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Topic: Welcome to insomniac theatre.

It's 4:08AM.  The alarm is set for 6:30.  And I'm awake trying to figure out places to work in hammer-ons to the finger pick pattern I use on Landslide.  It's working out, too. 

It's all job related stress, but I'm glad to have a good-paying job in this economy so that's not a complaint.  Just a statement. 

I hope I can remember these patterns when I'm supposed to be awake. 

- Zurf

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Re: Welcome to insomniac theatre.

Well... I hope you didn't just get up and tell us about this and leave it at that... you did play a little right?  Next time I get up too early I think I might try to use that time wisely for guitar since I don't get enough time during my "supposed to be awake" hours!

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Re: Welcome to insomniac theatre.

I found a couple decent spots where it helps the transition from G to Am or from C to G.  Those changes happen a lot in the song, so it's easy to overdo the hammer ons.  Fleetwood Mac uses a capo on 3 with those chords, but I put it on 1, so I have no idea what chords are really being played, but I'm fingering C, G, and Am.  I guess that makes it C 1/2, G 1/2, and Am 1/2. 

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Re: Welcome to insomniac theatre.

Zurf putting a capo on and playing an open C chord or any open chord can be figured out like this without a capo its an open C if you capo the 1st fret its a C# or Db 2nd fret its a D 3rd fret is a D# or Eb and so on it just accends the scale in half steps the same as your frets so a capo on the third fret open C G Am is D# Cm A# smile

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I found a couple decent spots where it helps the transition from G to Am or from C to G.  Those changes happen a lot in the song, so it's easy to overdo the hammer ons.  Fleetwood Mac uses a capo on 3 with those chords, but I put it on 1, so I have no idea what chords are really being played, but I'm fingering C, G, and Am.  I guess that makes it C 1/2, G 1/2, and Am 1/2. 

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Re: Welcome to insomniac theatre.

Zurf,

Just wondering are you using a G or a G/B for this song. It kinda gives it a kinda unique sound. The G/B to the Am7 sounds cool.
The G/B is the same chord as the G only the 6 string isn't used and use the B note on the 5th string for your bass note. I just leave my pinky planted on the 1st string third fret when switching from the G/B to the Am7.

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Re: Welcome to insomniac theatre.

I generally play alternating bass note or bass shuffle (especially with C and G), so I'm probably using G/B some.  How's that for playing a song instead of playing guitar?  I wasn't using Am7, just regular old Am, but I think one of the hammer-ons I figured out kind goes from G to Am7 to C/B to Am if I had to write it out.  Or maybe not.  I just play the open A string and hammer on the second fret then move to the Am chord but hammer onto the second fret of the D string.  I think.  It's real similar to that.  Sometimes.  Not every time because that would get too busy. 

In short, I have no idea what chords I'm using to get between the chords I go from and to.  I just get between them in some sort of way that doesn't usually sound too terrible. 

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