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Topic: Non Pedal Country Solos |
Billy Mostyn
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Queensland, Australia
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Posted 30 Sep 2015 6:14 pm |
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| Been playing around learning lap steel for a couple of years and can make up very basic solos for country songs. However, wish there was some way I could get TABS for solos of country songs. Would love to be able to play solo on non pedal to A Fool Such As I and so on. Probably be a real money maker if someone compiled a book/s of country solos for non pedal guys like me. I play in C6. |
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Paul Seager
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Augsburg, Germany
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Posted 2 Oct 2015 12:31 am
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Billy, I understand your ask and I recently put a post in requesting classic country songs evey non-pedal player should know - similiar approach to jazz; you know, songs you shouldn't move to New York without knowing! I got some great tips there, even some private tabs but mostly it's ear training which, if you want to solo, is what you'll use more than tabs. Tabs show the notes and positions but can never provide the "voice" of the soloist.
Of the links that Brad provided, I would definitely recommend the Cindy Cashdollar DVD's (also available as downloads now). The second part of her instruction goes into phrases that can be used as fills or solos. Although there are only a few examples, it's a great starter vocabulary that you can quickly adapt to solo playing. There is at least one phrase in there that I find I now hear and indeed use everywhere, at the start, in the middle or end of a solo.
Greg Cutshaw's collection of C6 tabs are not solos per se but, as with the Cashdollar DVDs, there is a lot of vocabulary in there that will help you build up solo skills. I often run through Greg's exercises to warm-up or when I am at a loss of what to practice.
On the Tabs "sticky" of this section of the forum, you'll find Doug Beaumeier's Speed Picking exercise. It's a solo in itself with some very nice licks but the main thing I found helpful is picking style, it realy does help getting some speed into phrases.
Just one personal tip ... and I am not an advanced player: When you're working on a solo for a well-known song, scan Youtube / Spotify or whatever for as many versions as you can find. Don't just concentrate on steel stuff. I find that other players ... fiddle- and clarinet-players are a great source of inspiration and easier to copy from than say a pedal steel player on turbo!
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Billy Mostyn
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Queensland, Australia
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Posted 2 Oct 2015 3:43 am
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Thanks Brad and Paul really appreciate your posts. Paul, you really understand where I am coming from and the reason for my post. Sorry I didn't explain my needs better in my post.
Once again, thanks guys. |
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 2 Oct 2015 4:59 am
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Learning how to play solos is not exclusive to steel guitar, so there are plenty of materials available for learning how to be a better improviser. Ideally, the solo begins and ends in your head, so that is where the focus should be: getting those notes from the head to the hands.
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Bob Thomason
From:
Georgia, USA
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Posted 2 Oct 2015 5:13 am
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Here's a vid of some stuff I really like . From Sentell pickups web. http://sentellpickups.net
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Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 2 Oct 2015 6:31 am
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If you're talking about the video titled "Pickup demo for the LS9" on that page, you're in the wrong section. That's definitely a pedal steel being used in that video.
Thanks for sharing, though.
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Bob Thomason
From:
Georgia, USA
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Posted 2 Oct 2015 6:56 am
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I thought it was too good to be true. Thanks
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