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Topic: Exploring the 'C' pedal |
Ian Rae
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Redditch, England
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Posted 31 Jul 2017 11:09 am |
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A while ago someone was wondering whether it might improve playability to make the C pedal longer than the others. I recently redesigned my pedals and they now have easily detachable footplates so that I can experiment with different shapes and sizes. You can see the C pedal I came up with in this picture (Day setup):-
It's a big improvement (for me anyway) and I'm having fun with it. My question is, are there any tuition/tab/exercises out there that focus specifically on uses of the C pedal, as I suspect it can do even more than I think it can. (I'm currently working through all the stuff in the Winston book that uses it.)
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Tim Russell
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Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 31 Jul 2017 11:17 am
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Here's a suggestion;
Unhook the other pedals, and force yourself to play just using the C pedal. 
I'm sure we could all benefit from learning to play "around" things that are missing.
In "A Manual of Style", John Hughey talks about when a pin broke on one of the fingers one night, and he learned all sorts of interesting combinations from that experience.
Edit: So, you play the "Day" setup. I never realized that. Is that how you started out, or did you change from Emmons to Day at one point?
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Ian Rae
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Redditch, England
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Posted 31 Jul 2017 1:36 pm
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| Tim Russell wrote: |
| Is that how you started out, or did you change from Emmons to Day at one point? |
I started that way because it's how my first guitar was set up, and I didn't have the knowledge or confidence to alter it. And I just wanted to get playing.
Now that I have swapped to universal, I find it's great having A & 5 together and C parked out of the way till it's needed.
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Bobby D. Jones
From:
West Virginia, USA
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Posted 31 Jul 2017 8:11 pm Exploring the C pedal
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| Being a little longer could help hitting it rotating your foot on the heel. I have my mine set a little higher than A&B to make it easier to mash B and C together. Without moving my heel. |
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