Members pongo Snodgrass Posted December 21, 2003 Members Share Posted December 21, 2003 capoed or otherwise i see most use the open chords for fingerpicking. Except for paul Simon i havent found any famour artists who use chords up the fretboard.... So do you guys play up the fretboard? Give me some licks...., websites, lessons ro books which have these... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mrbluetone Posted December 21, 2003 Members Share Posted December 21, 2003 Hey, I know Laurence Juber plays em' up the board big time....there are some cool Juber lesson's on video's/dvd's and such around, just do a search for him............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Carle Posted December 21, 2003 Members Share Posted December 21, 2003 The money frets are from the nut to the 9th fret. You must not be looking very hard. Most pro's play the money frets quite a bit. Tommy Emmanuel, Pete Huttlinger, Pat Kirtley, Don Jones, Jim Hurst, Steve Rector, Chet Atkins, Merle Travis, Doc Watson, Buster B., Thom Bresh, Stephan Grossman, Peppino D'Agostino, John Renbourn. There are a lot more. All the fingerstyle players in our club play up the neck a lot. Now if you are talking about singer/strummers then they may not play up the neck very much but the guitar players do. many player/singers will play local while they sing and go up the neck for a solo part. It adds color to the music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rh2d Posted December 21, 2003 Members Share Posted December 21, 2003 I agree with Carle, the fretboard is an open field once you learn to use it. Open chords can be found in any tuning just about any place you want them. I would suggest a more advanced book/video to help you get started. About any of them will work. Orsino posted a celtic site here that is current, you might give it a try. Playing in DADGAD is going to take you up the fretboard on almost any song. Homespun Tapes has some material in that tuning. Good Luck and I know you will enjoy your efforts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarcapo Posted December 21, 2003 Members Share Posted December 21, 2003 What about all those songs with a capo? Here Comes the Sun, Jethro Tull...etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Unk Posted December 21, 2003 Members Share Posted December 21, 2003 I have a couple of Martin Simpson tapes and he makes good use of the entire fretboard. There is one tune he plays that I'm slowly beginning to learn. He starts by playing some melody notes high on the fretboard. While demonstrating how to play it he shows you how it could also be played on lower frets with the same pitch. What a difference! The higher position causes wonderful sympathetic vibrations of the other strings. This is a great example of how the tune literally has more life up the fretboard. I showed a friend of mine the melody line on a Larrivee he has and it caused him to take a renewed interest in his acoustic.On a side note it seems that I can almost tell how dry my guitar is getting by the way it reacts when I play that melody. Cool stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EvilHippy Posted December 22, 2003 Members Share Posted December 22, 2003 John Mayer plays Chords high up at the 7th/8th fret a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Carle Posted December 22, 2003 Members Share Posted December 22, 2003 Hmm, as a matter of fact, friday nite a friend gave me a book called Fingerstyle Guitar by Mark Hanson and I started learning a tune called Canyon Cannon and it is all over the neck from open to the 11th fret. It is mostly arpeggio with some dissonance. I can play all but the last two lines but it still needs LOTS of practice. There are a lot of instruction books to help play up the neck and it's well worth the time and effort. It sure adds a lot of color to a tune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ruction11 Posted December 22, 2003 Members Share Posted December 22, 2003 Leo Kottke is all over the neck when he plays. I had to privlage of getting front row seats to one of his shows last year, he's an amazing player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pongo Snodgrass Posted December 23, 2003 Author Members Share Posted December 23, 2003 Originally posted by Carle Hmm, as a matter of fact, friday nite a friend gave me a book called Fingerstyle Guitar by Mark Hanson and I started learning a tune called Canyon Cannon and it is all over the neck from open to the 11th fret. It is mostly arpeggio with some dissonance. I can play all but the last two lines but it still needs LOTS of practice. There are a lot of instruction books to help play up the neck and it's well worth the time and effort. It sure adds a lot of color to a tune. i ordered the video for that.....shou;ld be fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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