Re: Help for beginners
Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 11:25 pm
Norm
I enjoy all of your post post and insights. I just felt I was being unfairly profiled on that one. I really use to get aggravated being around some within the Classical guitar community and that attitude some would have. I remember one of those guys telling me that Chet was not a "real" guitarist one time. I few months later this guy had scanned copies of of some of the music from John Knowles book "Chet Atkins goes to the Movies." He said "they were some clever arrangements he could use at his gigs. I have read some second hand sources about some of the things Segovia said about Chet and don't know if they were true or not but I have never had any respect for Segovia for that reason (I am sure that is unfair). I do have a lot of admiration for many classical guitarist particularly Julian Bream.
I didn't mean to imply that anchoring, planting or lightly touching the pickguard is a bad thing. Sometimes If I start holding my thumbpick like a straight pick I actually will plant my pinkie as well. I just cannot do it If I am fingerpicking. Whatever Chet did It really worked well for him.
I enjoy all of your post post and insights. I just felt I was being unfairly profiled on that one. I really use to get aggravated being around some within the Classical guitar community and that attitude some would have. I remember one of those guys telling me that Chet was not a "real" guitarist one time. I few months later this guy had scanned copies of of some of the music from John Knowles book "Chet Atkins goes to the Movies." He said "they were some clever arrangements he could use at his gigs. I have read some second hand sources about some of the things Segovia said about Chet and don't know if they were true or not but I have never had any respect for Segovia for that reason (I am sure that is unfair). I do have a lot of admiration for many classical guitarist particularly Julian Bream.
I didn't mean to imply that anchoring, planting or lightly touching the pickguard is a bad thing. Sometimes If I start holding my thumbpick like a straight pick I actually will plant my pinkie as well. I just cannot do it If I am fingerpicking. Whatever Chet did It really worked well for him.