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Topic: Zane King Steel Guitar Beyond The Norm |
Zane King
From:
Nashville, TN
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Posted 8 Sep 2010 5:36 pm |
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With all due respect, and I promise you no one loves the players and the music more than me, I want to submit a thought. Let's face it, guitars are just the sexiest instrument in the world. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever, right? I want to submit that I would love to see more players take risk and compete with these 6 stringers. I just came from St. Louis which is the "big show" of steel guitar. There's artistry beyond belief in playing western swing and country on steel guitar. Then we turn to Doug Jernigan for traditional jazz and many of these other greats in the Jazz Room. WOW! SUPER! LOVE IT! YET....many moons ago I remember sitting in the floor right by the stage so close to Paul Franklin's guitar that I could have mashed one of his pedals with my hand. I was a tiny little squirt but I could have done it. My point is, he was playing things unlike anything else I had ever heard. What happened? I guess I grew up, huh? I promise you no one loves traditional steel guitar any more than me. I sometimes cry and get chills just playing simple movements. I'm rambling but my point is made below....
Earlier this summer I was working on some new playing concepts but then I got busy with my tuning setup exhibits and preparing for the ISGC. I wanted to circle back around with these progressive musical stylings on my steel guitar. There's likely some new viewers now so I wanted to put some of this back out there in one thread. I have several other tunes I'm working on so it won't be long and I will take some of these things into the studio.
I'm also working on two instrument concepts. One is a revisited method I tried in the early 80s. I had Gene Fields put a fretboard on a steel guitar. He had been doing that himself for awhile. However, the mistake was trying to play steel licks and riffs. Had I seen how the Wooten Brothers play guitar and bass I probably would have stayed with it. It's also akin to Jeff Healey. If you don't know that name you need to You Tube this guitar legend who we lost a couple of years ago. All that said, I'll be using the fretted steel guitar on much of these stylings and tunes along with what you see here on these videos. The other "steel like" instrument is ...well just stay tuned.
Unnamed - Idea Development
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGfNGBbosGs
End Of July
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnqSI0oT6Iw
Fruit Loop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5x6ethdBSE
Stay tuned,
Zane
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Zane King
Email: zaneking@me.com |
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Pete Burak
From:
Portland, OR USA
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Posted 9 Sep 2010 7:28 am
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Hi Zane,
Love your low end playing on the S12U.
I too enjoy the bottom end on S12U.
Here's an example of the direction I have been interested in.
It's cool to me because, you can play/sing most any song as a solo on S12U!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQN9YWGQ-io |
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Tom Campbell
From:
Houston, Texas, USA
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Posted 9 Sep 2010 10:01 am
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Great sound Pete!!! 
Love the alternating bass on 11 and 12.
I have a raise on my 11th string (E to F#) so I can get the 1/5 bass pattern for a B chord using strings 11,12 or 9,11.
Like the color of your Sierra...there was a Sierra D-12 on ebay in the same mica. |
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Pete Burak
From:
Portland, OR USA
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Posted 9 Sep 2010 2:36 pm
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I raise string 11, E to F# as well.
Funn Stuff!
Pete B. |
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Tom Campbell
From:
Houston, Texas, USA
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Posted 9 Sep 2010 3:37 pm
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Pete...quick question...I don't want to hi-jack this thread.
What pedal/knee-lever do you use to raise string 11 (E to F#}?
Do you also lower string 11 to Eb using your regular E to Eb lever?
Thanks |
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Pete Burak
From:
Portland, OR USA
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Posted 11 Sep 2010 8:00 am
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| Tom Campbell wrote: |
Pete...quick question...I don't want to hi-jack this thread.
What pedal/knee-lever do you use to raise string 11 (E to F#}?
Do you also lower string 11 to Eb using your regular E to Eb lever?
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I added the E>F# on string 11 to my LKR.
Yes, I also lower string 11 E>Eb with my other E's, on RKR.
Both of these specific changes are for my fingerpicking thing.
Since I have them rodded up I can tune them in or out as needed. For example, I don't lower string 11-E to Eb if I'm primarily playing on B6th all night.
pete b. |
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Jerry Hayes
From:
Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 11 Sep 2010 11:30 am
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Don't matter who's in Austin (or anywhere else) Ralph Mooney is still the king!!! |
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Zane King
From:
Nashville, TN
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Posted 12 Sep 2010 3:56 am
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I like that Jerry! Thanks!
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Zane King
Email: zaneking@me.com |
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