose wrote: i'll raise you some classic chet atkins

I'll raise you again:
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evolucian

^ I have that 2nd clips dvd... oh my word Tommy just kicks ass there. Him and Buster would be my faves... Chet... nah, it's ok... wasn't worthy. Damn fine player, yeah... but not my cup of tea.

That dvd has a few of his Beatles versions in it, and they're just so damn good. The whammy bar bends are so cool in that thing ?

AlanRatcliffe

evolucian wrote: ^ I have that 2nd clips dvd... oh my word Tommy just kicks ass there. Him and Buster would be my faves... Chet... nah, it's ok... wasn't worthy. Damn fine player, yeah... but not my cup of tea.

That dvd has a few of his Beatles versions in it, and they're just so damn good. The whammy bar bends are so cool in that thing ?

Yeah, I have the Live in St Louis too - my favourite of his because there he comes across well as a person and storyteller too (and he's a very funny guy). I also like the way he spends ten minutes in the middle of a show to teach the audience the basics of thumbpicking. ? My kind of muso - he's having an absolute ball at what he's doing.

deefstes

Alan Ratcliffe wrote:
Manfred Klose wrote: i'll raise you some classic chet atkins
I'll raise you again:
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By the power of grayskull! This guy never ceases to amaze me. I like how, at the bridge (starting at 0:52), he alternates between the thumb, middle finger and ring finger of his left hand for the bass line.

evolucian

Alan Ratcliffe wrote: Yeah, I have the Live in St Louis too - my favourite of his because there he comes across well as a person and storyteller too (and he's a very funny guy). I also like the way he spends ten minutes in the middle of a show to teach the audience the basics of thumbpicking. ? My kind of muso - he's having an absolute ball at what he's doing.

Oh yeah... and the way he broke the lesson down too (along with the humour) was just spectacular. Wouldn't mind a few one on one's with him.

The bummer is I'll have to do a seance to have a one on one with Buster ☹ .... :'(

I saw a clip on the toob where Buster and Tommy were playing in a lounge somewhere (or just some party looking thing) and Tommy was teaching Buster something... I thought the comments on that thing were unfair though. Anyone learning something is going to sound bad. So in my mind, an unfair clip to post... but also a good clip to post, in the sense that you're never too good to learn anything. In my mind, Buster kills Tommy on those open rolls, especially if you take that Alabama jubilee clip (the ending run). But both are still my cuppa tea. And both play that Cannonball rag thing extremely well... jaw dropping performances from both imo.

And a little story for Buster's speed... it's not his fault his daddy's record player played things slightly faster than it was meant to be. He thought thats how fast Jerry Reed and Chet Atkins were... so he caught up.

AlanRatcliffe

Ever see early Tommy, where he was rockin' a Tele?

domhatch

Alan Ratcliffe wrote: I'll raise you again

ah, tommy emmanuel. if ever there was a reason i regretted leaving australia, it would be that it's the one country in the world you stand the greatest chance of seeing tommy live. oh well. thank heavens for little bits and bytes.

evolucian

Alan Ratcliffe wrote: Ever see early Tommy, where he was rockin' a Tele?

Nah, never seen that. Heard a track with him on electric, was pretty cool... but didn't have that electric certainty if you know what I mean?

I know he started on electric (from what he mentioned in that dvd) ... but I'd like to see some tele stuff