Thanks to all for your advice. I am going to work this one through some more before I move to the next one. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
-----Original Message----- From: Linda <lj...@intas.net.au> Sender: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 20:33:43 To: Taterbugmando<taterbugmando@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: My first video post I have huge problems finding folks I can sit in with cause they all play so fast, tunes I don't know, mainly old time tunes, the list is so big I don't know where to start, and their take is not how I hear it sometimes too. I am finding playing along with Monroe a great boon. Agree too about learning a few tunes in each key and learning the licks and playing from chord positions is a great way to go. There are some speed freaks out there who think its only good at top speed, while I tend to think the right speed for the tune is the goal (local observation). I have been working on Old Ebenezer Scrooge for about a year, and finally am close to something worth recording, also Arkansas Traveler, but have not heard a Monroe version of that. Just about have Lonesome Moonlight Waltz and would love to work on a list as suggested, for a year to see what can be achieved. Thank you Nelson for starting this thread and sharing and thanks also to everyone contributing, good insights for developing players, who need to build enough to feel good enough to sit in with others. Its no good to just sit there completely overwhelmed and lost. The comments are all so supportive and positive. So good to see. Seems video production could help with performance issues like turning into wood when someone is watching, etc. The best thing I have done for myself there is to just play, anyway, and wear it, warts and all, get over it and move on. Waiting here for the day I can say....been there, done that...and am totally over it!!!! Linda On Oct 2, 12:14 pm, Terry Bullin <tbull...@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. 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