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Dan Moslander
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Central California USA
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Posted 16 Jul 2010 9:58 am |
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Do any of you guys know anything about this Jeffran Music(Jeffran College) outfit? Are their courses
worthwhile????? A newbie wants to know????
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The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God" Psa. 14:1
don't have a gear list...I'm broke
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Gary Dunn
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near Camel City, NC
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Posted 16 Jul 2010 10:18 am
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Dan,
Top-noch instruction  It is so good that I been collecting the courses for reference material.
gd
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Dan Moslander
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Central California USA
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Posted 16 Jul 2010 10:27 am Jeffran Music
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Thanks, Gary for the comeback. Appreciate it very much. There is so much 'stuff' out there, I don't want to waste a small fortune finding out....know what I mean?
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The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God" Psa. 14:1
don't have a gear list...I'm broke |
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Will Brown
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Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 16 Jul 2010 11:06 am jeff newman stuff
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| dan some of the best you can get i have all his stuff also look into mike archers stuff also |
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Dan Moslander
From:
Central California USA
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Posted 16 Jul 2010 12:00 pm Jeffran Music
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Thanks for the info, Will. I do have one of Mike's DVDs for beginners. It seems to be very good. I'm going to keep all the info I can get from you guys that have 'been around' for awhile. Appreciate it very much..............Dan
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The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God" Psa. 14:1
don't have a gear list...I'm broke |
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Bryan Daste
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA
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Posted 16 Jul 2010 12:53 pm
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Jeffran is very well established and well respected in the steel community. I'm a big fan of the Right Hand Alpha course!
One nice thing about the forum is that you can probably re-sell and get most of your $$ back if you don't like a particular course (subject to the forum rules, of course - read here: http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=118192 ). Not too much risk involved. |
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Dan Moslander
From:
Central California USA
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Posted 16 Jul 2010 8:42 pm Jeffran Music
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Please delete this post....have all the information I need............thanks
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The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God" Psa. 14:1
don't have a gear list...I'm broke |
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Gary Meyer
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Sacramento, California, USA
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Posted 5 Oct 2010 3:09 pm They are still in business!
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| Jefrran steel guitar insruction co. is still in business. The courses offered are top notch! |
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Andy Sandoval
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Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 5 Oct 2010 10:10 pm
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| You can't go wrong with any of Jeff's courses. |
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Joseph Carlson
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Grass Valley, California, USA
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Posted 6 Oct 2010 7:24 am
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| His stuff is designed to get you up and playing today. He doesn't go into theory too much, which may be good or bad, depending on your view of theory. |
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Bobby Duncan
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Pensacola, FL, USA (these days)
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Posted 6 Oct 2010 9:46 am
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I say Tomato, and you say Potato. I've used Jeff's courses since he started writing articles in Peavey Monitor magazine years ago, which is part of what got me started on Steel in the first place. I think the first one was titled Pedal Steel for Six Stringers. I even spent a week with Jeff 1 on 1 at his Top Gun school for pedal steel and in my personal opinion, he was all about theory.
Jeff's teachings are all about scales, and substituting chords and what you can "get away" with by playing less and making it sound like more. He taught how you could play only 3 chords in a 6 chord song and no one would ever know. He taught it in a way that simplified it, sure, but it is Music Theory all the same. I remember in one of his early articles he closed it by saying "There, I've just cheated some college out of 4 years of Music Theory".
Forgive my pouncing on this but I don't think it's fair to say that Jeff Newman didn't go into theory much. Someone might take offense.
For Dan M. Yes, the courses are very much worthwile, and they always will be.
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Joseph Carlson
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Grass Valley, California, USA
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Posted 7 Oct 2010 8:43 am
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Let's just agree to disagree. I spent 4 years in college studying music theory (both classical and jazz) and I also worked through all of Jeff's C6 material and I stand by my statement.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing - that stuff got me playing C6 on the bandstand in a matter of days - but he doesn't get into the "why" of it as much as the "how" of it. Different strokes, as they say. |
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