This is a beautiful instrumental song that I learned from Lloyd Green.
I love back-picking the strings at 1:38 in the video. It's a nice technique. The middle finger picks the 4th string, and the index finger the 5th string (picked seperately). You start with pedals AB down, pick 4, then 5, and then let off A after picking 5. Then pick the 6th string with the thumb and let off pedal B. Then pick string 8 with the thumb. And then finally, pick stringg 7 and 9 together (thumb on 9th string and index on 7th). It all happens in a second of timing, but each note is played seperately except 7 and 9 at the end. The idea is to play the notes seamlessly.
At 1:41 I'm doing the chicken-pickin technique. It's easy to do once you get the feel for it. You pick the notes you want to play normally and then immediately lift the bar off of the strings, then muting (blocking) the strings with your picking (left) hand. The chicken-pickin' sound is obtained by picking the note or notes and then lifting the bar right away. It's a classic 1960's and 1970's sound.
At 2:00 in the video I am playing strings 2 and 3 on fret 8. I pick the strings together and then press pedal B. Then pick the strings again and let off B, sliding down to fret 6 and lowering string 2 a whole tone once you get to fret 6 (don't pick 2 and 3 ay the 6th fret, let it all ring). Then pick strings 3 and 5, no pedals at fret 6. This is a favorite music piece by Lloyd Green.
I then go back up to fret 8 and go up to fret 11, using strings 2 and 6 (no knees and pedals), come down to fret 9, then fret 8 while pressing the B pedal, then lower string 2 a whole tone.
I then do a bar slant on fret 8, strings 2 and 6, B pedal down, with forward slant on string 2 on 9th fret. Slide up to fret 11 and lower string 2 a whole tone, leveling out bar (no slant on fret 11, let off B pedal). It sounds complicated, but it's not once you get it. Listening to the song is the best way to learn it. I'm just trying to guide a bit here.
I'm playing through a Peavey Session 400 amplifer. I actually unplugged the JBL speaker that's in the amp and I plugged into a Peavey 15" Black Widow 1501 speaker in a seperate cabinet instead. I'm using a Boss DD-3 delay and the reverb in the amp is set on 5, shift on 3, middle on 5, treble on 4, bass on 10, and presence on 5. My volume is only on 3, as this amp has 100 watts output. The amp must be 35-40 years old. I've had it for nearly 20 years. I was all corroded when I bought it used, and the spring reverb unit was inoperative. I had it replaced. It still has pops and crackes from time to time, but I like the 15" speaker for low-end.
I'm using a Goodrich volume pedal with their new 500k longer highlife potentiometer. I like it. I finally got the pedalboard bracket that holds the volume pedal in place to the guitar. It is a blessing after having my foot sliding into the pedalboard for so many years, mesing with my volume. I highly recommend getting a mounting bracket from Goodrich to keep your Goodrich volume pedal from shuffling around while playing. I don't know if they make a holder for Ernie Ball or Fender pedals. The new highlife pots are really a blessing. You can buy the pot seperate and modify your old pedals. The pedal bracket and volume pedal aren't at an angle like I'm used to, but I have adapted to it just fine and like it a lot. In other words, the pedal is positioned perpendicular to the pedalboard.
I learned from Tommy White years ago to set my BOSS DD-3 delay at the same TEMPO as the song. Tommy was using a BOSS DD-2 back then. This is important and something that I haven't done enough in the past. It's easy to get used to just leaving the setting at one position, but if you set the tempo for each song at the tempo of the song, it will really enable you to play some nice timing techniques. I always keep my pedal on 800 milliseconds. The 200 ms. position gives more of a Paul Franklin sound in my opinion (which is great), but I like the longer delay (and then I adjusted the delay beats to the tempo of the song). Lloyd Green is using a BOSS RV-3 the last I heard, which provides reverb and delay (really nice). Unfortunately BOSS doesn't make those pedals anymore. The RV-5 is only reverb and doesn't have the delay. You can find a used BOSS RV-3 though if you look around.
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