LessonsWithTroy - Posted - 10/21/2015:  12:11:00

Hey guys, Aron Radford of "The Weissenborn Information Exchange" just put up a full-length interview I did with him. I hope you enjoy it. Here's the link:

theweissenborninformationexcha...2015.html

Edited by - LessonsWithTroy on 10/21/2015 12:11:17

Dave Falk - Posted - 10/21/2015:  14:46:09

What a great interview about Troy! For those of you that have never met Troy, he is a true gentleman. His passion to teach is incredible! You have worked your butt off Troy!

Also a shout out to Aron Radford for this cool website on the Weissenborn.

Congrats Troy!

Rob OPhonic - Posted - 10/21/2015:  19:22:38

Very good interview and very informative. I got some of your lessons to help get started and what I've noticed is that I'm finally using what I've learned when I play w/ my friends. Kee up your fine work,. Hopefully you'll make it back to ResoGathering next year.

Drewboy - Posted - 10/23/2015:  07:47:05

Great interview Troy. Nice to see you getting some well deserved recognition. 

LessonsWithTroy - Posted - 10/23/2015:  14:17:11

Thanks so much guys!!!

kimbro - Posted - 10/23/2015:  17:00:46

I too am really glad to see you getting this recognition Troy. You surely do deserve it . I know you have worked hard to get where you are and I for one am very happy I found your lessons almost 6 years ago now. Man time flies! Nearly everything I've learned on dobro is because of your lessons. Your the best!!

LessonsWithTroy - Posted - 10/23/2015:  20:46:26

You're awesome Kim! I'm so happy to hear your outstanding progress and honored to have helped. Keep jammin' and havin' fun man. You Rock!

countryboy - Posted - 10/24/2015:  07:03:01

Troy, I very much enjoyed your interview. You really deserve the recognition of your help to others. Without your guidance and teaching I would have probably given up on the wonderful Dobro. I still would like to get you down to Florida someday. Thanks for all you do.

jimbob - Posted - 10/27/2015:  18:39:50

Hello Troy,

As others have said the interview was very enjoyable indeed. Thank you also for introducing me to the "Weissenborn Information Exchange" by

Aron Radford.

For me I am still on the sidelines. Time keeps tickin' and we all keep pickin'. 

Regards. Jim.

The following section of the interview was especially educational and duly noted. 

"""What tuning do you advise when starting on the Weissenborn and why? Is this one of the hardest things for Dobro players to get to grips with at first the different tunning?

I really recommend Open D. You really can that low gritty bluesy sound that sounds so awesome on Weissenborn. If you just think about moving anything you've learned on Dobro just down a string, it gets you in the right frame of mind. That doesn't work with every string but you just have to think about the interval relationship of the tuning. Dobro is GBDGBD (Root, 3rd, 5th, Root, 3rd, 5th) Open D Weissenborn is (DADF#AD) (Root, 5th, Root, 3rd, 5th, Root). Notice where your Root, 3rd, 5th is. That's what you really want to focus on. Take shapes on those strings and just match them up to the same intervals of the new tuning. That's what I do for most any tuning I'm doing. I try to find intervals that the tunings have in common and apply shapes that I've learned. """

Edited by - jimbob on 10/27/2015 18:44:44

Jleavitt - Posted - 10/28/2015:  05:00:41

Yet another thing to thank you for Troy. Not only learned more about you and your gifts to us all, but clicking on it led me to Radford's The Weissenborn Information Exchange. What a cool site! You deserve the recognition!