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One finger playing

From: Jeff S
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Remote Name: 172.142.156.46
Date: 26-Oct-2002
Time: 08:17 PM

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Lee, Mickey showed me some things with the open D tuning a couple of years ago.More than just barring a single fret, he produced some amazing sounds by just moving a finger around here and there.

For the 2000 Gathering, I purchased a decent Taylor guitar to have something worthwhile to play there. Mickey borrowed it to play a bit for the afternoon when he jokingly demonstrated the single finger playing. My wife, Yvonne, snapped a picture for me.

To Mickey’s honor and for my own satisfaction, I developed an instrumental version of one of his songs in that tuning.

Today, I keep that guitar on hand, always in the open D, though I know only that tune and one other for it.

-J

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