I have been working on a slide arrangement of The Ventures 'Walk don't Run' in Open D. One of the things I have been struggling with is how to get a good Am chord while playing the rhythm chords. I haven't found a good solution for this, other than transposing the song so that I use a Bm instead. However this makes the entire arrangement tough to manage, especially when it comes to the melody. It is making my brain melt.
Anyone have a good solution for a strummed Am to be used in the rhythm parts.
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 | Dan Schwartz says:
12/31/2012 9:21:26 AM
How about using the 5th string open A and then the 4th and 5th strings at the tenth fret for the C and E. You could include the 2nd string open A in there as well. You could also get a Am7 up there at the tenth fret by including the 2nd string under your bar.
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 | TheKrowe says:
12/31/2012 2:15:25 PM
Great timing for this question! I was struggling with this yesterday afternoon and the best I could come up with without an arpeggio as previously suggested was a two note suggestion, open A fifth string and catch a C on the second string. Your ear has to fill in the missing E.
I noticed Troy left out Am in his Chords In Open D lesson. So much for House of the Rising Sun... 😄
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 | jacknj says:
1/1/2013 8:04:16 AM
Hi Casey:, Happy New Year . Another position other than the 10th fret as Dan mentioned, is at the 3rd fret with strings 2,3, and 5. It's a partial voicing with the root on the 3rd string, and the minor 3rd on the 2nd and 5th strings. You can use it as a 3string grip or use the notes individually in a roll type of picking pattern. As a side note, Mike Auldridge recorded this song on his Blues and Bluegrass album. This cd is now sold as a double cd combining Mike's first solo album and the one above. It's done in G tuning though, but it might give you some ideas. You can hear segments of it at Amazon.
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 | Bob Blair says:
1/1/2013 10:54:19 AM
For a very poignant version of this, as well as "House of the Rising Sun" by Mike (unfortunately he is in the middle and the view is not what we might wish for) just this last fall have a look at the following link.
youtube.com/watch?v=tzyYVzLkxOM
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 | CaseyHunter says:
1/1/2013 3:10:33 PM
Thanks Dan and Jack. I have played with those two different Am voicings and am still struggling to get a solid Am strum. Will work on my technique to see if I can get it better. Krowe, I also gave up on House of the Rising Sun while playing in open D.
Bob and Jack, I absolutely love Mikes rendition of Walk Don't Run. I have worn out a Seldom Scene 20 Anniversary album listening to that one song over and over. It is my main inspiration to figure it out on the weissienclone. However, the more I attempt it, the more I feel pushed to get an instrument that I can play with the dobro G tuning.
Bob, thanks for that link, I had not heard that version. It is awesome.
Thanks,
Casey
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| CaseyHunter says:
1/1/2013 4:15:26 PM
Thanks Dan and Jack. I have played with those two different Am voicings and am still struggling to get a solid Am strum. Will work on my technique to see if I can get it better. Krowe, I also gave up on House of the Rising Sun while playing in open D.
Bob and Jack, I absolutely love Mikes rendition of Walk Don't Run. I have worn out a Seldom Scene 20 Anniversary album listening to that one song over and over. It is my main inspiration to figure it out on the weissienclone. However, the more I attempt it, the more I feel pushed to get an instrument that I can play with the dobro G tuning.
Bob, thanks for that link, I had not heard that version. It is awesome.
Thanks,
Casey
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| Bob Blair says:
1/1/2013 8:56:05 PM
Casey, I would not for one minute hesitate to get something you can put a standard G tuning on, but don't give up the D-tuned weissenborn to do it. I got into weissenborn-style axes before I got my first reso (I am a longtime pedal steel player) and I love them dearly. But a couple of years ago at the TSGA jamboree in Dallas (MArch 2010 I think) I was sitting around the Benoit display room with a small group of good players and I was playing a Cajunborne in D tuning. I was getting totally buried until I reached back and grabbed a reso tuned to the standard G and that was the end of the problem even though I really didn't have much experience with the tuning - of course the resonator could cut it in terms of volume in ways the Weiss just couldn't, but I also found the G tuning really versatile. So of course I got Carroll Benoit to make me one, then bought a second from him. I play very differently on them than I do on the weissenborns - I love both instruments and would not give up either. I would not give up my pedal steels either of course. Or my regular six strings.
I remember thinking that resos and weissenborns were less complicated and easier to lug around than pedal steel - it ain't necessarily so, because when I am doing acoustic stuff I find myself dragging multiple instruments around!
Just never, ever, give a straight answer to the question "how many guitars do you have?".
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| jacknj says:
1/2/2013 5:47:40 AM
Casey: Short of getting another instrument with a G tuning, the easiest way would be to re-tune the Weissie to Open G. I don't suggest Dobro G tuning because the tension might be too much for the guitar. I actually use Open G on my reso. It will give you most of the notes needed and allows you to do most of the regular "bluegrass" material. I re-tune my guitars back and forth all the time from Open G to Open D and to DADGAD. (The 1st, 4th and 6th strings are always tuned to D).
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