The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #43536   Message #639147
Posted By: M.Ted
31-Jan-02 - 12:24 AM
Thread Name: Blind Lemon questions
Subject: RE: Blind Lemon questions
I made a naming mistake on the fret numbers, I was on the Seventh fret, which was in B, a half step up, eight fret would have been C--

Fool that I am, I play this position on my twelve string--I am glad that you all liked this so much, except for you WyoWoman, it really isn't that hard, once you've made up your mind to do it--I do believe those old guys knew exactly what they were doing, that "self-taught" stuff was went over big with the folklorist types, but there were a lot of trained musicians around and in those days, music lessons were cheap--I think it is no coincidence that a lot of the early blues guitarists came from Texas, since there were a lot of Mexican and Spanish guitarists there--