Re: transcribing voicings

Andrew Everard Stapleton ( andrews@magna.com.au )
Wed, 4 Mar 1998 16:29:09 +1000 (EST)

>
>What were the source of the mistakes in the Barney Kessel Transcription?
>
>1) Not realizing that Barneys hand/thumb must be huge to wrap around
>the guitar and get some of the bass notes he was getting. I didnt consider
>some voicing possibilities because they were unplayable for me and I
>ended up finding something close.
>

Although I am sure Reed has thought of this, one think to remember when
transcribing guitar is that a lot of guitarsts retune their guitars and you
have to work out how the instrument is tuned. I have never looked at Barney
Kessel.

ie Instead of E A D G B E, it may be "drop D" with D A D G B E/D or a dozen
others, or a capo, or a 1/2 capo.

On reaching Duck Baker has a good video called "Guitar Arobics" (sic?) which
isfull of streatching exercizes. Part of the Stephan Grossman series.

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