Forum Fundraiser (a wild Idea)
Posted: 26 Mar 2000 3:01 pm
Steel guitar (of the non-pedal persuassion) is my hobby. I work in the corporate television business. I've written, produced, directed and/or designed 100's of programs over the last 15 years. Over the past two years or so, I've gotten a tremendous amount of info and ideas from this forum from players of all levels from top pros to hackers, like myself. Well ...I'd been bouncing e-mails back & forth with a fellow forumite this week about doing an instructional video when this idea hit me: why not a collective instructional video by the members of the steel guitar forum? The master tape of which is sold by b0b to help defray the expense of maintaing this valuable resource. Here's the idea:
Any forumite who's interested tapes one or more ideas, technical tips, licks, runs, tunes, etc. using whatever camera they have access to. Each person's taped idea should
be from 30 seconds to no longer than about 5 minutes. These can be taped on either VHS, VHS-C or professional Betacam formats.
I can post a series of technical guidelines for how to shoot these. The idea is not to get professional quality, but watchable video.
Ideas for tips could be for multiple tunings but I propose we restrict the lessons to things that are universal to any and all steel guitars. That means sticking to non-pedal ideas of across no more than 8 strings. There are many great pedal steel instructional videos out there and I don't feel qualified to get into pedal territory. So universal things like pick and palm blocking, thumbpicking, harmonics, scale runs, etc,. make the most sense to me.
You would send me the raw videotapes and I would edit the tapes here in Boston and add graphics making a final tape of 60-90 minutes of steel guitar tips and lessons from forumities. Sort of like the 4-H Club cookbook. Think of all the fantstic players and years of experience we have here!
Here's the deal: everyone who contributes a tape with a lesson also sends a blank VHS and gets a copy of the final, edited program. b0b gets the master tape and gets to sell dubs on the forum. Everyone who takes part would sign a release assigning all rights to b0b.
If this idea flys, we can set up formal guidelines about what to tape and how to do it so that we get consistent lessons.
What do you think?
Any forumite who's interested tapes one or more ideas, technical tips, licks, runs, tunes, etc. using whatever camera they have access to. Each person's taped idea should
be from 30 seconds to no longer than about 5 minutes. These can be taped on either VHS, VHS-C or professional Betacam formats.
I can post a series of technical guidelines for how to shoot these. The idea is not to get professional quality, but watchable video.
Ideas for tips could be for multiple tunings but I propose we restrict the lessons to things that are universal to any and all steel guitars. That means sticking to non-pedal ideas of across no more than 8 strings. There are many great pedal steel instructional videos out there and I don't feel qualified to get into pedal territory. So universal things like pick and palm blocking, thumbpicking, harmonics, scale runs, etc,. make the most sense to me.
You would send me the raw videotapes and I would edit the tapes here in Boston and add graphics making a final tape of 60-90 minutes of steel guitar tips and lessons from forumities. Sort of like the 4-H Club cookbook. Think of all the fantstic players and years of experience we have here!
Here's the deal: everyone who contributes a tape with a lesson also sends a blank VHS and gets a copy of the final, edited program. b0b gets the master tape and gets to sell dubs on the forum. Everyone who takes part would sign a release assigning all rights to b0b.
If this idea flys, we can set up formal guidelines about what to tape and how to do it so that we get consistent lessons.
What do you think?