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Post by Village Idiot on Jun 27, 2022 20:30:54 GMT -5
I like most of the non-related guitar things that are posted here. One reason is that it brings real people into the discussion of things that actually pertain to guitar. What a big difference between finding an answer through Google and learning something from someone I've met or at least know something about.
I've been messing around trying to accomplish something in E for a few days, getting nowhere. The fingering was just to much. Then I remembered that if I capo up two and leave the low E un-capoed, I've got what can be considered drop D in the key of E. What I'm messing around with started to come together. And I learned that here. I would have never remembered that if I had read it off of a website found through a search. Thanks, all, for bein real people.
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Post by epaul on Jun 27, 2022 21:32:17 GMT -5
Oh good grief. You aren't going to try, again, talk us into letting you play that 42 minute "In-a-Gadda-Da- Vida" guitar solo you've been working on for the last six years.
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Post by Village Idiot on Jun 27, 2022 21:39:42 GMT -5
Yes. But I'm done trying to talk you into wearing that butterfly outfit. I get it. Tamarack can wear that, and I won't argue.
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Post by epaul on Jun 27, 2022 21:59:51 GMT -5
Putting Tam in the butterfly outfit is the absolute right move. I saw him try it on after he thought everyone had left rehearsal, and his tippy-toed flitting was so light and airy I swear that when he started flapping his arms, it was like he was just floating in the air.
I know that Dave has been lobbying for the butterfly suit, but, no, he is like a cow on roller skates compared to Tam. Tam is our lady butterfly.
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Post by John B on Jun 27, 2022 22:58:08 GMT -5
Todd, that's a favorite trick of mine. Do you have a special 5-string capo (either manufactured that way or modified to do that), or do you just clamp the capo on funny for now?
I could never see the utility of doing that, since you lose the drop-D when you play other chords. Then after struggling for a long time on a piece where I first tried in drop D, then in drop DG, I tried the 5-string capo. Suddenly all the transitions I couldn't play well (D to G or D to A when in drop D) were there like magic.
So I shouldn't have poo-pooed the notion.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Jun 27, 2022 23:00:13 GMT -5
VI, after you posted this, I capoed the Collings and found that “I Know Your Rider” works really well this way.
Mike
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Post by Marshall on Jun 28, 2022 7:48:35 GMT -5
I've been using a partial capo a lot that leaves the bottom and the top 2 strings open. It gives an open sound like DADGAD except in E. And you still have familiar chords as well. Sometimes I do a song that uses 2 capos. A full one on 3 and a partial on 5. - Cool sound.
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Post by dradtke on Jun 28, 2022 8:14:15 GMT -5
Putting Tam in the butterfly outfit is the absolute right move. I saw him try it on after he thought everyone had left rehearsal, and his tippy-toed flitting was so light and airy I swear that when he started flapping his arms, it was like he was just floating in the air. I know that Dave has been lobbying for the butterfly suit, but, no, he is like a cow on roller skates compared to Tam. Tam is our lady butterfly. And when were you planning on telling me this? I've been working on those steps. (Which one of the Dons is Tam? I can never tell them apart.) |
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Post by epaul on Jun 28, 2022 10:12:03 GMT -5
I hope to Thor you never have to find out this way, but the Don with the tattoo of Willie Nelson on his butt is the "not-Tam" Don.
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Post by millring on Jun 28, 2022 16:03:55 GMT -5
I've been using a partial capo a lot that leaves the bottom and the top 2 strings open. It gives an open sound like DADGAD except in E. And you still have familiar chords as well. Sometimes I do a song that uses 2 capos. A full one on 3 and a partial on 5. - Cool sound. If I turn it one way I play "Please Come To Boston". If I turn it the other way I play "Where Have You Been?" |
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Post by dradtke on Jun 28, 2022 17:26:57 GMT -5
I hope to Thor you never have to find out this way, but the Don with the tattoo of Willie Nelson on his butt is the "not-Tam" Don. Is that why he always misses the no-pants shows? I thought everybody loved Willie Nelson. |
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Post by drlj on Jun 28, 2022 18:11:28 GMT -5
I told you to use a partial capo 15 months ago and you argued it was satanic and unnatural. Now, suddenly, it’s all peaches and cream, milk and cookies, sunshine, lollipops and rainbows. Give me a break!
And it’s not a trick. A trick would be pulling a quarter out of Radtke’s ear. The partial capo is a tool, my friend, a tool.
I made a drop D capo by grinding the end off a Shubb so it only covers five strings. I have about 93 Shubbs in various drawers so I figured, why buy one when I could make one?
I did that many years ago. Still got it so I can do guitar tricks with it. Kids love guitar tricks.
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Post by Village Idiot on Jun 28, 2022 20:27:35 GMT -5
I maintain a partial capo is Satanic an unnatural. I don't know what a partial capo is, except that it's satanic and unnatural.
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Post by dradtke on Jun 28, 2022 20:38:18 GMT -5
Where'd that quarter come from?
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Post by gbacklin on Jun 28, 2022 20:43:26 GMT -5
I told you to use a partial capo 15 months ago and you argued it was satanic and unnatural. Now, suddenly, it’s all peaches and cream, milk and cookies, sunshine, lollipops and rainbows. Give me a break! And it’s not a trick. A trick would be pulling a quarter out of Radtke’s ear. The partial capo is a tool, my friend, a tool. I made a drop D capo by grinding the end off a Shubb so it only covers five strings. I have about 93 Shubbs in various drawers so I figured, why buy one when I could make one? I did that many years ago. Still got it so I can do guitar tricks with it. Kids love guitar tricks. |
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Post by drlj on Jun 28, 2022 21:02:39 GMT -5
I maintain a partial capo is Satanic an unnatural. I don't know what a partial capo is, except that it's satanic and unnatural. A capo that covers 5 strings instead of 6 is a partial capo. A capo can be made to cover 5 strings, 3 strings, and even two strings. You probably thought it meant it wasn’t a complete capo, like maybe part of it was missing. H’mm. That is sort of what it is, so forget what I said. Just accept the fact that a partial capo is a real thing. |
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Post by Village Idiot on Jun 28, 2022 21:08:06 GMT -5
I convinced a little girl from the Democratic Republic of Congo today that I ate my nametag. We don't understand each other's respective languages, but that didn't stop us from bonding over the idea of eating plastic nametags. Which, I note, has nothing to do with music, capos, or guitar.
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Post by millring on Jun 29, 2022 3:48:48 GMT -5
I was playing guitar in the back yard last night. I laid down my pick on the bench beside me and forgot about it. When I was getting ready to go inside for the night I looked for my pick on the bench and couldn't find it. I worried that IceSha had eaten it. Then I stopped worrying, remembering that it is one of those picks made from bio-material and if she did swallow it she should digest it just fine. Then I really stopped worrying because I found it on the table beside me.
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Post by Marshall on Jun 29, 2022 8:18:05 GMT -5
I maintain a partial capo is Satanic an unnatural. I don't know what a partial capo is, except that it's satanic and unnatural. And they're illegal now since the Supreme Court ruled that all capos must be carried to full length. |
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