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crush chorus question

Unread post by gravesRR7 » Tue Feb 11, 2003 9:58 pm

when I play the chorus in crush, the 12 on the G string seems to ring too much and drown out the other two strings. I just wondered if anyone had the same problem and could help me out with maybe a different technique or an alternate way to play it (i've already checked the last two posts on crush). Maybe there's a fret you could also hit on the low D string that'll make the sound a bit lower, or something. any help is welcome................this has always been a hard part to play :?
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Re: crush chorus question

Unread post by gravedigger » Tue Feb 11, 2003 10:53 pm

gravesRR7 wrote:when I play the chorus in crush, the 12 on the G string seems to ring too much and drown out the other two strings. I just wondered if anyone had the same problem and could help me out with maybe a different technique or an alternate way to play it (i've already checked the last two posts on crush). Maybe there's a fret you could also hit on the low D string that'll make the sound a bit lower, or something. any help is welcome................this has always been a hard part to play :?
I don't mind that G note ringing through the chorus. maybe its more noticeable on your guitar, I don't know. You can play open chords for it if you want to - F, G, C, G....

that works too.
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Unread post by DMBFreak84 » Tue Feb 11, 2003 10:57 pm

yeah, gravedigger has the idea, i just play what i posted on one of the crush discussions
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Unread post by Iceman25 » Wed Feb 12, 2003 9:14 am

I posted the last Crush thred on the same topic because the chorus was really given me a hard time too. I also noticed the G string kind of drawning out the rest of the notes but I found that if you can mute the Low E string (D in this case) and strum a little harder on the A & D strings, it blends and sounds a lot better. This may sound wierd, but you can easily mute it with the palm of your strumming hand alternatively. Billywestom (hope you don't mind the reference) has a great audio of Crush, check it out here, its very helpful!

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Unread post by gravesRR7 » Thu Feb 13, 2003 6:54 pm

the stuff about muting the high e string is really helpfull thank you. and gravedigger, when you said to play the F G C G... how do you do that when its in drop D. the fingering must be different right? i don't know how to play a G in drop D
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Unread post by gravedigger » Thu Feb 13, 2003 7:06 pm

gravesRR7 wrote:the stuff about muting the high e string is really helpfull thank you. and gravedigger, when you said to play the F G C G... how do you do that when its in drop D. the fingering must be different right? i don't know how to play a G in drop D
oh yeah, I forgot :?

errrrr. you can play these: 3-3-3-5-x-x, 5-5-5-7-x-x, x-3-2-0-1-0 (F,G,C)
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Unread post by gravesRR7 » Fri Feb 14, 2003 8:51 pm

sounds good, thank you.
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