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Topic: Tunings; great article from Joe Ely |
Dan Sawyer
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Studio City, California, USA
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Posted 1 Dec 2005 1:24 pm |
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(oops, it's John, not Joe.)
I don't know where i've been, but somehow i missed John Ely's great website with lots of info for lap and Hawaiian style players. One of the most interesting articles is about the pros and cons of the different tunings. I recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it yet.
He's also got a good FAQ on how to buy your first steel.
http://www.hawaiiansteel.com/learning/tunings.html
[This message was edited by Dan Sawyer on 01 December 2005 at 01:26 PM.] |
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Russ Tkac
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Posted 7 Dec 2005 5:01 pm
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Thanks Dan. Great site!
Russ |
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Don Kona Woods
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Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Posted 7 Dec 2005 5:20 pm
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Everybody!!! Read It!!!
John is a master teacher at work with his craft. |
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Stanford Lane
From:
Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 7 Dec 2005 6:11 pm
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| Has anyone done an analysis of music to determine what the most common or most likely chords in a given style of music are? This might be helphul to know when one is trying to decide how to tune their steel. For example, If it is known that you are most likely to need 7th chords in the country style of playing, then you choose the tuning that will provide those chords the best. After, years of playing different styles of music, I think that I have an idea of the most likely chord progressions, it might be interesting to know if I'm wrong. |
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ebb
From:
nj
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Posted 7 Dec 2005 6:57 pm
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| you have asked the single most important question asked so far on the forum. once one identifies the distribution of chords for the music one likes it is then an optimization problem with ancillary knowledge of prefered string guages for sound. check out the leavitt tuning in no peddlers |
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Papa Joe Pollick
From:
Swanton, Ohio
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Posted 7 Dec 2005 8:25 pm
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Thanks for the heads up Dan,Good info.I printed it out for future reference.
PJ |
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Terry Farmer
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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Posted 7 Dec 2005 9:44 pm
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| Generally speaking, Bluegrass, old country, and old rock will have straight up major chords withn some V7ths, Blues - lots of dominant 7ths, even I and IV chords, Jazzy Blues - b7ths, ninths and some thirteenths, New Country - I don't know, Jazz - any kind of altered chords you can imagine, New Age - lots of major 7ths and 9ths Of course there are exceptions to every rule. One of my all time favorites is the #9th chord riff in Jimi Hendrix's "Foxy Lady". |
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