What Brad said to me was, "play what you want." I asked him for more detail and he gave it, kindly and easily. I have only good feelings for Brad. I do not think of him as the Old-Time police, at all. he was wonderful.
Now that gal with the fiddle a couple years before that. SHE was police, and did not help me to learn, as Brad did do. Topher On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 2:25 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Look on the Steam Powered Preservation Society website and find the Hartford > String Band show from Athens, GA dated 5-30-97 for an excellent example of > what I think Paul is speaking of. Tater was on top of things that night... > > > ------Original Message------ > From: Paul Priest <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:18:51 -0800 (PST) > Subject: Re: Old Timey playing > > I think what Unc Tater played with Hartford is a prime example,so any > Hartford Stringband clips on Youtube should do the trick. No one single > pattern really,but still heavy on the down stroke,and in the pocket on the > one-but still not a chop(I can hear notes ringing). A shuffle,perhaps? It > sounds very "fiddle" to me. I hear oldtime banjo influence in there too,with > 7 chords over the 1,and majors over minors. > I can't explain it,and I probably don't do it right,but I love it. > > Chunka-chunka, > Paul Priest > Custer,KY > > > --- On Fri, 1/15/10, root <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: root <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Old Timey playing >> To: "Taterbugmando" <[email protected]> >> Date: Friday, January 15, 2010, 3:54 PM >> You don't happen to have a youtube >> example of that shuffle on mandolin >> that you could post do you? >> >> On Jan 15, 12:12 pm, Paul Priest <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > I like a mandolin in old time music...There's a >> shuffle that I learned from Tater's playing that I use. It >> reminds me of the patterns Martha Haley played on Ed's >> fiddle tunes. >> > Shoot,just have fun. There are usually really good >> hoppy microbrews involved at oldtime functions. >> > >> > --- On Fri, 1/15/10, root <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > > From: root <[email protected]> >> > > Subject: Old Timey playing >> > > To: "Taterbugmando" <[email protected]> >> > > Date: Friday, January 15, 2010, 2:18 PM >> > > Going to an old timey festival this >> > > weekend. Should mandolin chords be >> > > chopped or let them ring out? >> > > -- >> > > You received this message because you are >> subscribed to the >> > > Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. >> > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > > [email protected]. >> > > For more options, visit this group >> > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the >> Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. >> >> >> > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Taterbugmando" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. > > > >
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