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Topic: Is it ADD or Progress? |
Bill McCloskey
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Nanuet, NY
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Posted 8 Mar 2005 5:39 pm |
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I'm an entrepreneur and they say most entrepreneur's have ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder). I don't know: everytime I think about it I get distracted.
So here is my question. I started out on guitar, but always loved slide guitar. A couple of years ago I bought a Tricone and really got into bottleneck (bought all the Brozmann stuff). A few years after that I got into dobro (bought all the Stacy Philips stuff). Now I'm into Lap Steel (just got the Herb Remington stuff and the Jerry Byrd stuff is on order). I'm thinking about the pedal steel.
So my question is: Is it ADD or progress? |
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 8 Mar 2005 6:11 pm
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Only you can answer that.
I think it really takes some serious attention and discipline to learn how to play any instrument really well. It's cool to explore, but when it comes down to it, you've got to roll up the sleeves and get to work.
My advice: one guitar, one book at a time. |
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Charlie McDonald
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out of the blue
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Posted 8 Mar 2005 7:33 pm
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Bill, you sound like me. I really enjoy lap steel, and decided I needed pedals to express myself. I sold a cheap pedal steel two days after I got it. Now I think I just need more strings.
I might counsel to follow the advice on the above post....
But sometimes, you just gotta try it.
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Alan Kirk
From:
Paso Robles, CA, USA
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Posted 8 Mar 2005 7:47 pm
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Have fun and don't worry about it.
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Rick Alexander
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Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 8 Mar 2005 8:20 pm
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If you assimilate it and make it your own, then it's progress. If you just dabble a little and then switch to something else, maybe it's ADD - or maybe it just wasn't for you.
But if you can master what is in Herb Remington's 2 video tapes and what is in Jerry Byrd's course - then you will be well on your way to being a Steel Guitar player! |
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Dan Tyack
From:
Olympia, WA USA
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Posted 8 Mar 2005 11:17 pm
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| What was the question? |
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chas smith
From:
Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 8 Mar 2005 11:34 pm
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| Sometimes more things are a distraction, however, I tend to think more things are an expansion and that different kinds of instruments offer different perspectives on music. In that way, they compliment each other and improve your knowledge and skills. |
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Randy Reeves
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LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 9 Mar 2005 6:48 am
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good question Bill; and welcome back.
I agree with chas.
from acoustic to electric to lap to pedal steel to fretless oud. I am moving not in a straight line, but a circuitous route. still takes me to the same place...my musical enjoyment from playing,learning, growing, and expanding my musical awareness of genres from around the world and time.
plus I like lookin at all my stuff.
not ADD. nut Progress.[This message was edited by Randy Reeves on 09 March 2005 at 06:48 AM.] |
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David Doggett
From:
Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 9 Mar 2005 8:14 am
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Bill, you just described my own progression, only you left out the piano, organ and sax I played before I took up guitar. Each instrument gave me a big leg up when moving to the next. These days I mostly play sax and pedal steel. It's impossible to keep in top form on all those instruments. But when the mood strikes, I can go back and pick up where I left off on any of them. Maybe if I had stuck to only one instrument, I'd be closer to being a virtuoso on that one. But I am much happier being a hack amateur on all of them.  [This message was edited by David Doggett on 09 March 2005 at 08:15 AM.] |
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Ray Minich
From:
Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 9 Mar 2005 2:34 pm
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| Is there a difference between ADD & plain old ordinary manic behaviour? I hope not! |
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