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I play the chello and dabble with the violin.
For true?
Oh my, I would kill for that oh don't give up on either.
I used to dabble with violin, aiming at the Cape Breton thing and playing with a Scottish ensemble. Then I went to Festival International in Lafayette (a festival I try not to miss every year) and saw several adolescent girls from the Maritimes doing things with the instrument that humans just should not be able to do. At that point I hung it up.
Shortly later the jug band came recruiting, knowing that I owned, but did not play, a violin. Apparently that was exactly the sound they were looking for. And so we went. It was a gas.
For true?
Oh my, I would kill for that oh don't give up on either.
I used to dabble with violin, aiming at the Cape Breton thing and playing with a Scottish ensemble. Then I went to Festival International in Lafayette (a festival I try not to miss every year) and saw several adolescent girls from the Maritimes doing things with the instrument that humans just should not be able to do. At that point I hung it up.
Shortly later the jug band came recruiting, knowing that I owned, but did not play, a violin. Apparently that was exactly the sound they were looking for. And so we went. It was a gas.
the Rankins harmonies were beautiful. Don't mock them please dear hearts at large. They have just endured two deaths.
I just make people famous. Well in the old days. My perfect past. What a funny thread to fall in to.
This could be fun. Because I am for real.
go pass out, you drunken fuckwit.
I am teaching myself how to play guitar. I picked up a pretty nice used Ibanez acoustic
I also want to learn to play the harmonica.
Learn the Blues first, everything else and your own style will follow naturally. Not just I-IV-V either, go back and listen to all the great acoustic blues masters from the 30's 40's and 50's and even the 60's.I am teaching myself how to play guitar. I picked up a pretty nice used Ibanez acoustic
I also want to learn to play the harmonica.
Whatta you play? And what kind of music do you attempt on it?
Learn the Blues first, everything else and your own style will follow naturally. Not just I-IV-V either, go back and listen to all the great acoustic blues masters from the 30's 40's and 50's and even the 60's.I am teaching myself how to play guitar. I picked up a pretty nice used Ibanez acoustic
I also want to learn to play the harmonica.
Rev. Gary Davis
Lightnin' Hopkins
Elizabeth Cotten
Mississippi John Hurt
Mance Lipscombe
And of course Robert Johnson!
Add some drums and you got Fusion.I used to dabble with violin, aiming at the Cape Breton thing and playing with a Scottish ensemble. Then I went to Festival International in Lafayette (a festival I try not to miss every year) and saw several adolescent girls from the Maritimes doing things with the instrument that humans just should not be able to do. At that point I hung it up.
Shortly later the jug band came recruiting, knowing that I owned, but did not play, a violin. Apparently that was exactly the sound they were looking for. And so we went. It was a gas.
the Rankins harmonies were beautiful. Don't mock them please dear hearts at large. They have just endured two deaths.
Rakins? I never mentioned the Rankins Them's pop music.
By Cape Breton music I mean more like this...
-- usually one violin with a piano but this is the feel. The real deal.
I've been playing guitar since H.S. but I can't seem to play AND sing at the same time. I can do a pretty much dead on Stevie Ray Vaughn impression though.
Add some drums and you got Fusion.the Rankins harmonies were beautiful. Don't mock them please dear hearts at large. They have just endured two deaths.
Rakins? I never mentioned the Rankins Them's pop music.
By Cape Breton music I mean more like this...
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-- usually one violin with a piano but this is the feel. The real deal.
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Yeah, sort of. I get that he's doing kind of a faux-Celtic but Ponty's usually associated more with jazz.
Many of the Canadian Celtic artists I like succumb to what I call "Canadian disease" -- insisting on putting the violin in front of drums and electric bass, which to my ear does nothing but get in the way. It's a mix like oil and water. This is the most primal soulful music I know of that doesn't come from Africa, so I like to feel it stripped down to its raw humanity.
One of my favourite violinists is guilty of Canadian disease in her recent career, but you have to wonder why it's necessary when you see her in acoustic mode -- this is Dominique Dupuis, from Miramichi in northern New Brunswick... when I first saw here she was fourteen and literally made me just hang up the instrument in awe:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg0zjlHmWXM]Dominique Dupuis - Festival Interceltique de Lorient 2010 - YouTube[/ame]