What Guitar Are You Playing At This Very Moment...

Alpine White Custom

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The Mrs. just snapped this on her smart phone, playing on my 2002 Taylor 712CE.

My go to impromptu couch guitar, it has a cedar top and rosewood body. I opted for a cutaway, with no onboard electronics. Later I installed a K&K Pure Mini, but these days I’m playing it mostly unplugged. It recently had a fret job and the luthier set it up for Thomastik-Infeld Plectrums, 11 gauge.

I had been playing “Yesterday,” which I’m adding to my “Beatles Suite” for a solo live set in September. I‘ve transposed it to G, to make use of open strings moving between G major and E minor. At the moment of this snap I was fingering an Em9, with the F# on 2 and alternating between a G and an open E on 1. I like working in minor seconds to my solo arrangements and in this case also adding a G on 3 and an E on 6 (no 4, 5) for “the man I used to be” phrase of melody. I don’t sing, so the challenge is to stick close to the melody with variations and registers in rendering this for instrumental solo guitar.

Once I integrate this tune into the full suite, which also includes “Blackbird” and “Free as a Bird” and 2 other tunes, I’ll work out the arrangement on electric with pedals to rehearse the set, but that’s another story.
 
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