Playing in fifths

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Re: Playing in fifths

Unread post by busted stuff » Fri Jan 23, 2004 4:21 pm

captainburrito wrote:I dont really know if this is what you are asking, and it might be pretty lame sounding with my very limited musical knowledge, but i will take a crack at it anyways. If you play like Am F C G on an uncapoed guitar and Em C G D with a capo on the 5th fret, it gets a pretty nice full sound. They are actually just the same chords at different locations on the fret board. Guster does this type of thing a lot and i really like it. I hope that this helps someone..... :shock:
I like this sound. It can be very full. This is good sometimes if you need to cover some keyboard parts....... Guster is the master of this. Dispatch does this quite a bit too
Sonmetimes I would try to catch her, but I never even caught her name.....
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Re: Playing in fifths

Unread post by grock » Wed Jan 28, 2004 12:31 am

busted stuff wrote:
captainburrito wrote:I dont really know if this is what you are asking, and it might be pretty lame sounding with my very limited musical knowledge, but i will take a crack at it anyways. If you play like Am F C G on an uncapoed guitar and Em C G D with a capo on the 5th fret, it gets a pretty nice full sound. They are actually just the same chords at different locations on the fret board. Guster does this type of thing a lot and i really like it. I hope that this helps someone..... :shock:
I like this sound. It can be very full. This is good sometimes if you need to cover some keyboard parts....... Guster is the master of this. Dispatch does this quite a bit too
but really good bands will do that same thing without the capo. see the eagles for examples
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Unread post by Thomas » Wed Jan 28, 2004 1:49 am

so is this just playing with two guitars and one of them has a capo?
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Unread post by grock » Wed Jan 28, 2004 1:07 pm

elijah77jc wrote:so is this just playing with two guitars and one of them has a capo?
if that's true then why didn't someone just say that from the beginning.

playing in fifths means nothing. it's psuedo-theory.
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Unread post by Thomas » Wed Jan 28, 2004 1:49 pm

grock wrote:
elijah77jc wrote:so is this just playing with two guitars and one of them has a capo?
if that's true then why didn't someone just say that from the beginning.

playing in fifths means nothing. it's psuedo-theory.
lol i am more confused now than ever :D
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