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Re: Perpertual Blues Machine Playing tips

Posted by Tom Walz on May 1, 2003, 12:31 pm, in reply to "Perpertual Blues Machine Playing tips"
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Sue,
I'm not exactly sure where you're having trouble but I suspect its in the right hand technique. On the F#m7 part you mention, Keb does what I call "The Broonzy Scrub." The right thumb rakes across the strings 6,5,4 to the quarter note beat while at the same time using the pad of that thumb as a mute pressed lightly enough so the notes can be heard but hard enough to make the notes a percussive suggestion. Your fingers on the same hand provide the sycopated rhythm that makes it move.
Tom
--Previous Message--
: : I just been learing to play Perpertual blues
: machine by KEB MO. I am having trouble
: playing the shuffle beginning on the F#m7
: chord leading to the B7. Somehow my
: playing and singing goes through the
: window. I have nailed the rest of the
: song. Any ideas how i can get round this
: learning curve. I can finger the chords
: and move freely from one to the other but
: somehow the picking wrecks havoc. Help.
: (edit this message) (Printer Friendly Version
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--Previous Message-- : Sue, : : I'm not exactly sure where you're having : trouble but I suspect its in the right hand : technique. On the F#m7 part you mention, Keb : does what I call "The Broonzy : Scrub." The right thumb rakes across : the strings 6,5,4 to the quarter note beat : while at the same time using the pad of that : thumb as a mute pressed lightly enough so : the notes can be heard but hard enough to : make the notes a percussive suggestion. Your : fingers on the same hand provide the : sycopated rhythm that makes it move. : : Tom : : --Previous Message-- : : I just been learing to play Perpertual : blues : machine by KEB MO. I am having trouble : playing the shuffle beginning on the F#m7 : chord leading to the B7. Somehow my : playing and singing goes through the : window. I have nailed the rest of the : song. Any ideas how i can get round this : learning curve. I can finger the chords : and move freely from one to the other but : somehow the picking wrecks havoc. Help. : (edit this message) (Printer Friendly : Version : : : :

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