can you play the shovel?
10-07-2016 | 07:15 PM
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From: bolton
10-12-2016 | 07:13 AM
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10-12-2016 | 01:48 PM
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Got this comment back from a friend that I thought I would share. Being fretless makes it easier to play because he slides up to the note (see the little tube on his finger?) and you never push the string down to the fretboard. In essence it is a steel guitar. Guitarists have been doing that for a long time on regular guitars or especially on resonater guitars and it is a cool sound used by lots of blues players. The bottom string is just a drone string (probably an E?) and he’s playing the melody on the top two strings. Having said all that, he’s still a great picker and slider.
10-13-2016 | 11:54 AM
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I like alternative tuning, when using a bottleneck. Like dropped-D. Makes more chords available on the neck with the slide... like barre chords with finger.
He is using his fingers on bass notes. Must have mermorized the positions. Or maybe they're marked on backside of shovel.
He is using his fingers on bass notes. Must have mermorized the positions. Or maybe they're marked on backside of shovel.
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