How to nail this tasty chord voicing?

Clecko · March 2023

Lovely execution of this 'basic' chord progression in the first half minute here. I'm struggling to nail the loose, funky way he plays the B chord at 10s (repeated approx 19s). Can anyone point me in the direction of something to help me break that down and get it under my fingers?

Danny1969 · March 2023

It's a B minor but he's just using his thumb for the B bass note first then hitting the rest of the Bm while hammering on from D to E then back off to D and landing on the B note of the D string.

Clecko · March 2023

Danny1969 said:

It's a B minor but he's just using his thumb for the B bass note first then hitting the rest of the Bm while hammering on from D to E then back off to D and landing on the B note of the D string.

Thanks man!

Clecko · March 2023

@Danny1969 - can you work the same magic for me in terms of what's happening on the embellishment of the second A major? It's at roughly 16/17 seconds. I've got all the rest of this but can't quite figure out the high nots on that part and it's driving me crazy.

Danny1969 · March 2023

Its double stops played on the G and E string ..miss out the b string

C#. B. A (this not not really hit )
E. D. C#

..9......7...............

........................

..9.......7.........6.......

Play both notes together using pick and finger. Slide into the notes from 7th fret to 9th then back

viz · March 2023

^ Would you barre the top 3 strings with your first finger while plucking just the 1st and 3rd strings, or would you use your middle and ring fingers, D69?

digitalkettle · March 2023

viz said:

^ Would you barre the top 3 strings with your first finger while plucking just the 1st and 3rd strings, or would you use your middle and ring fingers, D69?

x54455

stickyfiddle · March 2023

viz said:

^ Would you barre the top 3 strings with your first finger while plucking just the 1st and 3rd strings, or would you use your middle and ring fingers, D69?

This is a massive part of my guitar playing when left to my own devices. I use the 2nd finger on the G string and either 1st or 3rd on the high E depending on context (if same fret it's 3rd finger, if a lower fret it's first).

This should have audio if I've done it right:

https://youtu.be/SzFEuns2i6A

*I had to pick up a guitar to work this out as I honestly had no clue what I did myself. I use the same thing for ascending/descending runs on the D & B strings as well.

viz · March 2023

digitalkettle said:

viz said:

^ Would you barre the top 3 strings with your first finger while plucking just the 1st and 3rd strings, or would you use your middle and ring fingers, D69?

x54455

I bloody enjoyed that!

Clecko · March 2023

Danny1969 said:

Its double stops played on the G and E string ..miss out the b string

C#. B. A (this not not really hit )
E. D. C#

..9......7...............

........................

..9.......7.........6.......

Play both notes together using pick and finger. Slide into the notes from 7th fret to 9th then back

I was trying everything I could imagine and just had not clocked that it's notes on the G and e. Thanks so much, I really appreciate that.

Danny1969 · March 2023

viz said:

^ Would you barre the top 3 strings with your first finger while plucking just the 1st and 3rd strings, or would you use your middle and ring fingers, D69?

I would use my 2nd and ring finger Viz, using the pick and the 2nd finger at the same time.

@Clecko this is country derived doubled stops ... often called 6ths because the position puts the notes a 6th apart ... A and the sixth in the key of A which is F# for example.

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