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  Topic: Nervous Breakdown solo by Paul Franklin
Charles Turpin

Replies: 4
Views: 1199

PostForum Section: Tablature   Posted: 14 May 2006 5:22 pm   Subject: Nervous Breakdown solo by Paul Franklin
Tim if you get that one done send me a copy please. Thanks.

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  Topic: Buddy's New Zum Steel!
Charles Turpin

Replies: 40
Views: 5016

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 16 Apr 2006 4:58 pm   Subject: Buddy's New Zum Steel!
I think this will be wonderful. Buddy is a master just like JOhn Hughy and Hal Rug was why? not play what they want to polay. I have played Zum since 1981. With my third guitar was a beginner then in ...
  Topic: Blue Grass/Steel
Charles Turpin

Replies: 73
Views: 6426

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 18 Mar 2006 5:04 pm   Subject: Blue Grass/Steel
If i was you I"d go for it. I played at a show here in Missouri for three years and the main instruments where Banjo and Steel We did country and blue grass. Blue grass is a hard music to play on the ...
  Topic: Nashville Number System
Charles Turpin

Replies: 39
Views: 6243

PostForum Section: Tablature   Posted: 18 Mar 2006 4:49 pm   Subject: Nashville Number System
I still think the Nashville Number system no matter what it is called. Is the best and fastest system to learn licks and and lead ins and leads. Cause it at least gives us a clue of what every one in ...
  Topic: wait time for a Zum
Charles Turpin

Replies: 11
Views: 1602

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 8 Mar 2006 12:30 pm   Subject: wait time for a Zum
Yea it is anywhere from 12 to 18 months. It depends a lot on his schedule. I am not talking for Bruce either, but you never know when He might have a cancelation on a steel when he does it just moves ...
  Topic: Practicing with no amp to build picking power ?
Charles Turpin

Replies: 13
Views: 1569

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 8 Mar 2006 12:02 pm   Subject: Practicing with no amp to build picking power ?
I have always used a soft touch on the slow ballads and i have also learned to fast pick at a soft touch. But one time in St Louis at the steel convention. I seen Bruce Bouton there doing a photo sho ...
  Topic: Fifth string breakage
Charles Turpin

Replies: 24
Views: 1757

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 8 Mar 2006 11:39 am   Subject: Fifth string breakage
In this thing tony you realy got it right on this one. I think that fast pickers break strings more than slow pickers do. I am a soft picker for some reason i have learned to speed pick and not hammer ...
  Topic: Bonding with your steel
Charles Turpin

Replies: 26
Views: 4480

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 8 Mar 2006 11:20 am   Subject: Bonding with your steel
I don't know what it is but i think you do bond with a certain steel guitar. I have played Zum steel all the way since about 1983. My first being a stage one that I sent back and had Bruce put a four ...
  Topic: Zumsteel - Need Help Determining Its Age
Charles Turpin

Replies: 16
Views: 1781

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 7 Feb 2006 12:46 pm   Subject: Zumsteel - Need Help Determining Its Age
I have a Zum Universal that is 18 years old and a Double 10 Zum that is 6 years old and they play as good as if they where new. If not I guarantee Bruce will work on them and fix them as good as they ...
  Topic: Diminished Chords
Charles Turpin

Replies: 22
Views: 3559

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 7 Feb 2006 12:02 pm   Subject: Diminished Chords
People there is a lot more in this Diminish playing in that to me. this is a world of its own. WHen i fall into a chromatic run on the C6th I have found if you take a diminish7th using the 5+6 plus th ...
  Topic: Use of Verticle Knee Lever on the B's
Charles Turpin

Replies: 19
Views: 2137

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 7 Jan 2006 8:30 am   Subject: Use of Verticle Knee Lever on the B's
I like to use the X lever in a lot of ways. Besides using it as a ninth chord two frets back. by using the combination of strings 1 ,2 and 5 at the first fret you are playing a C chord. Then when you ...
  Topic: HELP! Bar hand problem
Charles Turpin

Replies: 15
Views: 1876

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 7 Jan 2006 7:57 am   Subject: HELP! Bar hand problem
Thanks for the replies for this i have a few good ideas now of what to try. But there is already to many pills i have to buy do to the cancer. I told my oncologyst about the problem but he said i will ...
  Topic: HELP! Bar hand problem
Charles Turpin

Replies: 15
Views: 1876

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 5 Jan 2006 11:11 am   Subject: HELP! Bar hand problem
I been fighting cancer and I had a stroke about two years ago. But I have still been playing my steel at home. Either between the stroke or playing my steel to much. My left hand after a while is sta ...
  Topic: Taking up C6 in '06
Charles Turpin

Replies: 25
Views: 3306

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 5 Jan 2006 11:04 am   Subject: Taking up C6 in '06
I use both necks on my guitar a lot, The one above realy said right when he said remember the C6th is not only used for western swing. Once you get use to the standard tuning and learn the chords on t ...
  Topic: B+C -- Is It Just Me?
Charles Turpin

Replies: 15
Views: 3406

PostForum Section: Tablature   Posted: 5 Jan 2006 10:17 am   Subject: B+C -- Is It Just Me?
I don't no if it is still available but about 81 when i was first changing over to pedal steel from Guitar. Paul franklin , I believe it was had a tape course out on just the C pedal. I don't realy ge ...
  Topic: Sleigh Ride
Charles Turpin

Replies: 1
Views: 770

PostForum Section: Tablature   Posted: 12 Dec 2005 1:05 pm   Subject: Sleigh Ride
At a show last night here in Missouri I seen a great Banjo Player play that old traditional song Sleigh Ride. I would like to try that one on steel I was wondering if anyone could post the chords on h ...
  Topic: Who made this scale/mode tape?
Charles Turpin

Replies: 10
Views: 1688

PostForum Section: Tablature   Posted: 12 Dec 2005 1:01 pm   Subject: Who made this scale/mode tape?
I think Mickey D is write. If it is written in Jimmey Crawfords style of tablutare. The book has a picture of Ken Albert sitting at his steel on about the 2nd or 3rd page of the book. That is one of ...
  Topic: If you only had 30 mins to practice?
Charles Turpin

Replies: 19
Views: 2088

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 7 Dec 2005 11:50 am   Subject: If you only had 30 mins to practice?
I'd say i would practice on my right hand and bar control. I would work a lot on blocking fast licks. You can learn a lot of fast licks in no time by practicing with the right hand and bar movement.

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  Topic: Mooney Licks on an E9
Charles Turpin

Replies: 24
Views: 6364

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 7 Dec 2005 11:41 am   Subject: Mooney Licks on an E9
Gene my opinion is just like yours there is so many ways you can do things that sound exactly the same that people don't relize how wonderful sites are like this to help people learn to do things in d ...
  Topic: Diminished Chord ?
Charles Turpin

Replies: 13
Views: 2043

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 7 Dec 2005 10:57 am   Subject: Diminished Chord ?
There is so much i do with these diminish chords that I just like to have fun with them. But the trick is to know When to return to the normal playing. I call the dim chords the in- between chords cau ...
  Topic: How has your playing changed over the years?
Charles Turpin

Replies: 27
Views: 3084

PostForum Section: Steel Players   Posted: 21 Nov 2005 11:30 am   Subject: How has your playing changed over the years?
When i was young it was my desire to be like people that where my heros.But When i started i new i could never be a Paul Franklin or a Tom Brumley. But I tried my best to do there licks the things the ...
  Topic: I now have 100 gigs on my Zum
Charles Turpin

Replies: 19
Views: 2115

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 15 Nov 2005 11:21 am   Subject: I now have 100 gigs on my Zum
People I have had a Zum Universal since 1991 and i quite counting the jobs after about 200 and that guitar still is my main practice guitar and it almost never falls out of tune. I also got a Double 1 ...
  Topic: Country Rock Tabs for beginners
Charles Turpin

Replies: 5
Views: 1245

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 15 Nov 2005 11:09 am   Subject: Country Rock Tabs for beginners
To me there isn't much difference between country/rock licks and Country licks. I guess you could say the only difference is that the C/R licks have more use of the blues notes in them and also make ...
  Topic: That JayDee/Emmons tone,,,wow!
Charles Turpin

Replies: 41
Views: 6057

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 9 Nov 2005 1:02 pm   Subject: That JayDee/Emmons tone,,,wow!
I never realy understand why people try to identify people by there tone. Just like Gary Morris picked a lot on George Straits albums not seeing the album to me that sounds like Buddy Emmons then i he ...
  Topic: guitar oil
Charles Turpin

Replies: 12
Views: 1875

PostForum Section: Pedal Steel   Posted: 9 Nov 2005 12:17 pm   Subject: guitar oil
On my Zum steels i go to the local Westlakes and get a siliconic oil called Tri-Flo. That was what Bruce Zumsteg of Zumsteel recomended for his steels. I ahve used the same kind of oil on my Zums sinc ...
 
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