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07-31-2016, 02:17 AM
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Travis Picking - FINALLY!
Well....
It finally happened. You know that moment when your kids suddenly learn to ride their bike? From tottering and falling, the pedals start to turn and they're off... Well, I've never been able to GET travis picking. I play DADGAD celtic, Jazz and electric stuff...but have never been able to click with the Chet/Travis/Emmanuel 'boom-chick'... But today, it's finally happened! And nobody in my house could care less...the just don't want to hear 'Baby's Coming Home' for the thousandth time.  So ,I came to the only place where anyone would understand the struggle... Hurrah! Cheers! Next stop - this will be me... D 
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#2
07-31-2016, 03:22 AM
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nice cover of freight train, and great playing!! But as I found out in my other thread on this subject what your doing isn't travis picking. Just fingerpicking / fingerstyle or Chet Atkins style
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07-31-2016, 03:35 AM
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Ha!
Good grief - that's not me! Martin Tallstrom is one of the best pickers in the world... And I don't know who's being nit-picky around here on other threads, is someone spreading an ultra orthodox doctrine of Travis picking as having no melody line or somesuch? An alternating-thumb bass line, with simultaneously played, syncopated chords is travis picking...in my opinion. Sure, Chet embellished on it with melody lines, but 90% of guitarists would recognise what I meant by the term. The point being - I have been playing 'fingerstyle' for ten years or more, and guitar in general for thirty...and play many arrangements - for example I will play Tommy's Angelina, or similar - but have never mastered the Travis style/Chet Atkins picking. And I was sure some here would appreciate my frustration finally ending... D Last edited by DamianL; 07-31-2016 at 04:17 AM.
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07-31-2016, 07:05 AM
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Congrats on your break-through. I learned the style from day one with a Mel Bay Merle Travis style instructional book and a book of chords. That'd be back in 1973. Have fun with it and learn to use it dynamically, IOW, mix it with other patterns and it will wear well with you and your audience.
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07-31-2016, 08:23 AM
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Very cool. Its nice when you have that "moment."
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#6
07-31-2016, 09:20 AM
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Travis picking/alt thumb/pick bass note, whatever, came like candy to me. I will be 200 years old before I play barre chords. 
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07-31-2016, 10:37 AM
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07-31-2016, 11:56 AM
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Last edited by Alex6strings; 08-09-2016 at 03:05 PM.
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07-31-2016, 12:04 PM
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Yes, I couldn't be more chuffed!
Ha... I can play classical pieces etc with a lot of effort, but the finger independence aspect has always been a struggle..and the metronomic rigidity required has been a weakness. I have always loved this piece - Baby's Coming Home...and the desire to play it just overcame my natural laziness! I agree - we should always been trying to improve something in our playing, no matter what level we are at... And he best thing? Having the technique down is now going to open up a whole world of new tunes to learn! I headed straight to Amazon and bought this - https://www.amazon.com/Travis-Pick-H.../dp/0936799307 Mark Hanson is a great teacher and I can't wait to get stuck in! D Last edited by DamianL; 07-31-2016 at 12:37 PM.
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07-31-2016, 12:44 PM
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Last edited by Alex6strings; 08-09-2016 at 03:04 PM.
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08-01-2016, 05:43 AM
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So to say it isn't is being a little too, er, picky.  (IMO)That is, there are various kinds of "fingerstyle" that are worth differentiating. One is what we might call "alternate bass" (or alternate thumb), and that has its own set of variations - arguably less worth differentiating - of which travis picking is one. And this video sounds exactly like that, to my ears.
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