Here's the link to a You Tube clip of my Weissenborn version of Nothing But the Blood with a full band. This was shot at a benefit concert that I did with some friends of mine recently. Anyway, up until that point I had never played this song with a bluegrass band before and I was really pleased with the way that it all came together. I'm not sure what to call this style of music but I hope you guys like it. I felt honored to play with these guys - they're all great musicians!
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 | Bob Blair says:
12/7/2012 1:56:17 PM
Rob - that was great.
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 | Tom_Noe says:
12/7/2012 2:43:44 PM
Thanks for link, Rob. I enjoyed it!
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| Bob Blair says:
12/8/2012 8:16:27 AM
Rob were you using a Sunrise pickup there?
I think that "Tunes that Sound Great on A Weissenborn" is a musical style!
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RobA says:
12/8/2012 9:49:27 AM
Yes I used the Sunrise. The audio quality would have been better by the time we did our sound check they ran out of inputs on the board so they just stuck a microphone in front of my little Fishman amplifier. Anyway, thanks for the nice comments fellas, I appreciate it!
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 | Liz Williams says:
12/8/2012 11:05:51 AM
Rob, beautiful playing and singing. Pure pleasure to listen to. Thanks for posting the link. (Sorry I didn't get here quicker to remove your double post sooner.)
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x says:
12/8/2012 12:20:53 PM
Very nice.
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 | Karl Rabe says:
12/9/2012 3:02:33 AM
Cool playing!
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 | jacknj says:
12/9/2012 12:03:55 PM
Thoroughly enjoyed your playing along with the whole band. It looks like you're using the Perfect Touch fingerpicks? How do they compare to others you've used?
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| Bob Blair says:
12/9/2012 2:42:02 PM
I thought they looked like Acri picks, which is what I've been using for dobro and Weissenborn (they don't feel right to me on pedal steel for some reasons). I like them because they are comfortable and because I've always liked picks that were on the heavy side. Rob?
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RobA says:
12/9/2012 7:46:51 PM
They are Perfect Touch fingerpicks. I used Dunlops for many years and I used to have to take them off between songs just to get some blood circulating in my fingertips. The perfect touch fingerpicks provide a much better fit which is secure without being too tight. I like them the best of any fingerpicks I've tried so far...
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| jacknj says:
12/10/2012 6:46:48 AM
Thanks for the info. Rob. I've been using single and double wrap Pro Piks for awhile, but between sometimes catching the wrap on a string and the numbness felt after playing a bit, it's time for a change. I also noticed you using pick blocking in your playing. Is that something you use on reso also? I've been incorporating it into my playing more because it's carrying over from pedal steel technique which is somewhat new for me because I learned palm blocking originally. That being said, I usually play the weissenborn sans picks, and practice reso often without them too.
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RobA says:
12/10/2012 7:32:58 AM
Hey Jack:
Yes I use pick blocking pretty extensively on reso and Weissenborn. I taught myself to pick block without really knowing what I was doing. I didn't even know I was doing it until I took a lesson from Sally Van Meter and she pointed it out to me. My palm muting skills are nonexistent! I really suck at palm muting and rely on pick blocking probably more than I should!
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| jacknj says:
12/10/2012 8:29:03 AM
The palm blocking method is somewhat difficult to understand at first just as pick blocking is. Palm blocking is a little better IMHO when using two and three string grips especially on pedal steel. The idea is pick a note or notes and let them ring for whatever duration, and then drop your palm edge down just before you pick the next note(s). So it's not pick then mute, but mute and pick if that makes any sense. I end up using both muting styles on pedal steel. On reso and weissenborn, I use everything at my disposal, with a lot of the tip of my ring finger.
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 | Randy H says:
12/27/2012 8:38:50 AM
Rob, this is very late coming, your link for this song didn't work for me so very later in life I went hunting on the tube and found it. A very good job by you and everyone else in the band. This song has special meaning to me and it is on my bucket list of songs to learn to play in church for special music. I like both versions BTW.
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| Randy H says:
12/27/2012 8:39:24 AM
Rob, this is very late coming, your link for this song didn't work for me so very later in life I went hunting on the tube and found it. A very good job by you and everyone else in the band. This song has special meaning to me and it is on my bucket list of songs to learn to play in church for special music. I like both versions BTW.
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| Randy H says:
12/27/2012 8:40:57 AM
Now I understand how people can double-post, cuz I just did it.
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RobA says:
12/27/2012 5:20:38 PM
Thanks Randy! There are a lot of wonderful gospel songs just waiting to be arranged for the Weissenborn! Glad you enjoyed my arrangement of Nothing But the Blood!
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| Bob Blair says:
12/28/2012 8:17:17 AM
Rob, I have found myself often playing anglican (episcopalian) hymns I remember from when I used to attend (not willingly, I confess) chapel at a school I went to, as well as some of the classic gospel numbers. Great melodies. Here's a medley I just recorded with the Zoom H2n that was in my stocking.
soundcloud.com/bob-blair2/hymn-medley
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RobA says:
12/28/2012 8:46:08 AM
some great stuff in there Bob, thanks for posting! What are the names of the tunes?
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| Bob Blair says:
12/28/2012 8:56:54 AM
The first one is to me the most memorable and is called "To Be a Pilgrim" or sometimes "He Who would Valiant Be" and the lyrics are credited to John Bunyan as they were taken from "Pilgrim's Progress" It was substantially modified for inclusion in the English Hymnal in 1906 - according to Wikipedia Vaughn Williams gave it the tune, which he borrowed from a traditional tune called "Monk's Gate". Remember the movie "If"? I seem to recall that the students were singing it in chapel, which made me laugh because at the school I attended we also sang it, and the schools were not entirely dissimilar! The second one is called "Eternal Father Strong to Save" but also often referred to as "Those in Peril on the Sea" (I may have monkeyed with the tune a tiny bit to make it manageable on the D tuning, but it is how I remember it) . And the last one is "Faith of our Fathers".
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