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Topic: Tom Morrell and the TWTH videos |
Mike Neer
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Marino Galli
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Switzerland
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Posted 4 Jan 2012 12:08 pm |
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Thanks MIKE!
The Best Gift Of The New Year!
The One & Only Tom Morrell !
Really appreciated:-
Do you know what kind of amplifier is using in the video?
Thanks Again
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Brad Bechtel
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Posted 4 Jan 2012 12:54 pm
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Great stuff, Mike. Thanks for sharing!
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Jerome Hawkes
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Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 4 Jan 2012 1:09 pm
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OH YEAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
YOU BEEN HOLDIN OUT ON US!....
thats right - we start getting the shakes watchin WOLF
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John Rosett
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Posted 4 Jan 2012 1:28 pm
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Thank you Mike!
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David Matzenik
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Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 4 Jan 2012 1:30 pm
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ssssSweet!!!
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Jim Cohen
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Philadelphia, PA
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 4 Jan 2012 6:11 pm
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I added one more instrumental video to the page, "Farewell Blues". Tom even cracks a smile while he's playing.
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Jim Cohen
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Philadelphia, PA
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HowardR
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N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 4 Jan 2012 6:43 pm
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Some years ago at the Dallas Show when it was in the Harvey Hotel......he was stting there at the bar and Mike Black took me over and introduced me to him.....he turned to me while stting on the bar stool and looked at me with intense eyes.....in a gruff voice he said...."You a steel player?"
In a nano second without even thinking I blurted out "NO!"...and he continued drinking.....I just had a gut feeling that I dodged a bullet......   |
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Mike Neer
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Posted 6 Jan 2012 5:59 am
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Tommy's playing was so fluid with such a great tone. Anyone know what he was playing here?
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Jerome Hawkes
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Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 6 Jan 2012 10:11 am
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its interesting how different authentic Texas swing was(is) from the So. Cal swing.
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 6 Jan 2012 10:23 am
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I had commented to someone how it took so long for me to be able to listen to Texas swing coming from NY and playing in Swing bands. It is a completely different beast altogether. I can appreciate it now, but I didn't at one time.
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Jerome Hawkes
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Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 6 Jan 2012 12:16 pm
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i think it has more to do with regional dance styles than casual listeners realize.
these were dance bands that played the style of music locals would dance to - be it NYC, TX, So Cal, TN, etc. its interesting that many mid-western steelers that moved to So Cal adopted that style real quick.
also right behind that is the bowing used by the fiddler(s) which is completely unique to TX - drives the sound of the music.
i've grown up in NC surrounded by a great Appalachian fiddlers and Texas fiddling always sounded "jerky" to me with the phrasing played well behind the beat - not to mention they usually play pieces slower - again, more to do with the dance style in TX.
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Steve Ahola
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Concord, California
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 6 Jan 2012 4:40 pm
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He's wearing 3 fingerpicks and a thumb pick.
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Kevin Brown
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England
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Posted 6 Jan 2012 4:55 pm
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| End of story, over and out, thats it fer me, big time ! just sorted out the rest of my life, thanks for enlightening my day Mike. |
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Clyde Mattocks
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Kinston, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 6 Jan 2012 5:17 pm
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Really nice stuff, thanks Mike. The guitar player's solo in Farewell Blues was pretty tasty, too!
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Steve Ahola
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Concord, California
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Posted 15 Jan 2012 8:35 pm G# on top
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I'll post the chord changes for "Stompin' At The Savoy" in G Major once I write them up in case anyone wants to play along with this video but I did have a question: what is the tuning that Tom is using here?
I believe it some version of A6 but I can't tell if it is 8 string or 10 string. I have my new Valco Alkire 10 string E Harp strung up for the Morrell E13th tuning but I don't think he is playing that on these videos. (I read a post here that said he usually played A6 and not E13th.)
Steve Ahola
P.S. Here are 11 CD's with Tommy- any suggestions on what to buy first?
http://wswing.home.texas.net/store/store_us.html
P.P.S. As for the Tom Morrell E13th tuning Doug B. among others recommends tuning the #10 string to B rather than the low E. I agree that the B is much more usable.
My question: Billy T. recommends swapping the 1st and 2nd strings since that will give you the slant positions of the G#, E and C# strings. Has anybody here tried that? I did notice that there are not a lot of good slants with the G# on top.
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Steve Ahola
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Posted 15 Jan 2012 8:39 pm OK- here are the chord changes
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Stompin' At The Savoy in G Major
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D7||:GM7|% D7|GM7|G#07 Am7|
|Am7|% D7|(1)G6 Em7|Am7 D7:||
|(2)G6 |G7 ||
|C7 C#7|C7|F7 Cm7b5|F7|
|A#7 B7|A#7|D#7|D7|| (back to top)
||GM7|% D7|GM7|% G#o7|
|Am7|D7|G6|% D7|%|| (end) |
I just noticed that the [tab] tag supports font formats like [b] while the [code] tag that I usually use to keep columns even doesn't.
Steve Ahola
P.S. As far as I know there are no copyrights that apply to chord changes.
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Steve Ahola
From:
Concord, California
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Posted 17 Jan 2012 6:23 pm In case anybody is wondering about the Tom Morrell E13th
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I thought I would spell out the modified Morrell tuning (with the B on the bottom), adding in the string gauges I used along with an 8 string variation that I have been trying out:
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Modified Tom Morrell E13th tuning
.011 G#
.013 F#
.015 E
.017 C#
.020 B
.024W G#
.026 F#
.030 (E) omit for 8 string
.034 D
.038 (B) omit for 8 string |
I think I used a .032 for the bottom string on my 8 stringer giving me the option to tune up to E or down to D. (When tuned to E you lose the dominant 7th so it becomes something like "E6 add 9")
I started off with .012 and .014 for the top 2 strings but replaced them with .011 and .013 to better facilitate string pulls. Not that string pulls are a priority for me but they are fun with this tuning...
Steve Ahola
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