For their performance at WOMEX 2013, Keita brought both a single and a double necked kora, while Finch played a striking Camac "Big Blue 47" concert harp with pickups on each of the 47 strings.
"The answer to that was a double-necked guitar, so I could do the opening on the six-string, go to the 12-string, do the solo on the six-string, then go back to the 12-string.
James Nyoraku Schlefer performed a folk melody on the shakuhachi (an end-blown wooden flute) with somber intensity, and Yumi Kurosawa was mesmerizing on the 20-string koto.
But she was equally formidable sans distortion pedal, as evident on the 12-string sanitarium baroque of Quiet Room.
It gives fret and finger positions on the 6 strings rather than reading a score of sheet music.
Releasing the plugs allows access to the lift cord and the 3 string ladders on the mini-blinds.
I found that the riff sounded almost like a pizzicato violin and so I recorded that and then added two counterpoint parts, one on the guitar and one on a 12 string guitar.
The fret sequence: 7, 7 on the E string, 5 on the A string, 7, 6, 5, 5, 5, 0h4, 5, 6 on the E string.
An alternative is to place the capo on the bottom 5 strings, leaving the top string free.
On the amplified 12-string, he can startlingly evoke the sound of the late Bill Evans's piano trios (a significant influence), and he played an engrossing dialogue of graceful melody and warm basslines on My Foolish Heart.
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