Finally got a chance to watch the Bill Monroe film last night. A couple things struck me: -The economy of motion in Monroe's right and left hands. He barely raises his fingers above the fretboard and the pick only travels as far as it needs to. - He rarely goes up the neck. Usually just to hit a higher note on the E string, not to show off. - When he hits extra open strings or double stops on a melody it sounds right. When I do it, it sounds like a mistake!
I'm sure there's more to learn from that film. I need to watch it again several times. Murph ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tud Jones" <tudjo...@gmail.com> To: "Taterbugmando" <taterbugmando@googlegroups.com> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 7:46:43 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Thought this might be of interest http://www.folkstreams.net/film,210 Lots of other great stuff up there as well if you browse around. Banjo Spirits: http://www.folkstreams.net/film,183 has Don Stover doing a beautiful version of "Things in Life". Enjoy! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en.
