Mickey Adams - All My Exes

Jarek Anderson · Post by **Jarek Anderson** » 29 Jul 2011 10:17 am

Hey folks,

I'm trying to get this one down, and I'm having a bit of trouble. I'm playing a Carter S10, with standard E9th copedant, and I'm not sure if my is different than Mickey's, maybe that's my issue.

Where I'm having problems is at about 38 seconds into the video, Mickey details a run from Emaj do Dmaj at the 7th and 5th frets with A+B engaged. Then he does something to make the D chord sound different... It sounds like he says 'Lowered e's' or Lowered d's'... but I've tried engaging everything and can't get that chord sound. It looks like he's picking 5,6,8. Maybe I'm gripping this wrong???

Any ideas???

Bill Moore · Post by **Bill Moore** » 29 Jul 2011 10:44 am

He's playing 5,6,8, E at fret 7 with the AB pedals down, then lower the E's, slide to the 6th fret, pick the same strings. Then slide to the 5th fret, pick 5,6,8 again.

Jarek Anderson · Post by **Jarek Anderson** » 29 Jul 2011 10:49 am

Thanks Bill! I'll try that when I get home

Bill Moore · Post by **Bill Moore** » 29 Jul 2011 11:10 am

At fret 6 and 5, you might want to pick 5,6,7, and 8. Pick 8 and 7 by strumming them with the thumbpick. That gives a little more of the 6th sound.

Mickey Adams · Post by **Mickey Adams** » 30 Jul 2011 7:57 pm

Jarek, they're actually 9 chords you're hearing, not Maj7....A+B at 7 gives you EMaj..Dropping to 6 and lowering string 4+8(Es) (with A+B) ...Gives you an F9, and lowering again to fret 5 gives you E9...We're using the F9 as a passing chord to E9..thanks for tuning in!...Mickey

Jarek Anderson · Post by **Jarek Anderson** » 1 Aug 2011 5:52 pm

Hey Mickey,

I'm still confused... this instrument does that lots! So I'm at 7 with a+b engaged and that's and emaj, then I slide to six, and down to five. I'm picking strings 6,5,4 and that seems to sound ok. But then at fret 5 I engage the 'e' pedal to lower my e's and pick 5,6,8 and fret at 5,4,3... right?

Also: after that neat run, I engage the 'f' lever, which raises the es to f's right? What strings do I use for that chord? I was using 5,6,8 again, but maybe there's a better choice?

Thanks a million for your help, and for your videos mickey!

Mickey Adams wrote:Jarek, they're actually 9 chords you're hearing, not Maj7....A+B at 7 gives you EMaj..Dropping to 6 and lowering string 4+8(Es) (with A+B) ...Gives you an F9, and lowering again to fret 5 gives you E9...We're using the F9 as a passing chord to E9..thanks for tuning in!...Mickey