Not to be argumentative, but the Gypsy jazz examples you posted were NOT new licks nor new music as that style was developed in the 1930's and has been popular for decades.
Wasn't thinking about that. I was more thinking about the stuff Douglas and Ickes are doing. The Jerry Douglas band is putting out some pretty cutting edge stuff. I used the Gypsy jazz example of someone playing more jazzy stuff on dobro tuning.
And new licks don't really have anything to do with the style of music.
Hold everything!
You mean Bob Dunn gave lessons?
I'm calling Houston right away.... wonder if he does Zoom?
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Not to be argumentative, but the Gypsy jazz examples you posted were NOT new licks nor new music as that style was developed in the 1930's and has been popular for decades.
Wasn't thinking about that. I was more thinking about the stuff Douglas and Ickes are doing. The Jerry Douglas band is putting out some pretty cutting edge stuff. I used the Gypsy jazz example of someone playing more jazzy stuff on dobro tuning.
And new licks don't really have anything to do with the style of music.
Ok, what the guys you mention are doing is quite good!
...Which takes us back to my first post in this thread
There is no tuning that is “bestâ€. The best tuning for any and each of us is the tuning that lets us play the music we want to play.
For me, that’s D6 (Bm7). It gives me easy major blues, minor blues, and blues-rock—which is 99% of what I play.
For Bill M. it’s Dobro open G. For David it’s A6 or C6. For b0b it’s GBDF#AD. Other players; other tunings. We still haven’t heard back from the OP with what his playing expectations are...
.Thanks for all of the members imput.I have been playing open G,classic old country mostly.Just got started playing Open D,nice but i am going to give C6 and A6 a try.A6 looks interesting.Again thanks everyone for your imputs.
Carl
Now have a SX 6 string lap in G,.A Tele plus telecaster, Larrivee acoustic.Also have a Fender resonator guitar with new Quarterman cone and spider,and an Allan tailpiece.Playing through a Fender Super Champ XD,using a little delay on the amp and a Harmonix Holy Grail Echo pedal,set on Hall turned to about 1pm.Just got a Fender Dual 6 Stringmaster style. Bought a Yamaha FGX5 Recently and love it.
If you are now playing G and comfortable with it keep on until the voices urge you to try something different, C6 is much different than G. G is 135135, C6 is135613, much different sounds but I have discovered for myself the C6 is more fun after you start getting used to it. Then look out. you will wantto go 8 string and add the 7. Just let it happen. Mean time lots of good music in G. Playing music is
what it is all about. Can play the same songs in any tuning. Takes time and pracice.
