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Charles French
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Posted 29 Jun 2003 7:03 am |
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| I've been listening to Rob Ickes alot. How in the world does he get those pulloffs and hammer sounds in keys other than G. I've read that he uses the G tuning for most everything. My experience with a capo is anything above a Bb starts to degrade in tone. Almost sounds like a banjo if you were to capo up to C. I wouldn't think he has much need for a capo. I was listening to a song he was doing in F could it be he is tunin to F? I dunno but regradless of the key he's in it sounds to me like he has open strings there. |
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C Dixon
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Duluth, GA USA
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Posted 29 Jun 2003 10:25 am
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I would like to share the following with you.
Many yrs ago, the late Gene O'Neal and I were riding along in a car in Nashville. Gene had the radio on tuned of course to WSM. And we heard a new song by Ray Price. When Buddy Emmons took his break, I asked Gene, "how does he do that?"
Whereupon, Gene retorted, "Jis' FINE!!!!"
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Charles French
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Ms.
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Posted 29 Jun 2003 10:31 am
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| Point well taken! But then I knew it was a stupid question when I posted. hehaw |
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Bobby Lee
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Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 29 Jun 2003 11:00 am
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In general, it's helpful to remember that the open string notes G, B and D appear in many different key signatures. In F, for example, the G and D notes are both part of scale. The only open strings that need to be avoided in F are the B strings.
I hope that helps.
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Gary Anwyl
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Palo Alto, CA
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Posted 29 Jun 2003 2:02 pm
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If you're into Rob's style you should know that Mel Bay has two books of transciptions of some of his recordings - one book is Blue Highway material, the other is from his Hard Times album. The tune No More My Land (first track on the Hard Times CD) is in F. The tab for it shows the dobro is tuned down a step to F.
I was lucky enough to take some classes from Rob recently (really good teacher by the way). He can do a lot without a capo. Like Bobby said, he takes advantage of whatever open strings are available depending on the key he's playing in. He clearly knows his way around the fretboard so well that it is just second nature. |
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