strumminsix wrote:jeffm725 wrote:Here is the Base chord I play and then you embellish this base with hammers with your pinky on the High e string C like you mentioned strummin,(shown here in parenthesis) also can use your pinky to hammer tones onto the B string (9th fret Ab) and G string.
Obviously you dont play all 6 strings at once, you can go for the bottom 3 or for, the middle few, or the top few depending on the portion of the chord tones you want to highlight at that time, but this full 6 string shape is the basis of what he is doing in my opinion.
E|-(8)--
B|--5--
G|--5--
D|--5--
A|--8--
E|--6--
I don't think Weir does much embellishing. Check out 2:10-2:15:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOaSrnd6 ... re=related
maybe not right there in that 2 second change , but that is not the only spot in the song that chord shows up. That is the very first chord of the song , as well as the ONLY chord in the whole open ended jam. He is not static in a single voicing that whole time.(in the intro OR the jam)
In fact you can see a portion of the voicing I charted in the clip you just posted. Index finger barred across the 5th fret though the middle strings and then building the alternate voicing from there.
Need a guitar in hand to hear what I think I am seeing there for the alterations, but he has dropped the 6th string from that voicing so he is starting on the A there (it looks like the 8th fret like I have in the chart) but he has such large hands he could grab for the 10th fret G there as well, it would work)
I need to try this on my axe when I get home but here is what I think it is:
E|-----
B|--5--
G|--5--
D|--6--
A|--8--
E|-----
and By the way, I was wrong about him omitting the 6th string in the voicing, he is playing it with his THUMB on the 6th fret! (Look closely)
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