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| Gary Pogoda Replies: 38 Views: 11452 |
 Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 5 Mar 2020 2:03 pm Subject: Pedal Steel Without Pedals (or Steel) |
B, I don’t know how to tell you this, but you are just the person I have been looking for. 
What I really need, even more than the great tips you gave me, is a guitar player that knows h ... |
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| Gary Pogoda Replies: 38 Views: 11452 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 2 Mar 2020 2:20 am Subject: Pedal Steel Without Pedals (or Steel) |
| Andy, thank you for your feedback. I realize that my tonality is not quite there yet, for several reasons.
1. Use of the General MIDI 1 (GM1) sound set, which has NO Pedal Steel patches, so I mus ... |
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| Gary Pogoda Replies: 38 Views: 11452 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 18 Feb 2020 2:18 pm Subject: Pedal Steel Without Pedals (or Steel) |
| Here I am explaining music notation to you, and you probably know 10x more than I do.
Of course you are correct. Sorry for the confusion. |
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| Gary Pogoda Replies: 38 Views: 11452 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 18 Feb 2020 1:54 pm Subject: Pedal Steel Without Pedals (or Steel) |
| Be happy to explain, Andy. Glad you asked.
The slash is used in standard music notation for chords. D/A sus4 is the second inversion of a D sus4 chord, i.e., D sus4 played starting with the A. ... |
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| Gary Pogoda Replies: 38 Views: 11452 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 18 Feb 2020 9:57 am Subject: Pedal Steel Without Pedals (or Steel) |
| Thank you, Fred, for those kind words.
Regarding your suggestion of finding a combination keyboard/pedal steel player to do a demo, great minds think alike. I realized way back that my video neede ... |
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| Gary Pogoda Replies: 38 Views: 11452 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 18 Feb 2020 8:46 am Subject: Pedal Steel Without Pedals (or Steel) |
| Jacek, you certainly have a vivid imagination.
BION, that was also a comment I received from my pedal steel guitar collaborators. Not as specific as your stomping mushrooms, just that it was still ... |
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| Gary Pogoda Replies: 38 Views: 11452 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 18 Feb 2020 6:07 am Subject: Pedal Steel Without Pedals (or Steel) |
| Fred, funny you should mention about Sleep Walk being a classic non-pedal (i.e., lap) steel guitar song. Actually, that was EXACTLY the first thing they both mentioned, and mentioned, and mentioned . ... | |
| Topic: Looking for E9th. Tab for Sleepwalk and Steel Guitar Rag. |
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| Gary Pogoda Replies: 8 Views: 6691 |
Forum Section: Tablature Posted: 17 Feb 2020 1:20 pm Subject: Looking for E9th. Tab for Sleepwalk and Steel Guitar Rag. |
| I realize that, Ricky. That is why I posted here. I was looking for E9th Sleep Walk tablature for my pedal steel guitar emulator. | |
| Topic: Pedal Steel Without Pedals (or Steel) |
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| Gary Pogoda Replies: 38 Views: 11452 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 17 Feb 2020 10:24 am Subject: Pedal Steel Without Pedals (or Steel) |
| As a result of my collaborating with two prominent pedal steel players, here is my latest revision:
https://youtu.be/BB_-2KvaGLY |
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| Topic: Looking for E9th. Tab for Sleepwalk and Steel Guitar Rag. |
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| Gary Pogoda Replies: 8 Views: 6691 |
Forum Section: Tablature Posted: 15 Jan 2020 1:11 pm Subject: Looking for E9th. Tab for Sleepwalk and Steel Guitar Rag. |
| Now that I am trying out Greg’s tab, I think the correction should be:
4] ..... 3 --- 3 5] ..... 3 --- 3A The reason I say that is because my ‘lap’ steel tab has the progres ... |
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| Topic: Looking for E9th. Tab for Sleepwalk and Steel Guitar Rag. |
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| Gary Pogoda Replies: 8 Views: 6691 |
Forum Section: Tablature Posted: 15 Jan 2020 9:04 am Subject: Looking for E9th. Tab for Sleepwalk and Steel Guitar Rag. |
| Greg, I checked out your Sleep Walk tab, and even as a beginner, I was able to very easily understand it, so I cannot wait to try it out. Thank you.
I had originally recorded Sleep Walk (see video ... |
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| Topic: Information on the steel Santo Farina played Sleep Walk on |
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| Gary Pogoda Replies: 57 Views: 33041 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 31 Oct 2019 6:52 pm Subject: Information on the steel Santo Farina played Sleep Walk on |
| Thanks Ken! No offence meant to Johnny, I'm sure he's a very nice man, but he doesn't have the touch and tone that Santo had.
Doug, though I welcome friendly criticism, I have to be crazy for posti ... |
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| Gary Pogoda Replies: 38 Views: 11452 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 16 Sep 2019 4:40 am Subject: Pedal Steel Without Pedals (or Steel) |
| I have created five different instrument sounds for the Pedal Steel Keytar:
1. Electric 2. Acoustic 3. Vibes 4. Doos 5. EP If you are a pedal steel player, check out: Sleepwalk - Pedal ... |
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| Gary Pogoda Replies: 38 Views: 11452 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 7 Sep 2019 6:23 am Subject: Pedal Steel Without Pedals (or Steel) |
| The feedback I received on Amazing Grace (my first attempt at a song) was invaluable. Thank you.
Here is my second song, SLEEPWALK. http://pedalsteelkeytar.com |
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| Gary Pogoda Replies: 38 Views: 11452 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 31 Aug 2019 8:43 am Subject: Pedal Steel Without Pedals (or Steel) |
| Joe, I’ll admit. It had a similar effect on me.
GARY |
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| Gary Pogoda Replies: 38 Views: 11452 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 31 Aug 2019 4:38 am Subject: Pedal Steel Without Pedals (or Steel) |
| Donny, you are absolutely correct. I am an inventor, not a musician, and I am not trying to fool anyone into thinking otherwise. The purpose of my video was to get feedback on the mechanics of my em ... | |
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| Gary Pogoda Replies: 38 Views: 11452 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 30 Aug 2019 9:54 pm Subject: Pedal Steel Without Pedals (or Steel) |
| Good news, Fred. I think I eliminated that theremin sound.
http://PedalSteelKeytar.com All I had to do was lighten up a bit on my hitting the vibrato trigger key (red-highlighted in the video). ... |
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| Gary Pogoda Replies: 38 Views: 11452 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 30 Aug 2019 5:23 pm Subject: Pedal Steel Without Pedals (or Steel) |
| No offense taken. You have put together a great website, with a great bunch of people. Very happy to be part of it. Thank you, b0b.
My goal is produce an instrument that sounds ‘realistica ... |
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| Gary Pogoda Replies: 38 Views: 11452 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 30 Aug 2019 1:46 pm Subject: Pedal Steel Without Pedals (or Steel) |
| B, it seems like his bar slants are holding the notes out of tune for a looooong time. Is that the way slants are supposed work?
BTW, I know I could never emulate that, so I am not even going to t ... |
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| Gary Pogoda Replies: 38 Views: 11452 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 30 Aug 2019 10:30 am Subject: Pedal Steel Without Pedals (or Steel) |
| Funny you should mention that about the theremin, Fred. That is exactly what Jonathan Gregg said (the ‘Howcast’ pedal steel video guy, though he never said anything about a ‘herdâ ... | |
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| Gary Pogoda Replies: 38 Views: 11452 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 30 Aug 2019 6:27 am Subject: Pedal Steel Without Pedals (or Steel) |
| Very interesting, B. From my research, I was under the impression that bar slants were a ‘lap’ steel thing, so I did not give it much thought. However, while researching the topic a bit ... | |
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| Gary Pogoda Replies: 38 Views: 11452 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 29 Aug 2019 8:54 pm Subject: Pedal Steel Without Pedals (or Steel) |
| No argument from me B. This Pedal Steel Keytar will never replace a pedal steel guitarist. The reason I have posted on this forum is to get feedback as to what this invention does well, and what is ... | |
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| Gary Pogoda Replies: 38 Views: 11452 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 28 Aug 2019 2:55 pm Subject: Pedal Steel Without Pedals (or Steel) |
| Good point, Ian and Dave. I will have to refine my claim.
This has NEVER before been done on a ‘standard MIDI’ keyboard !! The keyboard on the video probably cost upwards of $5000. ... |
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| Gary Pogoda Replies: 38 Views: 11452 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 28 Aug 2019 1:54 pm Subject: Pedal Steel Without Pedals (or Steel) |
| Here is some raw footage from an app screen recording of me playing my ($200) Casio keyboard hooked up to an iPad running a beta version of my FREE app, so as to function as a Pedal Steel Keytar (i.e. ... | |
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