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 Topic: Open minor tunings for Lap Steel |
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| Jean-Paul Bataille Replies: 27 Views: 5870 |
 Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 10 Apr 2024 11:22 am Subject: Open minor tunings for Lap Steel |
| Check out Fred Kinbom's music. He uses G minor tuning exclusively.
http://www.fredrikkinbom.com It's Fred's fault if I play the weissenborn at all, and he doubled down with the Dm tuning that I ... |
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| Topic: Weissenborn instrumental albums? |
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| Jean-Paul Bataille Replies: 7 Views: 1921 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 16 Mar 2024 7:55 pm Subject: Weissenborn instrumental albums? |
| Since Andy had been so kind to put my name in his list, I'll just add that Ted Gioia included my weissenborn album "Les Cailloux" on his 100 albums of the year 2023.
How he found my exist ... |
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| Topic: Weissenborn tunes and tabs |
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| Jean-Paul Bataille Replies: 1 Views: 996 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 31 May 2023 8:55 pm Subject: Weissenborn tunes and tabs |
| The second volume is here :
https://jeanpaulbataille.bandcamp.com/album/les-cailloux-weissenborn-studies-vol-2 If you like the style, this is more of it. |
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| Topic: Weissenborn tunes and tabs |
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| Jean-Paul Bataille Replies: 1 Views: 996 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 28 May 2023 9:42 pm Subject: Weissenborn tunes and tabs |
| Since some of you had show interest for my -arguably left field- weissenborn tunes, I just made available for all a first volume of "weiss studies" (this is how I call them tunes) with tab b ... | |
| Topic: Q for those who play standing with a stand |
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| Jean-Paul Bataille Replies: 11 Views: 2274 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 14 Jan 2023 6:34 am Subject: Q for those who play standing with a stand |
| I angle all my instrument to ease the wrist. I play the instruments on my lap, so I velcro something under the body to that effect. You can see one example on the modified Blackbird Rider carbon guita ... | |
| Topic: I'm finally satisfied... |
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| Jean-Paul Bataille Replies: 22 Views: 5783 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 15 Jan 2021 7:55 am Subject: I'm finally satisfied... |
| The puppet show soundtrack following :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awBlRtAHzDM Since one have to stop somewhere, I decided tomorrow there will be 33 tunes available for the show (for some reason ... |
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| Topic: I'm finally satisfied... |
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| Jean-Paul Bataille Replies: 22 Views: 5783 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 13 Jan 2021 1:32 pm Subject: I'm finally satisfied... |
| Two other tunes :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhAQ2irJIlI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-d0WYc517M |
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| Topic: I'm finally satisfied... |
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| Jean-Paul Bataille Replies: 22 Views: 5783 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 8 Jan 2021 8:01 pm Subject: I'm finally satisfied... |
| Brooks :
no, phosphor bronze in the weiss. The Fishman is voiced for them, as most of soundhole PU's. Nickel strings on those emphasize the wound strings too much. The Schatten don't care anyway. of ... |
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| Topic: I'm finally satisfied... |
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| Jean-Paul Bataille Replies: 22 Views: 5783 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 8 Jan 2021 7:15 am Subject: I'm finally satisfied... |
| Kevin :
Fishman Rare Earth *and* Schatten HFS (the old Macaferri model that I used in a gypsy guitar). Each with a dedicated jack output (I don't use stereo jacks on instruments) Hard pan left and ... |
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| Topic: I'm finally satisfied... |
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| Jean-Paul Bataille Replies: 22 Views: 5783 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 7 Jan 2021 11:16 pm Subject: I'm finally satisfied... |
| Another :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqv6ZN0aZdw |
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| Topic: I'm finally satisfied... |
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| Jean-Paul Bataille Replies: 22 Views: 5783 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 2 Jan 2021 10:50 am Subject: I'm finally satisfied... |
| Yet another one :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qut4mQaz-_4 Happy new year ! |
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| Topic: I'm finally satisfied... |
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| Jean-Paul Bataille Replies: 22 Views: 5783 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 29 Dec 2020 8:05 am Subject: I'm finally satisfied... |
| Andy : It's not hard (nor easy either), but the only thing I can do. I'm just not good at playing others music.
Another one for the puppet show : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNrZusRRSI |
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| Topic: I'm finally satisfied... |
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| Jean-Paul Bataille Replies: 22 Views: 5783 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 24 Dec 2020 8:43 am Subject: I'm finally satisfied... |
| Another one :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg-_ywe6OiU Happy Xmas to you all. |
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| Topic: I'm finally satisfied... |
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| Jean-Paul Bataille Replies: 22 Views: 5783 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 22 Dec 2020 4:26 pm Subject: I'm finally satisfied... |
| Beautiful. I never imagined something so interesting could come from just minor triads.
The harmonic possibilities are quite narrow, indeed, but these parallel progressions of minor chords seem to ... |
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| Topic: I'm finally satisfied... |
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| Jean-Paul Bataille Replies: 22 Views: 5783 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 22 Dec 2020 7:39 am Subject: I'm finally satisfied... |
| Just out :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eADfBd5pm_E |
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| Topic: I'm finally satisfied... |
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| Jean-Paul Bataille Replies: 22 Views: 5783 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 20 Dec 2020 3:36 pm Subject: I'm finally satisfied... |
| I know it’s your personal choice, but I hope you come back to it. Your compositions and execution are superb, and I’d bet it connects with a lot of listeners.
Well, I found a personal ... |
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| Topic: I'm finally satisfied... |
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| Jean-Paul Bataille Replies: 22 Views: 5783 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 19 Dec 2020 8:54 pm Subject: I'm finally satisfied... |
| Thanks for listening.
I use YT to put the tunes for the puppet show in order to listen and memorize them, so here is a new one : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF2ELMA7Py0 I didn't even realized ... |
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| Topic: I'm finally satisfied... |
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| Jean-Paul Bataille Replies: 22 Views: 5783 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 19 Dec 2020 8:22 am Subject: I'm finally satisfied... |
| ... in the search of a good tone.
I have to play the weiss for a puppet show, can't have any microphone, so PU's only (God only knows when the show will be played live, but that's another story). Th ... |
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| Topic: Epiphany... |
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| Jean-Paul Bataille Replies: 9 Views: 2666 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 26 May 2020 12:51 pm Subject: Epiphany... |
| Beautiful tune and playing, Jean-Paul. I always appreciate musicians who follow their own muse.
Thanks Andy. Actually, I can't do anything else, and although generally pleasant, sometimes it's als ... |
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| Topic: Epiphany... |
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| Jean-Paul Bataille Replies: 9 Views: 2666 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 26 May 2020 12:48 pm Subject: Epiphany... |
| Lovely!
But you didn't tell us the secret of pinch harmonics!  Well I dunno if this is the "official" way, but accidentally, my thumb hit the string at the right spot when I was pic ... |
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| Topic: Epiphany... |
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| Jean-Paul Bataille Replies: 9 Views: 2666 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 25 May 2020 5:26 pm Subject: Epiphany... |
| David, I'm afraid it shows my age... | |
| Topic: Epiphany... |
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| Jean-Paul Bataille Replies: 9 Views: 2666 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 25 May 2020 12:15 pm Subject: Epiphany... |
| Thanks Lance.
I know I'm a bit of an oddity here (different culture and all that), but thanks anyway. |
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| Topic: The Henrys live videos |
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| Jean-Paul Bataille Replies: 18 Views: 5852 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 24 May 2020 10:16 pm Subject: The Henrys live videos |
| This is right to my liking, this tune. Right into.
Bravo. |
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| Topic: Epiphany... |
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| Jean-Paul Bataille Replies: 9 Views: 2666 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 24 May 2020 10:08 pm Subject: Epiphany... |
| I couldn't figure out how to make those pinch harmonics that I saw you guys do...
And then yesterday it happened by chance ! Ah ! OK, I understand now ! So I immediately put at work my very new dis ... |
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| Topic: A bit of help for an on going project |
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| Jean-Paul Bataille Replies: 0 Views: 988 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 11 Apr 2020 6:55 pm Subject: A bit of help for an on going project |
| I hope everybody is safe.
Having a lot of time at hand, I plan to make proper recordings, along with matching tabs, of some of my waltzes for weissenborn. If some of you who are interested in th ... |
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