Norman Blake and Slow Train Through Georgia
I love this wonderful song off the Whiskey Before Breakfast album. I've got the tab, via the Mel Bay / Steve Kaufman book, and I'd like to learn to play it.From the tab it looks like an alternating...
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Some folks grab a string with a free finger even when "flatpicking." (And some folks use a free finger or two most of the time when also using a flat pick, and I've heard that called "chicken...
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Blake has often said he is a much better fingerpicker than a flatpicker. It sounds fingerpicked to me.Brian
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Nancy Blake's liner notes for the album say that some of the songs are fingerpicked. So, it is plausible.I don't know how to do that fancy chicken-picking stuff, so maybe I'll just try the...
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kmoore4now, Of all the songs on that album, Slow Train is the one I would love to learn, but only if it's fingerpicked as I don't do the little plastic thingy. If you discover it is in fact...
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Hi Tim,I have a copy of a book called: "The Norman Blake Anthology: Deluxe Edition of Original Songs & Tunes by Old Time Country Musician Norman Blake", by Steve Kaufman. The tab for Slow Train is...
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When I sat 10 feet away from Norman some years back when he played it, he was fingerpicking this one. No doubt at all. Trust me - I was watching VERY closely The Tab in "The Norman Blake Anthology"...
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Andy,Thanks a ton! I was hoping someone had seen Norman play the song.Ken
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Well, cool. I flatpick it. I think I do an OK job on it. I will continue to flatpick it. I will NEVER fingerpick this tune (or any other for that matter).
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I agree it can sound great flatpicked... I play it that way too. Fingerpicking is not really my thing at all, but I do adnire anyone who can play both styles at the highest level... a nod towards...
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Hey Ugly,I'm Irish American myself, tempered by 200 years of dirt poor west Tennessee farmers. I'm also mainly a flat picker these days, although I was thinking about making an exception for this...
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I s'pose. I should have a cheap tape recorder buried somewhere amongst all my junk.The way I play it might sound a little sparse when compared to Norman... but then again, there ain't too many Norman...
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Hi Ugly,Don't go to a lot of trouble. I was just thinking maybe you had some MP3s of your stuff, or something like that.So true, Norman is unique. I've been working on little else lately but trying to...
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I don't have any MP3s or anything like that. But I could send you a cassette.Have you seen Norman Blake's Homespun Tape lessons?
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UIA and Ken, Does either of you play the instrumentals on STTG? or the ones on Far Away, Down on a Georgia Farm?. KW
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I've almost learned the simplified version of Whiskey Before Breakfast taught on the first Homespun Norman Blake DVD. I can pretty much play all the notes, but I'm not there yet on making the melody...
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Oh, well... so much for ezboard keeping threads going....I have both of the Norman Blake instruction videos, and he does a good job slowing stuff down and explaining what he's doing. He plays Whiskey...
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Regarding "Slow Train Through Georgia"..... I learned that song many, many years ago from Norman's recording. From the sound of it I'm almost certain Norman uses a thumbpick and 2 metal fingerpicks....
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In that case, I s'pose I'm happy I could more or less replicate it Flatpick Style.I FlatpickTherefore, I am.
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UIA,Thanks for the words of advice. I've been using a practice technique similar to your suggestion for about a month now, and it really does work. I find that I can only get the feel for the bounce...
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