Sam bush - brilliancy

[Matt Hutchinson]

Hi,

On Sam's version of 'Brilliancy' (from Glamour & Grits) there's a fast downward sequence of triplets in the second 'B' section (about 1.17 into the track). How is he picking these triplets? Is it:

a) All 3 notes picked
b) 1st of each 3 picked then pull offs for 2 & 3

or

c)1st & 3rd of each 3 picked with a pull off from 1 to 2

Makes most sense to me picking all the notes but can't quite hear what he's doing.

Any thoughts appreciated.

Matt

[AlanN]

John M. knows best, but I'll chime in and say he is doing down-pull-up repeatedly. At least that is what he does elsewhere - Berserkely, Broadway.

[Matt Hutchinson]

Thanks Alan. Is all of this done on the E string then or does he move across the strings?

[AlanN]

Hmmm.

I'll say he is shifting down on the E string, then doing it on the A string.

[Matt Hutchinson]

Cheers, that makes sense. I've been playing it moving across the strings but that doesn't work with the pull offs so I might need to change for that section.

Thanks for your help with this.

Matt

[Tom C]

It all on E string. Use frets 0,4,7 then 0,5,9

[jazzphil]

Go here http://www.woodsongs.com/showlist.asp and choose the wmv of show 179 and you can see him play Brilliancy for yourself.

[bradeinhorn]

there's also several clips of people on youtube playing the version off sam's dvd

that part does descend on the e string then briefly to the a.

[Tom C]

Correct the "sentence" ends on the "a" string

[TeleMark]

Go here http://www.woodsongs.com/showlist.asp and choose the wmv of show 179 and you can see him play Brilliancy for yourself.

Wow. Good stuff there...

BTW, is it wrong to hate a 10-year old girl?

[bradeinhorn]

yeah....

she's like 15 now and if you hated her then.....

and check her out on guitar:


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