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Topic: Lap Steel Tuning to Style - Open G or Open D/E ? |
Rob Stein
From: Woodstock, NY
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Posted 4 Nov 2008 8:46 am
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Trying to streamline the learning process here - can anyone suggest recordings featuring good, melodic lap steel work, where the tuning is known (or your pretty sure) to be either open G or open D/E? Thanks folks - last time I asked one like this y'all 'knocked it out of the park'(Boy do I miss baseball, as well as a lot of good, creative work on steel, living in Ireland)! |
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Andy Volk
From: Boston, MA
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Posted 4 Nov 2008 11:51 am
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OPEN D
Kelly Joe Phelps: Roll Away The Stone
Harry Manx: Wise and Otherwise, West Easts Meet
Ed Gerhard: House of Guitars
David Lindley, El Rayo-Ex
OPEN G
Bob Brozman, Four Hands Hot & Sweet
Mike Auldridge, Dobro
Jerry Douglas, Restless on the Farm, Lookout For Hope
And that's just the tiny tip of the iceberg! |
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Greg Cutshaw
From: Corry, PA, USA
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Posted 4 Nov 2008 12:54 pm
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Rob,
I've got a few tunes and some tabs that you could quickly go through to see if the open C6 tuning interests you:
Lap Steel Stuff
The complete songs include:
Kansas City Blues
It Is No Secret
Panhandle Rag
Texas Playboy Rag
Your Cheatin' Heart
Bouquet Of Roses
There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight
Greg |
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Chris Scruggs
From: Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 10 Nov 2008 8:26 am
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If you want to know about E as well as D, you should also listen to A as well as G. Bluegrass players only tuned down a step from A because of the Bluegrass tendency to play on G.
Bob Dunn with Milton Brown and "Bashful" Brother Oswald with Roy Acuff are good places to go. |
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