The first song you gave up on?
Moderator: Shoshanah Marohn
-
- Posts: 963
- Joined: 14 Nov 1998 1:01 am
- Location: Verona, Mo. (deceased)
The first song you gave up on?
Can you remember the first song or styles you gave up on because it seemed like it was way beyond your abilities? It has just been lately that I have retried picking some of the oldies but with a new approach. I just put my simple style and get the primary melody with a few comfortable improvising licks and it works for me and the band.
------------------
Rick
Kline U-12, Nashville 112 and 1000, Hilton Volume Pedal
------------------
Rick
Kline U-12, Nashville 112 and 1000, Hilton Volume Pedal
- David L. Donald
- Posts: 13696
- Joined: 17 Feb 2003 1:01 am
- Location: Koh Samui Island, Thailand
- Contact:
-
- Posts: 3421
- Joined: 6 Sep 2002 12:01 am
- Location: Mexico City, Mexico
- Contact:
-
- Restricted
- Posts: 4839
- Joined: 4 Apr 2005 12:01 am
- Location: Seminary, Mississippi, USA (deceased)
- John Daugherty
- Posts: 2188
- Joined: 13 May 2004 12:01 am
- Location: Rolla, Missouri, USA
- Contact:
Billy, my advice is: don't think in terms of "supposed to be". Most of us can't play like Buddy Emmons. Many, including myself, prefer to develop our own unique licks, which we CAN play well.
Why not play an intro that YOU can play well. Believe me, it will sound better than using someones elses intro that you can't play well. Wouldn't it be great to have someone listening to one of your recordings and say "that sounds like Billy Carr"?
------------------
www.home.earthlink.net/~johnd37
Why not play an intro that YOU can play well. Believe me, it will sound better than using someones elses intro that you can't play well. Wouldn't it be great to have someone listening to one of your recordings and say "that sounds like Billy Carr"?
------------------
www.home.earthlink.net/~johnd37
-
- Restricted
- Posts: 4839
- Joined: 4 Apr 2005 12:01 am
- Location: Seminary, Mississippi, USA (deceased)
Well, actually John, I wound up putting my own intro to Four Wheel Drive which is similiar to the original. I think it was probably the phrasing that I had trouble with. I just never have been able to get it in my head but the song itself is easy. I'll probably work on it in the future sometime. I like to learn intros, etc. like this and incorpate some of it into what I play sometimes. I get licks,etc. off of everybody.
- John Daugherty
- Posts: 2188
- Joined: 13 May 2004 12:01 am
- Location: Rolla, Missouri, USA
- Contact:
Yep.... I will never forget the great line I heard that was attributed to B.B. King: "I never could play like anyone else, so I just played like myself".
I had the opportunity to jam with Haggard one night. I was playing steel and Merle was playing my lead guitar. We were going to play an old Bob Wills song. I made a remark like "I'll play the Billy Bowman licks on this and you play like" ....... Merle cut me off short and said "I'll just play like Merle Haggard". ............. JD
------------------
www.home.earthlink.net/~johnd37
I had the opportunity to jam with Haggard one night. I was playing steel and Merle was playing my lead guitar. We were going to play an old Bob Wills song. I made a remark like "I'll play the Billy Bowman licks on this and you play like" ....... Merle cut me off short and said "I'll just play like Merle Haggard". ............. JD
------------------
www.home.earthlink.net/~johnd37
- Roger Rettig
- Posts: 10548
- Joined: 4 Aug 2000 12:01 am
- Location: Naples, FL
- Contact: