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intermediate Down To The Banks standard tuning
If there ever was a song that I could
directly earmark as a turning point in my guitar playing, it would be this Reverend Gary Davis number.
Calling this an intermediate song is a misnomer. I was an intermediate player when I learned it, but
afterwards a whole new world opened up.
Any one who knows me, knows my ultimate respect for the Rev.
He played the guitar as if it were a choir. If you listened carefully you can hear all the counterpoint
and moving voices in his playing. Gary Davis introduced me to four and five fingered chords up the neck.
On line 2 (3rd and 4th ) measure you'll find a four fingered G chord and a G Bar. You'll also find a
F#7 sliding to a G7 on the third line. Practice all these changes slowly until your comfortable making
them. These are important changes for your arsenal of chords.
I really started composing on the
guitar after I learned this piece. I played an arrangement of this song the year I won the National
Fingerpicking Contest in 1984, and I attribute my tune "The Stars Up Above" directly to the learning
of this piece. Don't give up just because the tune is hard. Think of this as a turning point in your
playing. Listen to the recording carefully, and once again practice those great four fingered chords
until they're second nature. I use some alternative fills that I've heard Gary Davis use before in his
recordings. Where they go is marked with asterisks in the music and the fills themselves are at the
bottom of the page. Good luck! I hope you enjoy the Rev as much as I do.
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TABULATURE
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Reader to open this. If you
don't have it, go HERE.
MP3s....a fast and slow
version. Listen to the fast
version a few times to
get the feel of
the tune.
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