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Topic: Newbie ? on Right Knee Lever |
Gary Reed
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Posted 21 Oct 2011 5:11 pm |
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What can I do with the right knee lever? I'm not making sense of it and I can not located instruction on this.
Thanks
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Roger Kelly
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Bristol,Tennessee
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Russ Wever
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Kansas City
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Posted 21 Oct 2011 6:10 pm
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| What can I do with the right knee lever? |
Which one?
You're showing two right knee
levers in your illustration.
~Russ
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Gary Reed
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Posted 21 Oct 2011 7:23 pm
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Thanks Russ,
I can't figure out what either one of them do with respect to chording and theory  |
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Posted 21 Oct 2011 7:24 pm
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The use of your RKL that stands out the most is in the intro and turnaround in Brad Paisley's "He Didn't Have To Be."
There, there's hardly anything else going on in the record.
Your RKR is one of the more common levers on the guitar. Although I'm pulling a blank on a modern hit to hear it. Bruce Bouton used it on Ricky Skaggs' "I'll Take the Blame" going in to the chorus.
With the A&B pedals down on the I chord, he dropped the D# down to C#, hit the unison with the 5th string and released first the A pedal, then half released the lever as the song hit the V chord. A cool but simple counterpoint move
Our own Mickey Adams has a cool use for it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH2kUMQW9kk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Forumite Bobbe Seymour, another cool one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Faiwc3HTT-s&feature=youtube_gdata_player
And Bobbe shows you something cool on the ninth string: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKE7Zd1byt4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
You could do worse than to subscribe to Bobbe's and Mickey's youtube channels. |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 22 Oct 2011 12:47 am
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First off, RKR at the half stop gives you the b7th tone of the E chord (open or 12th fret). Very, very important change. That same knee lever pushed all the way to C# give a unison note with string 5 with the "A" pedal engaged. I admit, I don;t use this knee lever that often and it would be the first one to go if I had to give up a lever.
The RKL lever is a gold mine. Once you get past the unison licks on 1 & 3 as well as 2 & 4, the 6th string lower is one of the best levers on the guitar. First, just using it alone gives you the same movement as letting off your A pedal (with the B still engaged). You know, that stereotypical "pedal mashing " sound that makes us sound so "country". But the real high point of that change is, that it gives you a major chord 2 frets down from the A & B pedal position when used along with the E to Eb lever. for instance:
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D chord also a D chord
4...5.............3b
5...5A............3
6...5B............3bb
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Outside of the levers that raise and lower the E strings, this is my third most used knee lever. Couldn't live without it. And the licks that you can get with it just makes it that much better.
You can get to Mickeys videos from my website BY CLICKING HERE
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Clete Ritta
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San Antonio, Texas
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Posted 22 Oct 2011 3:23 pm
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An important function of your RKR is the half step lowering of string 2 from D# to D. Many simple setups only have this change on the lever, and dont lower to C# with string 9, which is not used as often like Richard mentioned. This is a dominant 7th of the open strings E chord. It is very useful for single string playing on the top 5 strings.
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Posted 22 Oct 2011 3:50 pm
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If you have Justin Trevino's CD "Travelin' Singin' Man", the song "Who Will Buy The Wine" features some cool use of the D position of that lever, in the first three bars of Dickey Overbey's ride, from 1:22 to 1:27.
I have that sliced as a ringtone, I can email it if you like. Or text 816 206 0239 and I can shoot it to ya.
PS: Since I can't wrap my head around it, I'd like Bobbe or Mickey to show us that ride. I don't think it requires high dexterity, I just can't hear what's happening. |
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