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 Dobro player invading a  thread I've got a question for you guys. It's not specifically banjo related but as far as jams with other people, how do you guys find out about this stuff? My experience has been that it is really hard to find other people who play bluegrass instruments and I want to learn techniques from actual people in a casual setting.
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Mar 20, 2011 18:40
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Awesome. Does anyone have any tracks they can share that I might be able to play along with? I just recorded this in garage band to see what kind of playing I could do with a rhythm. I'm pretty terrible and can't get my own beats down so it might be helpful if I could play along. 
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Apr 2, 2011 21:34
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I've got some good links for the OP in case there are any other Dobro players or interested persons here. https://www.reso-nation.org and https://www.resohangout.com are two of the biggest ones. Most of the big name players post there so it's cool to be able to interact with the best of the best. Reso-Nation's main page is all youtube videos which is pretty cool.
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May 21, 2011 22:42
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I don't play banjo but I do finger pick on Dobro and resonator guitar. When I'm picking my round neck I try to anchor my pinkee in one of the sound holes on the cover plate but when I'm playing lap style on my dobros I keep my hand floating most of the time. It's pretty much essential to be able to hit 5 of the strings with my thumb and the neck is much wider than a banjo. Then again I have a palm rest so it makes it a little easier.
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May 27, 2011 02:06
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Roctor posted:Keepin this bad boy alive! I'm down for this. I've been focusing on backup playing the dobro lately so this would rule to practice on. The cello in your track sounds almost like pedal steel in the beginning, which is awesome.
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Jun 12, 2011 20:07
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I joined the Resohangout site, which is linked to the Banjo, Mandolin, Guitar and Fiddle hangouts as well. I just discovered a cool java chat room they have and there are dudes video jamming on it, it's pretty neat and worth checking out if you have any questions or just want to jam. All the sites link to one chat room too.
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Aug 3, 2011 05:08
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I just moved to Florida and immediately found an awesome group of pickers to jam with. They're all like 30 years older than me so have shitloads of experience. I consider myself a dirty old man trapped in side a 27 year old body so I get along really well with them though. I jammed at the back of the circle for a month then the other day I took my first break on dobro and blew everyone away. I can't speak highly enough of jamming now as an awesome way to learn. I've started building my own dobro too since I can't justify the cost of a true custom maple guitar.
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Nov 13, 2011 14:36
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Planet X posted:On which song? Long gone, I just took every Josh Graves, Rob Ickes and Mike Auldridge lick I knew and threw in some arpeggios. I basically tried to keep the time and cram as many notes as I could in. When I try to play it at home it sounds terrible, it's amazing how the rest of the instruments fill the gaps.
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Nov 14, 2011 00:07
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I tried the Alaska picks, you pretty much have to have long fingernails for them to work, otherwise I found they just flop around a lot. I'm using propik reso's right now but I'm looking at perfect touch and Bob Perry's next.
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Jan 11, 2012 18:44
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I've been jamming with some awesome older guys in FL for the past three months, here's a song we did that someone put on youtube. I'm the one in the hat with the black Dobro. Jamming alone has easily tripled my musical vocabulary and precision. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HujwyZHmVHg I got an MP3 recorder for Christmas, Here's the first test piece I did, just a bunch of noodling on my Beard Dobro 
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Jan 11, 2012 18:47
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My jam group ran pretty long last week so I hung out even after I was tired of playing. I got lucky and the remaining players did one of my favorite songs. I love the kickoff they do in it. It sounds so much better when played with a fiddle and dobro. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql3RsBAX8IE&context=C3620e8eADOEgsToPDskI9WzApWfsTar1aSb2z0R5d
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Feb 8, 2012 16:22
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Earl will be missed. He was truly the king. No one could pick like him. I finally figured out what Scruggs tuners were a few weeks ago after seeing my buddy play Earls breakdown with his. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBe5R276wL0
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Mar 30, 2012 01:15
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Bubbacub posted:I think this is the prettiest banjo tune I've ever heard: That's a sweet version. I love Jason Burleson's playing on the Blue Highway version. He just plucks away on the rhythm, gives it an awesome deep south feel. http://youtu.be/neZ__QNglPM I got to see them play it last month. Holy crap what an amazing band. Probably the tightest band besides AKUS I've ever seen in any genre. I got to see three shows in two days and hang out with the band. To a bluegrass picker that's like being able to hang out with Metallica. Rob Ickes even gave me and my buddy a private show on my buddies new Dobro.
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Jun 17, 2012 04:06
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I just took possession of a 200+ year old banjo killer! I commissioned this reso guitar back in April. It's build from Koa salvaged from a Hawaiian hotel that was demolished in 1922. The tone, volume and playability are amazing.
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Dec 9, 2012 23:54
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I joined one of the local bluegrass clubs down here in West Central FL and went to my first jam with them a couple of weeks ago. My local jam group is a little more focused than these guys so it was great to get out and work on new stuff or old songs in new keys or different tempos etc. Here we are doing a long version of Fireball Mail. My Dobro break comes up around 3:30, right after the guy who seemed to only know how to do slants played his. The big guy with the RQ Jones dobro and singing is a local legend. He played dobro with Uncle Josh graves back in the day and recorded and produced his own cd by himself that sounds like an entire band playing at once. http://youtu.be/0C0P5X0xGoc
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Feb 23, 2013 15:04
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Nice! I didn't know Gold Tone made a lap steel. I've got a few nice lap steels and they are fun as hell to play. It's amazing how well they fit in with more progressive style bluegrass. Jerry Douglas used his extensively in the newest AKUS album and it sounds awesome.
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Feb 23, 2013 19:31
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So I ordered a new Dobro from a guy out on Long Island. He just started building not too long ago so I was asking him who his references were. Turns out Todd Livingston, the guy who played in Gangstagrass is playing one! I talked to him about it for a while and also Andy Hall from the Infamous Stringdusters and they both said they are amazing. I think my favorite thing about Bluegrass music is the access to all the great musicians. There's no other music where you can walk up to one of the top players in the genre and just BS all day. I had about a half hour conversation last month with Tim Stafford, of AKUS and Blue Highway fame, then spent a day jamming and picking the brain of 14 time IBMA Dobro player of the year Rob Ickes. I love this stuff. 
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Feb 25, 2013 01:04
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Yeah I just got a new custom one back in December but I saw the wood for the new one and couldn't pass it up. It's grafted walnut. Taken from an old orchard tree, it's actually two species in one piece of wood. I'm trying to thin out my collection, but each one has such a distinctive voice that I just keep them.
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Mar 10, 2013 23:36
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