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Since I got the SCGC dreadnought back out I have been trying to relearn some matieral I play on 5 string emando. Mostly this means I’m trying out different voicings on the guitar and comparing them to the emando.
What I love about the emando is the closeness of the harmonies in the chords. A c major chord is a 5 note affair starting with a C in the bass. Then going up we have the G, the E, another C an octave up, and another E an octave up: (CGEce). It’s big and rich with that immediate 5th, and it has a unified sound.
By comaprison the open C on a guitar is CEGce. It’s more open, individual notes are easier to hear.
So I’ve been chasing inversions in standard tuning, looking for unified sound and ease of play.
Capos are useful with this. For instance, I’ve been trying O Shenandoah out of C with the capo on the second fret, Nights in White Satin in Em without a capo (as Justin Hayward intended) and also out of Am with the capo on the 7th fret.
The other thing I’ve been doing is working on a couple slow fiddle tunes. Ashokan Farewell is a tune I have played for decades, but I’ve been shaking off the rust on guitar. Short Trip Home by Edgar Meyer is a great tune, and I’ve been learning it on both guitar and mandolin.
On Short Trip Home, Joshua Bell (violin) plays the greater part of the tune, and there’s a touch of mandolin (Sam Bush) near the end. He gets a shot at the A part. Because it was written on an instrument tuned in fifths, it’s a lot easier to play on moandolin.
If play it on guitar in the same octave, I’m basically stuck traversing the B string (my weakness). So I’m learning both octaves, but playing the original (upper) octave up the neck where fingering are closer and the B string gives me G and A notes (fourth and fifth in the scale). Somehow that makes it easier.
Well that’s me…
What about you?
Daniel
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I have been spending the majority of my time creating Freshwater Surf Music for my electric trio. I broke the high E string on my OM in August and didn’t put on a new set of Elixir Light until I got the wedding request.
Getting back to my acoustic has been wonderful. I’ve been playing my Strat, Tele, Jazzmaster, SG, PRS into a Deluxe Reverb.
I’m now thinking about putting a pickup in the Brazilian/Adirondack OM for the trio to get a more Hot Tuna sound.
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JS Bach, Partita No.3 for solo violin, first movement, Prelude.
Transposed from E to G for 5-string banjo.
3 months in, up to measure 43 out of 138. A lot of new skills and patterns needed for banjo, for sure. Probably another 6 months to learn the whole piece passably, and another 3 months to polish it for performance.
I’m a much below average guitar player, so nothing new there — but you asked for music! For a guitar piece, tried Mr. Tony’s “Faded Love.” Got 4-5 measures in and realized that, while the transcription notes were accurate, the pick strokes that were labeled in the tablature were not Mr. Tony’s typical way of playing. Put that one away for a while, frustrated and don’t have the knowledge to figure it out. Someday maybe.
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The wedding was wonderful.
Addie walked in with Here Comes the Sun and out with La Vie en Rose.
She and Troy were blissfully happy.
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