Looking at Roy Clark

[Larry]

Here's Melanie Faye just fooling around at home. She's only 20 years old but her lyrical style has put her on the A list in Nashville.

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[Doctor Phibes]

Oh, that's really nice. It's so refreshing to see a young kid who's not shredding.

Here's one of my favourite guitarists, Bill Frisell

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[mark]

John Hiland is an awesome player.

Melanie Faye seems to be quite the natural. Excellent "noodling at home".

I will listen to Bill Frisell a little later.

[Axtremus]

@nobodyssock said in Looking at Roy Clark:

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Bravissimmo!!

[Axtremus]

@Larry said in Looking at Roy Clark:

Here's Melanie Faye just fooling around at home. She's only 20 years old but her lyrical style has put her on the A list in Nashville.

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Bellissimo!

@Larry I am not familiar with that piece. Would you mind telling me if she was improvising, playing her own composition, or is it an arrangement of another song? (And there’s an accompaniment track in the background, right?)

[Rainman]

@Axtremus
Seems she was playing along with a bass track, right?

[Klaus]

@Larry said in Looking at Roy Clark:

The auto correct function on this place pisses me off....

This place has no auto correct function. Most likely it is some general auto correct function that is enabled on your particular device (phone?). Next time before you try to piss on this forum, check for headwind first.

[Larry]

@Axtremus said in Looking at Roy Clark:

@Larry said in Looking at Roy Clark:

Here's Melanie Faye just fooling around at home. She's only 20 years old but her lyrical style has put her on the A list in Nashville.

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Bellissimo!

@Larry I am not familiar with that piece. Would you mind telling me if she was improvising, playing her own composition, or is it an arrangement of another song? (And there’s an accompaniment track in the background, right?)

No backing track. After she lays out her theme she does reach down and turn on a little drum machine playing a simple rim tap on one and three, but other than those 2 taps per measure everything else you hear is coming off her guitar. As far as what it is she's playing, I don't know if it's someone else's or not. She's improvising. Lay out a chord progression, go back and establish a melody line, then just play with it.

[Larry]

@Klaus said in Looking at Roy Clark:

@Larry said in Looking at Roy Clark:

The auto correct function on this place pisses me off....

This place has no auto correct function. Most likely it is some general auto correct function that is enabled on your particular device (phone?). Next time before you try to piss on this forum, check for headwind first.

No one tried to "piss on this forum". Pull your panties out of your ass and cool your jets.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Larry said in Looking at Roy Clark:

@Axtremus said in Looking at Roy Clark:

@Larry said in Looking at Roy Clark:

Here's Melanie Faye just fooling around at home. She's only 20 years old but her lyrical style has put her on the A list in Nashville.

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Bellissimo!

@Larry I am not familiar with that piece. Would you mind telling me if she was improvising, playing her own composition, or is it an arrangement of another song? (And there’s an accompaniment track in the background, right?)

No backing track. After she lays out her theme she does reach down and turn on a little drum machine playing a simple rim tap on one and three, but other than those 2 taps per measure everything else you hear is coming off her guitar. As far as what it is she's playing, I don't know if it's someone else's or not. She's improvising. Lay out a chord progression, go back and establish a melody line, then just play with it.

She's using a looper to record the chord progression - and then jamming over the top of it. It's very nice. According to the title, she's covering a Mariah Carey song 'My All', but we shouldn't hold that against her

[Copper]

But can he do it behind his head?

Skip to 2:20

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[Rainman]

Old Doc Phibes:
"She's using a looper to record the chord progression - and then jamming over the top of it. "

I don't see her playing the bass notes, so I assume a looper is a digital tape machine, software?
Not as impressive as the big guy earlier in the thread, but he's got some years on her of course. I couldn't tell if he might be blind, or maybe has lousy vision, he didn't seem to have any need to look at the fretboard.

[Larry]

He can see a little, but he's legally blind.

[Doctor Phibes]

There is something about watching somebody with fantastic technique...

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[Larry]

Might as well toss in Gary Moore, who not only could play a guitar like a madman, but had an iconic voice:

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