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Topic: Baritone guitar parts on C6 neck |
Scott Spanbauer
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Boulder, Colorado, USA
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Posted 30 May 2021 9:32 am |
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As the utility guy in one of my bands, I have too much going on: electric guitar in two different tunings, E9th pedal steel, C6 lap steel, and baritone guitar. It is sometimes too much to juggle.
I know there's another convo about C6 lap vs. C6 pedal steel, but I have another question: has anyone tried playing baritone parts on the C6 neck?
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Scott Akers
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Texas, USA
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Posted 30 May 2021 10:06 am
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In the parts between :43 and :56. I was sure trying! Those few seconds were on the C6 neck.
https://youtu.be/Rb2x-cJj8NA
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Scott Spanbauer
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Boulder, Colorado, USA
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Posted 30 May 2021 11:13 am
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Oh, yeah. That works for me. I'm going to give it a shot!
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Fish
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Posted 30 May 2021 11:42 am
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I’ve done this onstage before. It will usually pass in a house mix.
I tuned my 9th string F up to G, turned the verb and delay off, rolled
the lows off of my amp, added highs, and played as close to the bridge as I could
while avoiding any sliding notes. It worked fine, due in part to the double of the part played by our guitarist.
Fun stuff! |
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scott murray
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Asheville, NC
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Posted 30 May 2021 11:54 am
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"In 1958 or 1959... I took all my things and loaded them on Ray's bus and finished out the tour with The Cherokee Cowboys. For some reason or another, Ray didn't have a bass man with him and he was picking up one in each town he played. So, I played bass on my steel. I tuned my strings down and did all the bass lines. I got back to Nashville by playing all their remaining shows." ~Buddy Emmons
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Gary Spaeth
From:
Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 31 May 2021 4:32 am
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| turn on the vibrato and reverb and play soldier boy, galvestion, witchita lineman, lonely bull solos. works great. great fun. |
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 31 May 2021 6:08 am
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I put bass strings on one of the necks on my T-8 Stringmaster. Fender had one neck designed that way. 
Erv |
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Pete Finney
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Nashville Tn.
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Posted 31 May 2021 7:41 am
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I've done it a fair amount, pretty much as Steve Fishell describes on C-6th pedal-steel; crank highs a bit and play next to the bridge and hit every note straight on with no bends. I find myself just using the thumb for this kind of thing too, kind of like using all downstrokes with a flatpick on guitar. But I've typically just used either 5th or 8th pedal for a D or A root, depending on the song and the key... Tuning 9th string to G makes sense for playing in C for sure.
For a "tic-tac" part doubling the bass ala Harold Bradley etc., kinda dry is good, but for lead baritone-type parts reverb and/or tremolo can be your friend. Richard Bennett parts on early Steve Earle records are another good reference for this style; "Guitar Town" etc.
Or you can just use that sound and approach but take it somewhere else with pedal bends and things that guitar players can't do. That's fun too, if it fits the song and you're not trying to recreate an old style.
Mike Daly is a master at this kind of thing, IMHO. |
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Bobby Hearn
From:
Henrietta, Tx
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Posted 31 May 2021 9:31 am
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| I use it for the guitar ride on the end of Going Where The Lonely Go by Hag. |
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Ron Pruter
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 31 May 2021 10:36 am
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I've sold all my 6 strings but one thing I will never sell is my baritone I made from a 70's Mustang bass. One of my secret weapons.🎸
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Jim Hoke
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 31 May 2021 5:35 pm
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| I LOVE doing that! Depending on what key you're in, you can use pedals to lock in opportunities. (i.e. if the song is in D, engage P5 and you have the D triad on the bottom and can hammer-on lots of melodic things.) Finney has the right idea; use tremolo and hit the notes dead-on with maybe a bit of de-tuning like with a Bisgy whammy bar - just a touch. That P10 will get you down to that low A. |
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Bobby D. Jones
From:
West Virginia, USA
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Posted 31 May 2021 8:23 pm
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I am glad to see I am not the only one working on new things during the covid 19 lay off. I have been playing around with strings 6-8-9-10-11-12 on a 12 string steel U, I use an Evans AH-200 amp. hooked on my seat. Makes it easy to change settings on amp.
I will be following this post for ideas. |
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