Anyone here play Chet Atkins?

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Anyone here play Chet Atkins?

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Mind telling me how?

I can travis pick alright, but my attempts at Chet sound pretty horrible. And the gear is not to blame :rofl:

I know it's all practice...

Your thumb must pump away... independent of the fingers, said Gautama Buddha.

This course has helped a load, but there is still a huge gap in difficulty going to Chet's actual songs. https://truefire.com/essentials-guitar- ... tyle/c1012

Will report back after another year.

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Nope, not I. In fact my finger picking is pretty woeful really.

You selling the Gretsch? How come?

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IMOCD wrote: Tue Feb 02, 2021 3:27 pm Nope, not I. In fact my finger picking is pretty woeful really.

You selling the Gretsch? How come?
Bah, I duno. Wanted to 'upgrade'... or did I (manic episode, mental health not so good these days), lucky for me it's a bit of a niche hard sell :mental: It did result in a roland jazz chorus which I love (till that princeton reverb came up for sale...) :rofl: and my mate brought around his geets during a hang and I realised how much I like filtertrons again.



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I love his mr sandman
Learnt it years ago when I had a Gretsch

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Little bit! Try Jam Man if you haven't already - easy enough Chet song.

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telefiend wrote: Tue Feb 02, 2021 5:39 pm Little bit! Try Jam Man if you haven't already - easy enough Chet song.
Is that the bluesy one with all the bends???

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quyet wrote: Tue Feb 02, 2021 6:47 pm
telefiend wrote: Tue Feb 02, 2021 5:39 pm Little bit! Try Jam Man if you haven't already - easy enough Chet song.
Is that the bluesy one with all the bends???
Nah I think it was in car commercials :lol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad6CHpiU6IU

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Cool... ima try learn mr sandman. Need a better thumb pick tho. I have a planetwaves and it's nasty. Any recommendations?

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D'Andrea is the best I've found so far, but it still leaves a lot to be desired

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Gah! My thumbpick is only good for downstrokes... is that normal? Watched a couple youtoobs... and I suspect they only downstroke the bass notes in Travis picking? The plectrum in me rebels against this.

Is there a thumbpick designed for alterate directions? Or should I just man up? 😆

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the boom-chick basslines are all downstrokes, but they also embellish with some alternate picking here and there, yeah

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbuA677sRbk&t

doesn't look like there's a single thumb upstroke in mr sandman

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Cdog wrote: Mon Feb 08, 2021 7:06 am Gah! My thumbpick is only good for downstrokes... is that normal? Watched a couple youtoobs... and I suspect they only downstroke the bass notes in Travis picking? The plectrum in me rebels against this.

Is there a thumbpick designed for alterate directions? Or should I just man up? 😆
I have used Dunlop, Planet Waves, Acri pro and many others over the years. Currently running Fred Kelly Bumblebees, you can up pick very easy, just grab like a flatpick.

https://www.amazon.com/Fred-Kelly-Picks ... 145&sr=8-1

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k1w1 wrote: Thu Feb 11, 2021 8:11 pm
Cdog wrote: Mon Feb 08, 2021 7:06 am Gah! My thumbpick is only good for downstrokes... is that normal? Watched a couple youtoobs... and I suspect they only downstroke the bass notes in Travis picking? The plectrum in me rebels against this.

Is there a thumbpick designed for alterate directions? Or should I just man up? 😆
I have used Dunlop, Planet Waves, Acri pro and many others over the years. Currently running Fred Kelly Bumblebees, you can up pick very easy, just grab like a flatpick.

https://www.amazon.com/Fred-Kelly-Picks ... 17&sr=8-12#
Those look a lot like the pick clip: https://guitarpedalshoppe.com/index.php ... -Pick-Clip
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