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Topic: Sho Bud Maverick- Songs without the knee lever |
John Fauver
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Louisville, KY
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Posted 27 Sep 2011 7:15 am |
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| I am new to the pedal steel and have a Sho Bud Maverick. Unfortunately, it only has 1 knee lever (the RKR I believe is how you state it). Does anyone know of some good starter songs (or song books) they can recommend which do not require any (or minimal) use of the left knee levers? |
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Thomas Butler
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Robbinsdale, MN
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Posted 27 Sep 2011 7:36 am
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look on ebay for a copy of "Sho-Bud presents The Nashville Set-up"
by Paul Franklin and Duane Marrs.
Great starter book.
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LDG and a Twin Reverb - what more does a guy need? |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Dave Grafe
From:
Hudson River Valley NY
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Posted 27 Sep 2011 4:28 pm
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I played a Maverick with NO knee levers for a dozen years and played just about everything from country to blues to rock to jazz. First of all, remember that pedals and levers did not appear until after 1948, so anything country or western recorded in the decades before 1953 featured steel guitar sans pedals and is deserving of study on that count alone, but your existing guitar can play any song that you wish. There are some familiar licks and convenient chordal positions not available to you presently, but all of the basics are ready at hand, the I, I6, I>V (or vice versa) with the A+B pedals, the V6 with B+C and the resulting relative minor substitutions with these two 6th chords, giving two places within each octave for the major and minor triads, without even beginning to explore the options with the 7 or 9 strings as the root.
Without knowing whether your existing knee raises or lowers the E strings I can't speak to what else you can or can't do with it, but there is a HUGE amount of music in that instrument either way. If, rather than opting for more options before fully exploring those already at hand, you take the time to make the most of what you can do in developing intonation, finger dexterity and accuracy, blocking and tone, when you get to the next stage you will know WHY you want that new lever and have the confidence to play without it if you must. |
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Jack Stoner
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Kansas City, MO
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Posted 28 Sep 2011 2:14 am
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The stock Mavericks came with one knee lever that lowered the 2nd string a half tone and lowered the 8th string a half tone. This is what Lloyd Green has always used (and never lowered the 4th string).
The original Sho-Bud instruction book used the stock Maverick floor/knee lever setup. The original Sho-Bud book was a one volume manual, written by Scotty, with a picture of Jeff Newman on the cover. I think a later version of the Sho-Bud instruction book was a two volume manual. |
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Dave Grafe
From:
Hudson River Valley NY
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Posted 28 Sep 2011 8:13 pm
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| Not all Mavericks came with levers, Jack, I bought my natural birdseye finish, polished endplate, no-lever Maverick brand new from Giant Music in Arlington, Virginia in 1973, shortly after Mr. Weldon Myrick walked in, tuned it up and showed the store janitor (yours truly) how to get a diatonic major scale on a steel guitar without bar slants. Only lesson I ever had, a brief one at that, but it was for sure the one I had been waiting for.... |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 29 Sep 2011 12:31 am
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Winnie Winston's book " Pedal Steel Guitar" published by Oak Publications, is written for guitars with just one knee lever.
It is an excellent book. Many of us, including me, used it when we were learning.
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Please visit my web site and Soundcloud page and listen to the music posted there.
http://www.mikeperlowin.com http://soundcloud.com/mike-perlowin |
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Dana Blodgett
From:
California, USA
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Posted 29 Sep 2011 11:35 am sho-bud maverick-songs without the knee lever
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My '74 Maverick came "New" with no knee levers and no roller nut, just three floor pedals! I played it that way for about fifteen years. Mine was the birdseye maple cab. I later added a "makeshift" knee lever.
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Dana Blodgett
From Los Osos,Ca.
'74 ShoBud 6140 3+4, Martins HD28,D-12-28, D-15,'65 Gibson LG-1, '77 Gibson Les Paul special dbl cut p-90's, Les Paul Special p-100's,Les paul Special Hybrid(maple top) hbkr's,'68 Fender Strat reissue, Fender Squire Jazz bass,Epi mandolin,Epi Wilshire '66 reissue, Kamaka Concert uke, 70's Kamaka Soprano Uke, Fender Super amp, Ampeg ba112 bass amp,60's harmony banjo,'00 Gibson SG Supreme |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 29 Sep 2011 12:14 pm
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OK on the no Knee Levers. I was going by all that I've seen over the years.
Forumite Blake Hawkins has an early Maverick that is Maple cabinet and NO roller nut. It came with one Knee Lever. |
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Fred Glave
From:
McHenry, Illinois, USA
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Posted 30 Sep 2011 8:56 am
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When I got my old Fender 2000, which is kind of a Frankensteel, it came with no knee levers. Eventually I custom made do-it-yourselfe'd 4 knees. But before that, I played all kinds of stuff. There is a lot of music in a steel without knee levers, you just do it a little diffently, and it may not sound exactly the way it would be done if you had the levers, but that's okay too.
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Zum Encore, Zum Stage One, Fender 2000, Harlan Bros., Multi-Kord, |
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