Request for proof-reading and/or comments

Bob-Dubery · 2010-04-27T08:14:40+00:00

Hi all, I am preparing a little lesson on some introductory finger picking. This follows on from X-Stock where, during the workshop session, I played a little piece of Stephen Stills' "Four and Twenty". There was some interest in this, and it was a little step up from the work shop because it has a little syncopation and is in drop D. So anyways... I've recorded a video of some of the picks and chords required for that song, and have also written out a tab. I just want to be sure that the tab actually matches what I play in the video. Tab and score is at http://www.box.net/shared/7gxvuque2q. This was done with PowerTab, and there are some constraints there in having multiple parts and indicating that notes should be allowed to ring, so I am more concerned with the accuracy of the tab than of the score. The video.... For those of you itching to get stuck in, this is NOT the complete lesson. I need to prepare some notes to go with this so hold your horses, but in the meantime I hope some kind people will verify the tab. Thanks Bob

Fingerpicker

For Guinnevere try EBDGAD, fretting 5th string on 7th fret and 4th string on 6th fret.

Bob-Dubery

Fingerpicker wrote EEEEBE Tuning

6th string stays put
5th string goes down, give a nice jangly contrast to the 6th string, same note

Aha! Another thing I heard in Stills' acoustic playing. There's a rattle or, as you put it, a jangle down low somewhere. Almost a buzz, but not quite.

Bob-Dubery

Fingerpicker wrote EEEEBE Tuning

6th string stays put
5th string goes down, give a nice jangly contrast to the 6th string, same note
4th string goes up
3rd string goes down
2nd string stays put
1st string stays put

Makes Suite Judy Blue Eyes a hell of a lot easier than it sounds.
Hope this helps.

This is quite a cool tuning because you end up with two pairs of strings tuned to the same note 6th & 5th, 4th and 3rd. This allows you to easily do things like the little double time bass piece he does when going into a new verse.

Can't find a decent tab so far, but one can work most of it out.

Where I got the biggest difference was in the upward run in the 2nd part of the verse
"He was tired of being poor...." etc.
Well... the biggest difference between my drop-d version and the version I worked out in Palmer tuning. It's still not the same as Stills'. The video clips that I have seen have him making a hand movement that I don't make, so he's doing something that I don't.

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