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Topic: Back on dobro |
Bill McCloskey
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Posted 6 Nov 2013 6:36 pm |
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| After 5 years, I've bought a dobro ( a beard MA) and have started playing it. Man, I've lost all my dobro muscles. My wrists are aching. But amazing how it all comes back and I think playing lap steel and brass the last 5 years has given me a new sense of the guitar. |
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 6 Nov 2013 8:13 pm
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Welcome back!
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Rob Anderlik
From:
Chicago, IL
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Posted 7 Nov 2013 3:46 am
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| Welcome back! I'm sure your muscle memory will kick in and you'll be back up and running in no time. |
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 7 Nov 2013 5:38 am
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The instrument does something to us. When I first started playing years ago, I couldn't play for squat and I would put the instrument away for long periods. I would always get these urges to pull it out and try again, mostly with the same results. I knew I had something to say with it, but I didn't know what and how, and I certainly didn't know when. But then it all started falling into place once I got past the how.
Not a short, easy path, by any stretch.
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Webb Kline
From:
Orangeville, PA
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Posted 7 Nov 2013 6:06 am
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| Mike Neer wrote: |
The instrument does something to us. When I first started playing years ago, I couldn't play for squat and I would put the instrument away for long periods. I would always get these urges to pull it out and try again, mostly with the same results. I knew I had something to say with it, but I didn't know what and how, and I certainly didn't know when. But then it all started falling into place once I got past the how.
Not a short, easy path, by any stretch. |
My experience exactly. Bought my first one in 1978, quit playing it altogether in 1982, because I just wasn't able to make it do what I wanted it to. Picked it up again a couple of times over the years with same results. Then 5 years ago, it all came together for me and I'm loving it. |
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HowardR
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N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 7 Nov 2013 8:50 am
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| after 40 years I'm still waiting for it to come together..... |
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Bill McCloskey
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Posted 7 Nov 2013 8:53 am
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The thing that really throws people off, I think, is how different it is playing dobro vs lap steel. There are almost no similarties other than you are using a bar and it sits in your lap. But literally everything else is different: the bar, the attack, the picks, the approach. Everything.
It took me a long time to get into lap steel for that reason, I kept trying to play it like a dobro. |
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Mark Eaton
From:
Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 7 Nov 2013 9:06 am
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No one has ever distilled it down any better than Jerry Douglas when asked what the difference is between the two:
He likes to say the dobro is like a handsaw, whereas the lap steel is more like a chainsaw.
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 7 Nov 2013 9:34 am
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Different beast altogether. And that goes for probably all resonator instruments.
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Webb Kline
From:
Orangeville, PA
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Posted 7 Nov 2013 4:10 pm
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| HowardR wrote: |
| after 40 years I'm still waiting for it to come together..... |
LOL...Okay, so there are different definitions to "come together." AIn't no Jerry or Rob happening here any time soon, if that's what you were implying. 
A whole new paradigm in my playing though, and I'm still not sure why. Age and treachery finally defeating youth and zeal, maybe? |
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 7 Nov 2013 6:16 pm
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| i guess my dobro would be a hatchet. it's got one chop. |
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