And Tamara again too...
Nick.. email me at
mr.davidhartley@btinternet.com
I always reply. Sometimes a bit delayed cos I am busy..
Charlie Shifflet.. email me too..
I dont very often look at youtube. When I feel like doing something on the steel, I may put the camcorder on and post.
I ALWAYS answer personal youtube messages when I log on..
I love you guys.. (whoops, and Tamara), Can I call you a guy? Ha!
Listen? I have spent hours, and hours, whenever I get a chance to tab, and my tuitional DVD is nearly ready. I think that it may be a very useful teaching DVD. I have been lent, and sent (Thanks Joe Wright), many tuitional DVD's for the PSG. I have watched a few seconds of them, just to see how they are presented. It's not that I dont like them, they have been great. And me trying to be a perfectionist have got ideas from them all. What I didn't want to do is copy any of whats already been done. Listen again? I have learnt the PSG by playing (in my younger days) ALL THE TIME.. Literally, I would get home from a gig at 1.30 or 2 in the morning, and set-up the steel and play. Mainly Lloyd records and Tom Brumleys (Yellow) album with Apple Jack and stuff on.. It is under my PC table here and I cant remember the album. Now, that was LOVE for getting down to learning. I would play until I was probably falling asleep on the thing and my picks were making my finger sore. I remember all this well, as I am still in touch with the girl I was going out with at the time... I must have been a boring boyfriend.. I remember losing the most beautiful girl in my eyes at the time, who I went out with, (you know, the one at school that everyone wanted to be with)!, Just because I was kinda obsessed with playing this thing..
To move on... I am producing a DVD here teaching two songs per DVD. I have thought hard, and harder about how to present this..
Its going to be, HOW I LEARNED.. I will show you stuff thats going on in my head thats probably a NEW way of thinking. ie:- You only need start positions for the key of a song, or rather the start of a lead break, You need to know the numbers 0,3,5,7, 10 and 12 ??. You don't have to remember the key of a song after it has started if you can remember 0, 3, 5, 7 10, and 12. My tuition may be not as written in books, and has been shown on other DVDs or VHS tapes so far.. This is why I am still working on it, and I want to get something that I hope,many of you will all appreciate.
That being said, I really appreciate you guys (Tamara too) ( and thats the last time I am going to say guys unless Tamara want's to accepted as one!)..I have always been open to critisism (is that how you spell it?) .. I DO need your feedback if its no good, if it hasn't taught you anything, if it's too expensive, if its too short, if its ANYTHING really!.. I can only learn from you guys too with your help.
Going back to this thread, yes, it was a bit of a shock to have been slagged off, but I understand, I will never please everyone, (Just look at the gigs, you can not please everyones musical taste)..
I HONESTLY feel a bit wierd in a way? My mate has just returned from Nashville, and asked Lloyd, Paul, Bobbe, if they knew me as I was the one who gives John a weekly lesson etc? And all said yes, of course, .. I feel very honoured I suppose to be part of our steel guitar community. I dont wanna be famous, or be rich even, I just wanna be ME..
Just knowing that PF got a CD from his stool and got my request for his Christmas CD from this forum, is just great,, We all want to be Paul Franklins' dont we? I LOVE you all again..
Right, I hope this long reply to you all is making some sense..
I really cant say my DVD project will be completed as I change things all the while (in my head), so recording snippets, and tabbing gets put back..
I have a sleeve and back done.
Here's a preview..
I usually spell check postings but I am gonna have a kip now, (2 gigs and 4 hours sleep on both nights).so I apologise for any spelling mistakes now..
Here's a preview..
And YES,
The Blame and
Farewell Party is coming too..along with others...BUT
Only if you like the first one!
MANY THANKS FOR ALL OF YOUR REPLIES TO THIS ORIGINAL THREAD... I DO READ THEM ALL..