Good job Nelson! I agree with Don, just do it! The best way to learn is to play with people. If you mess up, so what? Everybody does. Hell, I mess up more than I get right. That's just part of the learning process.
I also agree with John. Try playing along with Monroe or Mike on a recording. It will help you with your timing. That cd isn't going to stop if you goof, so you'll learn to keep up. You can slow it down if you need to in order to learn the tune, but after you do, practice at full speed. Also, try learning several tunes in each key. G, C. D, A, ect. By learning that many tunes you will remember licks from each key. Then if you are jamming and they play a tune in G that you really don't know, you might can use some of the licks you remember from the ones you do know. A lot of the stuff you did in Bluegrass Special, you will find in other Monroe tunes if you listen. And for John. I will no longer remark about the speed of tunes. I am no longer a speed cop..........I'm retired!..................lol Just my .02 for what its worth. Terry --- On Fri, 10/1/10, taurodont <jgardin...@roadrunner.com> wrote: From: taurodont <jgardin...@roadrunner.com> Subject: Re: My first video post To: "Taterbugmando" <taterbugmando@googlegroups.com> Date: Friday, October 1, 2010, 9:03 PM Looks like you held out on us at Monroe camp Nelson. I don't think that will happen again. This sounds good for the most part. Has the bounce. The tremolo needs loosened up some, which is very hard at that speed. I don't think I could do it quite like I'd like to hear it myself. The timing is great buts gets a little waggly during that part. Try playing with a Monroe recording and doing some double-stop tremolo over the whole thing and inject the Monroe pulse in the tremolo, to keep that groove going. Does Mike sanction this pick grip? Good job Nelson. If I ever get a chance to record some I'll expect similiar treatment. Got an idea for a Nelson jam skewering next year: Pick about 8-10 songs you will be comfortable playing by next year. They don't have to be full speed, unless Terry is watching. Some Monroe wrote, some trad. tunes he did, etc. Let us know so we can work 'em up too. We'll do them all in one sitting and in between each one we will throw in one you don't know. Equal parts familiarity and unfamiliarity. Life is too damn short not to jam. Just have to embrace that feeling of falling flat on your ass for a while. It even happens to the very best although much less often. John On Oct 1, 1:10 pm, nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: > Thank you, Don. > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Don <adobeinthepi...@gmail.com> > > Sender: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com > Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 10:48:10 > To: <taterbugmando@googlegroups.com> > Reply-To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: My first video post > > Nelson, > > If you can play that difficult a tune that well, you can jam too. > Nothing to be shy about. You'll learn more by taking chances, getting > lost, making flubs, and recovering in a jam than you do by playing > perfectly. If anyone looks down their nose at you, it's their problem > not yours IMHO. > > I've been participating some in the Song A Week group on the mando > cafe (more like one a month for me), and I've learned a lot by > recording videos of my playing. I think you have a good plan, Nelson. > > Don > > -- > 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- 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.
