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Topic: strings 10,8,6 |
Calvin Walley
From:
colorado city colorado, USA
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Posted 20 Aug 2004 8:37 am |
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| i can pick the other string groups ok ie..865 543 but i have the dickens of a time with the unnatural hand position for strings 10 8 6.... any suggestions ?? |
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Jerry Hayes
From:
Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 20 Aug 2004 8:46 am
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Don't worry about it for now.... My hero Ralph Mooney never has...JH
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Livin' in the Past and the Future with a 12 string Mooney Universal tuning.
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Bob Hoffnar
From:
Austin, Tx
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Ray Minich
From:
Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 20 Aug 2004 10:19 am
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When the time for that grip comes in the tune, just look at your thumb & fingers, line them up with the strings, pick the grip, then try to catch up with the rest of the band...
That's how I do it  [This message was edited by Ray Minich on 20 August 2004 at 11:19 AM.] |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 20 Aug 2004 11:16 am
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All you need to do is practice, practice, practice. The 6 8 & 10 string grip is very important for chordal melody.
Erv |
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Calvin Walley
From:
colorado city colorado, USA
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Posted 20 Aug 2004 11:17 am
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| so i take it that i'm not the only one that has this problem ? |
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Terry Sneed
From:
Arkansas,
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Posted 20 Aug 2004 8:30 pm
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Calvin, I use to have the same problem. still miss that group now and then, but not near as much. I practiced on just the 8,6, and 5 group to the 10,8,and 6 group, back and forth from one to the other. repetition is what helped me the most. now I can go from 3,4,5 down to 10,8 and 6 and very seldom miss. you'll get it, it's just like everthing else about playin the steel, lots of practice.
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84 SKH Emmons Legrand D10
session 400'rd Steelin for my Lord.
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Bobby Lee
From:
Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 21 Aug 2004 9:03 am
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| I had the opposite problem. I started out with a pentatonic tuning that had lots of wide grips. When I switched to E9th, the biggest challenge was picking the adjacent string grips 3,4,5 and 4,5,6 cleanly. [This message was edited by Bobby Lee on 21 August 2004 at 10:04 AM.] |
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Jon Light (deceased)
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 21 Aug 2004 9:07 am
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| Be glad you don't play a Universal tuning. Your 10-8-6 is my 9-8-6. Jumping back & forth between 9-8-6 and 8-6-5 is a continual challenge. A work in progress. |
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