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Comment by Derek Rose on February 4, 2017 at 11:14am

You are welcome Bear! Usually I don't use a pick for fingerpicking, but GL did so for his stuff it does make it work better. Keep on playing!

Comment by Slow Blues Dani & Ol' Grey Bear on February 4, 2017 at 10:58am

Thanks, Derek. I have electric 9s on mine and it's so loud and jumbled in some sense, muddy maybe, that I thought I'd try nylons if that was what you were using here. Arpeggios you say? Never knew what those even were until I saw the word in my new CBG Technique book. I struggle to use a pick for some bizarre reason so tend to fingerpick anyway but I definitely don't have your tone! Must learn some chords from this new book and get out of the barre chord rut. Thanks again my friend.

Comment by Derek Rose on February 4, 2017 at 10:48am

Thanks Bear. These are steel acoustic light strings. This song is played more softly with a pick, playing arpeggios, picking each note of a chord individually, as opposed to harder strumming or syncopated fingerpicking. The bass E is tuned down to D for drop D tuning like he played  live. I tried nylon on my other parlor to reduce string tension and not risk bowing the old neck. It has the same style metal tailpiece as this guitar though and it cut the strings... so that one got switched to extra light steel electric strings. I have seen Manitoba Hal use slide on nylon tenor/ bari ukuleles to good effect.

Comment by Slow Blues Dani & Ol' Grey Bear on February 4, 2017 at 10:37am

I enjoyed this lots. Do you have nylon acoustic strings on there? Sounds much softer than I'm used to hearing of late and I can't quite put my finger on it. Softer sounding as though it is the strings, not volume. I like the sound though so if it is nylon acoustic then I might change my parlour too.

As a side note, do you know if you can use slides on nylon strings?

Comment by Derek Rose on February 4, 2017 at 10:35am

I have been on an ELP kick lately, had to get this song out of my system ;)  It is a fun little guitar. I couldn't get this song to work on a 4 string so went with the Chris again. Thanks John!

Comment by Uncle John on February 4, 2017 at 6:46am

Another Greg Lake.   Good choice and well done.   I like that little Chris guitar.  

Comment by Derek Rose on February 4, 2017 at 3:39am

Yes, RIP Greg Lake. This one did take some time to learn and concentration to play. Thanks Bluesheart, Wes, Erasmo and Jim! 

Comment by Jim Morris on February 4, 2017 at 1:33am

Excellent! You handled those chords nicely and, of course - great singing.

Comment by Bluesheart on February 3, 2017 at 7:24pm

Wow, challenging song, great job. RIP Greg Lake.

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