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Topic: Summertime -- Video -- C6 tuning |
Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Jim Newberry
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Seattle, Upper Left America
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Posted 21 Mar 2014 8:30 am |
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Fantastic... Your transitions from open strings to the bar are sooo smooooth. Thanks Doug!
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Chuck S. Lettes
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Posted 21 Mar 2014 8:39 am
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Another cool arrangement, Doug. Love the hammer-ons and pull-offs.
Chuck |
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J Fletcher
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London,Ont,Canada
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Posted 21 Mar 2014 9:11 am
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| So nice Doug! |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Bosse Engzell
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�ppelbo, SWEDEN
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Posted 22 Mar 2014 12:05 am
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WOW, I get a kick out of that. You was not sleeping when music lesson.
Bosse in Sweden |
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Len Amaral
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Rehoboth,MA 02769
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Posted 22 Mar 2014 3:43 am
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| Very nice tune and well thought out. What technique and tone. Also, listening to this song makes me think of what a brutal winter we had in Mass and "Summertime" is approaching. Bravo! |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Posted 22 Mar 2014 6:48 pm
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Thanks Bosse and Len. Yes, we had a cold winter in Mass. this year! 
Someone on Youtube asked me about Gibson's P-90 pickup, and for some reason there is no "reply" button on his post so I can't answer it... so I'll answer it here and maybe he'll read this. The pickup on my Century 6 is not a P-90. P-90s have adjustable pole pieces. This pickup is pre-P-90. It's like a Fender pickup. Fairly large raised poles. An extremely hot and lively pickup. Regarding the current P-90 pickups, I don't know anything about them. I've never played a modern Gibson guitar w/P-90.
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Steve Cunningham
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Atlanta, GA
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Steve Cunningham
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Atlanta, GA
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Jean-Sebastien Gauthier
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Quebec, Canada
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Posted 23 Mar 2014 1:48 pm
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| Very nice, I love it! |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Stephen Abruzzo
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Philly, PA
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Posted 24 Mar 2014 8:49 am
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| Beautifully played as usual. You make it look so easy. I always give your videos at least 3 looks......1 for the overall effect......1 to watch your bar work and the last to study your right hand and how you pick and block. |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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James Nottage
From:
Indiana, USA
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Posted 24 Mar 2014 4:50 pm
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So, Doug. This is really beautiful. Are you going to put it in the next 25 songs? and if so, please hurry! I always appreciate your skillful work; just wish I lived close enough to take some lessons.
Thank you.
James
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 25 Mar 2014 5:32 am
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Beautifully played, Doug. I admire how your improv flows organically and avoid the need so many (myself included) try to add in to be clever or show off. You just play the song naturally, beautifully and soulfully. What can be improved on that?
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Posted 25 Mar 2014 7:50 am
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James, thank you, I have no plans to do tab for this one at this time. I've been working on a new 16 song package. The tab is completed, and I'm working on the recordings now. The recording process is painfully slow for me because I'm such an insane perfectionist! There will be three tunings used in the book: C6, A6, B11 (same set of strings for all three tunings). It will be a few months before it's finished. It Will be in 2014, that's all I can say... 
Andy, thank you for your kind words. Regarding the improv, yes, it "flows naturally" but I did spend several hours working the solo out in advance, exactly what I would play, when to do the hammer-ons and pull-offs, when to play high or low, etc. Except for that last short solo toward the end. That was an 'off script' moment.
BTW the song is in the key of Am, which is a great key for hammer-ons and pull-offs on C6(Am7) tuning. My "Ghost Riders" arrangement is also in the key of Am and features lots of H & P in the melody and the improv. Both videos are good demos of pick blocking too, in my humble opinion. Thanks again
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