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BanjoEnthusiast4 - Posted - 10/13/2025: 18:20:37
I am doing Flint hill special for my main performance in school and I was wondering if you guys had any tips to doing the tuning change thing earl does in the song. Thanks!
chuckv97 - Posted - 10/13/2025: 18:57:06
You can fake the twisters with hammer-ons, slides and/or pulloffs.
Edited by - chuckv97 on 10/13/2025 18:58:51
Laurence Diehl - Posted - 10/13/2025: 19:00:44
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Originally posted by Bill RogersNot without Scruggs tuners of some kind.
I heard Mike Seeger do a clawhammer version. It was pretty good!
Ira Gitlin - Posted - 10/14/2025: 06:23:09
You can get the notes--but of course, not the slinky tuning effect--by using harmonics at the 5th and 7th frets. It's different from the tuning, of course, but it does share something important with the tuning: It stands out clearly from the rest of what you're playing.
chuckv97 - Posted - 10/14/2025: 06:42:10
re: Ira’s point,, at 1:33 Alan Munde plays the D tuner part with harmonics on Earl’s Breakdown.
youtu.be/4DIKUW-jP3E?si=2OF5KAzMCfJanqOk
... and Earl himself played Randy Lynn Rag without tuners youtu.be/T7UdgD9Aci8?si=8abgSVKudsiGvUk1
Edited by - chuckv97 on 10/14/2025 06:46:06
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