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Boyd Tinsley Band · Unread post by **Boyd Tinsley Band** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:48 am

I can't seem to get it. CAn you compare it to any other song or could somebody get a video for me to watch?

Yakko · Unread post by **Yakko** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 1:39 am

He plays it like every Farm Aid...Look at those vids.

Theya re on Youtube, or DMBONTV

dmfollower · Unread post by **dmfollower** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:26 am

So damn lucky is a cross between "jimi thing", "grey street"/trippin' billies/lie in our graves/too much/ dancing nancies and recently. You figure it out :lol:

Boyd Tinsley Band · Unread post by **Boyd Tinsley Band** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 11:32 am

Thanks I just found one on YouTube that helped me

Nuladion · Unread post by **Nuladion** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 1:43 pm

A little joyride too

aubdmb · Unread post by **aubdmb** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 3:49 pm

I've had trouble with this too...is it alternating up and down strumming or just one direction down (but fast)? I've tried watching the video but can't tell.

Thanks

matts420music · Unread post by **matts420music** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 4:03 pm

shoot me if i am crazy just my opinion, the intro/verse kinda sounds a little joni mitchell style.

MakoMako · Unread post by **MakoMako** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 4:12 pm

aubdmb wrote:I've had trouble with this too...is it alternating up and down strumming or just one direction down (but fast)? I've tried watching the video but can't tell.

Thanks

To try and help you out, most of the sound you hear in the Verse guitar part is from hammer-ons, at least that's how I do it. It's tough to just let your fingers easily do it over and over again comfortably, but the strumming is mostly just up and down. Again, this is just the way I do it, but it sounds right.

djwhd28 · Unread post by **djwhd28** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:18 pm

I struggled with this one for a while, too. The easy part is that your strumming hand never changes speed. The difficult part is that the verse is in 3 and the chorus is in 4. This kind of change where the 3 turns into 4 (123123 123123 123123 123123 becomes 1234 1234 1234 1234 with the same eigth note value) without a temp0 change is called a metric modulation. That's what makes it tricky to figure out.

Watch the AOL sessions, it's the only one with the cleanest version that you can follow. And count against a metronome to get the beats right. That's the key to the strumming. 3 then 4.

Good luck.

the_drewster · Unread post by **the_drewster** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:44 am

Hi,

It's not the tempo I have a problem with.

E:----------------------------
B:----------------------------
G:-9h11--9--11--9--11--9--11--
D:-9------9--x---9--x---9--x---
A:-9h11--9--11--9--11--9--11--
E:-0-------0--0---0--0---0--0---

-----------------------------
-----------------------------
9h11---9--11--9--11--9--11--
9h11---9--11--9--11--9--11-- x2
0-------0--0---0--0---0--0---
-----------------------------

You can clearly hear him play the top E in both parts of the verse. So he must be barring the whole of the 9th fret. But my fingers don't bend that way. I cannot bar the whole of the 9th fret and have fingers on the 11th fret too. What do you reckon?

matts420music · Unread post by **matts420music** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:34 am

E:----------------------------
B:----------------------------
G:-9h11--9--11--9--11--9--11--
D:-9------9--x---9--x---9--x---
A:-9h11--9--11--9--11--9--11--
E:-0-------0--0---0--0---0--0---

-----------------------------
-----------------------------
9h11---9--11--9--11--9--11--
9h11---9--11--9--11--9--11-- x2
0-------0--0---0--0---0--0---
-----------------------------

I had trouble with that also. Bar the ninth and hammer on with elen with pinky and ring finger....then practice, it took me awhile to get this one

the_drewster · Unread post by **the_drewster** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:52 am

But my fingers don't bend that way.

I'll keep practicing.

djwhd28 · Unread post by **djwhd28** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:10 am

Welcome to the world of Dave's fingers. On top of that you have to find a way to mute the B string while you're barring. This one takes practice, but when you get it it's one of the coolest riffs to play.

sups08 · Unread post by **sups08** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:32 pm

djwhd28 wrote:Welcome to the world of Dave's fingers.

That's what she said.

j

MountainDewser · Unread post by **MountainDewser** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:42 pm

your fingers will learn to bend that way

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