Chords for Duesenberg Pomona 6 video review demo Guitarist Magazine

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_ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _ [Em] _
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_ Hi and welcome to a quick tour around the [B] Duesenberg Pomona 6.
As you can see it's based on a lap steel guitar with a square neck, designed to be played Hawaiian style like this across your lap.
_ Many lap steel guitars have a shorter scale length, but the Pomona's is a full _ 650mm,
pretty much the same as Fender's 25.5 inches to enable the strings to sing out loud and clear. _
So we have two pickups arranged as they'd be on a regular electric guitar, bridge and neck.
Here they are played with a clean sound with the guitar tuned to open D. _
_ Here's the bridge [D] pickup.
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_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ [E] And now the middle selection.
[D] _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ Here's the neck pickup.
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [F] _
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_ _ Now if you add some overdrive to the mix we're into bluesy Ben Harper style territory.
So let's hear the bridge and neck positions with some drive.
I'm using a Crowther Audio hotcake to dirty things up. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ _
[F] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [Gb] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
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_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _
_ [F] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[Gb] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ So far so good then, but there's more.
The next cool [D] feature on the Pomona 6 is the easy shift capo.
_ _ If you want to raise the pitch of the strings, [G] simply slide the capo up the neck and tighten the thumbscrew gently like this. _ _ _ _ _
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[Gb] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Bb] _ That's a really handy feature if you need to play in different keys, but where it all starts to get really interesting is here at the bridge.
_ _ The Pomona 6 uses Duesenberg's multi-bender bridge.
It comes as standard with two benders, but you can also use a single bender to get a more natural sound.
There are two bending [C] levers, in this case fitted to the B and G strings.
_ You can adjust the amount of bend and add additional levers if you want.
Here [Ab] though we have the B string set to bend up a tone and the G string set to bend up a semitone.
Here's how that [A] sounds. _ _ _ _ _
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[Gb] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [Gb] _ _ _
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[G] _ _ [Gbm] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Eb] _ _ Used together, here's how the bending levers affect an open D tuning.
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_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ With all these bending options you can get into all kinds of Hawaiian and country styles of playing.
It's somewhat easier to play than a pedal steel, but it's still quite tricky.
Stick with it and you'll be sounding ok on a few licks in no time at all.
Here's a short passage then to finish up.
See you next time.
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