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Topic: Help with uses for half A pedal ( B to C) uses? |
JR Ross
From:
New Mexico, USA
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Posted 18 Mar 2009 10:11 am |
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I saw on one of Bobby Seymores videos he uses a musical pass from a major cord possibly a 1 to 4 change where he uses half A pedal down (B to C) with possibly the 9th (D) string. Can anyone elaborate?
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Steve English
From:
Baja, Arizona
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Posted 18 Mar 2009 10:27 am
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I'm not familiar with the Bobbe reference, but
The half pedal is used as a passing chord from 1 to 4.
(with regular major chord)
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Tamara James
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Posted 18 Mar 2009 10:44 am
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Joshua Grange
From:
Los Angeles, California
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Posted 18 Mar 2009 11:16 am
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You can use that half A pedal with strings 8,6,5 along with your 2nd string D# half lower.
That chord is an Augmented 7th, spelled R 3 #5 b7.
It resolves nicely to pedals down when including the D# full lower to C#.
Or for a different sound, resolve it to just the B pedal and D# to C# lower.
Using open strings, that's E+7 to A.
Another favorite use of that half A pedal:
Strings 9 6 5 with the half A pedal,
Resolve to strings 9 6 5 with only your D to C# lower.
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John Steele
From:
Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 18 Mar 2009 12:52 pm
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| I really like the sound of the half-pedal on the "A" pedal. I have my guitar set up so that there is quite a bit of travel in that pedal and it's fairly easy to squeeze into the half-pedal position. |
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Russ Wever
From:
Kansas City
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Posted 18 Mar 2009 6:56 pm
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Another use of 1/2 A Pedal
is for a diminished chord.
Playing the fifth string
with Half A Pedal along
with strings one and two,
or along with strings two
and seven give you
a diminished triad.
~Russ |
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Jim Robbins
From:
Ontario, Canada
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Posted 18 Mar 2009 7:32 pm
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| It sounds to me like half pedaling on the instrumental break on "You ain't going nowhere" just before the verse "buy me a flute and a gun that shoots" on Sweetheart of the Rodeo (around 1'20")-- just a mushy flat 3rd above a I chord for a slightly bluesy sound. I love it. |
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