[jomac]

Just to say what a great site, learned a lot from it. Thanks. Just bought myself a resonator now and was wondering if anyone has any links to sites or ideas on what sort of stuff to play on it. thanks again.

[Kirk Lorange]

Hi jomac, welcome. Resonators are great, they have that wonderful throaty sound and are loud. The resonator itself, that round metal thing, is like a speaker, and was invented so that the rhythm guitar could be heard in the band.

I'm assuming you didn't buy the square neck resonator, which is played lying flat on your lap with a stee bar. If you bought a regular guitar with resonator, anything can be played on it, but of course country or blues sounds the most appropriate. I used my resonator on quite a few of the lessons here. They sound great with slide.

There are many sites out there that specialize in resonators ... do a quick search and you'll see what I mean.

[jomac]

hi Kirk, no its not a squareneck. Find it a good sound for your ragtime picking, brilliant lesson that one, could do with more like that. also good for blackwood stroll which took me weeks to learn but got it now thanks. i believe you play that too with a resonator on one of your tracks,yeah? just need an idea what to play and how to use a slide. who knows maybe in a hundred years i might get as good as you! really fancy having a go at slide but a bit green. thanks for your help.