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Permalink Reply by Roger Morin on March 3, 2010 at 3:49am

You guys could watch Wichita Sams new video on his new dulic-blues box. He is using just one finger to bar the frets or you could use a slide to do the same. For another google blues stick and see uncleblues playing his version of a bluesbox and he has been selling them for a while. But they are easy to make yourself, it has been suggested you only need the 3, 5,6,7, 10, 12 and 15 frets although 15 isn't nessary. Sams video show the frets real good. I am hopeing to build one myself soon.

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Permalink Reply by Bluesdog on March 3, 2010 at 4:35am

KnotLenny does a badass version of Chuck Berry's Maybeline further up in this instructional video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy04bkM_JSc

The song start's @ 3:52 but the lesson is good to so it might help you.

3 chord's, no pick'in ) but very cool. :)

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Permalink Reply by Ballymack on March 3, 2010 at 5:27am

OK I like it but this is going to sound dumb. I'm in GDG so do I tune up or down to DAD

Bluesdog said:

KnotLenny does a badass version of Chuck Berry's Maybeline further up in this instructional video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy04bkM_JSc

The song start's @ 3:52 but the lesson is good to so it might help you.

3 chord's, no pick'in ) but very cool. :)

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Permalink Reply by Diane in Chicago on March 3, 2010 at 5:31am

I'd go down first. But if the strings are too floppy you could try going up, with the caveat that the strings could break.

Can you just play in G? Watch KnotLenny and then turn him off and go at it with your instrument.

Ballymack said:

OK I like it but this is going to sound dumb. I'm in GDG so do I tune up or down to DAD

Bluesdog said:

KnotLenny does a badass version of Chuck Berry's Maybeline further up in this instructional video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy04bkM_JSc

The song start's @ 3:52 but the lesson is good to so it might help you.

3 chord's, no pick'in ) but very cool. :)

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Permalink Reply by Ballymack on March 3, 2010 at 5:40am

It happened alright LOL. Anyway new string fitted and we will stick with GDG.

Thanks

Diane in Chicago said:

I'd go down first. But if the strings are too floppy you could try going up, with the caveat that the strings could break.

Can you just play in G? Watch KnotLenny and then turn him off and go at it with your instrument.

Ballymack said:

OK I like it but this is going to sound dumb. I'm in GDG so do I tune up or down to DAD

Bluesdog said:

KnotLenny does a badass version of Chuck Berry's Maybeline further up in this instructional video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy04bkM_JSc

The song start's @ 3:52 but the lesson is good to so it might help you.

3 chord's, no pick'in ) but very cool. :)

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Permalink Reply by Diane in Chicago on March 3, 2010 at 5:51am

Here is a chord chart, just read the lines for GDg under the diagrams and you are in business.

Ballymack said:

It happened alright LOL. Anyway new string fitted and we will stick with GDG.


Thanks

Diane in Chicago said:

I'd go down first. But if the strings are too floppy you could try going up, with the caveat that the strings could break.


Can you just play in G? Watch KnotLenny and then turn him off and go at it with your instrument.

Ballymack said:

OK I like it but this is going to sound dumb. I'm in GDG so do I tune up or down to DAD


Bluesdog said:

KnotLenny does a badass version of Chuck Berry's Maybeline further up in this instructional video.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy04bkM_JSc


The song start's @ 3:52 but the lesson is good to so it might help you.

3 chord's, no pick'in ) but very cool. :)

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Permalink Reply by MichaelS Country Boy Guitars on March 3, 2010 at 8:53am

Thanks Diane, I just printed out your chart. Can never have enough 3 string CBG charts. Now what about those songs this thread was started for, I feel like I steered it the wrong way but have gotten some good info and hopefully so did Ballymack.

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Permalink Reply by Bluesdog on March 3, 2010 at 10:37am

No that's not dumb if you don't know this, i'll explain.


You don't realy have to retune your guitar. (tunning 7 fret's up or 5 down would probebly require another string set-up than you have now btw. Assuming you'r using the 5th 4th and 3rd string (Adg) they would either snap or slack too much, you'd need to change to 6th 5th and 4th (low EAD) if you realy want to do it that way)

DAd tunning is a 151 tunning meaning your thickest string is the rootnote, your middle the 5th and the thinnest is another 1 but an octave higher, GDg is exactly the same only higher in pitch. If you take your Gdg (open G) tuned cbg an put a capo on fret 7 you'd have DAd (open D) tunning :)

It's basicly the same 3 string powerchord, the actual note doesn't matter, the mechanic's are exactly the same. It's if the pitch is comfortable for your vocal range to sing in what's important, might be G or a or f whatever is most comfortable for you but as long staying with the 151 tunning's you can do exactly what Lenny does in the video.

Hope this help's.
Frans

Ballymack said:

OK I like it but this is going to sound dumb. I'm in GDG so do I tune up or down to DAD

Bluesdog said:

KnotLenny does a badass version of Chuck Berry's Maybeline further up in this instructional video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy04bkM_JSc

The song start's @ 3:52 but the lesson is good to so it might help you.

3 chord's, no pick'in ) but very cool. :)

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Permalink Reply by Julian Perry on March 4, 2010 at 1:55am

Hi Iggy, I'm not much of a player, but I can just about knock out one of my all time faves - `Bad Moon Rising' by Creedence Clearwater Revival which uses just three chords (DAG)

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Permalink Reply by Grizz on March 4, 2010 at 2:00am

Or to put it another way, no matter what the tuning, D = open; A = 7th fret; G = 5th fret.
Julian Perry said:

Hi Iggy, I'm not much of a player, but I can just about knock out one of my all time faves - `Bad Moon Rising' by Creedence Clearwater Revival which uses just three chords (DAG)

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on March 4, 2010 at 2:56am

Speaking of John Fogerty....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OePSO2Vkuto

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Permalink Reply by Keni Lee Burgess on March 4, 2010 at 9:03am

Very soon, in an upcoming lesson on 4 string CBG, I will be teaching a lesson on chords.
Here is the basic problem about learning to play guitar:
I should start by saying I was guilty of doing this too. You buy chord books or find fingering charts and proceed to try to figure out songs. This does work, but in a very superficial way. It gets old quick.
The major problem is not having a reference system. You don't know what chords go together or actually where to find them.
My intention is not to make this complicated, but to offer a clear approach that will have a snowball effect.
It is my hope that this will demystify chords and produce better players.
Considering there are no standard string arrangments or tunings going on here at the nation is the first issue.
This is why undertanding theory makes a lot of sense. It is applicable to a wide variety of choices.
Most times theory is taught in the key of C. The key of C is the master key (no sharps, no flats).
I will teach in the key of G. Using my 4 string CBG tuned Dgbd, but I will clearly show how to apply this to different keys or different string arrangements to complete the picture. Understand there is a relativity between the keys. If you can play in one key correctly, playing in other keys is not that difficult to understand.
Please stay tuned. Enjoy.

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