Now the attached lo-fi offering is what I think the back porch is for, since this is definetly a work in progress!
Relatively recently and not without with some encouragemnt our very own dj (moderator) took up lap slide
guitar. Inevitably, if not fatally he contracted the dreaded Casey Bill Weldon virus, so together with what
notes (there's a pun there) I had, we ended up collaborating on the transcription a song or two. It's fair to
say that dj is a more disciplined muscian than I am, so between his precision and my hands-on approach
we have dissected a ton of CB's playing. It was a lot of work and has helped us both, dj's playing is coming
on and for my part I can now visualise what is going on even if I can't allways play it.
All that aside we discovered CB would move\transpose his stock picking patterns, yes picking patterns as
well as licks all over the fretboard. On a 12 bar he wouldn't generally play much more than the I chord and
that it would be left to who ever was backing him to fill in. It was his subtle touch of putting in just one or two
notes that gave the impression he was playing the full sequence as we might generally expect.
If you haven't listened to very much CB, then do so. Admittedly some of his last recordings are a bit samey,
but nevertheless he was an extremely inventive and accurate player, with (as the actress said to the
bishop) an absolutely tremendous trill! and a great singer. On the few numbers that verge towards towards
jazz he really swings proving he was far more than a basic blues merchant.
After that build up, now for the excuses for my poor perfomance so don't get too excited becase my
rendition of this song has several glaring faults. First, I more or less committed to memory the 4 sheets of
dots so it ain't perfect. Then, it's in C (one of his favourite keys) but high for my singing (singing?) and at
times there are a lot of words in those first 4 bars. I've had to add some very al-fresco rhythm to hang it all
together since I don't have any backing. From a technical point of view, CB used a single cone which had a
bit more bite than my tricone and that I do tend to slide between some notes around fret 19 as I can't
always pick them as quickly and cleanly as I should be.
Hopefully we will soon have the CBW fan club established and my thanks to dj for sticking with it, who
know's we might even do some more!
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Relatively recently and not without with some encouragemnt our very own dj (moderator) took up lap slide
guitar. Inevitably, if not fatally he contracted the dreaded Casey Bill Weldon virus, so together with what
notes (there's a pun there) I had, we ended up collaborating on the transcription a song or two. It's fair to
say that dj is a more disciplined muscian than I am, so between his precision and my hands-on approach
we have dissected a ton of CB's playing. It was a lot of work and has helped us both, dj's playing is coming
on and for my part I can now visualise what is going on even if I can't allways play it.
All that aside we discovered CB would move\transpose his stock picking patterns, yes picking patterns as
well as licks all over the fretboard. On a 12 bar he wouldn't generally play much more than the I chord and
that it would be left to who ever was backing him to fill in. It was his subtle touch of putting in just one or two
notes that gave the impression he was playing the full sequence as we might generally expect.
If you haven't listened to very much CB, then do so. Admittedly some of his last recordings are a bit samey,
but nevertheless he was an extremely inventive and accurate player, with (as the actress said to the
bishop) an absolutely tremendous trill! and a great singer. On the few numbers that verge towards towards
jazz he really swings proving he was far more than a basic blues merchant.
After that build up, now for the excuses for my poor perfomance so don't get too excited becase my
rendition of this song has several glaring faults. First, I more or less committed to memory the 4 sheets of
dots so it ain't perfect. Then, it's in C (one of his favourite keys) but high for my singing (singing?) and at
times there are a lot of words in those first 4 bars. I've had to add some very al-fresco rhythm to hang it all
together since I don't have any backing. From a technical point of view, CB used a single cone which had a
bit more bite than my tricone and that I do tend to slide between some notes around fret 19 as I can't
always pick them as quickly and cleanly as I should be.
Hopefully we will soon have the CBW fan club established and my thanks to dj for sticking with it, who
know's we might even do some more!
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