Re: country blues

2010-12-21 Thread Mike Hoffmann
Bug Water! That sounds like a name Frank Wakefield would give it. On Dec 17, 2010, at 10:14 AM, kathy nichols wrote: Very good points Gathel. I have already learned alot about myself watching my video attempts. Like do I really hold my pick like that?!! Kinda like listening to your own voice

Re: country blues

2010-12-20 Thread Robin Gravina
But supposing you can't remember any names? Funny imagining someone arriving from the Shetlands to Mississippi. Can barely imagine two climates further apart. And what is the name of that mode that starts on the 6th note of the major scale? In Valencia it's 4Am, mild, light sea, and there is abo

Re: country blues

2010-12-20 Thread Don
Robin, that's why tunes have names--so we can tell them apart. On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Linda wrote: > Val and Robin, > I have a Shetland Island tune here that has an A part that is almost > exactly the B part of Grub Springs (if one thought of the Grub Springs > version being an on-stero

Re: country blues

2010-12-20 Thread Linda
Val and Robin, I have a Shetland Island tune here that has an A part that is almost exactly the B part of Grub Springs (if one thought of the Grub Springs version being an on-steroids take, a few more notes, and a jazzed up rhythm). I am convinced that a fiddler long ago arrived in Old Miss, from

Re: country blues

2010-12-20 Thread Val Mindel
Robin, that's a ramble in many dimensions. But Dusty Miller and Grub echo each other beyond the key thing. There's a clear path there. Garfields is another journey. For me its still such a finger twister that I can't relax and get into the music of it. In the rambling spirit, I've managed to get th

Re: country blues

2010-12-19 Thread Robin Gravina
Was playing the Grub the other day, and found myself playing Dusty Miller, then today while fixing my daughter's crappy keyboard, played it in E flat, starting on C and it turned into garfields BB. anyone else? or have I been listening to too much Capt Beefheart these days? And in Spain, Enrique Mo

Re: country blues

2010-12-18 Thread mistertaterbug
Must be a girl thing! Ah, the kind of remark that inspires "open season" for retribution. Let 'er fly! TB On Dec 17, 9:14 am, kathy nichols wrote: > Very good points Gathel.  I have already learned alot about myself > watching my video attempts. Like do I really hold my pick like that?!! >  Kind

Re: country blues

2010-12-17 Thread kathy nichols
Very good points Gathel. I have already learned alot about myself watching my video attempts. Like do I really hold my pick like that?!! Kinda like listening to your own voice. We do tend to be our own worst critics. I also find this group very supportive of everyone's attempts and hope to have

Re: country blues

2010-12-17 Thread Gathel Runnels
I agree with the big Tater. What's really important is to have fun and do what you can. You learn a lot from listening and watching yourself play. You see all the mistakes and hear that stuff you thought sounded like one thing doesn't really sound that way. It's painful for most of us to see and he

Re: country blues

2010-12-17 Thread Robin Gravina
hahaha! Worse if they are done with tremble-oh On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:48 PM, mistertaterbug wrote: > Just do what you can do. No judgements from out here in Taterbug land. > Val invented a new phrase the other day by accident(slip of the > tongue) that I think applies to all of us. Her phras

Re: country blues

2010-12-17 Thread mistertaterbug
Just do what you can do. No judgements from out here in Taterbug land. Val invented a new phrase the other day by accident(slip of the tongue) that I think applies to all of us. Her phrase is "double slops". Too funny, too true. Loosen up and enjoy yourself. You don't have to wear your best hat in

Re: country blues

2010-12-17 Thread Linda
That goes for me too..heck I have only been working on mando serious for a couple of yearsI working too. I draw some and find what I aim for from my head is nothing like what comes out on paper. And its that way with the mando too. I am hearing it, and when I play it on vid, it seems like som

Re: country blues

2010-12-16 Thread mandoholic
I've been working pretty hard on Grub Springs, have recorded it three times now but what's coming out is not what I'm hearing in my head, I'm not happy with it at all. I think I have to grind it up again a few more times and see what comes out. This is strange for me as I'm not the least bit b

Re: country blues

2010-12-16 Thread mistertaterbug
ical dialogue in the world. Make a point, take a stand, pour your heart out. I want to get to know your musical fingerprints... Instiga-tater On Dec 15, 3:41 pm, Don wrote: > You just have to get it workin' (as a country blues). > > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 2:37 PM, mgromkey wrote: >

Re: country blues

2010-12-15 Thread Don
You just have to get it workin' (as a country blues). On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 2:37 PM, mgromkey wrote: > Guilty as charged over on FaceBook. I was thinking of working up "Got > My Mojo Workin." It's not a country blues tune, but I thought there > might be a way t

Re: country blues

2010-12-15 Thread mgromkey
Guilty as charged over on FaceBook. I was thinking of working up "Got My Mojo Workin." It's not a country blues tune, but I thought there might be a way to countrify it. I thought the idea was too weird and 86'd my post before getting hollered at. -- You received this mes

Re: country blues

2010-12-15 Thread bo'weavil
agreed to do or at least offer > two tunes per month, and as I have some days off coming up, selfishly > I would love to do a country blues tune, but which? Tommy, lonnie, > robert, willie johnston? Furry or little hat? Got to run. Worraboutit? > > 2010/12/15, Mark Seale : > &g

country blues

2010-12-15 Thread Robin Gravina
Someone posted the idea of working on a muddy waters tune, but seems to have regretted it. I think we all agreed to do or at least offer two tunes per month, and as I have some days off coming up, selfishly I would love to do a country blues tune, but which? Tommy, lonnie, robert, willie johnston

Re: Ry Cooder Talks About Country Blues

2010-10-19 Thread Mark Halpin
t 18, 5:49 pm, Don wrote: > >>http://jasobrecht.com/ry-cooder-%E2%80%93-talking-country-blues-and-g... > > >> Interesting stuff here with links to lots of old recordings. Only > >> mando content is some mention of Yank Rachell. > > >> -- > >> My

Re: Ry Cooder Talks About Country Blues

2010-10-18 Thread Don
an feel the > enthusiasm fizzing away in Cooder's replies... now to check out these > Jump Bands! > > On Oct 18, 5:49 pm, Don wrote: >> http://jasobrecht.com/ry-cooder-%E2%80%93-talking-country-blues-and-g... >> >> Interesting stuff here with links to lots of old recordings.

Re: Ry Cooder Talks About Country Blues

2010-10-18 Thread Mark Halpin
-talking-country-blues-and-g... > > Interesting stuff here with links to lots of old recordings. Only > mando content is some mention of Yank Rachell. > > -- > My CD of original tunes played on mandolin, mandola, and > mandocellohttp://www.HillbillyChamberMusic.com -- You

Ry Cooder Talks About Country Blues

2010-10-18 Thread Don
http://jasobrecht.com/ry-cooder-%E2%80%93-talking-country-blues-and-gospel/ Interesting stuff here with links to lots of old recordings. Only mando content is some mention of Yank Rachell. -- My CD of original tunes played on mandolin, mandola, and mandocello http