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Topic: watching sandy play |
Calvin Walley
From:
colorado city colorado, USA
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Posted 21 Jul 2013 2:05 pm |
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sandy is about 1 1/2 weeks into learning to play the steel . it makes me understand just how far I have come since those 1st days
(not that i'm great)
but its almost painful watching as she struggles with the simple things like playing two strings at once and getting them to sound right ,
then having to jump up or down one string and refinding the strings .
us older pickers often complain that we are having trouble playing this or that,
but what we are mostly complaining about is not being able to get the phrasing right or some thing along those lines .
not the simple things like getting tangled in the strings , looking at our feet , missing the fret . and so on
its so easy for us to forget the newbee's struggle's in the 1st few days of learning
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proud parent of a sailor
Mullen SD-10 /nashville 400
gotta love a Mullen!!!
Guitars that i have owned in order are :
Mullen SD-10,Simmons SD-10,Mullen SD-10,Zum stage one,Carter starter,
Sho-Bud Mavrick |
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 21 Jul 2013 3:27 pm
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Did Sandy already play something else? I only have vague recollection of my premusical life, but my fiancée has started making music, and I get to help her.
GO SANDY!!
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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Calvin Walley
From:
colorado city colorado, USA
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Posted 21 Jul 2013 4:51 pm
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she has never played anything before !!!
if someone that didn't know what was going on walked in and saw her playing
they would think that she was rubbing the cat with her right foot ,
trying to kill a bug with her left foot,
while holding a dime between her knees
scratching her butt with her right hand
and washing a window with her left
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proud parent of a sailor
Mullen SD-10 /nashville 400
gotta love a Mullen!!!
Guitars that i have owned in order are :
Mullen SD-10,Simmons SD-10,Mullen SD-10,Zum stage one,Carter starter,
Sho-Bud Mavrick |
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Scott Duckworth
From:
Etowah, TN Western Foothills of the Smokies
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Posted 21 Jul 2013 5:13 pm
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30 years ago a friend that played pedal steel tried to teach me. His quote "If it don't look like you need to go the bathroom real bad, you ain't doin' it right!"
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I may, in fact, be nuts. However, I am screwed onto the right bolt... Jesus! |
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 21 Jul 2013 5:15 pm
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I cannot fathom that. Thanks to a musical parent, I played mandolin (rhythm, no Sam Bush here) at 5, piano lessons at 7, guitar at 11, Dobro at 15. And pedal steel was an Oedipus¹ at 17
¹I know y'all can get that.
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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Calvin Walley
From:
colorado city colorado, USA
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Posted 21 Jul 2013 5:42 pm
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i'm doing all I can to encourage her ,
its simply amazing how hard the simple things we do and take for granted can be for the 1st time player.
they become 2nd nature to us and we never seem to remember the struggles WE had with them
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proud parent of a sailor
Mullen SD-10 /nashville 400
gotta love a Mullen!!!
Guitars that i have owned in order are :
Mullen SD-10,Simmons SD-10,Mullen SD-10,Zum stage one,Carter starter,
Sho-Bud Mavrick |
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