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  1. KenH

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    Thank you.
     
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    She would definitely be a virtuosic guitarist in a genre you wouldn't like. I don't particularly care for her style either, but she's innovative. Glenn Campbell used Ovations, as I'm sure you know, and Melissa Ethridge. They're not for me, but I appreciate what Ovations are made for
     
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    ^^Sorry above is a double-post^^
     
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    My Blueridge BR-40 is cleaned up, restrung with D’Addario strings, tuned up, and ready to roll.

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    That’s a nice gitfiddle
    Hoping for a video of you playing it by Christmas.

    Rob
     
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    We’ll see. :Thumbsup
     
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    Agreed! It would be nice if he posted a video!
     
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    Here is what I am using to start my learning - 25 disks and a 100 page workbook. It is a quite thorough course. Could easily take a year and a half, maybe even 2 years, to complete. I bought this in 2007.

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    Maybe I can learn to play “What Child Is This?” by Christmas. I love that “Greensleeves” melody.
     
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    Hmmm...I'm a beginner too, I'll try as well.
    Also, great song choice! Greensleeves, an ancient (I think Pre-Norman Saxon) Melody :)
     
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    Nice! also try the free videos Justin Sandercoe posts at ttps://www.justinguitar.com/
    Endorsements by Steve Vai and Mark Knoppfler seal the deal for me ;)
     
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    Ha! Actually, he had an old guitar in the house while I was growing up, but no one ever played it. I actually have a songbook for guitar that he owned, probably going back to the 1930's. So he must have tried playing guitar when he was young. He wrote his songs playing the piano with two fingers, then his son-in-law would do the arrangements. The guitar was something like this Gretsch archtop: Gretsch G9555 New Yorker Archtop - Semi-gloss Vintage Sunburst

    And now, shocking news: John R. Rice liked old time country music (not the new rock type stuff, since he had grown up as a Texas cowboy. In the John R. Rice Papers at Southwestern Seminary is a letter saying he liked Johnny Cash (gasp!).
     
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    Very nice!
     
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    I started playing to follow my brother--who then quit playing. But I took 4 months of lessons from his guitar-playing friend, who asked me to join his rock band and play bass guitar. Who knows where my life would be if I had said yes. :confused:

    I then joined a group called "Up With People" and had to learn to play better real fast. My first church solo with my guitar was "I've Got a Mansion" at age 16--a good song for you beginners.
     
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    Also saw an endorsement by Tommy Emmanuel and there is also a video of Tommy Emmanuel
    playing a Zager guitar on his tour bus on the Zager YouTube channel. Small world.

     
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    Here is one way to flatpick it. Unfortunately, part II of the instructional part requires a membership of $10/month.

     
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    There are lots of beginner courses so I am going to stick to the Krenz course and when I finish it, then I figure the world will be my oyster and I can go foraging for whatever I want to learn. By the way, over the years I have purchased this stack of additional DVDs - so I don’t think I will run out of stuff to learn. :Biggrin

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    EVERYONE who loves American guitar appreciates Johnny Cash.
    I'm 40 years removed from his generation (at least) and a few decades from yours (I'm a gen-xer)
    Johnny Cash was the real deal, his method and style doesn't go away.
    Good music is good music.
    Every generation can appreciate good music. That's why I love music, and also good art.

    It's also the reason that Peter Paul Reubens, Jacques Louis David and Rembrandt are meaningful and Jackson Pollock is a poseur and cad.

    There is an objective reality to that which is beautiful. (I actually believe that that is a Theologically significant point.) Those who appreciate real artistry, be it musical, architectural, in paintings, or in sculpture appreciate good art (or music) and it is timeless.....The generation which crafted it is irrelevant. Beauty, in all it's forms, is an attribute of, and gift of God, and only by drawing closer to Him can we appreciate genuine beauty.

    The arts, in all forms, either celebrate his beauty, or the beauty of the creation he made. There's a Theological significance to the arts in all their forms, music included.
     
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