Bud's Bounce - How would you rate it?

Glen Derksen · From: Alberta, Canada

What I mean is, how would that tune be rated at the difficulty level in the way of learning it?

Terry Winter · From: Saskatchewan, Canada

Glen, I would think if you play the song using close attention to Mr. Bruley's tab, it would be in the intermediate level. Terry

Greg Cutshaw · From: Corry, PA, USA

Here's a forum post with tab, audio file and rhythm track:

http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=126002

Greg

Mike Terry · From: Galesburg Il

I've been workin on Bud's Bounce also. The version i'm workin on is the Tom Brumley version from " the instrumental hits of buck owens ". He does it in E . Does anyone happen to know how he does that little walkdown to end each verse ? I just can't get it!

Glen Derksen · From: Alberta, Canada

Thanks, I think I'll be able to nail it. I'm still at the beginner level, but I can tackle intermediate stuff because of my lead guitar experience. Thanks Greg for the tab and audio file.

Jay Yuskaitis · From: Massachusetts, USA

Good luck with a nice number. Jay y.

Terry Winter · From: Saskatchewan, Canada

I was able to learn the song and others on the Tom Cattin album as it is published as tab and sold as a course. Try Bobbe, Tom Bradshaw or Al Brisco.

Terry

Ray Minich · From: Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra

I have been working on that tune (TB's version) since 1963.

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Al Moss · From: Kent,OH,USA

Perhaps my favorite version is by Lloyd Green on "Big Steel", a mid 60's album of mostly standard country instrumentals. That particular rendition is especially hearable, (melody, variations on the melody, and a nice short improv as well). Some lovely Lloyd touch and tone things going on that really seem desirable to have in a steel players vocabulary.

The thing that's cool to me about the tune is that it's a simple melody with a nice groove. The title is "Bud's Bounce", not -Bud's March, or,
-Bud's Fast Ball or anything like that. The "Bounce" suggests a nice, buoyant, cruise. Get the feel right with the melody and you've got a real nice thing happening. - best wishes with your study.

***Folks have pointed out that that's a Jackson converted Bigsby steel and an Ampeg single 12" amp that's been recorded by Lloyd Green on that album. To my ears, a really fine touch and tone.

Herb Steiner · From: Spicewood TX 78669

The Folk Music Process in action Dept.:

Everyone seems to be learning Brumley's version because it's the most accessible, but there's some significant differences melodically to Bud Isaacs' original version, primarily on the bridge, that I prefer. Likewise Lloyd's and Jimmy Day's versions; both great, but not the same as the original.

I know, "Mon dieu! C'est un sacrilege!! Prepare the stake for burning another heretic!!" I hear you opining. Put the pitchforks away, please. Tom was a friend of mine.

Bud's versions... there are two... are available on his Bear Family box set, which is totally worth acquiring for the many great instrumentals he recorded. Bud was/is a great instrumentalist who's legacy is MUCH more than "Slowly" and "Bounce."
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Chris Schlotzhauer · From: Colleyville, Tx. USA

I learned the Emmons version in G
I can't remember what tab it was from.
I'll try to dig it out.
I like his version

Chip Fossa · From: Monson, MA, USA (deceased)

It's also tabbed-out and sampled on the enclosed record/CD in Winnie Winston & Bill Keith's infamous bible, "The Pedal Steel Guitar". I think it's in G.
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Bob Hickish · From: Port Ludlow, Washington, USA, R.I.P.

Its just getting the right imfossos on the right solobus -- here's WL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUPuqrnBQko

Charles Curtis · Posted 4 Sep 2010 1:02 pm

I have always done it in F. IMO, this song requires the ultimate in coordination and "touch".

Glen Derksen · From: Alberta, Canada

I like any version that's played well, but I favor any version where the player does a half step on the A pedal to form the augmented chord at the end of each verse, such as Tom Brumley's version.

Mickey Adams makes it look easy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zYUF8Isj5Q&feature=related

steinar · From: Finneidfjord, Norway

If you want to learn how to play Tom Brumley`s version of Bud`s Bounce, contact Rolene Brumley, - she`s got it tabbed out together with several of other Tom Brumley instrumentals.
She also has backing tracks.

S.M. Johnson · From: Oregon, USA

Like Herb Steiner....I agree that Bud Issac's 'original' version of "BUD's BOUNCE" is the easiest version to learn.

It can be played on today's modern E9th tuning quite easily but originally it was a little different with respect to the pedal usage.

I can't read music any longer.....and I learned the tune right off the record, note for note, when I was but 20 years old...........but it is really QUITE SIMPLE.

If one has any basic understanding of tunings and how E7th and A6th inter-relate to each other...it is really an easy task. FORGET THOSE COMPLICATED detailed fret board charts.........and simply play a phrase up to where you run out of easy to play strings, and then either press or release the pedals and there it is.

WE all missed you at the convention Herb.

Earnest Bovine · From: Los Angeles CA USA

Ray Montee · From: Portland, Oregon (deceased)

I fully realize that the whistle does NOT pull the train......

but in answer to your question, you can see a pretty good example of Bud's original tune by visiting
YOU TUBE, seek out Ray Montee, steel guitar. You can find it there.

I'd be interested in your comments.

Mitch Drumm · From: Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake

I just listened to 5 versions of it---Emmons, Isaacs, Vance Terry, Jimmy Day (Jim Reeves' Blue Boys band), Pee Wee Whitewing.

It's Bud hands down for me. Buddy Harman's drumming kicks it off and he and Bob Moore propel it from start to finish.

Bud actually recorded it at least twice on the same day in Feb 1955. One was released on 45 RPM by RCA and the other languished until it came out on the CD that Herb mentioned.

The two takes are very close. Both have a fiddle and accordion ride.

Isaac Stanford · From: Philadelphia, PA

A group I play with here in Philly just tried this song at the Philadelphia Folk Fest a few weeks back. Here's the video....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlJ-_cNr6j8&feature=related

Pete Burak · From: Portland, OR USA

Glen Derksen · From: Alberta, Canada

Sorry, Ray...I can't find it either.

Glen Derksen · From: Alberta, Canada

*double post*

Ray Montee · From: Portland, Oregon (deceased)

PETE and Glen.............

I apologize. I was mistaken once again. I was thinking I had that on You Tube but rather I do have STEELIN' AWAY...... I learned them both at that time and got confused. Sorry 'bout that.

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