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Thread #43887   Message #917299
Posted By: Marion
24-Mar-03 - 02:52 PM
Thread Name: Travis Picking - Misconceptions
Subject: RE: Travis Picking - Misconceptions
About Fuller Blues, as demonstrated on the Marcel Dadi video:

1. There's a measure close to the end that's a long run of triplets - I couldn't tell from the video how the notes were being sounded. It didn't appear to be a strict alternation between thumb and index: was each set of triplets thumb-index-middle, or thumb-index-index, or was he using pull-offs?

2. He went through a 12-bar blues progression three times; is it my imagination, or was the chord progression slightly different each time? It seemed that the IV chords were sometimes omitted or shortened in bars 2 and 10 but not consistently. Is this normal?

Thanks, Marion

PS I miss Justa Picker.