Thanks for bringing Bluegrass standards to the Norwegian Woods!

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I want to use the opportunity to use this first post in the Bluegrasscollege forum to thank all of you guys for giving me such a great tool to learn bluegrass standards from!

Out here where I live there's not to many guys playing these tunes, so I'd have to pick'em note by note from records if I should learn them. For me that would have taken time!
-Also, the possibility to "jam" with the best makes this "College" extraordinary!

While I'm not a member of the bluegrasscollege yet (i will be soon), I'd like to also extend my thanks to you guys for this amazing resource. I'm fortunate to live in an area rich with bluegrass players, but as a recovering guitarist learning to play bass, I was hunting like crazy for something to help me learn to play bluegrass bass so that I might be able to gig with folks. I stumbled onto bluegrasscollege one night and was literally stunned. It was so unexpected and so beautifully executed. It is far and away the best music teaching resource I've ever seen on the net. Many, many thanks.

hi ya'll,

I'm glad to have this in the swamplands of north florida too! I just got done with the dobrosummit in Nashville and am riding high on inspiration. Came home and joined the BGC and have learned Salt Creek (slow and not well but I'm all the way through it) and am starting on EMD. This really is a great resource. Thanks guys! Spent a couple days learning from Rob Ickes and Andy Hall during the summit and am really delighted to be learning from them again! I guess I don't understand how to insert an image yet. Anyone else out there from the summit? I know one dobro player who is!

Barbie

Hi all,
I came across BGC last winter and have found it just terrific! I'm a few years into learning to play dobro, and have found BGC a great help this year! As someone noted, the jam tracks are excellent, letting me "jam with the pros" in a "real" setting (unlike many playalongs that feel like, well, playalongs) These lessons are played with heart and thoughtfully presented as learning tracks highlighting my instrument, with top-notch video as well. I especially appreciate the dobro right-hand closeup videos -- had just come out of Andy Hall's workshop at the Joe Val Festival last Feb where he talked of pick-blocking -- lo and behold, his right-hand closeups show it clearly and at length, in a setting I'm already familiar with (the audio & tab). I'm also back from ResoSummit full of new ideas (now that was a great concept well executed!) Anonymous, I b'leeve you helped me print out my schedule early Thurs afternoon

aw yeah I remember I think! sorry I wasn't trying to be anonymous.. thought I was logged in. Yep I loaned you my jump drive, right? Man that summit was fabulous!!! How'd you know who I was?

Oh I guess my name might give it away. D'oh.

I sure am bad at keeping the strings from muting. I can learn these songs but making them sound unpainful is a different story.

bluefoot wrote: I sure am bad at keeping the strings from muting. I can learn these songs but making them sound unpainful is a different story.

Do you mean "keep from ringing" or "keep from muting"? I had/have trouble with the latter when playing an open string and barring note on next lower string; my left middle finger tends to mute the open string... (maybe we should make a "dobro discussions" topic -- do you see how to make a new topic?)

I'll start a new 'dobro technique' topic...

sorry - not anonymous!!