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HI, i think i have a problem with ''brown eyed girl'', i don't have a cute/away and then i have a problem on the 15 and 17 fret(lead), or is there a solution??

How many frets can you get to on your guitar?

AndyT wrote:

How many frets can you get to on your guitar?

OH-OH -A-ANDY, 14 FRETS AND THEN BEGINS THE BODY,AND NOW WHEN I TRYED AGAIN I THINK I CAN DO IT WITH ONLY THE FINGERS 1 AND TWO, MAYBE I CAN GET THERE ON THE 15/17.

My guitar's the same as Willem's. Definitely not easy to play the opening riff with the guitar body blocking you.

AcousticAl wrote:

My guitar's the same as Willem's. Definitely not easy to play the opening riff with the guitar body blocking you.

HI Al, when i looked very good, its not the body,but that thing whats make the neck to the body, i don't no how they called that. the tumb against that thing is blocking i think.

There is a solution to this. Instead of playing the second set of double stops on the first and second strings you can play them on the second and third strings.

That would make the double stops

5 and 5 on the second and third strings
then 6 and 7 on the second and third strings
then 8 and 9 on the second and third strings

These are the same notes, just in a lower octave.

I don't think the lick will sound as good this way, but you don't really have a choice if you can't reach up to the higher frets.

Hope this makes sense.

Will give that a try.
Thanks Mark!

mark wrote:

There is a solution to this. Instead of playing the second set of double stops on the first and second strings you can play them on the second and third strings.

That would make the double stops

5 and 5 on the second and third strings
then 6 and 7 on the second and third strings
then 8 and 9 on the second and third strings

These are the same notes, just in a lower octave.

I don't think the lick will sound as good this way, but you don't really have a choice if you can't reach up to the higher frets.

Hope this makes sense.

Sense it makes, thank you,i give it a try and we see.

mark wrote:

There is a solution to this. Instead of playing the second set of double stops on the first and second strings you can play them on the second and third strings.

That would make the double stops

5 and 5 on the second and third strings
then 6 and 7 on the second and third strings
then 8 and 9 on the second and third strings

These are the same notes, just in a lower octave.

I don't think the lick will sound as good this way, but you don't really have a choice if you can't reach up to the higher frets.

Hope this makes sense.

Hi, I think when we use the first and third string its sounds very nice,from the beginning we do 1 string 3fret/3 string 4 fret (we stayed on de 1 and 3 strings)then go to 5 and 5 fret,then 7 and 7, back to 5 and 5 then 3 and 4 we end(this for the G chord),then for C chord we moved to the 8 and 9, then 10 and 11, then 12 and 12, back to 10 and 11, then end on 8 and 9,, then the same has what where diong for the G ,chord, and for the D the same what Neil did,we do this with the pick and finger technical, ofcourse we do that two times and started then with the verse and so and so on,,

when this not good please a measage!!!!

Willem,

This is a good solution. Those note are just an inversion of the two I talked about. Instead of playing G and B, with G being the lower note, you are playing B and G, with B being the lower note. The pair G/B is called a third (3rd) and the inversion B/G is called a sixth (6th). The sounds are not identical, but very similar and almost interchangeable.

By the way, thanks for all your contributions to TG and I enjoyed your group sing-a-long. An upcoming TARGET lesson talks about soloing, or playing lead over a chord progression, just like you were asking about in Sail Away.

Neil