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Posted: 27 Jul 2002 6:10 pm
by Boo Bernstein
I know this lick, however, I can't seem to find a real comfortable way to pick it -- if you do thumb, finger, thumb (cross over) the thumb is hitting the 6th string before sliding down and it doesn't feel comfortable. I would like to hear how others play this. Thanks, Boo
Posted: 27 Jul 2002 9:09 pm
by Reggie Duncan
Just thumb and index finger, no crossover.
Posted: 28 Jul 2002 5:59 am
by chris ivey
...now try to run it continually through a whole fiddle tune with key changes, crazy progression and 200 miles an hour with no glitch like weldon did every night live at the opry........very underrated picker....he needs to know he influenced me as much as any steel god!
Posted: 28 Jul 2002 6:57 am
by Larry Bell
chris -- ME TOO. Weldon is great. And, as someone mentioned, he uses it on both necks. We universal players understand that the A to Bb lever on C6 is the same function as the B pedal on E9, when playing out of the F9 position with P6 engaged. Well . . . there it is.
Reggie,
We may be hung up in terminology, but there is what I call crossover (TFT) on it -- rapid fire forward pattern on the 7th, 6th, 5th strings where the thumb crosses over the finger. Weldon plays it TMT. I play it TIT, but I'll bet Joe Wright would play it TIM. Whatever floats yer boat, as long as it comes out clean.
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Posted: 29 Jul 2002 5:38 am
by Joe Casey
I have a copy off Weldons "Love is a bottle of wine "Break. also a copy of Smiley doing it on a Live T.O show. Smiley nailed it note fer note.
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