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Zane King
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Posted 25 Jul 2011 9:19 am |
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Hello Steel Guitar Forum members and friends. I am in the process of getting all of the old instructional and info videos back up on my new You Tube channel. This channel is devoted to just my steel guitar work. So this will make it easier for me to manage and for you to navigate. I will use this thread to notify you when each time a new video is posted.
Here is the first one that is really just a broad overview of what I'm doing with my tuning concept.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxF8BZ-GN6k
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Zane King
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Zane King
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Zane King
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Zane King
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Posted 25 Jul 2011 5:20 pm
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Here is Lesson #3 in this beginning series on my E 6/9 Tuning Concepts and Playing techniques. Here I explore mostly just the positioning of the left arm and hand. I think most any player at any level will at least find something interesting here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv3ZUhZSKuA
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Zane King
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Zane King
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Elton Smith
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Texas, USA
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Posted 25 Jul 2011 9:34 pm
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Zane,I have an Ext.e 9th twelve string.How does that compare to your tuning?3+4.Or will it tune that way?
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Zane King
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Posted 26 Jul 2011 4:44 am
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Elton, you would likely want to just look at my full copedent. I would be happy to email you a copy. Likely, you will discover a good bit of difference. You could however get a good bit of it on your guitar.
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Zane King
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Zane King
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Posted 26 Jul 2011 4:47 am
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The Practice Session....If you ever wanted to just overhear someone practice then this video is for you! Okay, so listening to someone practice is not that interesting. However, I do think you can learn from someone on how they "think". Watch as I pursue and explore the instrument. Taking risks and just simply finding out how my guitar will respond to the music that is inside of my head.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li11hF-Exqs
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Jerry Hayes
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Posted 26 Jul 2011 9:33 am
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Zane, on one of the old You Tube videos of you playing in St. Louis around 1990 or '91 you were playing a guitar with only four floor pedals and maybe 5 knee levers and playing "I Saw the Light" at Scotty's convention. Were you basically using the Zane Beck tuning as he had it then or had you made some changes to it. Being that long ago it was very impressive as it sounded just like you were playing E9th speed picking in the first part(s) and then near the end you went into some nice jazzy 6th type playing. Very nice for a guitar with only four floor pedals. Which of the floor pedals you have now were the same as the ones you had then or have they changed?........JH in Va.
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Mac Knowles
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Almonte,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 26 Jul 2011 4:47 pm
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Hi Zane,
When you're digging through your old videos I hope you can find the one where you're playing a 10 string guitar and are demonstrating the bottom end with all the cool jazz chords. I sure would like to see that one again.
Thanks so much,
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Jay Jessup
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Charlottesville, VA, USA
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Posted 26 Jul 2011 5:57 pm
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Jerry,
I don't want to speak for Zane King, but I am a recent convert to the Zane Beck E6/9 tuning and I am using the 4+5 Zane Beck tuning that you can find on the BMI website and I'd be willing to bet that is what ZK was using all those years ago. At this point I am leaving off the low B string so I am only using 11 strings and I have a slightly different change on my RKL knee lever but other than that it's just what Zane Beck was using forty years ago and it is an extremely versatile tuning IMHO!
By the way I am vacationing at VA Beach for a week starting this coming Saturday, can you recommend any good music venues for me to go to? Not a huge modern country fan, classic 60's and 70's country/rock and progressive Bluegrass are more my preference.
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Zane King
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Nashville, TN
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Posted 28 Jul 2011 6:47 am
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Mac - I'm getting to those. I know the ones you are talking about and it will just be a matter of time and you will see those as well.
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Zane King
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Posted 28 Jul 2011 6:56 am
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Jerry - the early videos are Zane Beck's original tuning which uses 12 strings, 4 floor pedals, and 5 knee levers. No question about it that is the heart of the tuning and ZB could get just about any imaginable chord possible. What many do not realize is that Zane Beck was continuing to pioneer his tuning concepts even before he passed away. I think it was inevitable that changes and additions were to come. I like to think that I have been able over the years to make a few of those adjustments and additions. There's no question that Zane Beck's love for jazz standards shaped his tuning concepts. That's great. From a very early age I studied the E9 copedent inside and out. I took literally every instruction that Jeff Newman and Herby Wallace I could get my hands on and completely adapted it to the ZB Tuning. To be candid, it was simple. Later, I moved on to studying the C6 tuning as well. That all said, over the past couple of years I have began to publish some of my changes. It has been an evolving process but I believe that I have something now that even ZB would find very interesting and likely would approve. Still, all steel players seem to have their own unique "setups" just like someone might have the same amplifier and effects processor but yet the "settings" are slightly different. It's likely these subtle differences that gives the steel guitar character and the voice that makes every player somewhat unique.
Jay - thanks for jumping in on the explanation. So glad you are rock 'n on the ZB tuning!
Stay tuned,
ZK
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Jerry Hayes
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Posted 28 Jul 2011 7:40 am
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Zane, thanks for the reply. I sort of figured that you were using the "original" Zane Beck tuning but wasn't sure. When I got my first 12 string (ShoBud) in 1977 I was considering trying it out but I was working six nights a week and couldn't set the guitar up that way as I needed it for work. Blackie Taylor in California had told me about the ZB tuning. I'm glad that you changed the 8th string D to an E as I think that's a huge improvement in the tuning with just that one string.
All that said, I've just aquired another BMI S-12 which came with 6 floor pedals and 5 knee levers. Right now I've got it pared down to 5 KL and 3 FP and set up in a basic extended E9. I think in the next week or two I'm going to adapt it to a version of your tuning with a little change on the bottom, that being dropping the low B and adding a C# note in the 9th slot. That way it would be the same as my other S-12 BMI from the 5th string on down and I'd still have a lot of familiar territory to go to if I'd get lost. I'm very intrigued by what you're doing on those first five strings in your videos. When are you going to have a CD out for sale? I'd be interested in one as well as a lot of others I'm sure. Have a great day, JH in Va.
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Zane King
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Jim Hollingsworth
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Posted 23 Aug 2011 10:06 am
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Hi Zane,
Will you email me your copedant? Or post it here.... whichever is easier.
Thanks much!
Jim Hollingsworth |
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Zane King
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Nashville, TN
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Posted 23 Aug 2011 10:09 am
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It would be better by email Jim. Email me at zaneking@me.com and I will send it right to you.
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Zane King
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Wally Taylor
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Hardin, Kentucky, USA
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Posted 3 Oct 2012 2:40 pm
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| Good stuff, Zane King, thanks! |
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