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Topic: Emmons: "Green River " intro |
Frank Freniere
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The First Coast
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Posted 13 Jul 2017 11:02 am |
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I found this song in an interesting thread in Steel on the Web – it’s from the Everly Brothers 1972 “Stories We Could Tell†album, not the Creedence Clearwater tune.
I’ve listened to a lot of steel guitar over the years but this is probably the wackiest, weirdest, wildest intro I’ve ever heard. The latter half of the intro even reminds me of bullfrogs croaking down by the River. Buddy Emmons - who else could conceive and execute something like this? Though Paul Franklin nails his performance live on this Allison Moorer clip …
It sure sounds like Buddy’s using a 12-string – the white Sierra perhaps? - so I rendered the tab in Universal E9/B6 tuning. If you have a half-tone lower on string 6, by all means use it at the end of measure 4 instead.
Added 7/19/17: If you don't have a delay effect or a C6 neck, you can use the tab below to approximate the first part of the intro.
Click HERE for the audio.
Last edited by Frank Freniere on 31 Jul 2017 7:00 am; edited 2 times in total |
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Roger Rettig
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Posted 13 Jul 2017 11:09 am
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Can't check it now, Frank, but very well done!!!!
Any idea what the delay would be set to?
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Frank Freniere
From:
The First Coast
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Posted 13 Jul 2017 11:45 am
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RR -
I just don't hear any special effects, just his hands. At first I thought he was playing triplets but... uh-uh.
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Roger Rettig
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Posted 13 Jul 2017 12:17 pm
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Okay - I need to listen again. I wlways thought it was delay. If anyone could do it without then it would have been E.
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles and Martins - and, at last, a Gibson Super 400!
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Ernie Renn
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Posted 13 Jul 2017 12:53 pm
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Buddy is playing with the echo as he does in Witches Brew. The same type of licks. Pretty sure it's standard C6 tuning, as they opened with Green River both times I saw the Everly's.
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 14 Jul 2017 7:06 am
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Thank you Frank, I'll have to try this tomorrow! I have only a ten -string, and if I can play this I will be realy proud of myself.
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Fred Treece
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Posted 16 Jul 2017 8:00 am
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I think Ernie is right. Sounds like delay. In 1972, it was probably echoplex.
In the Allison Moorer clip, you can see Paul Franklin is playing single staccato notes that are set to delay at intervals that create the parallel harmony. Not surprisingly present in the clip is Albert Lee on guitar, who is both a huge Everly Brothers fan and a master of this type of delay technique.
Nonetheless, it is a pretty darn good tab and worth trying to play without the delay, though getting it up to speed will not be likely for me. |
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Frank Freniere
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The First Coast
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Posted 16 Jul 2017 11:02 am
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I don't know from delays and echoplexes and such, but it seems like if you begin the repeat/delay 3 beats after the first note and go from there, you'd get that "cascade" of harmonized notes in the recording.
If anybody tries that, let us know what it sounds like. |
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Fred Treece
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Posted 16 Jul 2017 2:35 pm
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| Frank Freniere wrote: |
I don't know from delays and echoplexes and such, but it seems like if you begin the repeat/delay 3 beats after the first note and go from there, you'd get that "cascade" of harmonized notes in the recording.
If anybody tries that, let us know what it sounds like. |
Yes, that is exactly how it is done. It challenges your timing at first. I messed around with the concept a long time ago. Kinda fun, but if you are on a gig you have to set the delay to the exact tempo of the song. Or kick the tune off by yourself as in the Green River example. Either way, if you use it more than once in the same song, you better hope the tempo doesn't change. |
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Ernie Renn
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Brainerd, Minnesota USA
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Ernie Renn
From:
Brainerd, Minnesota USA
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Posted 17 Jul 2017 5:38 am
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This is from the Nashville Bar Association. In Ghost Riders in the Sky Buddy played a vamp with the Echoplex to bring in the next section. From this you can kinda get what's going on and how you play around the echo notes.
Ghost Riders - Emmons Echo vamp.
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