Re: Chords
Whoa! Just got around to Mark's Chris Thile clip above, and couldn't help but be impressed by his "chop" on the open G chord, where he cuts it short by muting with his fretting pinky. That sound, tonally & impact-wise, blends perfectly with his "properly" muted 4-string chords.
I fell into that pinky-muting of open chords early on (as opposed to lifting the fretting fingers of closed chords) and, I suspect like many of us, came close to feeling guilty at my presumed cheating. So Mark: "Thanks!" on behalf of all of us who might have ever worried that we were, in fact, "cheating"!
And hey: Merry Christmas, y'all!
- Ed
"Then one day we weren't as young as before
Our mistakes weren't quite so easy to undo
But by all those roads, my friend, we've travelled down
I'm a better man for just the knowin' of you."
- Ian Tyson
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