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Topic: Teach Your Children and Blue Bayou on lap steel |
Kekoa Blanchet
From:
Kaua'i
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Posted 31 Mar 2012 12:29 pm |
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Seems like every time I go to a party, somebody asks for either "Teach Your Children" or "Blue Bayou." Understandable, since to the general public there's no distinction between an E9 pedal steel guitar and a C6 lap steel guitar. They're just requesting the songs they like to hear.
I know you'll never get the full impact of the original arrangement, but has anybody worked out a reasonable approximation of either of these songs on C6 lap steel? |
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Jon A. Ross
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not actually FROM Maine...
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Posted 1 Apr 2012 7:04 am
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| While I've no specific arrangement or method to offer, I have learned to fake/mimic psg sounds and licks on the six-string lap steel. It can be done. I have always been an "ear" player, and I just go for those sounds. One technique is to "pull" a string sharp behind the bar with one's ring finger. Having Garcia's classic psg work on "Children" in my head, I can fashion a reasonable facsimilie on the six-string lap steel. It definitely does not sound as good to me, but to drunk people at a party or bar...you're a hero! The trap is they then start requesting other "impossibilities". Sometimes it's best to disappoint them right off the bat and they'll leave you alone! |
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Kay Das
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Jeff Strouse
From:
Jacksonville, Florida, USA
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Posted 4 Apr 2012 3:18 am
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Teach Your Children has always always been one of my favorites. From high school to today, if I hear it on the radio, I have to blast it! 
Joey Ace and Gregg Thacker tabbed out the intro, solo, and outro for the song. The below link has the three sound clips with tabs.
http://users.interlinks.net/rebel/steel/1970.html
It's for E9th pedal steel, though. Mikey Adams also has an E9th tutorial for the songs on You Tube.
So what we need now someone who understands both instruments, and could transcibe that to non-pedal.
It would probably have to be in E9th to get near 'that sound'. I'm sure those classic licks can be simulated pretty close, in the right hands...using slants & the volume pedal (but hopefully no string pulls, as I can never get those in tune..  ). |
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Mike Anderson
From:
British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 4 Apr 2012 9:30 am
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...or you could try the Jerry Byrd (according to his book anyway) method and Just Say No. A guitarist friend of mine used to deal with the endless requests for "Stairway To Heaven" by playing this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txab9pKEIxg.
Then he'd just smile and say "That's it, right?" |
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George Piburn
From:
The Land of Enchantment New Mexico
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Chuck S. Lettes
From:
Denver, Colorado
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Posted 7 Apr 2012 10:49 am
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Very nice, George. You put a whole new slant on things. I never thought to work up Teach Your Children on the lap steel, but you're only limited by your imagination. Jerry would be proud.
Chuck |
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Bill Leff
From:
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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Posted 7 Apr 2012 3:58 pm
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| Very cool George! Works on C6 high E too (way high up of course). |
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Ryan Barwin
From:
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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