bayoubill
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Is the Chet Atkins/ Merle Travis Style Dead?
I haven't seen anyone, cept me I know of, still playing the boom chic style on guitar. I just don't hear it anymore. None of the guitar players around here do it. Someone tell me it's not dead! 
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Re: Is the Chet Atkins/ Merle Travis Style Dead?
2016/09/07 21:04:37
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Guitar education has gotten so good that most pro guitarists can play every style these days, no?
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bayoubill
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Re: Is the Chet Atkins/ Merle Travis Style Dead?
2016/09/07 21:21:07
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None I've met here do. I haven't seen anyone playing it even the pros. It's not popular here and it's been described to me as old timey stuff. I think one problem is the shortage of popular tunes that someone could draw a melody off of. When I play a boom chik song they ask what the name of the song is. I don't get that response when I play it for anyone over 50
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Re: Is the Chet Atkins/ Merle Travis Style Dead?
2016/09/07 21:28:28
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Well, I didn't mean to imply that any pro can play as WELL as chet or roy clark or...the greats, but if one majors in music and studies guitar to death, and there's a gazillion of us who have, it's usually in the quiver. I started lessons when I was 6 and my teacher started me on boom chic with peter paul and mary songs. Most of us can do it pretty easily given the dots.
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bayoubill
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Re: Is the Chet Atkins/ Merle Travis Style Dead?
2016/09/07 21:50:08
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I just wish the younger players were doing it. If nothing else to kick off a tune. I don't see that. I know some guys in Baton Rouge that can but they are my age and like me retired from playing
post edited by bayoubill - 2016/09/07 22:11:21
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Re: Is the Chet Atkins/ Merle Travis Style Dead?
2016/09/07 23:00:21
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Two words...
Tommy Emmanuel.
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bayoubill
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Re: Is the Chet Atkins/ Merle Travis Style Dead?
2016/09/08 13:58:55
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I've done that too dog. I mention his name and they say "who?" Plenty of guys playing Steve Vai or any of the shredders.
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Re: Is the Chet Atkins/ Merle Travis Style Dead?
2016/09/08 13:59:55
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eph221
Guitar education has gotten so good that most pro guitarists can play every style these days, no?
Where do you live?
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Re: Is the Chet Atkins/ Merle Travis Style Dead?
2016/09/08 15:26:23
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Well, I've lived in MA, NY, FL and OR. Everywhere has been awash with great guitar players. Of course I've been playing the damn thing for 40 years so it's not mysterious to me. If you have the dots...most pros should be able to play it...in Nashville they have a short hand system that maybe fewer know, but still...Tallahassee (FSU) has probably the best classical guitar program in the country. That's not too far away is it?! (oops, controversy) :D:D
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bayoubill
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Re: Is the Chet Atkins/ Merle Travis Style Dead?
2016/09/08 16:45:08
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geeze don't you realize you're dealing with a moroon here! Shure you've lived in Manyfl and or and whom knows where else, but I live by the river off a swamp! maybe it's off a river by a swamp, But that's not important right now. The town I Am near is the name of the guy that owns the store.
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Re: Is the Chet Atkins/ Merle Travis Style Dead?
2016/09/08 17:00:54
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☄ Helpfulby robbyk 2016/09/08 20:36:23
Yes, those were the days my friend.
Me thinks there are many who still practice that style, but they are drowned out by the noise of other more prevalent messages.
Put on your Indiana Jones cap, and do a search, you may find them still.
Jesse Q. Screed
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Re: Is the Chet Atkins/ Merle Travis Style Dead?
2016/09/08 20:20:59
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Is the Chet Atkins/ Merle Travis Style Dead?I don't know about the style but I'm pretty sure they are both dead.
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Re: Is the Chet Atkins/ Merle Travis Style Dead?
2016/09/08 21:51:25
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Hey Bill, do a search on a Canadian guy named Wendell Ferguson. One of those guys that can actually play two fingerstyle guitar pieces at the same time. Just like Chet. Wendell is also a real nice guy and really funny. He is a crazy good player that can go toe-to-toe with anyone.
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Re: Is the Chet Atkins/ Merle Travis Style Dead?
2016/09/08 23:06:25
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Great player! I used to have him saved on youtube but I can't find it anymore.
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Re: Is the Chet Atkins/ Merle Travis Style Dead?
2016/09/09 12:06:24
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☄ Helpfulby bayoubill 2016/09/09 14:00:17
bayoubill
Great player! I used to have him saved on youtube but I can't find it anymore.
Use Bing to Google him on Youtube. Simples.
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Re: Is the Chet Atkins/ Merle Travis Style Dead?
2016/09/09 12:16:00
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bapu
bayoubill
Great player! I used to have him saved on youtube but I can't find it anymore.
Use Bing to Google him on Youtube.
Simples.
Then, you can Spotify him? 
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bayoubill
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Re: Is the Chet Atkins/ Merle Travis Style Dead?
2016/09/09 13:40:40
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so many new words so little time 
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bayoubill
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Re: Is the Chet Atkins/ Merle Travis Style Dead?
2016/09/09 13:41:37
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Bing = Crosby?
Spotify = I see a fly?
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Re: Is the Chet Atkins/ Merle Travis Style Dead?
2016/09/11 07:19:19
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☄ Helpfulby bayoubill 2016/09/11 10:47:46
I miss that style - now that you bring it up.. Im gonna go learn some so that someone around here other than you is playing it =-)
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Re: Is the Chet Atkins/ Merle Travis Style Dead?
2016/09/11 08:52:59
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Travis picking seems alive and well, but just a different sound that Travis's
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Re: Is the Chet Atkins/ Merle Travis Style Dead?
2016/09/11 17:45:18
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bayoubill
I haven't seen anyone, cept me I know of, still playing the boom chic style on guitar. I just don't hear it anymore. None of the guitar players around here do it. Someone tell me it's not dead!
Good for you Bill that you can play in that style  Kenny
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