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Topic: Today I Started Loving You Again - E9/C6 |
Greg Cutshaw
From:
Corry, PA, USA
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Charles Curtis
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Posted 15 Mar 2008 7:43 am |
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| Greg, a big thank you for this. God bless you my friend. |
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Lee Gustafson
From:
Mohawk Michigan, USA
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Posted 15 Mar 2008 7:58 am
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| Thanks Gregg- What a nice find on a Saturday morning. Great fodder for us beginners. I try to burn parts of your songs into my brain for future use. I love the lead guitar parts in between. Do you think you could tab out a couple of those neat licks for us some day? |
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Greg Cutshaw
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Corry, PA, USA
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Posted 15 Mar 2008 10:30 am
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Charles, I am going to start giving you a big discount for being a regular!
Lee, thanks for the nice comments. I enjoy playing the guitar a lot now that I don't have to haul it all over the place. Most of my recordings use the Fender Nashville Tele and a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe with an e309 mic in front of it.
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Richard Damron
From:
Gallatin, Tennessee, USA (deceased)
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Posted 15 Mar 2008 3:22 pm
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Greg -
Very, VERY nice!
Since I'm a relative beginner, I've all but worn out a printer downloading your tab! You are very prolific, my friend, and have obviously found a way to stretch 24 hours into 48. Can you share your secret such that I can make some headway into your tabs without you inundating me with more than I can handle????????
Just jesting, son. I really appreciate all that you do and at least one of your tabs find their way into every practice session.
This one is a welcome addition.
Thankfully and respectfully,
Richard |
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Greg Cutshaw
From:
Corry, PA, USA
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Posted 15 Mar 2008 3:40 pm
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Richard,
I started out writing these tabs as a way to remember riffs as I found myself playing the same old thing over and over and kept forgettting most of what I had previously learned.
Just find a few that you like and stick with them until you get it down. Along the way, your technique will improve and your brain will absorb all the scale positions internally. At that point you can just pick out some neat riffs that you would like to play and use them in other songs. Some people use my tab for learning but I've got some listeners that don't even play an instrument. They just tell me they like the sound of the steel guitar.
Since I don't play out anymore, I use that time to record and write tab. Think about how many hours are involved per gig for loading up the car,travel to, setup, playing, tear down then travel home, unloading the car. Maybe 7 hours per job twice a week for 14 hours total. Put all that time instead into practicing, recording and tabbing, and 14 hours a week goes a long way!
Greg |
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Anders Brundell
From:
Falun, Sweden
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Posted 17 Mar 2008 1:36 pm
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Thanks a lot again, Greg! I look in here now and then, and your tab & sounds are very helpful and stimulating. I notice lots of nice little things in your tabs that I haven't thought of before. You add a lot of flavour to my playing, and I sure appreciate that. 
Anders in Falun, Sweden |
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KENNY KRUPNICK
From:
Columbus, Ohio
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Posted 18 Mar 2008 6:12 pm
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| Greg, Can I burn the Rhythm track off onto a CD for play along ? |
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Jim Eller
From:
Kodak, TN (Michigan transplant)
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Posted 24 Mar 2008 3:34 pm
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Nice Greg.
Thanks and keep that old stuff comin'.
Jim |
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Greg Cutshaw
From:
Corry, PA, USA
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Posted 24 Mar 2008 4:35 pm
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Thanks, Jim! I am working on another rock/blues tune to tab out some good slides and toying with a NCS tune just for kicks!
Kenny, you can use Windows to burn the rhythm track as a .cda file which will play on any CD player. Email me if you have any problems burning it.
Greg |
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Greg Cutshaw
From:
Corry, PA, USA
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Posted 24 Mar 2008 4:37 pm
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Anders! I thought you had disappeared from sight! Nice to hear you are still picking. Everyone has something to offer another steel player and I have learned a lot from riffs that people have emailed me.
Greg |
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KENNY KRUPNICK
From:
Columbus, Ohio
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Posted 24 Mar 2008 5:16 pm
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| Greg,got it! Thanks so much. |
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David Hartley
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Posted 26 Mar 2008 11:46 am Greg
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| That was really well played and presented too, both on E9 and C6. I have been looking in this section recently to see how all this tabbing is done. I get asked this all the time about whether I have tabs for my youtube postings. I just can't imagine how many hours this must take. I would have to watch my own video's, work out what i played, write it down, check it through, then type it into an editor, (by the way, which tabbing editor do you use).. I really don't think I have the time on my hands to do this. I may just have to wait till I retire! Very well done, it really was nice listening to your work and reading through it too. This must be a great help to many steelers out there..Regards from David Hartley |
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Scott Swartz
From:
St. Louis, MO
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Posted 26 Mar 2008 1:17 pm
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Greg, the bluesy resolve at 0:19 (9A-8A-8 in the top voice) is really cool!
I just might have to "steel" that LOL
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Scott Swartz
Steeltronics - Steel Guitar Pickups
www.steeltronics.com |
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David Hartley
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Posted 27 Mar 2008 2:05 pm Greg
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| Are you using 3 finger picks as well as 1 thumb pick in parts of the C6th as you are showing 4 strings picked together in places? |
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Greg Cutshaw
From:
Corry, PA, USA
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Posted 27 Mar 2008 2:36 pm
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Kenny,
Glad you got it OK!
Scott, that thing with strings 5,6 and 9 and pedal A active has a ton of uses and it does get you out of the typical E9th sound rut.
David, the tab gets easier to do all the time! After a while you can write it directly on the computer without sitting at the guitar. I write the tab out in Excel, using a fixed grid and cut and paste to copy the hash marks so I don't have to keep re-drawing them. It took about an hour and 45 minutes to write all the tab for this one due to all the verses. Then I convert the Excel tab file to .pdf and then the .pdf file to a jpg for posting here. These last steps add about 5 minutes as I crop and resize the .jpg file to fit this forum's width. The first tab I ever worked out took me a good 5 hours so it is VERY frustrating when you first start. Excel is great because you can customize and format it so easy, like if you decide to add notes, or color or graphics.
On the 4 string grips, I strum the bottom two strings with the thumb pick and pick the top two with finger picks. Often on C6th I just strum all 4 strings with my thumb to get a more even sound. If it's a spread grip, then I pick the upper string with my ring finger (no finger pick). Lately on E9th I've started to use my thumb only on the upper two string grips and it seems to sound a lot clearer.
I've added the 2 Paul Franklin changes to my setup and I'll be posting some tab on that soon. Like you, my time is getting very limited, but if I were to continue in this, it would be using video as well as sound!
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Andy Sandoval
From:
Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 31 Mar 2008 6:36 am
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| What an awesome tab! Greg, your playin is most excellent and I truly enjoy just listening to you play as much as tryin to learn from your tabs. Thanks a million for all that you do for the Forum. |
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