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Topic: Feed And Nurture A Good Mood |
Bill Hankey
From:
Pittsfield, MA, USA
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Posted 27 Mar 2007 2:11 am |
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| Everyone benefits from a good mood. A good mood is necessary to enjoy searching for those "gems" on the steel guitar. Once located, they provide a lifetime of pleasure. Many melodies contribute to finding those "gems" more than others. |
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 27 Mar 2007 10:10 am
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IMO one of the most valuable assets a person can have is a good sense of humor.When that third string breaks in the middle of your favorite solo,don't curse it,laugh at it.
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Hard headed, opinionated old geezer. BAMA CHARLIE. GOD BLESS AMERICA. ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST. SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC ! |
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Bill Hankey
From:
Pittsfield, MA, USA
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Posted 27 Mar 2007 11:51 am
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Charles,
Mood swings or temper tantrums serve no purpose in the steel player's domain. The neck of a pedal steel is a "treasure chest" of "gems", and "diamonds" in the rough. Equally as important are steps taken to enhance the ability to maintain a high level of interest in the instrument. There will always be good days, as well as bad days. Recognizing that the mood need not change, could be the first step to prevent an interruption in regular practice. Most steel guitarists who I've met, are happy- go-lucky musicians. By any stretch of the imagination, a good mood helps in the development of a good steel player. |
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A. J. Schobert
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Cincinnati, Ohio,
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Posted 27 Mar 2007 3:48 pm
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| We often smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down a tree in order to reach its fruit; but to the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure, take your time Bill and use the ladder. |
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Rick Nicklas
From:
Verona, Mo. (deceased)
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Posted 27 Mar 2007 7:02 pm
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| A trip to the bar for a glass of my favorite beverage has proved to be an excellent jump-start to a composed, jolly attitude. My whole life as a part-time musician has been a great balancing act of the liquor, jokes and steel pickin. What a blast !!! |
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Bill Hankey
From:
Pittsfield, MA, USA
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Posted 28 Mar 2007 2:36 am
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| The steel guitar ethos radiates a wide range of views, that at times conflict with basic and proven methodologies. Refueling a sluggish interest in the steel guitar, would require nothing more than coming to grips with analytical expoundings, that are questionable, to say the least. There is nothing more rewarding than subduing an erroneous misconception. Interest builds as the process of overcoming the resistance of the purveyor who refuses to budge in the face of proof. In not surprising to witness someone sauntering into a serious study, and offering variations of established rules of learning. Separating the tangential meandering from cohesive logic, is made easier by finding methods to elevate one's own mood, and possess the ability to cope with different forms of obstinacies. |
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Glyn Bone
From:
Halifax.Nova Scotia. Canada * R.I.P.
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Posted 28 Mar 2007 8:33 am
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Bill..ya done took the words right outa me mouf mate 
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BJS `Hughey` bar
BJS 1" bar
Zookie thumbpicks
Dunlop and JN finger picks |
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Ray Minich
From:
Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 28 Mar 2007 8:44 am
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I can experience the ethos if I can get over the pathos. Logos is too much work...
Tangential meandering is how I find stuff, don't knock it...  |
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 28 Mar 2007 9:54 am
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SAY WHAT!!!!
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Hard headed, opinionated old geezer. BAMA CHARLIE. GOD BLESS AMERICA. ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST. SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC ! |
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Bill Hankey
From:
Pittsfield, MA, USA
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Posted 28 Mar 2007 2:24 pm
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| Here's a stumper. Can you remember your first memory of life as an entity. As far as I know, many have no recall of the beginning of memory. The rare ability to retain that memory throughout life, may serve as a guide in memory retention, by omitting, and cancelling undesirable moments as they occur. Breathing the warm summer air, in the shade of a soft maple tree, while a songbird sings aloft, was my first memory of the beginning of life. It was just natural for me to become attracted to the only instrument capable of duplicating a number of songbirds. A violin can mimic very well, but the bar glisses of the steel guitar in the high registers emulate those precious patterns of intonations. If the songs of a songbird become instrumental in attracting the attention of others within range of its call, it's a good bet the listener would be drawn to the steel guitar. I tend to agree that most often, it's the little things that count in life. |
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Rick Nicklas
From:
Verona, Mo. (deceased)
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Posted 28 Mar 2007 8:35 pm
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| I can only dream about emulating the songbird scenario. My wife has informed me more than once that some of my performance material sounds like a full blown cat fight. |
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 28 Mar 2007 9:14 pm
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[Cat fight]Rick do you mean the feline kind,or the female kind?
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Hard headed, opinionated old geezer. BAMA CHARLIE. GOD BLESS AMERICA. ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST. SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC ! |
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Rick Nicklas
From:
Verona, Mo. (deceased)
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Posted 28 Mar 2007 9:26 pm
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| Charles, unless you actually see them, sometimes it is hard to differentiate. |
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Bill Hankey
From:
Pittsfield, MA, USA
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Posted 28 Mar 2007 11:22 pm
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Rick,
Ah yes! Toying with emotions! It's a fairly common nonprecedential remark, that fun loving ladies like to toss around. Years ago, I recall hearing a female vocalist who described the voice of a recording artist, as one sounding like a cat. Are they serious, when making these outbursts? I think not. It's all part of the fun of trying to get more involved in the music that they are exposed to on a regular basis. In reality, the compliments far exceed the playful comments. "That's the bottom line." |
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Bill Hankey
From:
Pittsfield, MA, USA
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Posted 29 Mar 2007 7:16 am
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| TEMPTATION.. so commonly responsible for choices made that are not in the best interest of the venturesome. It's like dangling a box of chocolates in front of a chocoholic. Hot "licks" remain as a major attraction wherever progressive steel guitarists are found. Working up to levels of playing that provide a more comprehensive approach to duplicating those catchy approaches to a better style of playing, makes a great deal of sense. Each day should provides new thoughts to achieve some previously thought unmanageable melodies. Determination plays the most important "role", as it does in so many unrelated endeavors. |
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Rick Nicklas
From:
Verona, Mo. (deceased)
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Posted 29 Mar 2007 9:18 am
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| Bill, I have printed out several of yours posted topics and made numerous copies. Then I took the scissors and cut out each of your posts and replies. I am now folding them up and putting them in fortune cookies and will pass them out at our next Steel Jam. |
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Ray Minich
From:
Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 29 Mar 2007 9:20 am
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I find that the more experience I get with the steel, the better I get at getting more experience.
Can't say the same for my golf game though, that still sucks... |
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Bill Hankey
From:
Pittsfield, MA, USA
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Posted 30 Mar 2007 2:31 am
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Rick,
Not a bad idea. The sweet tooth participants will be looking forward to the goodies.
Ray,
Golf.... well that's another story, if you have a few hours to lend an ear. |
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Pete Finney
From:
Nashville Tn.
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Posted 30 Mar 2007 4:42 am
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| Separating the tangential meandering from cohesive logic... |
That's easy to do here: LOTS of "tangential meandering" and hardly any "cohesive logic" (at least as it relates
to "steel players and their music").
Just saying that nurtures my good mood...!
And all just my humble opinion of course... |
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Bill Hankey
From:
Pittsfield, MA, USA
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Posted 30 Mar 2007 8:37 am
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Pete F.,
On the contrary, I'm not given to switching oars. I'd like nothing better than to read more about contentious meanderings, that may give me the opportunity to possibly subdue erroneous notions, as they relate to the steel guitar. |
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Bill Hankey
From:
Pittsfield, MA, USA
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Posted 31 Mar 2007 1:09 am
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| Cajoling is a peculiar human trait. Recurrent indignation versus softsoaping is a matter of preference in the face of criticism. It's also peculiar to read page after page about successes, but nothing in print about failures. Tons of inks are used daily, in publications, to inform the public about lifestyles that leave nothing to be desired. That little twist of the imagination, found here on this forum, is quite different than news found in circulars. Small percentages of the forum membership have the ability to quake a worthwhile endeavor. After traveling down that road a bit, I quickly exit to avoid any pitfalls, or the locking horns of poor judgment. Just by chance, that someone may find it useful, I want to suggest something that may otherwise, go unnoticed. At the changer end of the steel guitar, the string spacings should be equal. By measuring center to center, there may a silly iota of differences. Those little differences become part of getting closer to where adjustments will improve overall playing ability. |
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