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Topic: New HSGA tune - September Song - Kay Das |
Gerald Ross
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Posted 21 Sep 2007 2:18 pm |
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Keeping with the autumn theme, Kay sent us a nice one this week:
Kay writes:
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Here is a tune to complement the recent seasonal posting by steel guitar wizard chuck lettes, to whom this tune is dedicated.
Composed by Kurt Weill in 1938....sung by many, notably sarah vaughan, frank sinatra...also jimmy durante, and even a soul version by james brown. so now its time for a new steel guitar interpretation...(santo and johnny also played it on their italian LP)
....its a long, long while from may to december
but the days grow short when you reach september
when the autumn weather turns the leaves to flame....
played on the West Coast B11th tuning, key of F#. |
September Song - Kay Das
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Gerald Ross
'Northwest Ann Arbor, Michigan's King Of The Hawaiian Steel Guitar'
A UkeTone Recording Artist
CEO, CIO, CFO - UkeTone Records
Gerald's Hawaiian Steel Guitar/Ukulele Website |
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norm mcdaniel
From:
waco tx
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Posted 24 Sep 2007 6:16 am September song by Kay Das
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Man this song by Kay is absolutly great. The man just has a great touch and I love all of those old songs he does. Can or will anyone send me the notes and string guages for the B-11 tuning?
Thanks so much to all on the forum for everything that they do.
Norm McDaniel
Waco Tx
nmcdaniel001@hot.rr.com |
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Chuck S. Lettes
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Denver, Colorado
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Posted 24 Sep 2007 4:39 pm
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Hi Kay,
You are quite the "steel guitar wizard" yourself. What a lovely version of September Song. I really like the lush tone of your guitar, and your backing tracks are always so well-done. You should play that tune at Joliet.
Chuck |
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Kay Das
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 24 Sep 2007 10:46 pm
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Norm, Chuck,
Thank you kindly for your appreciation. The B11th tuning goes (lo 2 hi): B F# B D F# A C# E. I am asking Bob Littleton to send you the string gauges, I have forgotten them and do not have a set of calipers at hand.
The B11th tuning is a great invention as it is, depending on how you look at it, a 7th, a 9th, an 11th, a major or a 6th ( or a minor 7th) ! This is illustrated in the course I am developing. As I just discovered that I cannot upload Powerpoint files on the Steelguitar Forum, I am e-mailing to you the Powerpoint file of the course excerpting the B11th tuning.
The B11th tuning was a "natural" for this tune that seemed to want darker colors (befitting the colors of autumn?!)and chords, flitting as it does, between majors and minors. Unfortunately, I am not patient enough at making tabs, but I shall try to explain a little...I tend to work in patterns and chords around the frets.
After the intro in the key of B, the main part of the tune begins in the key of F#, the steel positions and patterns for which center around frets 3,4 and 2 and strings 5,4,3,2 and 1......
The outro is centered around the key of F#min for which, as you will note in the Powerpoint slides, the chord is just waiting to be played on open strings 4,3,2 and 1....nice scope for some finger harmonics!
I will feature this tune in the B11th free lesson I intend to give at Joliet. Also check your e-mail in a few days!
Gratefully,
Kay |
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