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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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keeps this going and I'm grateful to

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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