I was watching Johnny Cash at Montreaux and was wondering how to re-create the opening chuck-a-chuck, chuck-a-chuck, sound. He explained that he came up with it to imitate the snare drum. He pulled out a sheet of paper and placed it under the strings at about the 1-4 frets then appeared to strum all the strings with his fret hand touching all six strings. I don't think it was fretted. Just deadened. I came up with similar sound but am not sure if that was correct. I can't see what difference the sheet of paper made since fret hand placement was below the paper and sounded similiar either way. Comments? Does that sound about right?
