page plays kashmir in DADGAD a sitar is tuned CCCGCGCF . when i play fake sitar on guitar i tune CGCGCA# and play the "dittys" only on the skinny string or "jammy" string as i call it. john lee hooker is usually a repeated riff very similar to sufi oriental and arabic music to avoid boredom i throw some arabic one string rides in for good measure. elmore james played slide in open DADF#AD with a very high nut when he strummed he played in open E simply putting on a capo on the second fret. bo diddley played in open E but his style is more like drums using the nut as a fret. i play microtonal to get the blues notes i dont bend. i tie extra frets on with nylon thread like a turkish saz. so i play 17 note scale not 12 note scale. page and beck also to this they play in between the frets to get those sitar notes that arent on the piano. its like when whitney houston goes off on a solo the piano completely shuts up because it cant bend notes like a sax or guitar because shes singing notes that dont exist in the west. hopefully i will be able to play again i started making a two string fretless. and im practicing diddley bow everyday. but i miss singing and playing harmonica with a really tight band. but i do alot in open G one of my faves is like a virgin in open G tuning but is really in the key of F. i cant read music and i play no proper chords. just do what i can i refuse to give up. oh try this too use a penny a pre 1983 all copper one for a pick.
everything you sayin got me openin my eyes, man, i tried to find them semitones your talking about, i dont think i can on the guitar i have, other than bending up to them, by the way, mine is not fretless, also, what do you mean by bo diddley using the nut as a fret? do you mean he actually fretted hes guitar where the nut would be? im sry, bit confused on that one, ill look up like a virgin, lol, i cant read staff music too well, but i sort of raised myself in music, my mom use to sing at bars, my uncle is a guitar player, Victor Gann, youll find him on youtube prolly, he plays only instrumental stuff i believe, but he went to college out in Berkeley California during the LA riots, MIT, he gave me my one and only true lesson when i got my first guitar, and he gave up on me lol, but he teaches guitar now out in texas, to be honest it was good thing he didnt give me any further lessons, id still ask him questions about music afterwards, and hed give me the answers, and i thank him for that, if he hadnt i wouldnt be doing as well as im doing now, im not great but decent, ive used coings to play guitar be4, i dont know, ill have to try that pre83 penny thing, i particullarly dont take to much of a liking to that because, im not certain, but i think i might shorten the life of my strings, then again, i have been using medium gauges, i might even bump it up a notch, just to extend the life a bit more, also acrata, dont give up, not if its what you love and want to do, thats whats kept me living on the streetsin recent years, im so determined to play music, its what i love, but i also believe music is pretty twisted nowadays, when i get with a band, im hoping to start original music with a message that is positive to the listener, i dont mean just musically, the music is great, but in the end it is more or so the painting on the wall, the person that occupies that room is what gives it life, the words, the messages, rap is shit, i use to be a heavy metal fan, actually i was one of the few kids who grew up still listening to metallica anthrax megadeth, because i liked the message they sent, it wasnt so demonic, it had a message, granted rather rebellious, but nonetheless i took it to heart, they came from a time period when the cold war was still going, and the nuke scare was still very real, its still there today, i still listen to them occassionally, but really as a musician, ive really expanded to other genres, i like the input that your giving me, im going to work on getting a slide, i was trying to use a socket, but i cant really get it down, i feel better when i have it on my lap when playing in this fashion, and the other problem is, since i havent played alot in open tunings, i dont know my color tones, what i mean by that is where i can throw in other tones that fit in a songs key, but they arent really apart of the song, i mean to say they arent the core of the song, its sort of like the semitones that we use, they add color, still apart of the key, i cant find the color tones because i aint use to playing in open tunings, im learning to find them, but its gonna take some time, before i feel comfortable with it, ive been trying to watch other slide guitarists other than keith richards to see what they do, anyhow, ill keep you updated, keep me updated, keep the music going
