General Music Chat

no, it's not another "use your other hand..it'll feel like someone else" joke.

jan's got a pretty good right hand.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZwMxS1Ozc0

and he does a pretty good job hanging in there w the gypsy boys but then jimmy rosenberg takes his solo....look out! holy crapola, the right hand on that guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=en ... _JoYs&NR=1

Paul Gilbert or Zack Wylde.
Or someone I don't know about yet.

Keef

Watching him showed me how to play guitar. When I was a struggling bass player trying to figure out how the six string worked - I learned the most important lesson of my life: it's the right hand - not the left.

Ultimately you can train a monkey to make chords - but the music is in the right hand. I learned that from Keith Richard. The guy who made so much out of so little.

Yeah...there are better - but I learned it from the man and he remains my hero to this day.

Mustaine, Zak Wylde et al? Love 'em all. But Keef is the number one.

Listening to his book now - narrated by johnny Depp. (who else could do him justice?)

Talbot

one of my standard lines (used it earlier today in a bass lesson) is that your left hand is the words....the right hand is your voice providing interest, dynamics, texture, nuance and power.

i've got a mando student coming in cpl of hrs and i've tried to explain that to him but he's lacks the confidence to dig in with his right hand.

forget about volume....no way you're ever gonna get any TONE from any acoustic instrument (esp. a mando) if you're afraid to dig in.

one of my standard lines (used it earlier today in a bass lesson) is that your left hand is the words....the right hand is your voice providing interest, dynamics, texture, nuance and power.

Excellent way to parlay it!

i've got a mando student coming in cpl of hrs and i've tried to explain that to him but he's lacks the confidence to dig in with his right hand.forget about volume....no way you're ever gonna get any TONE from any acoustic instrument (esp. a mando) if you're afraid to dig in.

Might wanna check that he's not left handed? Hey, if he is...how come the 'words' still sound right-side up?

Whose right hand would I like to have?


OK, this is creepy but I was in Budapest a couple years ago...at St Ishtavan's Basillica. This guy is who united Buda and Pest in the 12th Century and they still have his right forearm on display in the church. They walk it around the city once a year.

So there is "right hand" immortality for ya.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_I_of_Hungary

Honestly there is so little information on "right" technique that makes any sense to me it would be hard to say for sure.

But when I'm with my lady I prefer . . . my own.

no, it's not another "use your other hand..it'll feel like someone else" joke.

jan's got a pretty good right hand.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZwMxS1Ozc0

and he does a pretty good job hanging in there w the gypsy boys but then jimmy rosenberg takes his solo....look out! holy crapola, the right hand on that guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=en ... _JoYs&NR=1

That Rosenmerg fellow holds his pic and his right hand REALLY reminds me of EVH. Eddie plays right handed very similar!

Might wanna check that he's not left handed? Hey, if he is...how come the 'words' still sound right-side up?

LMAO....uh oh, he's a southpaw!!!!!

jeff, that's interesting that rosenberg's right hand reminds you of EVH. i'll have to check some EVH video. yeah, it's all about the right hand w those gypsy jazz guys and they some interesting "rules".

one of them being you ALWAYS move to another string w a downstroke (for more power) and you use "rest strokes" a lot...like the classical gtr move where your finger moves thru the string you're striking to land on the adjacent one. only you're using a real fat flat pick and doing it w downstrokes.

not to sound cocky, but I would want no hand other than my own.

While my personal style might be odd'ish and most certainly acquired taste at best, the one thing I can say is that it is MY style, and I kinda dig it.

What....I have to pick only ONE????

Too many to choose from and they all have better right hands than me!

How about these two for starters...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUWUTvkR1Ko

I want a monkey paw!

I think you would need more than just someones hand, I mean its kinda attached to a brain, but to me I would think you would want the soul of a player, cause thats where thier sound comes from.

I think I will just stick to the hands that God gave me, and make the best of them!

I am left handed but play right so most everyone has a stronger right hand technique. Jan Akkerman has a good one!