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Topic: A Miles Davis tune |
Rich Arnold
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Kirk Francis
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Posted 1 Oct 2024 8:13 am miles davis tune |
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VERY cool, bro!
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Mike Neer
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Posted 1 Oct 2024 3:34 pm
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That’s nice, Rich. I really like those Magnatones.
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Jim Mckay
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Posted 2 Oct 2024 10:34 am
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Some fine picking there. Nice, Rich. 
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Sam Conomo
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Queensland, Australia
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Posted 6 Oct 2024 2:29 pm Miles of miles
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Thanks for posting,
Really nice.
Sam. |
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Rich Arnold
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Tennessee, USA
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Posted 7 Oct 2024 2:54 am
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| Thanks everybody who listened and commented. |
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Fred Treece
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California, USA
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Posted 7 Oct 2024 8:52 am
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Great playing as always, Rich. A very tasty dinner😎
With this video, I paid closer attention to your right hand technique. You are a “let your fingers do the walking” style picker on the single note stuff, especially on the higher strings, while the thumb plays more of a supportive role in the lower register. This seems to keep your hand mostly in position throughout an entire solo. Alternating T-M and T-I pickers tend to move their hand across the strings. Both approaches are obviously effective, but I don’t see many single-note guys doing what you do. Are you also a classical guitarist? |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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John Sluszny
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Brussels, Belgium
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Posted 7 Oct 2024 9:08 am
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| Super indeed ! |
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BJ Burbach
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New York, USA
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Posted 8 Oct 2024 3:06 am
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STRING MASTER,
IMHO
BJ |
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Rich Arnold
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Tennessee, USA
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Posted 8 Oct 2024 3:28 am
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| Fred Treece wrote: |
Great playing as always, Rich. A very tasty dinner😎
With this video, I paid closer attention to your right hand technique. You are a “let your fingers do the walking” style picker on the single note stuff, especially on the higher strings, while the thumb plays more of a supportive role in the lower register. This seems to keep your hand mostly in position throughout an entire solo. Alternating T-M and T-I pickers tend to move their hand across the strings. Both approaches are obviously effective, but I don’t see many single-note guys doing what you do. Are you also a classical guitarist? |
I've never been a classical guitar player but when I was a young kid I used to play the armpit and try to mimic Chet Adkins.
Technique is not something I spend a lot of time thinking about or analyzing. I hear what I want to play, then the technique that allows me to play it is formed.
I always say "I don't have a technique" |
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Rich Arnold
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Tennessee, USA
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Posted 8 Oct 2024 3:40 am
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| Doug Beaumier wrote: |
| Nice playing, Rich. Very smooth, good tone, and nice phrasing on the improv. |
Thanks Doug.
I think I'm finally getting around to playing what I want to hear, the way I want to hear it with less thought as to what an audience might want. Or what will get me lots of his on the internet.
Not that I don't care about people, I do, but it's a tough guessing game as to what people will like, and I've sorta thrown in the towel.
I've been accused of having some sort of " imposter syndrome complex" or something.
I guess I do feel like an imposter when I'm trying to play music that requires a costume.
That's show business and I've been in and around it for most of my life and breaking free of that thinking is not easy.
Btw. When I'm playing what I want to hear, I'm more relaxed and hit a lot less clams. For what that's worth. |
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Rich Arnold
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Tennessee, USA
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Posted 8 Oct 2024 3:46 am
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| John Sluszny wrote: |
| Super indeed ! |
Thanks. |
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Rich Arnold
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Tennessee, USA
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Posted 8 Oct 2024 3:53 am
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STRING MASTER,
IMHO
BJ |
I wouldn't go quite that far. I've spent quite a bit of time slumped over my guitar, but not mastered it yet.
Maybe by next year. 😄 |
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Tim Toberer
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Nebraska, USA
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Posted 8 Oct 2024 5:23 am
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| Like a lot of people, that is the album that really got me hooked on jazz. This will never be topped and I think I will spend the rest of my life learning from it. This is probably the most approachable tune on the album. I think I relate to all music in terms of the the blues and can really learn a lot from how different people approach this form. Really great to hear it on steel! I have to remember to check your channel frequently, you have got some great stuff going. |
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Rich Arnold
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Tennessee, USA
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Posted 9 Oct 2024 2:27 pm
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| Tim Toberer wrote: |
| Like a lot of people, that is the album that really got me hooked on jazz. This will never be topped and I think I will spend the rest of my life learning from it. This is probably the most approachable tune on the album. I think I relate to all music in terms of the the blues and can really learn a lot from how different people approach this form. Really great to hear it on steel! I have to remember to check your channel frequently, you have got some great stuff going. |
I like the record a lot too.
At first, it didn't hit me very hard.
At the time I discovered it I was listening to Stephen Grappelli and Joe Pass.
But it grew on me over time and I still listen to it after almost 40 years.
Music has always produced images in my imagination as I listen.
Nowadays this younger generation has music videos where the imagery is already suggested but back in the day, a person had to create their own pictures that go with the song.
Kinda Blue works great for that.
I find I reach for that record when I'm driving long distance or on a late night flight.
I guess everyone has their own way of listening.
That record gives me lots of unidentifiable feelings and images of places I have been.
It's taken me many decades to get around to trying to play any of it. Maybe because it's such a complete work as it is
How do I add to or improve perfection?
Rather than reinterpret it, all Im left with is to try to step inside it and try not to change anything too much. |
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David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 9 Oct 2024 5:04 pm
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| Dinner is IMPORTANT. Music evokes moods and Miles touched a lot of people with his playing, arrangement concepts and DRASTIC hiring practices. Imagine hiring Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane and NOT worrying that you were going to get cut soloing - he had something so different he could play ABOVE the obvious head-cutting he designed. That flow... The late 50's, late 60's and mid-80's bands were all ridiculous - just hiring John Scofield to scare Mike Stern into playing better took some kind of whammy! |
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