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Topic: Bar slants on dobro? |
Paul Sutherland
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Placerville, California
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Posted 25 Jul 2012 2:32 pm |
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| I'm a pedal steel player who is just getting interested in my lap steel. But I am also thinking about dobros/resonators, and I've noticed that bar slants don't seem to be used nearly as often in dobro playing, as they are used in lap steel playing. Is that an accurate impression? |
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Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 25 Jul 2012 2:40 pm
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I don't think that's necessarily accurate. It depends on the player. Rob Ickes, for example, uses slants pretty extensively, both in his solo work and in Three Ring Circle and Blue Highway.
Troy Brenningmeyer has a series of lessons covering slants on the resophonic guitar. Here's one sample.
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Paul Sutherland
From:
Placerville, California
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Posted 25 Jul 2012 2:56 pm
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| Brad: I'm glad I asked the question because the link to Troy's website is great, and pretty definitively answers my question. Thanks. |
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Tom Wolverton
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Carpinteria, CA
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Posted 25 Jul 2012 9:55 pm
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I first learned dobro from the playing of Oswald and Josh Graves. There's tons of slanting going on, forward and reverse. It's fun.
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William W Western
From:
Canada
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Posted 30 Jul 2012 9:49 pm
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| One of my favourite slanting sequences is to be found in Josh Grave's version of "Cuttin' The Grass". Having said that, after Lester and Earl split up Lester had Charlie Nixon on dobro and they cut a version of "Cuttin' The Grass" that was a bit slower, and that sequence to my ears really milks the slants. Charlie Nixon was a fine player who rarely gets mentioned when dobro players are spoken of. |
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Jim Bates
From:
Alvin, Texas, USA
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Posted 2 Aug 2012 4:35 am
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I use bar slants whenever I need to on my pedal steel and my dobro. Always have, because I grew up learning to play lap steel with the Jerry Byrd courses, which took you through all the most used tunings.
When I graduated to pedals, I still kept a knowledge of how to move the bar (and slant it) to get the notes. So, I use pedals and bar slants in the same tune quite often to get the sound or mood I want.
Thanx,
Jim |
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Mark van Allen
From:
Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Posted 2 Aug 2012 7:25 am
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Bar slants are a really personal stylistic choice for many lap and reso players. For example, Don Helm's choice to use few or no slants, I believe to set his style apart from Jerry Byrd who used them so frequently and tastefully.
On any tuning many of the slant positions can be easily found and "memorized" by simply learning the harmonized scale for one key, on Dobro for instance, learn the chord positions for open G, Am, Bm, C, D, Em, F#mb5... and almost all of the slant positions will leap right off the fingerboard at you.
Lots more on this in my Theory and Number System course for Dobro.
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