From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V9 #52 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Wednesday, April 11 2007 Volume 09 : Number 052 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Re: the guitar playing [Em ] [RS] guitar [Jim Colbert ] [RS] Re: the guitar playing [Jean Rossner ] Re: [RS] Re: the guitar playing [=?ISO-8859-1?Q?john_cl=E9irigh?= Subject: [RS] Re: the guitar playing John wrote: "I hear it, I've watched him closely live, and now on this Youtube video, I hear 2-3 different, individual notes at certain point in the song, but I see only one strumming movement." wow, funny you mention that. OK good, so I know its not just me! I was looking at those YouTube vids thinking, well, ok it a 6 string guitar, and hmmmm, *might* there be another guy playing back up? couldn't see anyone... and for all the world it appears to the eye like he's just strumming. In a muscular and very expert fashion of course, but still, no fancy stuff...and yet like you mention, all these detail notes. Think maybe he deadens some of the strings? anyway, I'm trying to get back into playing, so I think about these things too. see ya Em ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:24:31 -0400 From: Jim Colbert Subject: [RS] guitar What's always impressed me is how Richard's picking can be so fluid... a part you'd swear on disc is fingerpicked, you watch live and he's flatpicking. Smooth and flowing. Course, then another time you'll see him and he IS fingerpicking, but yeah- I think because he favors substance and solid accompaniment over flash, he's sometimes underrated as a guitar player by those who haven't taken time to really pay attention. - -jim, somewhere near I-80 On Apr 10, 2007, at 4:55 AM, shindell-list-digest wrote: > I guess the hand is quicker than the > eye. Any of you guitarists out there similarly puzzled, or am I just > pathetically underskilled?? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:43:37 -0400 From: Jean Rossner Subject: [RS] Re: the guitar playing Em and John-- Are you familiar with Chris Smither? He does something like this. I don't play, so I couldn't tell you what it is, but it sounds like he's finger-picking melody and strumming harmony at the same time. Or something. (And terrific, intelligent lyrics too.) Jean - -- Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge With-inne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so. - Chaucer, "Troilus and Criseyde" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:58:59 -0600 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?john_cl=E9irigh?= Subject: Re: [RS] Re: the guitar playing If you watch Richard's left hand, you'll see a fair amount of hammers and pulls that don't sync with his strums, especially obvious to me during flourishes and embellishments. He fits in extra notes in that way, in addition to the right handed slight-of-hand. He is amazing. Em wrote: wow, funny you mention that. OK good, so I know its not just me! I was looking at those YouTube vids thinking, well, ok it a 6 string guitar, and hmmmm, *might* there be another guy playing back up? couldn't see anyone... and for all the world it appears to the eye like he's just strumming. In a muscular and very expert fashion of course, but still, no fancy stuff...and yet like you mention, all these detail notes. Think maybe he deadens some of the strings? anyway, I'm trying to get back into playing, so I think about these things too. see ya Em - -- John Cleirigh | Boulder, CO | 303/590.4290http://johncleirigh.com/ | http://myspace.com/johncleirigh ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:52:45 -0400 From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: [RS] Deportee. Interesting article about the "Deportee" tragedy . . . http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/Deportee_1948_crash.htm RG ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V9 #52 **********************************