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well hello friends and welcome to ask
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Zack today we're going to talk about
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some kind of Telecaster tone hacks I'm
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going to show you some fun ways to get
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more of a like really kind of great fake
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baritone guitar sound and kind of using
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nonintuitive pickup selections and then
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using your picking hand and positioning
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to uh kind of make it really interesting
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and uh really I think compelling so uh
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I'm going to use a couple examples
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including a a dart yokam tune old you
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know fast as you and I'm going to show
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you a uh a more interesting way to play
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the intro you know on a Telly um yeah
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and we're just going to we're going to
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have some fun also going to take a a
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John lenthal you know kind of Baritone
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sounding thing that he did and kind of
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show how to get yeah a good faux
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baritone sound so yeah we're going to
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have fun first off I need to thank my
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them so thank you to all all of you that
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support me if you want to find out more
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you can find out more all right so let's
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just start we're going to start on the
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bridge pickup and this is just kind of a
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real basic thing where uh I'm just going
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to show the tonal variation you know you
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can get just by moving your right hand
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around or your picking hand around and I
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think so many people don't even think
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about this they just kind of you know
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play especially on a Telly you you have
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this nice big area where there's not a
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pickup and that's just kind of you kind
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of will move in between here a lot and
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you don't even think about the different
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things you can do so let's say you're
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just playing you know like like here's
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just a easy lick
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you and so those sound drastically
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different and also they feel very
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different too because the tension is
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different you know when you're picking
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the closer you pick to the bridge the
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stiffer it is and you it your pick kind
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of bounces off and the closer you know
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you play to the middle of the neck the
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looser it is and the more you kind of
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have to hold back with your pick and so
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it's kind of nice because it also gives
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you a very different feel on the same
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guitar and of course a very different
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tone so let's take it a step further
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further and uh let's do some
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nonintuitive
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uh kind of pickup selections so we're
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still on the bridge pickup and so think
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about the the Dwight Yokum tune fast as
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you so this is the way probably a lot of
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people would play it they' put it on the
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bridge pickup maybe they'd even turn on
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an overdrive or something like that and
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they'd start playing the lick
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it's not bad but one thing that makes it
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kind a little more interesting is play
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it closer to the
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bridge
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well let's take it uh let's instead of
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using the bridge pickup let's use the
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neck pickup and let's play real close to
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the
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bridge and let's hear that
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sounds okay that to me sounds more like
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the record and I think on the album I
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think that was kind of Pete Anderson's
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Strat album and I think he used a strat
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on pretty much the whole album and I
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think the whole record and uh I think he
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was using like the neck pickup and
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picking close to the to the bridge to
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get that sound and so that sound is so
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much more like uh the album than you
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know playing it uh you know on the
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bridge pickup especially in the middle
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and even if you kind of get the donier
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thing but it's the fact that you've got
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a fatter pickup that's warmer but then
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you're playing it over here and you're
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also getting that bounce where the pick
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is coming back at you and so it really
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creates more energy also you can hit it
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harder because it's closer to the saddle
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and you can get more volume out of it
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too all right so notice my uh neck pick
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Up's little
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microphonic uh yeah which it's fine it
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hadn't gone so microphonic that I have
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to change it out yet or get it repotted
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but you know it might have to happen at
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some point um here's another example
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that uh that I really like a lot a lot
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uh and so this is a tune by Roseanne
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Cash off the album The List which is a
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great album and if you haven't heard it
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I highly recommend you go go find it go
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you know whatever Spotify Apple music
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whatever go listen to it it's uh
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Roseanne you know kind of interpreting a
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bunch of classic country tunes that her
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father Johnny Cash had uh had made this
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list of Old Country tunes that she she
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should listen to it sounds like I'm
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trying to do a u tongue
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twister and yeah it's a uh it's a it's a
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great uh it's a it's a great group of of
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songs and one of my favorites is called
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500 miles and there's a uh live
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recording of it where they performed it
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on Austin City Limits and you get to see
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her husband John lenthal who's one of my
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favorite guys to steal stuff from uh
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play the tune and if listening to the
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album I thought he was playing on the
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bridge pickup but it's great watching
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him play it and he plays this line and
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uh the Tunes in B flat and uh and he
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starts off he's got some tremolo going
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which I'm going to turn some tremolo on
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maybe a little uh ETO too if you like a
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little ETO so uh yeah neck pickup and he
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plays real close to the bridge and he
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does this
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so I thought that was a really great
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approximation of a baritone guitar and
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again what made it sound that way was
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kind of the beefiness of it yet by
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playing close to the bridge and not
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playing too hard but by playing with
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kind of like a a medium kind of attack
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uh you get a sound that to me sounds
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very much like a Dan Electro type thing
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and so it's just a a great sound
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uh the other thing that's really great
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about it is that while he's you know at
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the end of kind of this quasi baritone
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part he switches to both pickups and he
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moves his hand forward and he plays the
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double
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stop and that's a nice little transition
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from playing this you know kind of
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assertive U baritone part and then he
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plays a softer you know kind of smoother
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thing on both pickups instead of the
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neck pickup and you know he moves his
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hand forward and plays those sweet
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little double stops and then and then it
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kind of brings it right back into the uh
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the vocal I think that's a a an amazing
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you know kind of technique and uh and
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use of again in kind of a non-intuitive
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way you know using the neck pickup to uh
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to get a a really cool baritone sound
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because if you would have played that
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same part up here
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just doesn't have
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the just gets you uh gets you there in a
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better way here's another you know kind
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of funny thing that I learned off Pete
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Anderson because again we mentioned him
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before that's this kind of Quasi flanger
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thing and this has nothing to do with
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the neck pickup so I'm on the on the
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bridge pickup and uh he would do this
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live there's uh I can't remember if it's
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mystery train or or can't can't you hear
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me calling on one of the there's a
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Dwight uh deluxe edition of guitar's
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Cadillacs and he does this thing where
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he starts going
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and I know it's kind of silly but it's
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kind of fun it's kind of this you know
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quasi flanger sound that again just by
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you know lightly touching the string and
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uh and moving it up and down on the A
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and uh and low E strings kind of between
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the seventh fret and the second fret
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you so just a a a fun little thing that
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you can uh throw in there
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another thing uh and this is really
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basic but I I wish people would do this
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also is I see so many guys that don't
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use the tone control on their guitar at
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all and especially on a Telly it's a a
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really wonderful thing and uh there's
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something special about a bridge pickup
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that just has a little bit of tone
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rolled off on it and that's something I
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learned from from Vince gild and he
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learned it from uh Roy Nichols and uh of
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course I learned it from a guitar player
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interview back in the early 9s that
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Vince did but uh yeah lots of really
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good info because it's like you can you
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know take
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this you can just roll this back a
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bit versus
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yeah it's just and again that's and I
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just I'm just using a regular 250k pot
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and just a vintage style you know uh
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tone cap not using there's nothing
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special on this uh guitar
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so all right well that uh that kind of
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does it for
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today um you know the little opening
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thing um I'll play that kind of slow
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just so you can kind of uh hear that
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that's kind of a here's kind of a mini
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lesson I'm hitting those that open uh D
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string and and letting it you know kind
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of go against the uh you know the uh the
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CP you know on the on the a
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string and then you just move it move it
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up a
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string and then for the B uh I you know
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I couldn't hit an open string and so
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instead I kind of did a a
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Bend maybe I did
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and also there a variation you can uh
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you can just do that bend you know after
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you've done it kind of once with the
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open string you can do that
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all right guys hope you've enjoyed
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today's episode and I'll see you next
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time bye-bye