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Went your way, Tom

Very good, Steve. Don, thanks for putting this info on the forum.

Hey Steve, could you send that to me as well?

colegaskins at aol dot com

The Byrds intro lesson at www.truefire.com is called "Chimes of Freedom"...I did a search and it came right up...costs 3 bucks

There's also a Clarence White lesson...derived from the "Fillmore" CD...but if you're into B bending, the stuff at the Clarence White Forum
is much better...

Many of the passing chords McGuinn uses are variations of the good old cowboy chords...like play a cowboy G..then move your finger from the third fret sixth string to 2nd fret 6th string....or an "F" shape G at the 3rd fret...move your finger from 5th fret fourth string to 4th fret fourth string...he does that in TTT...

What are cowboy chords?

First position chords with open strings..the G, C, D, A, E, Em, Am, etc are collectively called the cowboy chords....alot of the old cowboy songs ....."Red River Valley", "Home on the Range",and a million others..use those chords...so does alot of the old "Western" as in "Country and..."....sometimes you'll see an old guitar with all the fret wear on the first three frets...and you can say.."Yup, he didnt play much more than cowboy chords"

In reference to playing guitar in the first position, the late great "King of the Road" himself Roger Miller said "all the money is right down here." Dang Me ...

Hi, I´m coming late.
Can I have the PDF article too? Thanks

Something else that occurred to me...If you want to try to figure out some Byrds stuff, locate the live recordings...the "early" Byrds live is restricted pretty much to Monterrey Pop as far a I know...the early Byrds werent much of a live band..... Fillmore and Untitled have later incarnations of the group... but the Monterrey Pop,Fillmore and Untitled sets all contain version of some of the early songs...the 8MH jam on Untitled is pretty far out there but the other stuff is "close" to original..I find that is sometimes easier to learn parts from live recordings as opposed to studio...which may have things double and triple and quadruple tracked or otherwise layered and pieced into things that are nearly impossible to play...The live stuff on the other hand often shows the old axiom..."They hadda do it somehow, and probabally did it the easiest way they could"

Note on the later sets..Fillmore and Untitled, Roger became much more a rhythm guitarist, giving Clarence the leads...

If you're looking for a good 'live' recording, there was an EP entitled, Possessed, McGuinn did with Crowded House in the late '80's. It is a better than average live recording of MTM, Rock N Roll Star and Eight Miles High. But the CD is difficult to find.

Thanks Don, that's good advise.

Stan, I'm always on the lookout for rare Byrds,boots,etc. Maybe this one will cross my path someday.

Cole

Hi Cole - you could try here.......
http://www.lyon.edu/webdata/users/kadler/public_html/rmcguinn/tab_index.html

Thanks Graham, you guys are the best! I love this forum; such nice people who unselfishly help anyone with a love of anything Byrds. Thank You.

Cole

Cole, Hope you got a copy of the Byrds tab sent down by Steve Lasko, if not, let me know and I will email a copy of it to you. It's a very good, precise and in-depth. SC

Stan,

If you don't mind could you please email them to me. I have dial-up; need I say more?

Cole

BTW, it's colegaskins at aol dot com