The Grim Northern A String

[cytania]

My band's lead guitar/vocals is desperate to do 'Every Day Is Like Sunday' by Morrissey. The original track starts off with a lovely slide on the A string up from C to the tenth fret which gives a real Joy Division/New Order sound (there's even an analogue synth under the note). But the band want to do the track in the key of G not C. The same 3 - 10 slide on the E string doesn't have that Northern atmospheric grimness to it. What's going on?

Should I restring down one gauge to get that tone or do I risk the flabbiness problem that 5 string players complain of? I'm intrigued by the possibilities of 5/6 stringers allowing easy pitch shifts but wonder how much leeway there is with gauges etc.

Edited July 23, 2008 by cytania

[johnnylager]

[quote name='cytania' post='245965' date='Jul 23 2008, 11:51 AM']My band's lead guitar/vocals is desperate to do 'Every Day Is Like Sunday' by Morrissey. The original track starts off with a lovely slide on the A string up from C to the tenth fret which gives a real Joy Division/New Order sound (there's even an analogue synth under the note). But the band want to do the track in the key of G not C. The same 3 - 10 slide on the E string doesn't have that Northern atmospheric grimness to it. What's going on?

Should I restring down one gauge to get that tone or do I risk the flabbiness problem that 5 string players complain of? I'm intrigued by the possibilities of 5/6 stringers allowing easy pitch shifts but wonder how much leeway there is with gauges etc.[/quote]
Tell 'em to shove it.

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[cytania]

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Yep, I got the wrong forum, sorry chaps, can't work out how to flip it somewhere better :-(

[Machines]

Moved.