It's been a week and half after coming home and I'm finding that all the things that happened on week one seem to now be firing me up more than when I first came back.

Well what a blast Week One was. I thought that was pretty busy with jamming happening pretty much any time their weren't fixed classes and poeple all over campus practicing (or sleeping, one luchtime still strapped to the guitar on a table on the grass outside the canteen - own up - who was that?!) If Week One is busy then Week Two with almost twice the numbers must be frantic!

Hi, I would love to know if there is a way I might manage some sort of Flat-Pickin' style or an at least sound-a-like version even with my handicap? I'm a southpaw and can't play with a pick. I have a congenital bone disorder that has locked my left arm to a very small turning radius. I do everything else right-handed though. I just eat and play my stringed instruments lefty. I can't hold a pick in the correct flat position to reach the strings so I never learned. I was formally taught classical and flamenco finger style guitar.This was in the styles of Segovia and Montoya.

OMG - I've just copied off Steve's list of songs that most players will know and play. Oh oh - I know I looked at this a few months ago but maybe I should have considered it more. I'm also hoping his comments about not everyone knows all these or plays these is real. If we were talking blues or rock I'd be able to knock off hundreds of songs from memory or just busk them, but bluegrass flatpicking isn't the only thing I have to teach.

Heading for my first Kamp in less than a week. Worried about - well you don't want to see the whole list. But travelling with a guitar, knowing enough tunes, being up to grade, will become too English. Too English? Let me explain - most people from the UK either start picking up the accent fast and end up talking a sort of Mid-West / Bostonian sort of speak. Or if you're like me you end up playing up the difference and start to speak more and more like Hugh Grant or Roger Moore from James Bond (in my case).

JUST WANTED TO THANK STEVE FOR A GREAT 2 DAY SESSION
AT ATLANTA PREMIER GUITARS . HE GAVE US A LOT TO WORK
ON !!!!

JOHN PARISH

Just finished my 3rd Kamp, after a 3 year hiatus. A lot has changed in terms of buildings, etc, but not Kamp itself, which was even better than I had hoped. For the first time, I was not intimidated or worried about taking a break or being perfect. What happened was just the opposite, I felt a freedom and facility that I usually only feel in private... and it was a very liberating experience. I was very lucky to have wonderful suite-mates in the persons of Rich and Karen McConnell, and great times working the frets with Rich and his friend Ted and his wife from Alaska.

After studying Dan Crary's Flatpicking Fiddle Tunes series for over a year, I recently bought Steve K's Speed Drills for Flatpick Guitarists and am now caught in the middle of two unique right hand approaches. Crary plays with the rounded portion of the pick while anchoring the butt of his hand just behind the bridge of the guitar. He also holds the pick with both the index and middle finger for extra power and stability when needed. Kaufman anchors his little finger to the guitar and appears to have a free-floating hand otherwise.

I have been enjoying Steves DVD's they are helping me a long way.

Great stuff Steve! Thank you heaps!

What a blast!

My ever tolerant wife wanted to know how my weekend went... I told her I was in a room filled with people that carry around with them a pocket full of picks... since she finds this habit odd (to say the least) she understood immediately.