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I've only just got into playing this style, so it's very rough and ready and missing a lot of the subtleties...but hopefully it captures the bare bones. I'm using a Kay ET-100 single coil, single pickup guitar...very basic, with a very microphonic pickup (you can actually hear it picking up my voice!), but I love it. The guitar is tuned in open F (down a step from regular open G) to get that slightly out of tune twangyness that you want for this style.

The key point is to stay on the one chord shape and keep the 5th string 'pedal bass' going constantly..which is more difficult that it sounds, if you are used to doing alternating bass. I shift towards a 4 chord, but keep the root bass going under it before dropping back into the root open chord. You get a nice dissonance playing the 4 chord briefly over the bass notes before letting it resolve and subside back into the basic drone. I never go anywhere near a 5th chord..it feels just plain wrong for this drone style!

Listening to Robert Belfour's Hill Stomp, there are a lot of subtleties which I can't get anywhere near, but I hope I've started to get somewhere inside the sound. By the way, I think he plays with his guitar tuned yet another full tone lower, in open E, but the strings on this guitar are too light for that.
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