Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

I just got the DVD earlier this week. And I'm practicing all the stuff on my 6 string acoustic guitar. The interesting thing to me is that I never would have thought of using the open B and E treble strings as a pedal point as RM does on Turn!, Turn!, Turn. Because in the key of D, B is the sixth degree of the scale, and E is the second degree, rather an odd choice for a pedal point. Usually one would choose the fifth (A) or certainly the octave.

I've been a finger picker all my guitar playing life, so the trick for me was dispensing with a thumb pick, and using a flat pick instead, then transferring one of my fingerpicks to my ring finger, which is pretty weak. Can't wait to hear what this will all sound like once I get my Ric. I should be pretty practiced up by then.

JimK

This may vary from player to player, but I've found that a 12 string is actually more confortable to "Fingerpick & claw" than a six string; your fingers don't feel do naked out there in the breeze, as it were. Axes: Westbury Baroque (Craviola) 12 string, and Carl Wilson 360/12. Thanks! Christian

Buddy said it eloquently, and with great detail as usual; and he's right about those Crosby parts; VERY IMPORTANT!! IF YOU DON'T HAVE THAT "MID-RANGEY" GRETCSHE BACK THERE, YOUR RICKY-12 WILL FALL WIMPILY TO THE GROUND!!! I can't stress this enough. Very often when Rog would be sus4, David would sus2, etc. I HAVE NOTICED THIS: Although Roger shows the F# passing note in MTM (And on the lip synched Sullivan show!!), I've never really heard it on the recording. I'm thinking he added that in for shows after they got touring, etc. Christian

As far as chord changes go to MTM, personally I get a little more adventuresome by going I, vi, ii, V in the last few bars of the chorus.



I've never heard anyone play it that way. I'm just a sucker for that old chord pattern and I hear it in all kinds of places.

JimK

Nice Jim! "Broken" chords are the name of the game, especially in Bluegrass, and I think that really makes a song! Christian

I'm kinda getting in on this late, but I'm assuming everyone knows Crosby played TTT w/ the low E dropped down to D.

No, I didn't. Cool! More acoustic style stuff you can do on an electric. I use that on my 6 string acoustic a lot.

JimK

Yeah, that's Cros on the intro barring the E(now D) and A strings, doing the decending line behind McGuinn. He loved that drone-y stuff. Me too. Almost hypnotic.

Not only is Croz doing that, but McGuinn overdubbed Rickenbacker 12 while he was doing the middle solo section.This I got from him in an e mail a few years back.no wonder the song has such a lush tonality to it.