The Steel Guitar Forum

Peter, I have used Thomastik strings for electric bass, and those are of the highest quality and sound. Here is their website: www.thomastik-infeld.com md<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Mark Decker on 19 October 2002 at 12:03 PM.]</p></FONT>

Tony,

Beautiful Tele, bass, and pedal steel playing. I would like to hear more.

Thanks for the gift.

md

Hey Dirk, Thanks for the tip. I went to the website and bought the book. There's more good stuff there, as well. For anyone wanting to learn a little theory, a good thing to do is to learn how the keyboard is set up. Anyone can do that pretty quickly - like 30 minutes. After that, any instument can ...

<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Mark Decker on 08 October 2002 at 07:36 PM.]</p></FONT>

Jody, I am a relatively new Member, and I've already discovered and enjoyed reading your posts. <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><HR><SMALL>I asked one guy this question,,,,Do you think my posts are too long???he said NO...I said what kind ...

Chick, Michael, Herbie, and Keith - they don't be flouting - they be "burnin'!" Always appreciate your posts, Jeff. Mark D<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Mark Decker on 08 October 2002 at 04:38 PM.]</p></FONT><FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e23...

Hey Jim, With all respect, I think you might have misunderstood what I was saying. I was trying to lend a hand to Gerald, and if you read my posts, you may see that I was agreeing with Jeff Lampert, AND Mike Delaney, AND Russ Rickmann. The explanation for Gerald was using the very same terms he was ...

Donny, Keep in mind that Jeff is talking about playing the "four" over a major 7 chord, which in the key of C would be an F and B at the same time. This interval is called a "tritone" (three whole steps) and indeed, there is dissonance there. But players can use this dissonance t...

Donny, In the respones above, those three terms refer to the same thing, that is, the fourth note of the scale. For example, in the key of C, that is F. In the key of C, the #4, is F# (F sharp). A "passing tone" is a chromatic, or non-diatonic tone that moves to, or "resolves" to...

Tony, What you are hearing and sensing is true. Having worked some as a "jazz drummer", I can tell you that jazz playing is a more "elastic" (if you will) way of playing drums, compared to country or rock things. Having said that, acknowledging the difference is not intended here...