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Topic: Brent Mason video clip - wow! |
Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 11 Dec 2002 1:00 pm |
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Mind boggling Tele playing from Brent Mason here - the entire song "Hot Wired". I think I'll just leave my Tele in its case.
http://www.brentmason.com/broadband/video/index.html [This message was edited by Andy Volk on 11 December 2002 at 01:28 PM.] |
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Tom Olson
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Spokane, WA
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Posted 11 Dec 2002 4:47 pm
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| It's hard to tell for sure, but it appears that he's using a thumb pick -- interesting. |
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Jim Smith
From:
Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 11 Dec 2002 6:09 pm
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| It looks like he's using a thumb pick to me. |
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Ken Lang
From:
Simi Valley, Ca
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Posted 11 Dec 2002 8:40 pm
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With the player that comes up, using the arrows on the right side, you can stop the action and go thru the video (no sound) frame by frame.
He is making use of all his fingers as well as thumbpick. I think I saw a quick foot slide in there as well while he was dancing around.
That boy sure can pick. |
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Tom Olson
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Spokane, WA
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Posted 11 Dec 2002 9:27 pm
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| It's interesting to me how different players have different picking techniques. I believe that Jerry Reed also uses a thumb pick and maybe a finger pick, but I'm not sure about the finger pick. I think I read that James Burton uses a regular flat pick and one metal finger pick on his middle finger. Jerry Donahue uses just a flat pick and bare fingers. So, I guess there's a bit of everything out there. They all sound good. [This message was edited by Tom Olson on 11 December 2002 at 09:29 PM.] |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 12 Dec 2002 1:54 am
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YEAH ! What a Picker He IS !!! 
thanx for the link Andy.
i'll keep on Pickin' nevertheless  |
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John P. Phillips
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Folkston, Ga. U.S.A., R.I.P.
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Posted 12 Dec 2002 4:43 am
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WOW!! Thanks Andy, now 'scuse me while I put my socks back on ! lol
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JUST 'CAUSE I STEEL, DON'T MAKE ME A THIEF
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Jerry Hayes
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Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 12 Dec 2002 7:55 am
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Brent Mason uses a thumbpick and acrylic nails on his middle and ring finger which he uses for the majority of his playing. On fast runs he rotates between the thumb, middle, thumb, ring, fingers etc. The 1st finger of his right hand has the nail cut all the way back which he uses to get that meaty funky sound where you get under the string and pop it. He demonstrated his techniques on his Hot Licks Video instruction tape of which I have a copy. He has mastered the use of fingers with a thumbpick to get a flat picking style down. This man can play faster and cleaner than any flat picker I've ever heard. On the end of his video he breaks out a Gibson L-5 (I think) and proceeds to run through some lightning fast Jazz scales using the same technique. Although he's a short dude, In my humble opinion he's head and shoulders above every guitar picker in Nashville or anywhere else. The the undisputed king of strings in Music City..........JH
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Livin' in the Past and the Future with a 12 string Mooney Universal tuning.
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Larry Bell
From:
Englewood, Florida
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Posted 16 Dec 2002 1:33 pm
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kinda reminds me of the rh position Buddy uses, crosspicking with thumb and middle -- but Buddy uses the index finger more. I didn't see BM use his index finger in the entire clip . . .
MONSTER PICKER, no doubt
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Larry Bell - email: larry@larrybell.org - gigs - Home Page
2000 Fessenden S-12 8x8, 1969 Emmons S-12 6x6, 1971 Dobro |
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Peter
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Posted 18 Dec 2002 10:42 am
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Thats awesome! Is there any TAB or mp3 like this for PSG? I mean similar style, not neccessarily THIS tune.
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Peter den Hartogh-Fender Artist S10-Remington U12-Hilton Volume Pedal-Gibson BR4 lapsteel-Guya "Stringmaster" Copy-MusicMan112RP-Peavy Rage158- - My Animation College in South Africa
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