1983 June Frets Magazine - Bill Harrell Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar

Description: Yes we combine shipping for multiple purchases.Add multiple items to your cart and the combined shipping total will automatically be calculated. 1983 June Frets Magazine - Bill Harrell Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar 1© ECVJJPMENT21 PA ComponentsBy Louis BarrdreA field guide for the player who doesn’t know a monitor from amixer, explaining each element of a PA system and how it works.25 Soundspeak: A GlossaryYour introduction to the language of sound reinforcement. Biamp-ing, phase cancellation — everything from AC to wattage.27 Using Your System By Larry CumingsThe David Grisman Quartet’s veteran sound engineer tells youhow to choose and use PA gear to get the best “acoustic” soundreproduction for your group in any situation.29 The First Aid Kit By Roger H. SiminoffTools, ties, tape, and other lifesavers to reach for when your soundsystem starts going snap, crackle, pop — plus a take-along check-list to keep in your tool box.33 How Far Will $500 Go? By Ed SchillingFrets surveyed music dealers across the country to find out whatsound gear you could buy for $500.00. Here are the answers.36 Sound Equipment SourcesWhere can you get the pickups, equalizers, mikes, speakers, andcables you need? Check out this directory.12 Lutherie’s Maine Man By Michael StromRon Pinkham couldn’t find guitars that met his standards, so he wenthome to Maine and started building guitars to please himself. Now hiselite instruments please players as far away as Switzerland.16 Bill HarrellBy Mark HumphreyAfter nearly 30 years of bluegrass, 11 of them in a celebrated partnershipwith Don Reno, Harrell has the art of rhythm guitar down cold. But hisinstrument gets a few purists hot under the collar.43 Frets Repair ShopBy Charles HoffmanOur On Lutherie columnist takes leave of the Workshops section thismonth to talk about one of the trickiest jobs a repairman can face: puttingthe wreckage of a snapped peghead back together.9 Sound InvestmentsMargie Mirken/Your InstrumentBuying your own PA system.45Chet’s “Superlick”Chet Atkins/Fingerstyle GuitarThe lick that leaves ’em gasping.46Sound WarsDan Crary/FlatpickingStraighten up your audio act.47Warming UpEarl Scruggs/Scruggs BanjoWhat do you do with your thumb?50 Work Your MikeDavid Grisman/MandolinSecrets of smart mike placement.52 SoundchecksRob Wasserman/Upright BassGetting ready to get heard.54 BrandywineMike Seeger/Traditional MusicA classic old-time music festival.58Chin UpJohn McEuen/Music & BusinessHandling on-the-job depression.63 Down-PressureRoger H. Siminoff/R & DString stresses put to the test.6 LettersMissing trimpots uncovered, “lush-ness” questioned, slick sliding.10 Frets Looks At...Saga HD-115 dreadnought.41 Who’s Playing WhereJune performance dates.48On RecordMandolin movers and shakers,Chris Hillman, Martin Carthy, Eliz-abethan dulcimer, and more.56 BulletinboardMark O’Connor goes overseas andGatemouth Brown gets a Grammy.59BookshelfRecommended reading on claw-hammer banjo, swing mandolin.60QuestionsWhat’s a top-tension banjo? Wheredo you use a lavalier microphone?61Frets String ClinicLuthier classical guitar strings.62Accessory Close-upJohn Pearse guitar picks.65What’s NewParsons “Banjo Bender,” Bush koadreadnought, Ibanez equalizer. . .66FretshopA new use for trapeze tailpieces.66 Advertiser IndexMusic products? Here are the com-panies that make them. BILL HARRELLSide-ManFrontNanRhythmMasterBluegrass always has been arestless music, and it has spawnedmany adventurous spinoffs: New-grass, best exemplified by Sam Bush’sNew Grass Revival; dawg music, createdby David Grisman; spacegrass, conceivedby Tony Rice, and so on. These new formshave combined bluegrass instrumentationwith jazz and rock elements, taking themusic into unexplored realms. But as thesounds move farther from home, it is goodto know that unadulterated bluegrass(“Played the good old-time way it’s sup-posed to be played,” as Bill Monroe hassaid) is still actively with us.Bill Harrell And The Virginians play tra-ditional bluegrass that is as fresh as themusic that took shape in the ’40s. All thekey elements — spirited singing with chill-ing harmonies, sparkling instrumentalbreaks, and driving rhythm — are presentin Harrell’s music, which seems to com-bine the original with the traditional in aneasy, natural manner. The naturalness ofHarrell’s music is a product of his 30 yearsin bluegrass. During that time he hasplayed with many of the genre’s finest,most notably banjoist Don Reno, withwhom he had a professional association for11 years. Toward the end of that relation-ship, the 48-year-old singer/guitarist felt aneed to “get more into Bill Harrell smusic.”Today he does that with enthusiasmand humor. He is supported in his effortsby the singing and playing of Ed Barris onbass, Larry Stevenson on mandolin, CarlNelson on fiddle, and Darrell Sanders onbanjo. Together they produce as pure andexciting a bluegrass sound as any youll... And much more! 12901

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