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Topic: Nuts 'n' bolts instrumental song advice |
David Mason
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Posted 4 Mar 2015 6:37 pm |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7qeOwThzSg
I'm slightly totally convinced that the "Next Big Thing in Steel" is probably NOT going to be some guy playing pads and fills on some other guy's cover versions of some other guy's songs - WRITING original music just may be helpful? Whoa. Pretty much everything said here could be useful in turning those unconnected little noodles into polished... noodle collections. Wayne Krantz is one of the best of new guitarists who mix up everything, with Oz Noy, Julien Kasper, Jimmy Herring and about eleven more every year. "Guitar World" used to be buried deep into metal & shred subjects, but by the sidebar it looks as though they put up a jazz(ish) story once a month now too. |
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 6 Mar 2015 6:18 am
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I've thought about this. While listening to Robben Ford in a similar instruction on 13ths, showing positions--there definitely a future in internet media for gui instruction.
Once he started playing Frantz was certainly branching out into composition. I had to listen to it twice to get the overlaying.
The pedal steel has all the ingredients for finding lost chords. The best composition I did was on pedal steel, following Monk and Mingus. The chords kind of presented themselves. It did break composition away from what I was doing, which was good.
I mean, it's a very modern machine by history's time;
practically developed for the purpose, and has yet to be fully explored.
But I dig this guy, even tho he seems to talk too much, but on this one on Jeff Beck; kind of stuff that would encourage composition of ideas.
Cool topic.
I mean when you hear was it Schulz? 'Goodbye Pork Pie Hat.' The steel is laid out for this stuff. Mingus would've loved the instrument I'll bet.
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Donny Hinson
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Posted 7 Mar 2015 1:36 am Re: Nuts 'n' bolts instrumental song advice
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| David Mason wrote: |
I'm slightly totally convinced that the "Next Big Thing in Steel" is probably NOT going to be some guy playing pads and fills on some other guy's cover versions of some other guy's songs - WRITING original music just may be helpful? |
I do think there's validity to what you say. The only problem is that pedal steel isn't like straight guitar. It takes far longer to learn to play it, and it has only a tiny fraction of guitar's appeal. (It's hard to get popularity without exposure.) As far as playing "pads and fills", well...that's just been the McMusic of pedal steel, in the same way that "shredding" is the McMusic of guitar. Susan Alcorn has done some innovative writing and composition for pedal steel, but it hasn't garnered much attention. |
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