| Dale Grider |
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Hi Mark,
Looking forward to your return to teach this Summer for week2.
Just wondered if you had any ideas about what you plan to do with your classes this time around? Any tunes or techniques in particular I might sharpen up on? (Last year you focused on your competition version of Alabama Jubilee).
Lots of buzz and excitiment right now on the FlatpickL listserv in anticipaption of a great Kamp 08!
Dale
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| Mark |
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Reply with quote | #2 |
Dale,
I have a couple of original arrangements of mine that I'm going to use as vehicles for teaching the usual suspects. Tone, taste, speed, technique, etc. as well as some standards like Ricketts Hornpipe. You were a pleasure to have as a student last year and I imagine you will be even looser and more relaxed this year. It's the same with everyone. Most of the tension we create ourselves. We're going to have so much fun picking!
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| Dale Grider |
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Predicting nerves and tension are yet somewhat of a mystery to me? I've had times when I was just able to have the most fun and get outside myself. And other times when I felt quite intimidated. Last year at Kamp (as a newbie) I guess there were so many fantastic players and I felt so green at it all as far as flatpciking (I'm 4 1/2 years into it at this point), I didn't feel ready for the main stage. I was proud to have played at Isaacs one night (and Keith Yoder and I did fine on a few of Doc fingerstyle tunes). We'll see how it goes this year, but I have no doubt that however that flies, I'll have all the fun playing I can stand.
As far as techniques go, like most pickers I guess, crosspicking can be a bear when you are trying to get it up to the level of your rhythm or linear picking ability. I've been working on some tunes to help me with that. Most recently I've been working on the "Black and White Rag" which is a delight to play. I heard this on Youtube with Chet and Doc playing together on a TV show (looks like vintage footage from some years back). Chet does B&W Rag fingerstyle and Doc does Ragtime Annie. I fell in love with what Chet was doing but wanted to do it with flatpicking to get some good crosspicking exercise. It's a crosspicking dream. (nightmare???).
There a jillions of patterns of course, but I am trying to focus on that shuffle Doc uses in tunes like Bill Cheatham and Ragtime Annie (like 23212321 etc), the standard forward roll (like Beaumont Rag), and one Steve K uses a lot across adjacent strings (Like if you plucked across 3 2 1 2 3 2 1 2 etc).
Looking forward to seeing you again at Kamp Mark
(and hearing you play again!)
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| mark |
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Reply with quote | #4 |
You too Dale. Will you teach me some of that Chet version of Black And White Rag?
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| Dale Grider |
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Certainly! At this point it is a fairly basic arrangement in G. I've been listening to piano versions and Chet's arrangement seems to leave out an arpeggiated B section that sounds to me like a sort of variation of the A part. I'll be trying to do something with that part between now and Kamp.
If I show you what I've done with the tune EARLY in the week... I bet I might get to hear what it really ought to sound like by the end of the week! It does seem like a tune that would fit your style and that you could really tear into.
Dale
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| Joe McColley |
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Mark,
Enjoyed meeting and picking with you at Kamp. Please contact me by email. I have something for you.
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