Members fastblueheeler Posted March 26, 2011 Members Share Posted March 26, 2011 Looks like he does quite a bit of that frettin' behind the slide. On the frettin' behind the slide thing. Excuse my ignorance but I know nothing of this technique. I suppose it changes the tuning to a degree. Can it be used to make a minor chord with the slide? Who else does it? Tell me more please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stackabones Posted March 26, 2011 Author Members Share Posted March 26, 2011 Hey, James, that's a good one, too. Love how he uses the looper for a touch of atmosphere & rhythm. Bill, fretting behind the slide allows you to do some interesting things -- like minor & 7th etc chords and scalar runs. Probably the top cat doing it these days is Sonny Landreth. I recall an issue of Guitar Player years (decades maybe) ago that featured him and that fretting behind the slide thing. When I played more slide, I worked up some of these techniques and for about a year I solely played in Open G using it (in the context of a Grateful Dead band -- so lots of different tunes and keys). Lap steelers do something like this, too -- but naturally they bend notes rather than fret them. I went back and listened to Ptacek's version of Johnson's Me And The Devil Blues & compared it the original. To my ears they have that same spookiness, even though both of them have their own thing going on. Then I listened to an acoustic version of Clapton, which I believe is very much like how most blues players today would approach the song (and I think that largely has to do with the incredible influence of Clapton on contemporary blues). I have to admit, as much as I like Clapton, that his version just doesn't have that spooky mojo that Johnson or Ptacek has. It doesn't mean that I don't like it, but it just doesn't put me in the same space as the others. I wonder what reso Ptacek is using? And what's that pup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fastblueheeler Posted March 26, 2011 Members Share Posted March 26, 2011 My take on it: with Clapton you get smooth and precise, very controlled. Ptacek's and Johnson's are raw and aggressive, both the playing and the vocals. I prefer raw and aggressive. As for what Reso he's playing, I think we can rule out Rogue. but I dunno. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stackabones Posted March 27, 2011 Author Members Share Posted March 27, 2011 Shoot. I was hoping for Rogue. My budget was hoping for Rogue. Ya gotta Rogue, Bill? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fastblueheeler Posted March 27, 2011 Members Share Posted March 27, 2011 I gotta Rogue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stackabones Posted March 27, 2011 Author Members Share Posted March 27, 2011 Is it bitchin'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fastblueheeler Posted March 27, 2011 Members Share Posted March 27, 2011 Is it bitchin'? Oh yeah! (Oops, wrong wrogue ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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