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Hi Everyone,

The Weekly Wrap Up is ready!

Enjoy!

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This week we brought back our old buddy Jack van Breen and took a look
at an unusual triple-necked instrument (more than just a guitar). Be
sure to check out the video on the Mermer, which happens to be for
sale at Guitar Showcase.

This week's update also included a few answers to recent questions and
discussions on our Forum, with particular attention to the problem
tuning the B string, and understanding intervals across the strings in
general.

Our Target songs this week featured stuff in the Dropped D family of
tunings, Mr. Soul by Neil Young and A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall by Bob
Dylan. As such, I played through a few other examples of songs and
explorations in Dropped D.

We finished up the week with Student Reviews n Mood For A Day and
April Come She Will, and another episode of the set of lessons that
Beaker took last Spring. This section focused on Outside Woman Blues,
a tune Eric Clapton originally recorded back in his Cream days and
carried over into his Unplugged era.

On a closing note- see what you can come up with in an improvisation
in Dropped D, starting with just playing melody notes on the third
string and keeping a steady bass pattern going.

See you next week,

Neil

Oh yeah I almost forgot that jamming in dropped D that was really fun and found it on the G string just a trill...

thx for this week again,,still enjoying the bunch of lessons here..


And Michele that was'nt A stupid qeustion at all a bout the B string But its ease'r to remember how YOU fixed it.. :laugh: B)


Willem


ps. still have a haunting song in my mind but I geuss every one has one..

Neil

Cobble Creek sounds amazing !

Thanks

Dermot

Put me down as a vote for a Cobble Creek lesson. I'm listening to it right now and sounds like a fun one to play!
-Tom

I just got around to watching this week's news, and was enlightened to hear Neil's explanation of the B string tuning dilemma. Something in the explanation caught my ear, though. At 6:47 Neil mentioned the "Well Temperament" of the guitar. Actually, isn't guitar Equal Tempered? I thought Well Temperament was pretty much a piano-only possibility because it is fretless. On a guitar, the temperament is determined by the location of the frets, and as far as I know, all fret locations are calculated by the twelfth root of two, which is equal temperament. Other configurations are available (the squiggly frets), but all production guitars are equal tempered, no? Well Temperament and Equal Temperament are mathematically not the same. Anyone have different information?

Oops, right on the wrong term. The guitar is an equal tempered instrument. Been playing a bit too much Bach lately and listening to the Well Tempered Clavier.

Neil

I came across the attached PDF on the internet for anyone interested.
Complicated Stuff.

http://www.totallyguitars.com/images/fb ... Guitar.zip