Why small body guitar for fingerpicking?
this may seem like a dumb question, but why are the smaller guitars (000) better for fingerpicking?I have never owned anything other than a dread so I wouldn't know. I like to finger pick as well as...
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wah wah wah a dread is too large and uncomfortable for me... I need something petite and frilly or I'll bruise my arm... blah blah blah blah blah
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I miss the Yellow critter with the banjo. That new avatar is way to complex. What does it mean, what it is saying about life, what is it's motivation?????Details Please!!
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Never fear... the bird always comes back. <--- That there is a hillbilly with a shotgun. Gary found it somewhere. It's from a Bugs Bunny episode blah blah blah blah blah
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While they're fighting over there in the corner, here's my guess, based on observation... I cannot fingerpick; my fingers just won't cooperate.I believe the smaller body guitars sit lower in your lap,...
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What Art said (at least that's what I thought when I was told, you fingerpick, lose the Dred). Didn't pay any attention but I have a small bodied as well and there are plusses and minuses for both in...
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Sorry! Ol Hoss mispoke hisself there-What I MEANT to say was a dred is only good for use as a travel ironing board. (It's sorta a joke.)Everyone knows that you can't adequately prepare a fish with...
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"Mommy, please get me a dread so those big bad banjo bullies will stop stomping on me! Waaaahhhh..." Support musicians in need -- join the Music Maker Relief Foundation
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The main change I've seen when going from a dread to an OM, OO or OOO is the the fact that the narrower body causes a gap between the player's body and the guitar back.This seems to eliminate the...
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Remember......Many of those Dred wielding Bluegrass Boys like to chew tobacco.The larger size of the Dred allows more tobacco juice to gather in the sound chamber before it needs to be emptied.
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Merle travis did OK using a dred. Seems like he did a ittle fingerpicking.TomThe universal brotherhood of man is our most precious resource...because there isn't much of it left. - Mark Twain
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Amen Buck... and that Merle used a Mossman in his later days only adds to his lustre.Between the mention of James Burton in General Music Topics and Merle here, its been a good day for Mossmans!BobAny...
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Doc Watson also seemed to do OK fingerpicking his dread the other night. Fingerstyle on a dread does require a deft touch for balance - Travis style requires special technique to rein in the bass on a...
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We have it under good authority that Mossmans are second only to Nobles when used as live wells out at the bass pond.Also reputed to convert easily into racoon traps, but Hambone has yet to find plans.
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Always seemed to me that the bigger the guitar the more a guy was trying to make up for shortcomings elsewhere.
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...'sides, ya cain't stuff a whole banjar player into a small gitar like you kin a 'dread !!
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didn't mean to start a fight - though I'm enjoying the comments! What about the tonal quality? Is there a certain sound that the smaller geetars provide that the dread doesn't or is it all preference?...
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People will say that the 000/OM body size gives a more balanced tone across all the strings. That they are less 'boomy' sounding in the bass than a dread. I would agree with that, particularly in the...
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I have heard the discussion about small guitars not sustaining as much as dreads...which for fingerpicking is a good thing. When you pick notes individually, you want the note to dacay faster so the...
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I did something very impulsive. I was shopping for a 000 size, but ended up with a dread.After I played many small Martins, I picked up a D28 and fell in love. Yet, my old ld Alvarez Yairi small body...
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