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  Phill Hill Charlie October 27, 2014 at 1:08pm

  ...°<[:-) [---]==={...realy good... one very nice voice of the Nation!......°<[:-) [---]==={... 
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  James O Lunsford October 24, 2014 at 10:01pm

  Thanks Jim that's been a dream of mine for a long Time, Glad you Like it and appreciate the comment
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  James O Lunsford October 24, 2014 at 9:59pm

  Thanks Turtlehead I love to Improvise out the spot Keeps my Playing fresh I Try to do it in a fun Way glad so many of you find it entertaining. Thanks Man
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  James O Lunsford October 24, 2014 at 9:54pm

  Thanks Roger Just keeping it real That's the way I love to play Just play it the way you feel.
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  Jim_N October 24, 2014 at 9:48pm

  Simply beautiful. Man, you should have a recording contract!
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  Roger Morin October 24, 2014 at 2:55pm

  Love your style real down to earth and smooth.
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  James O Lunsford October 23, 2014 at 10:38pm

  Nancy as always you inspire us all with your great comment's and picture's . Now send Me that Beautiful Swamp Witch. Oh I know you wouldn't part with it Thanks for Your comment's That was some Great pictures of your Guitar.

    Jason love to hear you play Man sounds Great Thanks for the comment

                         Oh well I recken I've ramble on enough Ya'll keep a play em   See Ya 
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  James O Lunsford October 23, 2014 at 10:29pm

  Thanks Silent Jim for those kind words. I like to keep things simple to used terms and words everyone understands, I  love Cigar Box Guitar there's just something about playing a guitar you Built your self that I find very enjoyable I don't play Because there all I have But because I enjoy it. I also Own some of the Best Guitars in the World , Gibson J50, Gibson Les Paul, Gibson EP Acoustic Electric, Gretsch 5120, Prestege Heritege, And many more, No I'm not rich but been Playing and collecting Guitars over 50 years. Yet I often find My self Playing One of My Cigar box Guitars Just because I Enjoy It So Much. I still remember what it was like when  I first started playing. So I try to keep it simple And help any way I can. It's true I'm Mostly Self Taught Did take music lessons for a while So I understand what Ron was taking About , My goal was to be able to write the music to The songs I white .  Left all that behind many years ago no longer give it much thought as I have never had to Read music to Play anything, as I play by ear Can play anything I hear and want to Play in any key never use a capo Nothing wroung  with That It's a great tool To make things easy just not for Me. I learned Many cord's in My life time and use to Play Many I also learned Many classical Style cord's and played with all My fingers. After I cut My index finger off had to adapt a deferent style playing. I play all Of my Guitars 22 in all and 5 Cigar box Guitars. Thanks Ron for Explaining the Music theory Behind My playing hope it help's someone if they would like to learn it . You did a good job. But I left all this behind many years ago. I just play it the way I like and let it go now days. As I have written several Hundred Songs and seldom play covers.

     Thanks Wes your right many Banjo Players play this style don't play Banjo maybe I ort ta get Me one those things Thanks for the comment Man.

      Papa D I'm glad you enjoy my little old Lessons and appreciate your comments

     Thank you Clock I Sure Like your Slide playing and enjoy your Videos Man

  And Thank you James so glad you like it. If someone who plays as well as you got something out of it , I must have done something right. Thanks Man

    And thanks Uncle John You gave a beautiful explaination of playing Style and adding decoration to the tree, And I Like your chicken picking John style.

   
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  Papa D October 23, 2014 at 1:34am

  Love your song lessons, Keep it up  I enjoy these  Thanx
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  Ron "Oily" Sprague October 22, 2014 at 11:25pm

  He's doing a variation on a 1-2-3-4 rhythm - bum-bum-bum-Bum - which really plays two bass eight notes in the place of the first quarter note - Bum-Bum-bum-bum-Bum. If you watch and listen closely, you can see his forefinger playing the 2nd, then the 3rd, then the 4th (bass) string, while his thumb is actually playing an alternate rhythm on the 4th and 3rd string, and his middle finger finishes off by plucking or flicking - looks like he's doing both - the first string, to complete the arpeggiated chord (arpeggio means "play like a harp" in Italian - standard musical notation uses Italian, for historical reasons, to indicate tempo ("time" or "pace" in Italian), dynamics (really soft = "pianissimo," soft = "piano," medium soft = "mezzo-piano", medium strong or loud = "mezzo-forte," loud = "forte (pronounced for-tay)," really loud = "fortissimo," and so on), and other terms to help musicians translate written notation into musical performance.
  
  When you learn to read written music, you end up learning two or more languages: 1) the language of notes, time signatures, measures, beats, etc.; 2) Italian, or more rarely, German or Spanish, for time, dynamics, and performance signposts; and 3) the musical style, such as blues, ragtime, rock, classical, etc., based on different rhythms, note choices, instrumentation, etc. See, y'all didn't even realize you were learning a new language! ;-)
  
  James is showing y'all an easy, muscularly efficient 2-3 finger style called clawhammer, which is a really natural way to play 3 and 4-stringed instruments, because the fingers bend the right way. It is used a lot by 4-string Dixieland tenor and some bluegrass 5-string banjo players. Classical 6-string guitarists are also taught to use their ring finger, so that the thumb (labeled p for "pulgar" in Spanish) takes care of the bottom 4th, 5th and 6th strings, and the index finger (labeled I for "indice") takes care of the 3rd string, the middle finger (labeled m for "medio") takes care of the 2nd string, and the ring finger (labeled a for "anular" or "anillo," for ring) takes care of plucking the first string. So in Spanish classical notation, the right hand plucking fingers, starting with the thumb, are p-I-m-a, or pima.
  
  Just in case you were wondering...>:-E