Michael Hedges - Because It's There

Billboard Live in West Hollywood 9/24/1997, a few months before he died.

Tuning: Harp Strings G1Bb1C2A1D2, Guitar E2A2D3E3A3D4.

First came across this concert at http://www.rootwitch.com An amazing Hedges website: RUN, do not walk, to http://www.rootwitch.com with tabs for many, many songs, images, videos, and forum.

See http://www.nomadland.com/ for information on Hedges and a fund for his children.

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Music

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• Michael
• Hedges
• Because
• Its
• There
• acoustic
• fingerstyle
• harp
• guitar
• tapping

[iamjezuzchrist]

Always evolving

[leegee63]

bloody brilliant....cant believe I never heard him till now......

[TheAndrewGorny]

That is SO hip at 3:24, can't wait to try that out

[gixxer1kdude]

Incredible!! Michael has been a huge influence in my playing...I saw a show on his last tour...Inspiring!!

[YngwiesDaughter13]

@ddcain2003

ahh.. I see... My brother was trying to explain it to me before. The way he said it sounded like he was doing a pinch harmonic which... Totally wouldn't be the case.

[YngwiesDaughter13]

@ddcain2003

So he's not doing any crazy tricks with it?

[ddcain2003]

@jacecrawford check out rootwitch v2 all his tunings are on there

[ddcain2003]

@YngwiesDaughter13 he fingers the fret (12th, 7th or whatever) with his index finger and plucks the string with either the thumb or middle finger

[ddcain2003]

@leegee63 Yes, he fingers the 12th fret (or whichever) with his index finger and plucks the string with his thumb or middle finger

[YngwiesDaughter13]

oh, side note... this video is so totally for people trippin. It's not even funny. O.o

[YngwiesDaughter13]

anyone know how he's doing the harmonics?

[songinwind]

Oh the world lost a great man--he was really good.

he lives on thought--through his music..

thank you for sharing with me