Tennessee Jedi wrote:Cool Cool
Are you the guy with Ibanez Musician ?
It would be cool to hear it with the mods.
yes indeed, I have a couple Musicians...A pristine MC500 from 1979 that I will always keep all original and a 1978 MC400 that has all the Jerry mods and Waldos Tiger buffer in it.
The MC400 is in pieces right now due to a stripped pickup height adjustment hole (which some people on the board gave me some great ideas on how to fix i just havent gotten around to it yet, I better fix it because I have another Legion of Jerry gig on 10/25, but Shakeddown has been so busy lately I have not had time and have been just obviously playing the Casio)
I will get some of the video chord forms up soon but as a starter hint as most of you know, if you are in to playing partial chord voicings that the grips for maj7 and minor chords are exactly the same.
Since the jam in eyes is Emaj7 and B min jerry will use the same chord grips going up and down the neck to play Emaj7 and Bmin voicings. He will then mix and match depending on where he is ascending from or descending to.
Here are the 3 grips to get you started:
Grip 1
Barre across top 3 strings with index
Each example first shows the Emaj7
and then the Bmin using the same grip (3 frets higher)
E|------4------------7--------
B|------4------------7--------
G|------4------------7--------
D|----------------------------
A|----------------------------
E|----------------------------
Grip 2
E|---------------------------------
B|--------9--------------12--------
G|--------8--------------11--------
D|--------9--------------12--------
A|---------------------------------
E|---------------------------------
Grip 3
E|------11------------------14--------
B|------12------------------15--------
G|------13------------------16--------
D|------------------------------------
A|------------------------------------
E|------------------------------------
Notice that no matter what grip you are using that the Emaj7 comes first. By simply sliding that grip up 3 frets you have the Bmin
Now where this gets tricky and challenging and REALLY cool is that he will use Amajor triads (more specifically A6 triads mostly but there will be "straight" A's in there as well) to pass between the Emaj7 and Bmin
The really cool part about the A6 triads is guess what? Thats right, they can be played with the EXACT same 3 grips as the Emaj7 and Bmin.
A6
Grip 1
E|------------------2------
B|------------------2------
G|------------------2------
D|-------------------------
A|-------------------------
E|-------------------------
A6
Grip 2
E|-------------
B|------7------
G|------6------
D|------7------
A|-------------
E|-------------
A6
Grip 3
E|------9-------
B|------10------
G|------11------
D|--------------
A|--------------
E|--------------
Now this is just a very raw start, but if you play with these grips and add the A6 to pass between them you will start to hear things take shape.
Where it gets really cool is that he extends and embellishes on those grips:
Example:
Emaj7 grip 1
E|--------4----
B|--------4----
G|--------4----
D|--------6----
A|-------------
E|-------------
see that we have added G# on the 4th string into the mix. He might now play the inner part of the chord leaving off the top G# on the high E string.
There are hammers, pulls, slurs and slides and all kinds of fun stuff you can do using these basic grips.
I am sure you guys know this stuff so I am sorry if it is old hat, however knowing these grips will make it so much easier when I record the video because they make up 3/4's of the chord soloing (with a ton of embellishment obviously)
.......................................................have you heard the one about the yellow dog?