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Matt Cordano
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Oakdale, California, USA
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Posted 21 Nov 2007 3:27 pm |
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Hey all,
This may seem goofy, but I'm wondering if anyone knows any cool tricks for emulating a police siren on either the E9 or C6 neck. I'm still pretty new to the pedal steel, and my band has a song called "The Long Legs of the Law" that could use a cool siren lick on it.
Any suggestions?
Matt Cordano
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Sonny Priddy
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Elizabethtown, Kentucky, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 21 Nov 2007 3:50 pm sound
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| Try A Slide Back And Fourth On The Frist String. You'll Have to work It Out. SONNY. |
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Ward Skinner
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Mission, TX * R.I.P.
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Posted 21 Nov 2007 4:12 pm
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| Or for a European siren, strike the first string and bar on/off at the 5th fret. |
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Gary Shepherd
From:
Fox, Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 21 Nov 2007 4:42 pm
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It's a tritone or a diminished 5th or an aumented 4th. All the same thing. For example, go back and forth between a C note and a Gb note.
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 21 Nov 2007 4:45 pm
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| ...just play a recording of a police siren. It will be better than anything you can produce musically... |
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 21 Nov 2007 5:36 pm
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On the E9th neck pick between strings 4 and 6 rapidly on the 10th fret while holding down the B pedal and holding in the E to Eb lever with a very fast vibrato...and it should sound like a cop car.A French cop car 
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Jody Sanders
From:
Magnolia,Texas, R.I.P.
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Posted 21 Nov 2007 6:09 pm
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| Back in the 60's, I had a pedal that would give you a hurricane sound, the surf rolling in, and an excellent police siren. I would sound the police siren when a policeman walked in the place and would use the surf rolling in on "Harbor Lights". Don't remember where I got it. Jody. |
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billchav
From:
Houston, TX USA
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Posted 21 Nov 2007 6:51 pm Police siren
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Hey Jody, if you played the Autotel Blue Room or Cooks Hoedown back in the late 40's/50's you probably would have worn out that effect.
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Jody Sanders
From:
Magnolia,Texas, R.I.P.
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Posted 21 Nov 2007 9:57 pm
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| Hi Bill, Yes. It got a lot of use at Cooks Hoedown and at Dance World in Brazoria Co. Jody. |
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Don Poland
From:
Hanover, PA.
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Posted 21 Nov 2007 10:34 pm
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| Stu Schulman wrote: |
| On the E9th neck pick between strings 4 and 6 rapidly on the 10th fret while holding down the B pedal and holding in the E to Eb lever with a very fast vibrato...and it should sound like a cop car.A French cop car |
Wouldn't that be the 5th string?  ....just jerkin your chain Stu!! |
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Michael Douchette
From:
Gallatin, TN (deceased)
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Dick Wood
From:
Springtown Texas, USA
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Posted 22 Nov 2007 9:30 am
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Mine sounds real.
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Bent Romnes
From:
London,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 22 Nov 2007 10:00 am Harley
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| I remember Jeff Newman showing us how to make a Harley motorbike sound: Crank up the fuzz (boss tone). Slant your bar. Grab a handfull of strings in the lower register. Emulate the sound of shifting gears by sliding up a fret or 2, then back a fret at the gear change then back up a couple of frets and so on. The dirtier the better. As I remember, it works best on the C6th neck |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 22 Nov 2007 10:12 am
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Bobbe Seymour does a great race car effect. He must go to NASCAR races or something, because he really has that sound down pat.
What I want to hear is a steam locomotive / diesel truck encounter at a railroad crossing.
 Somebody who is good at this stuff should do a "Steel Guitar Sound Effects" course. 
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Bent Romnes
From:
London,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 22 Nov 2007 11:41 am
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| David Hartley does a great train whistle sound on Orange Blossom Special |
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Bill Duve
From:
Limestone .New York, USA
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Posted 22 Nov 2007 4:12 pm
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| Most of the places I used to work in with 6 string wouldnt have any customers left at the sound of a siren |
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Bill Duve
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Limestone .New York, USA
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Posted 22 Nov 2007 4:19 pm
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Ok b0b
Bobbe Seymour does a great train wreck too......  |
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Michael Haselman
From:
St. Paul
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Posted 22 Nov 2007 6:32 pm
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Check out Bobby Black on Commander Cody's "There's A Riot Going On" on Live From Deep In The Heart of Texas. If you listen to that you'll figure it out. It's the old time sirene, though.
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Gary Carriger
From:
Victoria, Texas
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Posted 23 Nov 2007 2:41 am
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| Try two unison notes (lower your second string a full step, raise your 5th sting a full step)....slide slowly up or down the neck while varying amount of bar slant. |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 23 Nov 2007 10:59 am
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| Ward Skinner wrote: |
| Or for a European siren, strike the first string and bar on/off at the 5th fret. |
I think the 6th fret is the interval you want.
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Randal Smith
From:
Nashville, TN, USA
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Posted 23 Nov 2007 2:54 pm
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| What I want to hear is a steam locomotive / diesel truck encounter at a railroad crossing. |
That sounds like most of my playing! 
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Bo Legg
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Posted 24 Nov 2007 11:07 am
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b0b..
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| What I want to hear is a steam locomotive / diesel truck encounter at a railroad crossing. |
With the strings open rake the palm of your hand back and forth across the strings rapidly and imitate a steam locamotive (chuka,chuka,chuka)this is in the key of E and on the E9 neck. Then slide up to the 3rd fret and play strings 3,4,5 bending the 4th string a half step with the knee lever to get the train whistle and then pick the 8th and 9th strings open together twice rapidly then twice again (whoomp,whoomp)(whoomp whoomp) as many times as you want (it sounds like both a diesel truck and a diesel train horn) then reach back a bang hard on the amp and the reverb will go crazy and that will sound like a train wreak and then of course the siren start on the 12th fret strings 4 and 5 with the with the knee lever that raises the 4 string a half step and pick the 5th slide back one fret pic the 4th slide back one fret and keep repeating. Sounds like that English siren. I do this in my version of the Folsom Prison Blues. Please do not try this at home it should only be attempted by professinals. |
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Archie Nicol R.I.P.
From:
Ayrshire, Scotland
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Posted 24 Nov 2007 5:34 pm
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On the Commander Cody and his LPA `We've Got A Live One Here` album, Bobby, On `TARGO`, has the siren slowing down as if it has just been switched off.
i.e. A slow slide over several individual strings until it is as low as you can go.
Arch.
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Don Brown, Sr.
From:
New Jersey
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Posted 25 Nov 2007 9:44 pm
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| Cat Call, to let the good looking ladies know they were being noticed, as they walked in.... Need I say: "It's best to do that when they're NOT being accompanied." |
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