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Topic: Instructional Course for Chicken Pickin?
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Gene H. Brown
Member From: Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada
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posted 30 August 2004 06:24 PM
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Does anyone know where to find an instructional course on Chicken Pickin? I see all kinds of courses on the forum and elsewhere, but I don't see anything mentioned in those courses about Chicken Pickin. If you can help, it would be appreciated very much.
Thanks
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Leon Eneboe
Member From: Sisseton, South Dakota, USA
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posted 30 August 2004 06:58 PM
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Wally Moyers, Classic Pedal Steel Licks of the l970s (video)WM-98l-30 has a section on "Chicken Picken". It is a fairly short segment, but, he gives you what you need to get a good start at it. Check the web pages of some of the PSG stores, I have a copy and have seen it mentioned on one or two web pages. I hope this helps you.
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Clark Frady
Member From: West Columbia, S. C.
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posted 30 August 2004 08:05 PM
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Funny that you mentioned Chicken Pickin', the other day I was at a store and saw a HOW TO book on Chicken Pickin'. I do not remember which store, but, it couldn't be but three stores that I went into. I will check (call) a few stores and see which one had it and see how much it costs. A friend of mine plays the chicken Pickin' on a Telecaster and it sounds awesome when he plays. Be back in touch...------------------
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Gene H. Brown
Member From: Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada
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posted 30 August 2004 08:29 PM
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Thanks for your reply guys, I know how to do some chicken pickin, but I would really like to learn some good tasty stuff from some of the best pickers if possible.
I would be willing to buy a video instruction tape if it was by a name artist and if it dealt mostly with chicken pickin.
Gene |
Richard Gonzales
Member From: FITCHBURG,MA USA
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posted 31 August 2004 04:57 AM
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Okay guys. my wife picks chicken at the store. What is the chicken picken you are refering too? What is the concept in a few words.
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Frank Parish
Member From: Nashville,Tn. USA
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posted 31 August 2004 05:07 AM
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Richard,
That would be the "I pick kit and you eat it" method I think you're referring to! |
Joey Ace
Sysop From: Southern Ontario, Canada
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posted 31 August 2004 08:47 AM
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Please provide an example of what you call "Chicken Pickin" on Steel.I know the term as applied to Tele, where the string gets snapped into the fretboard.
The Steel term has to be different. Do you mean staccato notes, quick and short, as in Lloyd's work in Warner Mack's "Bridge Washed Out"? Maybe cite some examples at "Rebel and Ricky's" site that we can listen to.
http://users.interlinks.net/rebel/steel/steel.html |
Hook Moore
Member From: South Charleston,West Virginia
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posted 31 August 2004 11:17 AM
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Russ Hicks and Jimmy Crawford had an album in the 70`s called chicken pick`n..None better to get advice on that subject than those guys.
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Larry R
Member From: Navasota, Tx.
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posted 31 August 2004 11:30 AM
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Gee, I'm glad I don't have to describe the Chicken Picken on steel. |
Gene H. Brown
Member From: Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada
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posted 31 August 2004 01:15 PM
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Well....let me see, I'll try and describe it the best I know how.Weldon Myrick did some a the Area Code 615 CD on a song called Wellephant Walk, Lloyd Green did some on the Bridge Washed out and so on. I just need to find a certain technique and way of playing it. I guess you would call it staccato in some places, Joey. I've always been told it was called chicken pickin and I don't know any other name for it, maybe someone else does. Like I said , I would be glad to pay for a course if someone knows of one, and yes Jimmy Crawford does this style also, this is a real kick a$$ way of playing up tempo songs.
Thanks for the help guys.
Gene[This message was edited by Gene H. Brown on 31 August 2004 at 01:16 PM.] [This message was edited by Gene H. Brown on 31 August 2004 at 01:17 PM.] |
Charles Turpin
Member From: Mexico, Missouri, USA
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posted 31 August 2004 01:32 PM
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Gene i chicken picked for a long time on the guitar and i transfered it over to the steel when i switched. When i was taught to play back in the 60s we never new what a flat pick was so we all inherited a thing Joe Wright calls a close roll. Where you pick more than one note on one string.mute the strings with the Palm of your hand and pick three notes together in a country sixteenth note rhythm. Then Let the fourth note sound. It kind of sounded like a chicken scratch. A friend of mine even played a song that all it was, was different chicken clucks rhytmns. called the Chicken scratch. We had a ball with it all the dances. I am like you there is so many different Chicken picken ideas. All the way from Chet Atkins," Yakety Axe" right on down. There should be a course on it. ------------------
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Dave Burr
Member From: Tyler, TX
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posted 31 August 2004 02:42 PM
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I suspect this is an example of what you are talking about (Weldon Myrick playing on Charlie McCoy's vesion of Rocky Top): http://users.interlinks.net/rebel/steel/rockytop.mp3
I'm guessing that using the proper "blocking" technique is particularly important in achieving the desired results.
Respectfully,
Dave Burr[This message was edited by Dave Burr on 31 August 2004 at 02:51 PM.]
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Terry Sneed
Member From: El Dorado, Arkansas, USA
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posted 31 August 2004 04:48 PM
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That's what I call chicken pickin!!
I didn't know it had a name till I saw it mentioned on this forum. I was playin a fast song in church several years ago with a lot of finger blockin, and when the song was over the bass player said I like that! kinda sounds like a chicken. I didn't know whether to thank him or sock him in the nose.  
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Joey Ace
Sysop From: Southern Ontario, Canada
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posted 31 August 2004 06:57 PM
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Nothing like starting a fist fight in church, Terry!  You might just be a RedNeck if... |
Terry Sneed
Member From: El Dorado, Arkansas, USA
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posted 01 September 2004 09:00 AM
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I wouldn't really have socked him in the nose Joey, I'z just kiddin bout that.
I'd waited till we got outside. ------------------
84 SKH Emmons Legrand D10
session 400'rd Steelin for my Lord.
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Bob Leaman
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posted 01 September 2004 10:20 AM
I learned to pick chickens from my grandmother. When I was older, a lovely neighbor girl taught me how to be a "Pheasant Plucker." Guitar playing came later. |
Leon Eneboe
Member From: Sisseton, South Dakota, USA
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posted 01 September 2004 06:03 PM
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Hello again Gene;Yes the song "Rocky Top", certainly has some great, rapid fire, stuccato, chicken pickin. What you would find, if you were to have an opportunity to look at and listen to the Wally Moyer video that I mentioned, is an example of some pretty snappy "stuff" too. In that course, Wally demonstrates chicken pickin that not only involves quickness, good blocking, but also he uses some muting and timing technique
so that some of the notes pop and some of them ring clear. (This is hard to describe). I am just starting to work on this course myself and it is not coming fast or easy but I want it. Anyway...you asked if there was such a course, and Wally Moyer gives about l5 minutes worth of video along with tab on "chicken pickin". I think that learning to "chicken pick" (like most of the PSG playing) is going to probably involve only a little instruction, and hours upon hours of practice.
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Gerald Menke
Member From: Brooklyn, NY, USA
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posted 08 September 2004 10:07 AM
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Go Weldon!!!! So great, that's some really inspiring playing right there, get out yer metronomes, everybody.Thanks for posting that beautiful break for us, Dave.[This message was edited by Gerald Menke on 08 September 2004 at 10:08 AM.] |
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