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Topic: G to C to E |
Bobby Lee
From:
Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 13 Nov 2004 12:02 pm |
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It was so simple and sounded so cool. I played with Solid Air last night, unrehearsed in a concert setting. An audience with ears.
Allegra had written a tune in Am and I was reading it off the chart. She tossed me a solo on the chorus, and the last line of it says G C E7.
Walking on eggs, I decided to keep it real simple. 3rd fret, no pedals for the G, string 3, 4 and 5. Pedals down gets the C. Sounds very normal, of course.
Notes still ringing, I rock from A+B to A+F for the E chord. One note goes down, another goes up. Such a cool sound! The audience erupts with applause as I let off the A pedal to change the E to an E7th.
I'm not putting you on - it happened just that way. What a feeling! It just goes to show that the easy stuff can be just as impressive as the hot licks we spend hours trying to perfect. Those changes - G to C to E at the 3rd fret - are exactly what I do to check my tuning every time I set up. I never thought of them as music before, until now.
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 13 Nov 2004 12:27 pm
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ahh..simplicity shows it's ugly face once again..and rules..
ya gotta love it...
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David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 13 Nov 2004 12:27 pm
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I can dig it, I have a similar change in a tune for the gig friday.
Very sweet and simple.
Glad you got that good audience feeling
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 13 Nov 2004 12:59 pm
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The KISS principal strikes again!
Keep
It
Simple
Stupid
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Roy Thomson
From:
Wolfville, Nova Scotia,Canada
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Posted 13 Nov 2004 1:03 pm
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b0b your progression is a nice one!!
I learned it from one of Lloyd Green's solos
( forget which one ) but he expands it to
incorporate the Em chord...different tune of course.
At fret 3 and using strings 5-6-8
NP-----------G
A pedal------Em
AB pedals----C
A FKL--------E
Hope I got it right.
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 13 Nov 2004 1:07 pm
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Anyone that's listened closely to Jerry Byrd's "One Rose" can hear just such a special affect.
While on the 9th fret in C6th tuning, first and second strings, JB will pick them then go into a REVERSE SLANT, followed by sliding the nose of the bar "up" one fret into a straight slant position; THEN, he drops the nose of the bar back DOWN one fret, with the tail end of the bar soon following. WHAT A SOUND! Sounds like a pedal steel and while your ear is urging your brain to figure out this TECHNICAL maneuver, the entire event is lost in its own SIMPLICITY! To do this, he picks the two strings ONLY ONCE; all bar movement is done with NO ADDITIONAL PICKING. |
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