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Topic: Maurice Anderson's lap steel tuning |
Carlos Polidura
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Posted 16 Dec 2012 10:30 am |
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| I'd like to know Maurice Anderson's 12 string lap steel tuning. Thanks. Carlos |
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James Nottage
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Indiana, USA
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Posted 16 Dec 2012 10:54 am
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For his on-line classes, he teaches with GECAGECA.
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Jouni Karvonen
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Helsinki, Finland
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Posted 16 Dec 2012 11:43 am
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Greg Cutshaw
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Corry, PA, USA
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Carlos Polidura
From:
Puerto Rico
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Posted 24 Dec 2012 1:16 pm Maurice Anderson's tuning
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| Thanks to all who responded... |
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J D Sauser
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Wellington, Florida
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Posted 4 Feb 2021 9:58 am
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Maurice came from non-pedal into earliest pedal guitars.
He played with 3 finger picks plus the thumb, like several Jazz and Swing centered players and evidently became known as the "Chord-King". He played a lot of wide grips, unlike most Western Swing players who played a lot of adjacent string chord for more "honk".
When Maurice took a sharp left turn from playing 12 string pedal guitars with 7 or 8 pedals and 5 knee levers back to "Up The Hill Without A Peddle" (one of his tunes)... he wanted to be able to grab some voicings he enjoyed and was known for.
The bottom "D" was something he carried over from his Bb and B pedal guitars in C and C# respectively (same interval). His top strings fill the gap you have when playing adjacent string two note harmonies and and hit that 2nd interval in between 5th and 6th degree (A & G). So they are inside-out "chromatics" similar to E9th's but lower pitched and the "B" in it gave him the M7-note pedal tunings get with the standard knee lever, the old "4"-pedal and the "7"-pedal. The "D" comes in handy as most pedal players have it instead of the high G, it's the second degree and with the bottom "F" it creates the relative-minor 9th to F (Dm9th), which he has the root at the fat bottom for too AND it gives him the top change note of the "7"-pedal.
The only thing missing is a quick straight Dom7 ("6"-pedal).
Maurice was an ACE at playing chord in positions most mortals would not think of either with a missing root or grabbing an alternate root like his bottom "D"-string. He also resurrected and expanded his ability to play open string. In other words, arrange his tunes so that he'd have a lot of open string possibilities he did not have find notes for under his bar.
There is a youtube of him playing Honey Suckle Rose at Scotties and he demonstrates just like Jerry Byrd would, playing thru in harmonies (3rds and 6ths), then jamming off in single notes and the surprising the crowd going thru it with big fat complex chords the likes one got used hearing him crank out on his S12U with 8 pedals and 5 levers.
Evidently, the technique was strongly affected by the key he wold play in. Some chords are only available with open strings in certain positions.
I took "single-note" classes at his home for 3 days straight. I had my B10 Rickenbacher tuned C6th with a bottom C# (Jerry Byrds answer on how to get a Dom7 by having a Major 3rd to the relative minor to C6th, Am7.
Maurice suggested I'd do F and D instead... and I remember him pointing at it on his guitar, sitting in front of me and say with undivided authority: "I wouldn't want to be without the D!" (NOW I have it on my Pedal Steel, and I agree, I would give up a pedal to keep it).
In other words, there is NOTHING strange or any hidden "Reece"-secrets in that tuning. Just plain "Maurice-LOGIC"!
... J-D
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The uses of Tablature is addictive and has been linked to reduced musical fertility.
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Bill McCloskey
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Posted 4 Feb 2021 11:10 am
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| A 10 year old thread resurrected. |
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Allan Revich
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Victoria, BC
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Posted 4 Feb 2021 9:47 pm
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| Jouni Karvonen wrote: |
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It's easy to see the logic in this. Loads of strummable triads in there. Majors, minors, 7ths, pick or strum, it's in there!
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Current Tunings:
6 String | G – G B D G B D
7 String | G6 – e G B D G B D (re-entrant)
https://papadafoe.com/lap-steel-tuning-database |
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