'Move On Up' - Curtis Mayfield. A quick guitar method.
A request from Pete Tomlinson who asked, "How about a quick walk through of Curtis Mayfield's "Move on Up" with some guidance on how to get the chord sliding techniques that he used so smoothly."
Pete, thank you for the request, I hope this helps a little, and if i've missed the point please say :) Great tune, in the 90's there was a CD that came with a magazine which had a live version of this tune on there. It started with just the guitar chords ..... i really wish I'd kept it.
Thanks again for all your nice comments and for watching. That fact that you all are watching is amazing.
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Now i want to play this
Thanks very much, Ive never played electric without a pick and rarely play strummed chords anyway so I will spend some time mastering this technique. Thanks Pete
@theguitartundra
3 жыл бұрын
It’s a very expressive method - I always think of my fingers as a drum kit - thumb = bass drum, keeping the beat and the other fingers playing around the kit - broken up chords. Fingers sound soooo much better too, it’s more rounded and the tone sort of swells out of the sound.
@theguitartundra
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you 🙏
@DerEchteBold
2 жыл бұрын
By sliding techniques you actually meant what he does with the hookline, which is the horn part on the original recording, didn't you?
Might not be your area of expertise.....but that's a sweet piece of rhythm guitar there bro🔥🔥🔥😊
Lovely playing mate
@theguitartundra
5 ай бұрын
Thank you 🙏
Nice. Guitaring is very rock n roll centered so it's good to look at something different. It's easy to overlook the importance of the guitar in soul and funk yet it's there for all to hear, especially in Curtis's music. Would I be right in thinking that the hammering on of fingers above an index finger bar is as important to the overall feel as sliding into it from a semi tone below is?
@theguitartundra
3 жыл бұрын
I would say it was, and you can kind of do both at the same time. Marcus King is great at this kind of soul blues fusion stuff - lots to be learned from him - kzread.info/dash/bejne/l6GFy7t8osK-iqw.html
Dave, I loved Superfly and and Move on Up, and I seem to remember that Curtis Mayfield used an unusual guitar tuning based on the black keys on a piano. Any thoughts?
@theguitartundra
3 жыл бұрын
You’re right, thank you. I just found an article where they mention that - F#, A#, C#, F#, A#, F# (low to high) - it’ll be interesting to try that out 😊
@paulversey6589
4 ай бұрын
@@theguitartundra hi, did you try this out ?
is that a les paul junior ?
@theguitartundra
2 жыл бұрын
It’s a Les Paul Special Double Cut, very similar in looks to a Junior 😊
@spanksterdagangster
2 жыл бұрын
@@theguitartundra beautiful guitar , and i'm jealous .lol i'm looking for a junior that's not made in japan. you got me thinking about getting a double cut .lol all made in usa i'm begging god to find . lol
@theguitartundra
2 жыл бұрын
@@spanksterdagangster I guess there’s Gordon Smith guitars and some of the older Hamers. I’ll have a think. I’m very lucky to own that guitar, I’m very protective of it 😊
@spanksterdagangster
2 жыл бұрын
@@theguitartundra that's a beautiful guitar. love the channel also
@theguitartundra
2 жыл бұрын
@@spanksterdagangster thank you Dimitrios 😊🙏
nah mate cutis mayfield tuned his guitar to the black notes on the piano try again
@theguitartundra
9 ай бұрын
He did? Thanks, that’s interesting 🧐