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Oily's Guitar Lounge 11 - Dying Embers

Posted by Ron "Oily" Sprague on September 29, 2014 at 3:13pm

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blues, mandolin, guitalele, Americana, guitar

Played with a plectrum on a Yamaha 6-string Guitalele, tuned ADGCEA. Heavily influenced by Led Zeppelin's "The Battle of Evermore," and Heart's "Dream of the Archer." Trying to sound like a mandolin. Also, got pretty lost about 27 seconds from the end...and it was going so well, too ;-)

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Ron "Oily" Sprague October 1, 2014 at 2:46pm

Ahhhh, now I get it! Salt and pepper goatee suit me. And the ADGCEA is the same as placing a capo at the 5th fret on a standard 6-string, which then shortens the scale length into Uke territory. Try it on a standard git; James Taylor frequently uses a 5th fret capo, which puts all your standard first position chord shapes in the key of A instead of E. A suits his tenor voice better, plus you get different timbres and tonalities of chords but without having to learn different fingering.
A.D.EKER October 1, 2014 at 1:18pm

Nice Beard, your not as grey as me, stange tuning? Verry UKE!! never seen a six string Uke. Greeetszzz
Nancy kat October 1, 2014 at 10:27am

Lol ok now I feel better ~Thanks Oily I do love to hear you play always a treat! Meowww^^
Ron "Oily" Sprague October 1, 2014 at 10:24am

Nancy,

No, I understood what you meant, and I know who Jason is. Inappreciate your continued support.

I meant, I don't know what half of A.D. Eker's comment means...
Nancy kat October 1, 2014 at 10:15am

Oops sorry Oily Jason is dog in hat Highwood Guitars my son~ I still liked your playing really nice~Meowww^^
Ron "Oily" Sprague October 1, 2014 at 10:02am

I'm not certain what all that means...
A.D.EKER October 1, 2014 at 5:33am

Good Picking and Playing there Oily,black and white Billy trim suits Ye,did not get the ADGCEA tuning?thou?

Greeetsszzz.
Ron "Oily" Sprague September 30, 2014 at 2:11pm

SJ,

It is a pleasure to have other players recognize little details like that. Thank you! This was a lot of fun to compose, and it came together amazingly quickly and easily, in 15 minute intervals over the course of a week.
Diglydog September 30, 2014 at 11:43am

Awesome playing and composition Oily !

Ah, Yamaha RDs. Remember dreaming of them at school. RD350 and then 250.
Ron "Oily" Sprague September 30, 2014 at 10:58am

RTZ,

Yamaha Guitalele: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-rajna/guitalele_b_2439700.html