The Magic Key
My friend Steve and I have developed a fondness for playing fiddle tunes capoed at the first fret. There's just something a little extra special about the tone, and we've come to call it The Magic...
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When I get a chance to solo at a jam/campfire I sometimes use the capo 1 position.Agree it takes adventurous other instruments to want to go alongI like attempting to force my vocal up that half...
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Funny - the 1st fret is the one place where my guitars don't like to be capo'd. They really seem to lose a lot of tone when copo'd there. Which is unfortunate because I've got some stuff that I finger...
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most fiddle tunes are written or composed in A. if you capo at the first fret and play in A, you're actually in Bflat. someone posted long ago, that the universe vibrated in Bflat. maybe that's where...
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Quote:most fiddle tunes are written or composed in A. if you capo at the first fret and play in A, you're actually in Bflat. This is why I said it's not friendly to do this if there are fiddles...
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Quote:This is why I said it's not friendly to do this if there are fiddles present. Show me a Bluegrass fiddle player who is not comfortable in the key of Bb, and I'll show you a fiddle player who...
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Quote:Show me a Bluegrass fiddle player who is not comfortable in the key of Bb, and I'll show you a fiddle player who does not get to play with folks, too often ... (Bb and B along with G and A, are...
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