Posted by george on October 31, 2007, 10:21 pm, in reply to "Blind Willie Johnson's Standard tuning technique. Help!"
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hey,
i figured it oiut just now,
bwj played it in open d tuning, and raised the key to an "E" capo on second, he plays a combo of pull offs on thr third string, (first/thrid frets only)!!!! i did it!!
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--Previous Message--
: Hi all, anyone master the style used by Blind
: Willie on his non slide tunes, specifically
: Soul of a Man and John the Revelator as
: examples. IN the liner notes, Samuel
: Charters says that Stefan Grossman told him
: it was a G chord held and picked around. I
: also noticed in the Soul of a Man movie by
: Wim Wenders in the PBS series that the
: reenactment, it looks as though Chris King
: is doing that, altough using his first and
: second fingers to chord the 5 and 6th
: strings, then using his ring finger to
: hammer at the fifth fret. Anyway, I can't
: get it to sound like he does, and I'm
: missing something. Anyone who has this down
: please help. Thanks, Len
:
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