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Post by mrmustard on May 9, 2014 12:17:31 GMT
Yes, this is how John plays it. He didn't play it as succinctly live as he did in the studio though.
I can only imagine that as you are reaching with your little finger your index finger barring all the strings releases slightly on the fretboard and you are not pressing hard enough with your little finger. I will check again when I have a guitar in my hands. It is a difficult riff to pull off fluently time after time though.
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Post by henryj on May 9, 2014 12:21:32 GMT
I'm the least person to give advice on guitar playing, but what I do is, instead of going down to the E shape on third fret, I just start that part of the passage on the A string 12th fret. By fretting that far up the neck and picking in the middle of the string, you retain that Rhodes-piano-like tone that John gets. I guess that when George comes in with the lick, he's playing down the neck on the 3rd fret position (actually starting the lick on the 5th fret, D string).
Being woefully self-taught on guitar (I've been formally trained on other instruments), I never learned how to fret with my pinky. I have heard that B.B. King is the same way.
Otherwise, it appears you are playing the lick the same way I do. In the Philip McDonald book, Sean Lennon says that his dad was double-jointed, which made him REALLY GOOD at playing guitar chords.
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Post by mrmustard on May 9, 2014 12:37:53 GMT
I never knew John was double-jointed. He did seem to have fairly big hands though as when he played C7 shape chords up the neck of the guitar he could easily get his thumb right round the neck so he was barring the E and A low strings.
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Post by mrmustard on May 9, 2014 13:22:08 GMT
That's right HenryJ. By his own admission, BB King doesn't do chords - as can be witnessed in U2's Rattle and Hum movie. He has a hell of a tone and great feel though.
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Post by henryj on May 9, 2014 17:31:18 GMT
Correction: 10th fret on A string. Too early in the morning in this time zone. I had not finished off my coffee just yet.
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Post by Amadeus on May 9, 2014 18:23:53 GMT
AND... he played it on that Gibson jumbo ac/elec. guitar. On my '78 Yamaha jumbo, the feedback sound is exactly the same and the tonal quality is the same. That 'rhodes piano' quality is just ancient acoustic pickup tech going through ancient amplifiers so it sounds nothing like a guitar.
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Post by henryj on May 9, 2014 18:40:38 GMT
Amadeus: "On my '78 Yamaha jumbo, the feedback sound is exactly the same and the tonal quality is the same."
My brothers and I get together every Christmas with our instruments and play Beatle music. One year one of them brought his Gibson J-160e like Lennon's. He set it down near an amp, and, I am not making this up, there was a sound identical to the beginning of "I Feel Fine." Didn't do it on purpose. Could not have done it if he had intentionally tried to re-create the sound.
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Post by Bongo on May 17, 2014 15:44:07 GMT
I'm the least person to give advice on guitar playing Ask me anything, I play a mean Air Guitar!!!!!! Attachments:
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Post by ROCKY on Jun 21, 2014 14:58:57 GMT
Well this is what happened when I tried playing that riff and my Lennon Jumbo off to the side.
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