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I heard the song first on the "Live at the Old Quarter CD". I worked it out sitting there listening to the track with a guitar in my hand. Townes must have been playing it from a C chord shape but once I had copied his version by ear from the CD as close as I could get I realised that I couldn't find a capo position from the C chord shape version to fit my vocal range. So I worked out a similar style version from a G chord root and the riffs pretty much fell to the fingers from G,C and D. Then I found, after some experimentation, that capo 2 fitted my voice OK. I noticed how Townes would play an instrumental verse then back off and play a simplified version to sing over - he seems to do this a lot on that CD. So that's what I did. And I noticed that he used a sort of rolling accompaniment behind his singing = basically using the flatpick to boom, chick, boom, hammer-on which sounded similar to the way that Woody Guthrie would accompany himself (at least from what I have heard listening to his CDs). So I stole a bit of Woody Guthrie! I learned the lyrics by reading them and then having them on my phone to refer to throughout each day at the odd moments I was thinking about the song or reciting it in my head. I would sing the song to myself while out exercising on bike rides to get them really stored away well. So I sort of just pulled that version together from those bits of info. Then practiced and practiced - often with a metronome.
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I'm learning to flatpick and fingerpick guitar to accompany songs. I've played and studied traditional noter/drone mountain dulcimer for many years. And I used to play dobro in a bluegrass band. Last edited by Robin, Wales; 04-07-2021 at 01:05 AM. |