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Topic: Perfect Muscle Memory In The Hands |
b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 26 Nov 2015 8:46 pm |
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Today I put new strings on my Rickenbacker, and tuned it G B D F# A D. My first steel guitar was the same model, and my first tuning was A C# E G# B E (same intervals, 1 step higher).
So I sit down to test the new strings and discover, to my astonishment, that I can do new wrong. Every note, every slant is perfectly in tune. Then it hit me - this is the guitar I learned to slant on! Way back in 1972-73, my hands learned the movements for this scale length, this fretboard. The muscles adapt for other guitars with mixed results, but for this one there's no mistake. Everything is exactly where it's supposed to be.
What a great feeling! 
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Will Houston
From:
Tempe, Az
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Posted 26 Nov 2015 9:07 pm
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Life is good  |
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Dom Franco
From:
Beaverton, OR, 97007
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Posted 26 Nov 2015 9:14 pm
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Hey b0b;
I know what you mean. I took lessons when I was young on a 6 string Hawaiian guitar tuned to A6. After about 5 years I gave it up for Standard guitar to play rock, then pedal steel exclusively for a long time...
Fast forward 25 years and I came across an old lap steel in a pawn shop... tuned it up to A6th and it was just like I had never left it!
I put some new strings on it and played a gig that weekend. That was the best $100.00 I ever spent.
Now I play non-pedal 90 percent of the time.
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Stephen Gambrell
From:
Over there
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Posted 26 Nov 2015 9:42 pm
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| Could there ever be a pedal mechanism that sounded as sweet as a good slant? |
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 27 Nov 2015 5:46 am
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| b0b wrote: |
| I sit down and... discover, to my astonishment, that I can do new wrong. |
I discover the same thing every time I sit down at a guitar.
It's encouraging to read that muscle memory remains intact over time, that it's a fact and not just a theory. |
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Jim Newberry
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Seattle, Upper Left America
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Posted 27 Nov 2015 8:27 am
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That's really cool, Bobby.
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Dennis Saydak
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Manitoba, Canada
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Posted 27 Nov 2015 1:11 pm
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b0b; I see that you have discovered yet another use for ducky tape. 
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Dennis Saydak
From:
Manitoba, Canada
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Posted 27 Nov 2015 1:39 pm
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At first glance it looked like your tuners were being held onto the guitar with Duct tape. Second look tells me that my eyes deceived me.
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Patrick Ickes
From:
Upper Lake, CA USA
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Posted 27 Nov 2015 5:34 pm
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I remember that guitar!
Glad you still get it out. Great tone, and played distorted, that thing is an animal.
Patrick |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 27 Nov 2015 9:08 pm
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| Dennis Saydak wrote: |
| At first glance it looked like your tuners were being held onto the guitar with Duct tape. Second look tells me that my eyes deceived me. |
Those pieces of metal covering the tuners are part of the guitar's design. They're each held in place with two little Phillips head wood screws. I've never removed them as the tuners have always worked fine.
I'm really happy with the guitar, Pat. I take it out now and then - even played it on stage with The Campbell Brothers once (they let me sit in for a song). It's so light that I can take it anywhere, but it still has a really big, beefy sound.
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