What are you practicing today?
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'Love Me" by Collin Raye - one of my top 5 love songs
jedzep
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Trying to get the beginning riff down tight with a flat pick, because I can't finger pick. Thankfully, Simmons lets the camera have a good look.
Seeing old rockers is depressing, though.
Seeing old rockers is depressing, though.
Guildedagain
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Doobies were so high on the list of sh*t hot guitar players back in the China Grove heyday.
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I'm practicing "Blue skies" by Irving Berlin.
I started taking lessons from our Grand-childrens' former guitar/ukelele teacher (since they moved away from Toronto) during the summer.
He is staging a concert for his pupils this Sunday evening, and he and I will be playing a duet, with each of us doing a solo.
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I started taking lessons from our Grand-childrens' former guitar/ukelele teacher (since they moved away from Toronto) during the summer.
He is staging a concert for his pupils this Sunday evening, and he and I will be playing a duet, with each of us doing a solo.
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Do you ever play B7 by barring it? I've always found it easier and faster to play it that way rather than the four-finger version in the first and second frets.
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Laziness.
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Had an empty house for 2 hrs this morning, cranked up the amps and had a blast playing Won't Get Fooled Again along w/ this on the big tv w/ the surround system w/ the subs (I mean The Ox!) shaking the walls. Great fun!
True, but it sounds different.
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dreadnut,
Yes it does, but I find the convenience and ease of making the change from, or to it overshadows the difference in sound from the other version.
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Charlie Bernstein
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Picked up my mando and figured out the opening bars of the Band's version of "Atlantic City." Levon kept it simple, thank God.
Other than than, a much too busy day to woodshed. Happy Thanksgiving!
Other than than, a much too busy day to woodshed. Happy Thanksgiving!
This.
I find both easy, but I've been doing it a long time. IF it's easier, the difference in sound is negligible, it's the same notes on a few of the same strings and a few different strings.
However, your quest to "improve" as a player and learn how to do that "move" effectively is also a great strategy. You didn't say if you are doing it to learn a particular song. If so, I'd have fun playing it with the B7 you find easier, and then work on the other "move", too, just to become a better player.
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Every day. Bar chords are heavenly, of course, but the bluesy twists you can give a cowboy B7 with pull-offs, hammer-ons, and slides, especially at the second and third frets, sound like no other chord. Highly distinctive.
So don't neglect it just because it's near the nut. Very worth diving deep into.
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Charlie Bernstein
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Yup. That because they are easy.
Not when I use 'em. See post 14.
Barred B7s all across the fretboard are great for chops, chinks, and Chuck Berry riffs. But cowboy B7s (x21202) occupy a universe of their own. Some tunes I play in E just to take advantage of that jangly, instantly recognizable B7 sound.
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The open B7 shape is a second nature requirement if you're into James Brown type stuff. 
(I prefer it over the barre)
(I prefer it over the barre)
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I don’t necessarily, but for the voicing I need in Gov’t Mule’s Fallen Down, open B7 is the way to go(plus Warren does the open position as well) so I feel the need to emulate that. I’m gettin there, today went a long way to being almost able to do it without even looking. I am also working on the Beatles‘ “Girl“, with Capo at 8th fret, which also uses the open B7 fingering so that is helping. For some reason that one is easier to get clean right away. I think that’s due to moving from Em positioning. Now, next I’ll be practicing my singing while playing. Singing and playing seems easier when I close my eyes
Charlie Bernstein
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It's true that lots of people find bar chords easier to play and transpose than cowboy chords. But every cowboy chord has its own family of unique possibilities. So it's worth it to stick with what you're doing there. Cowboy D and cowboy B7 will keep you planty busy!
