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Originally Posted by Leon Grizzard
Lerbmeister - I'd like to hear your observations about Don Rich's practices over the IV and V chords, and how he approached keys other than A. (As long as you're not doing anything.)
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Let us start with our IV and V chords. These are a few licks I've disected in a few minutes by listening to Act Naturally form the Carnegie Hall Concert.
On the first bit, Buck stays on the first D chord in Act Naturally and of course, so does Don and the rest of the band. Play plays a few licks outta of this bending positon.
(This is how your fangers should be on that there fretboard)
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allow me to elaborate. Put your first 3 fingers on the first three frets of the 'b' string and your pinkie on the 3rd fret of the 'e' string.
Don will periodically release his right and middle finger, giving you a C7th chord, but with just as quickly put them back on. That gives you that trade mark Buck Owens guitar sound.
Don will also bend up the 3rd fret on the 'b' string to a high 'e', simply listen to the live record and you'll hear what I'm talking about.
Also on 'D' chords, Don will pull out the Buckaroo lick... Dun Dun Dun....
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we all know how that one goes,
Over the 'E' (our V) chord Don's got a nice little lick we can all use.
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This time the 'b' indicates that you bend the note up a little bit, not really to a discernible note, but just bend it up.
Now and another (IV) D chord lick
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Once again, Don loved to throw in those 7th's. Well they're not actually sevenths but if you played them in relation to the chord, then they'd be 7ths. Whatever. Don always went back to the good old "Play the root note, then the note a full step below, then the root note again."
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