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Topic: Pick blocking exercise Bach 'Badinerie' |
Guy Cundell
From: More idle ramblings from South Australia
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Stefan Robertson
From: Hertfordshire, UK
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Posted 9 Feb 2017 1:02 pm
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wtf Guy that is great. I need to work on my scales more. _________________ Stefan
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Jim Cohen
From: Philadelphia, PA
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Andy Volk
From: Boston, MA
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Posted 9 Feb 2017 3:12 pm
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Very impressive, Guy! _________________ Steel Guitar Books! Website: www.volkmediabooks.com |
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Guy Cundell
From: More idle ramblings from South Australia
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Posted 9 Feb 2017 4:59 pm
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Cheers, Andy. Here is an mp3, Jim. Not so impressive, warts and all, but I only nutted this out yesterday as a workout for the 5 position minor. But it's coming along.
http://picosong.com/rpty
Thanks Stefan. If you examine this piece closely, you will see that the essence of it is in the arpeggios. For me, scales are important as a reference point but I rarely practice them. The difficulty in this exercise, as I see it, is in the cross string picking which misses strings out. This would be a good preliminary exercise to help get the opening statement clean.
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Guy Cundell
From: More idle ramblings from South Australia
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Posted 9 Feb 2017 9:16 pm
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Or maybe this as a preliminary exercise:
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Andy Costigan
From: Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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Guy Cundell
From: More idle ramblings from South Australia
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Posted 7 Mar 2017 1:21 pm
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Cheers, Andy.
Those intonation systems are a bit over my head, I'm afraid. I just tune my major thirds down a cent or two and hope for the best.
There must be a bit more steel activity over there on the east coast. There are a few Reso players and a couple of psg guys here, but I don't know any lap players in Adelaide. Thank goodness for the SGF. |
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Charlie McDonald
From: out of the blue
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Posted 7 Mar 2017 2:40 pm
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Andy, that was a very interesting page on Bach's tuning as he'd specify it to a tuner. I'd probably have walked out, thinking Lynard Skynard is easier, but it would've been worth it to hear how he got there.
Imagine a piano with 25 keys per octave, or levers to change the hammer strike or possibly the string length, like a pedal steel,
if that's what he was actually describing for a moment there....
I enjoyed it quite a bit. Thanks for the links.
But sure, they both sounded good in C.
Actually, I liked the Bach-Lehman better. Has a smoother quality, to me, maybe less high harmonic (inharmonic) activity. Cool stuff. |
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Andy Costigan
From: Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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Charlie McDonald
From: out of the blue
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Posted 8 Mar 2017 4:59 am
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Wow, it's real, it's mechanical, and sounds old. Thanks! |
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Guy Cundell
From: More idle ramblings from South Australia
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Posted 3 Apr 2017 5:45 pm
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Here is the full enchilada for those who might be interested (probably not many, but nevertheless..)
The B section is all quite doable but those semidemiquavers in the last four bars are never going to be much more than a smear. I still think the hardest thing about this piece is the first two bars,
With a chord chart and those last bars simplified, I think it could work as a swing, Jacques Loussier style.
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Guy Cundell
From: More idle ramblings from South Australia
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