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Topic: Shiny Stockings - showcasing Jules Ah See C13 |
Mike Neer
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Posted 6 Oct 2020 5:49 am |
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I wanted to record a little demo showcasing some of the things I've discovered I can do using Jules Ah See's C13 tuning (E C A G E C Bb C high to low). It's really the only tuning I use for EVERYTHING.
While this recording is not a complete version of the tune (I should have recorded the shout chorus, dang!), it does accomplish what I hoped for, which is to show how you can comp chords like a guitarist and even play bass lines (no effects used). For the main melody I guess I wanted to recreate that 1960s organ sound using a vibrato pedal. It sounds great with headphones, through a mono speaker, not so much.
Anyway, here is a piece of Shiny Stockings by Frank Foster. I always enjoyed playing rhythm guitar on this when I had a 9-pc band with horns behind me.
https://soundcloud.com/mdneer/shiny-stockings-mike-neer
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Slim Heilpern
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Posted 6 Oct 2020 6:15 am
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Fantastic, and very impressive! Love the solo work especially.
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Kirk Francis
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Posted 6 Oct 2020 8:01 am shiny stockings.
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sounds almost like a B-3 percussion pumped through a leslie speaker!
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Rich Sullivan
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Nelson, NH 03457
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Posted 6 Oct 2020 10:22 am
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| Excellent, Mike. I really like where the music is taking you. |
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Jim Mckay
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Posted 6 Oct 2020 10:25 am
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That's nice Mike. Very inspirational. Great playing.
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Nic Neufeld
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Posted 6 Oct 2020 10:52 am
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As a bassist myself I too love the low C for playing basslines. Just a few questions...flats or rounds and gauge for your low C? And do you roll off the tone a lot? OK, one more, do you play the "lap bass" with picks, or fingers?
I love the comping, too. And the second (non "organ") solo is great, really nice. I mean this in the very best way possible...but you donʻt sound like a steel player on it. The phrasings hit me like straight jazz guitar.
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David Matzenik
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Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 6 Oct 2020 12:49 pm
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Stunning technical ability 
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 6 Oct 2020 5:49 pm
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| Nic Neufeld wrote: |
As a bassist myself I too love the low C for playing basslines. Just a few questions...flats or rounds and gauge for your low C? And do you roll off the tone a lot? OK, one more, do you play the "lap bass" with picks, or fingers?
I love the comping, too. And the second (non "organ") solo is great, really nice. I mean this in the very best way possible...but you donʻt sound like a steel player on it. The phrasings hit me like straight jazz guitar. |
I use round wounds but I don’t change them often. These strings are about 9 mos. old. The bass string is a .068. I play with my thumb.
All of the parts except for the lead organish track were played with bare fingers. I play a little differently with bare fingers, maybe a little more guitaristic. I appreciate the comment—I try hard to not sound so much like a steel player but just to play the way I am hearing it. I work pretty hard at a lot of intricate ‘fingerings’ and stuff but a lot of times it doesn’t show up in my playing because I tend to be more spontaneous and less calculated. I should work on that.
Thank you everyone for the comments. This was a result of my musical ADD. I really should be working on other stuff.
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David Matzenik
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Posted 6 Oct 2020 6:52 pm
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| Mike Neer wrote: |
All of the parts except for the lead organish track were played with bare fingers. I play a little differently with bare fingers, maybe a little more guitaristic. I appreciate the comment—I try hard to not sound so much like a steel player but just to play the way I am hearing it. I work pretty hard at a lot of intricate ‘fingerings’ and stuff but a lot of times it doesn’t show up in my playing because I tend to be more spontaneous and less calculated. I should work on that.
Thank you everyone for the comments. This was a result of my musical ADD. I really should be working on other stuff. |
Now this is what I was talking about in the Learning thread. Unlike the glib comments of many great guitar players, you have thought about what you do and you go into some detail about it. Thanks, because for those of us who are self taught, we need these insights to verify we are on the right track.
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Andrew Frost
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Toronto, Ontario
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Posted 6 Oct 2020 11:54 pm
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| Excellent! Man, I love those sounds. You nailed that 60s organ trio vibe. |
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 7 Oct 2020 2:27 am
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Technically very impressive; musically, right in the pocket, Mike. Always a fun tune to hear but particularly from you! I admit that I'm not a big fan of the organ simulator on steel - even when Curly did it. I prefer the clean, warm sound that only a steel can make and the unique sounds only a Hammond can make but that, as they say, makes horse races. Terrific playing, man!
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 7 Oct 2020 3:54 am
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There’s no subtlety about the sound at all when chords are involved, that’s for sure. I happened to be working on another arrangement at the time of a Latin version of a tune and was using that sound for the single note melody, which sounded really nice. I took a detour into this and left the sound on. It’s not even a Leslie sim, but just a pure vibrato.
When I was a teen, my uncle was a keyboard player and he had his Leslie set up in the living room. Needless to say, I spent a lot of time at my grandparents’ house and couldn’t get enough of it. My life of tone crime began early. Guilty!
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Bill Hatcher
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Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 7 Oct 2020 5:41 am
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| and that is very cool..... |
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Bo Parker
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Alabama, USA
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Posted 7 Oct 2020 5:47 am
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| Very very nice! |
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