DIS: 'Pride & Joy' - SRV : HELP !!! - How did he do these bars... ????

Big thanks to everyone who offered advice, but especially to Okie -
that website is EXACTLY what I was looking for !!!  Thankyou so much !

<huge grin> !!

Cheers,

Kev.







On 19 Nov 2003 02:15:12 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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>Kev,
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>Check this out...  http://littlebrother.nlpd.com/
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>Everything you every wanted to know about Texas Blues...
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>Including the answer to your question...
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>Okie
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>On 17 Nov 2003 00:12:17 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>I'm trying to learn Stevie Ray Vaughan's 'Pride & Joy'.  I have the
>>tablature and I've hit a problem....  From the fifth bar onwards he
>>plays a walking bass line on the beat but with a quick dampened
>>'strum' on the off-beat, creating a 'un-cha, un-cha, un-cha, un-cha'
>>feel.
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>>The tab I have sounds right, compared to a video of him playing it,
>>but this is what it says to do.....
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>>-----x-----x-----x-----x--|-----x-----x-----x--2--0--|
>>-----x-----x-----x-----x--|-----x-----x-----x--2--0--|
>>-----x-----x-----x-----x--|-----x-----x-----x--2--0h-|
>>-----------x--------------|--2--------x--------------|
>>-----------x--2-----4-----|-----------x--2-----------|
>>--0-----3h-4--------------|--------3h-4--------------|
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>>           ^                          ^
>>           |                          |
>>          ***                        ***
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>>HOW THE HELL DO YOU MANAGE THAT !!!  I can't work out how on earth
>>you're supposed to hit the G (3rd fret - 6th string), then hammer it
>>on to the Ab *WHILST* simultaneously raking the remaining (damped!)
>>strings.
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>>I've sort of half managed it physically, but the hammer on is totally
>>drowned out by the rake.  I've watched as carefully as the camera
>>angles allow, and it doesn't *look* like he's doing this, but it does
>>*sound* like it !
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>>Does anyone know the way ?  There's got to be a way...... ;-)
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>>Cheers,
>>
>>Kev.