Fast Planes, A Smuggler's Tale, and a Guitar Player's Lament

I'm currently learning a song by Steven Stills called Treetop Flyer. It's about smuggling drugs, and it's a great song with which I am currently obsessed.

So, being obsessed with something, I naturally want other people to watch youtube videos that they don't necessarily want to watch, so here it is. If you are also obsessed with aircraft, like I am, then you get to look at airplanes too.

Also, if there are any country guitar players out there who can give me any wisdom on Travis picking, it's peeking my soul, but racking my brain....

Great tune and Vid. I'll be checking out more from this guy Thanks.

edit. Just realized it's stills from Crosby, Stills and Nash. Awsome

reply to post by Ashishin_no1


He was with a band (still is) called Crosby Stills and Nash, also had Neil Young with them for a spell.

reply to post by Mon1k3r




It takes a bit of practice but it's easy enough

Cody

reply to post by Mon1k3r


S. Stills rules. I think he is top 5 all time. You can copy this.
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reply to post by GArnold


"Paranoia strikes deep. Into you life it will creep. It starts when you are always afraid. Step out of line and the man will come and take you away."


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true... true.

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Neil Young looks like he out of star trek. Wow.

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My favorite Young song "needle and damage done".

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"Out of the blue and into the black... They give you this but you pay for that".

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Not my style of music but I do love flying, especially the pucker-butt knap of the earth stuff the song seems to be about. S&F

reply to post by Mon1k3r

Travis picking

1. Get the bass worked out first, then add the treble. You should be playing the bass part on automatic, just like you don't normally think about what your right hand is doing when you're strumming chords.
   
   
2. Forget the classical guitarist's 'one finger per treble string' rule. Travis himself only used his thumb and one finger. Some use thumb and two, some use thumb and three, but you shouldn't be too religious about allocating fingers to strings. And your thumb can sometimes play a treble note or two as well. Flatpick and two fingers is how a lot of players do it. I find this works well for rockabilly.
   
   
3. Learn to combine open and fretted notes in melodies. Exploit the potential of hammer-ons and pull-offs. All these things help compensate for the speed you lose (compared with flatpicking) by being forced to pick in one direction (down for the thumb, up for the fingers) only.

I'm no expert, but I've been fooling about with rockabilly (which is just Travis picking on speed) lately.