Posted by Ari Eisinger --Previous Message-- Link: Ari Eisinger's Home Page
on April 16, 2006, 4:00 pm, in reply to "great big mystery (and it sure is worrying me)"
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I think the line is "You caused me to be blue." In any case, I think he's pressing hard on the second string between the nut and the peg that the string is wound around, raising the pitch from B to C. This hurts alot on any guitar I've used and yet doesn't raise the pitch sufficiently, so I don't recommend doing this. (Perhaps his setup allowed this, or maybe he had stronger and more calloused fingers than I do.) You may be able to achieve a sufficiently similar effect by using vibrato on the first fret of the second string, or by sliding up to the fifth fret on the third string.
: Hello Ari,
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: You guessed it: this is again a question
: about the playing of Blind Blake.
: Apart from the mystery how he can play like
: that in the first place, here's my specific
: question: somtimes BB seems to use a slide
: (maybe a ring he wears? You will hear this
: slided C-note for instance in Black Dog
: Blues: Black Dog, Black Dog, you caused me
: to weep and moan... and there it comes.
: Have you any idea how he does that??
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: thanks,
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: Peer van der Burgh.
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