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Topic: 'Use It Or Lose It' |
chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 23 Apr 2008 3:52 pm |
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i just realized while taking a shower, what i need. after 36 or so years of playing, i've learned lots of licks and concepts, most of which i've forgotten long ago, due to not playing them regularly.. some of you great players out there should get together and write an instruction book called 'use it or lose it' encompassing the dozen or so magical lick/progression pockets of each of our favorite emmons, hughey, franklin, etc. styles. the ones we can use on a nightly basis (e9 & c6) that keep the cool concepts fresh...in an advanced but comfortable mode.
whoever does this owes me nothing for the name or concept (however, i will accept a free copy)!!
alternate title: 'new brain for old man with memory loss' (not quite as catchy!) |
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Tommy R. Butler
From:
Nashville, Tennessee
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Posted 23 Apr 2008 4:12 pm
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| Call it the steel guitar bible ! |
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Jody Sanders
From:
Magnolia,Texas, R.I.P.
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Posted 23 Apr 2008 7:33 pm
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| Jeff Newman had a 'Dirty Dozen" series of licks and fills that I found helpful to get me out of a rut some years back. Jody. |
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Don Campbell
From:
Sutter California, USA
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Posted 24 Apr 2008 9:16 am REMEMBER / LEARN
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I just want to learn them the first time!
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 24 Apr 2008 9:58 am
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Geeze, what is it with you guys? You're all getting old.
I don't ever remember having a problem with my memory!
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Gary Lee Gimble
From:
Fredericksburg, VA.
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Posted 24 Apr 2008 10:17 am
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| geez Donny, give the old boy a break. At least he remembered to take a shower... |
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Bo Legg
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Posted 24 Apr 2008 11:24 am
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| Hey Chris... I bet you didn't expect the threads to go in this direction did you? |
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Bent Romnes
From:
London,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 24 Apr 2008 12:12 pm
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After 10 years of playing and a twenty year pause and then trying to get back into the swing of things it sure is a challenge at age 61.
Luckily I have no one to answer to and no job deadlines.
Just discovered that I play my two song repertoire -
My Shoes Keep walking back to You, and, When they ring those Golden Bells - almost perfect after 2 beers.
Life is good  |
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 24 Apr 2008 12:36 pm
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ha, bo...actually pretty much what i expected, considering who all's involved.
i enjoy all of you guys! (and gals..tamara's gotten some good licks in lately!) |
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 24 Apr 2008 4:19 pm Are you sure you mean that?
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Not picking apart your post but.........
Remembering OLDE LICKS is not necessarily an asset.
What you've played before is HISTORY! Why not better devote your time, skills and creativity to installing NEW KNOWLEGE into that cobweb infested memory of yours?
Jeff Newmans' teachings were great........however, they should be appraised as being nothing more than a starting point. NOT, the end result.
Many of the great artists I've listened to for decades, seldom play the same thingie.......ever again. Possibly a little dabble of it here or there, but seldom like what might be found in a lick book.
Just what I see from where I'm standing...... |
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 24 Apr 2008 4:31 pm
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| oh, don't worry, ray. i seldom play the same thing twice as my experimental side outways my discipline and 'knowledge'! (dictionary spelling) |
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Ken Pippus
From:
Langford, BC, Canada
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Posted 24 Apr 2008 7:00 pm
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Or call it Jazz, where the hope is to never play it the same way once.
KP |
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Lem Smith
From:
Long Beach, MS
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Posted 24 Apr 2008 9:23 pm
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Didn't someone already do a course called "A manual of styles" that was kind of the same thing as what Chris is asking about?
I think I could handle jazz then, Ken. Most of the time I never play anything the same way once!!! |
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