New Toys for Tunage
As you may have noticed, Christmas came again this year. Every time jolly old St. Nick makes his rounds, I feel the urge to justify a little strummable splurge. But it’s getting harder. Not that I have any sort of exceptional collection of equipment, but I’ve got the bases covered with a stack of useful, if b-level, gear. Any more and moth and rust will corrupt it all faster than I can. So this year it came down to this little 20-dollar wonder: The Cut-Capo.
So far I’ve found it useful for two things: Opening up alternate (and somewhat simplified) fingerings to give the old folk-chord voicings a new flair. And for rolling picking patterns up-and-down the neck, which sonically nicks Mr. Drake and makes me want to grow my hair long a take a ride on the free love freeway, preferably in the UK, in an Aston Martin.
Here’s a half-written experiment of the above. It started sort of Nick Drake, took a lyrical turn south, but came back around with a little Eno-y electric. I haven’t attempted to put notes and words together for the better part of 10 years, so I consider anything at all to be a success. Just give me a chorus and a dose of the auto-tune and soon we’ll soon be making rock-and-roll history!
on January 16th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Oh I LOVE the name of the song!! I just bought myself a bottle of a torrontes/chardonnay blend called Grazioso and it has music notes on it for tomorrow…
long run on sentance sorry…:)
Keep it up! I want to hear more
AManda
on January 17th, 2009 at 8:49 am
sounds tasty!
on January 23rd, 2009 at 3:56 pm
you’re getting some great sounds. looking forward to hearing more!