Posted by Peer on April 24, 2006, 11:11 am, in reply to "Re: great big mystery (and it sure is worrying me)" I tried to do what you said, but it's a bit too tough for me, too. good luck, Peer.
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Hello Ari,
Anyway, I'm not so sure that's the way he did it: he does the same for instance in a break in Diddie wa Diddie, and I can't imagine he had got the time to do this trick like you said.
On the first fret(Bstring) you don't get the whining sound, and, sliding over the frets to the 5th,(Gstring) you'll hear the frets , of course.
so, as far as I'm concerned: still a mystery!!
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: Hello Ari,
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: Thanks for your response. That's quick! I'm
: going to try that rightaway.
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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.
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: 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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