Chords for Musikmesse '11 - Duesenberg Guitars Rezobro Hollowbody Demo

[A] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [E] _ [F] _ _
[Bm] _ _ Hey [C] _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
everybody, I'm [Am] Sean Hamm with the Music Messe 2011.
We're at the [F#] Duesenberg booth
with Jake.
Jake, how's it going?
Great [Em] man, good [D] to see you guys here.
Good to see you
man.
So you're playing the Rezzo Bro here.
Exactly, _ that's the brand new Duesenberg Rezzo
Bro.
_ _ [Em] It's a world [D] [Am] first and exclusive so to speak.
It mixes a normal electric guitar with
the Dobro, but not in a way that we've got to resonate, it's all [Em] entirely new technology.
What we've done is, [D] we've got the normal [Am] electric guitar part here, like normal just magnetic
pickups [Dm] which you can switch with the [D] three way switch. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Right, just the [Em] normal magnetics.
The cool part starts, if you look at the bridge, _ there's this metal plate here and this metal
plate is vibrating underneath the bridge [A] which basically imitates [D] what a resonator [A]
[Dm] is doing.
_ _ _ Underneath [C] this metal [Em] plate we have a little pickup [Dm] sitting and [Am] two more piezo pickups
right under the metal.
And those can be controlled via those two [D] volume controls.
So if we take
out _ [C#] the magnetic [Bm] pickups, let's see how [A] just the one that sits inside the body sound.
It
does, [Em] sort of like the cone, the very nosy kind of sound of a Dobro.
[F] _ [D] _ _
[G] _ _ [D] _ [E] _ [F] _ [D] _ _ [Cm] _
[D] _ _ _ It's very, yeah,
[D#] it's very ingenious.
I [C] think a lot of people, if you say, oh it's an electric guitar that
you can get resonator sounds [D] with, they might assume, oh maybe there's [G] some sort of special
technology or [Dm] modelling or something.
But it's all mechanical stuff being picked up
by a transducer.
[G] Exactly, it's completely mechanical, there's no [A] digital stuff or anything.
And this [Dm] is [Am] not a cone or something, it's just [D] for the graphic, it's just a design [Em] bit.
Exactly, the whole bit is really happening in the bridge.
We've got also, like I said,
those two piezo [F#] pickups underneath [D] here, which I can [A] dial up with this [F] control. _
[D] _ _ So this [E] is
just responsible for the really [Am] high top end.
[G] We can mix those [Am] two, so blend them together
and you have basically a perfectly mic'd Dobro sound.
[D] _ _ [E] _ [G] _ _ [D] _
[E] _ [F] _ [D] _ Right? _ _ _
_ _ [G] Then of course it doesn't stop
there, we can now dial in [Dm] the normal magnetic [Am] pickups, [Em] which gives a sound that hasn't been
heard before, [Am] because you're just mixing two _ guitars.
_ [A] _ _
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [E] _ [F] _ _
[D] _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ [C] _ [D] _
_ [C] _ [D] _ Right?
It sounds almost like two
perfectly synced [Gm] tracks.
[B] Exactly, absolutely, because you're using [A] this technology and you're
using the [G] old [F#m] vintage [Em] regular pickup technology.
If you're playing live and you have [Am] your mix
set up here, what you can do to go quickly to [Em] the magnetic [A] pickups, we've got this switch
down here.
[D] This is all [A] the Dobro pickups, you flip [D] the switch and you're on your magnetic
pickups.
So it's really magnetic pickup, _ _ flip the switch, _ _ you've got the [F] Dobro.
_ [D] _ _ [A] There's
one [Em] other cool thing, you [D] can see those [A] two _ wheels, [Am] those two screws here.
[G] With this you
[F#m] can tighten [Am] the metal plate.
So the [Em] looser it [D] is, the more of the resonator [Em] sound you
get.
So if you tighten them, you can actually lock the whole bridge and it would just function
like a normal guitar.
[C] Of course you wouldn't really want to do that because then you lose
the resonator tone, but you can fine [B] tune it if you want for example more vibration
[Em] on the top strings, you just lock that, _ or the other [F#] way around.
[C] You can increase the
string action or that.
We've [B] got [F#] an adjustable nut up here, just an allen [E] keys, [A] and you can
adjust it to just [D] exactly [Em] where actually if you want to do slide playing, or you can just
lower it for regular guitar playing.
That's really cool.
[Am] Now we should mention that you
guys had this at NAMM, but [Em] you have fine tuned it quite [B] a bit since then.
We changed _ [E] the
way you can [D] set up the bridge.
Before [F#] we had a different system to _ fine tune the metal
plate, which we thought wasn't really [G#] as user friendly [Em] as it could be.
[C] This is why we changed
it a little [Em] bit.
But this is the final model and it should be out in about [Am] two to four
months probably. _
_ Now can you run through quickly the different controls?
This is the
master [Em] volume _ for the whole guitar.
[D] So if you have everything up, [A] turn that down, everything's
gone.
[D] This is the magnetic pickups. _ _
_ Volume, magnetic [A] pickups.
[D] _ _
Those [A] two are [E] for the dobro
[Am] part.
Volume for the one that sits inside the body, [F] volume for [Em] the piezos.
[Am] And this
is the master [D] tone.
So you can just _ turn it [G] down.
This is a [F] five way?
[A#] This is a three
way [C] switch for the two [G] magnetic pickups.
If I go for the two magnetic [D] pickups, _ [A] the bridge, _
middle [D] position, _ and neck position.
_ _ _ And to [F] combine them, what do you do again?
[E] Yes, you
can absolutely combine them.
[A] If you want, for example, let's say you want [Fm] the middle
_ _ [D] _ position and now [G] we want the lower [C] part of the pickup.
We just take the [G] piezo [D] down and
that's how that [Em] would [F] sound.
[D] _
[G] _ _ _ [Bm] You could also go for the neck pickup.
Now [G] we've got the
neck pickup together with [E] the _ little pickup underneath.
[Am] _ [D] _ _ [Em] If that's not bright enough, you
just dial in a little bit of the [F#] piezo on top and you've [F] got_
[D] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ [E] _
[F] _ [D] _ [F] Sounds really cool, man.
Now what about the body?
Is this a [Am] spruce top it looks like?
[Dm] The cool thing is _
[G] it's hollow [E] underneath so that you get _ _ [Dm] the warmth of almost an acoustic
[Bm] guitar.
So it's like a hollow body guitar.
[Am] _ It's a spruce top, absolutely, that's [Cm] correct,
but [Em] it's a hollow body to still maintain the warmth of an acoustic instrument.
It obviously
makes it much lighter [G] and more comfortable to play live.
What [Em] about the neck?
_ _ [A] _ _ [B] That's
a [Am] maple neck with _ _ rosewood fretboard, medium jumbo frets.
[C#] So it should be fine for [G] everybody.
No those aren't locking tuners, those are our very [C] own Z tuners, that's [Em] what we call
them.
The way they work is you can stick [Bm] the string right through [A] here to the top [Em] and it
comes out [A] at the back of the neck.
So you just pull it through as much as you like,
you clip them at the end, pull it [E] back a little bit [D] and then you just tune.
[A] So basically you're
ending up [B] with not having [G] an end bit here.
You probably had that, you open your gig bag
or [D] something, you want to grab it and suddenly the [Bm] string is underneath your thumb [G] nail or
something.
That completely eliminates [E] that.
It makes it look a [A] little bit cleaner as well.
[Bm] We've got those on all of our guitars.
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _