Kay Das
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Los Angeles CA
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Posted 22 Jul 2010 12:20 am |
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This song written by John Mayer and introduced to me by my son a few years ago, was a winner on me the first time I heard it. Here is a steel guitar version.
John Mayer says this is the most important song he has ever written, calls it a time capsule song that he could listen to every day of his life and it has the fewest words. He was in Los Angeles for the summer, just writing tunes. "I don't know where it came from, but it's the damn truth you know, and I just sang, "gravity...is working against me."
It features the West Coast Steelocaster (A6 tuning) and Charvel Jackson converted electro-acoustic tuned DADF#AD. Key of G. In addition to the three steel lead tracks I play three rhythm tracks using a Martin acoustic and a Strat and one lead Strat track layered onto the backing track courtesy Jamie Matthews of www.guitarchaos.com.
You can hear this steel guitar version of "Gravity" on either:
http://www.4shared.com/account/audio/kqfQReXf/01_Gravity.html
or
http://soundcloud.com/kay-das/gravity
Enjoy!
Kay |
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Kay Das
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 24 Jul 2010 12:31 am
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Just came across this version by John Mayer recorded at Abbey Road, quite different to the version I studied. Some of you may agree that the tune gives exceptional scope for improvisation, the kind of tune you can play for long and come up with new variations all the time....a tune with just six chords ( G, C, Am7, D7, Gm, Ebmaj7...). Pity they had no steel guitar in the recording...
This video evokes memories, I worked at Abbey Road Studios in the early seventies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzb-Pbtr1U4
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