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Topic: A capella Steel Guitar |
Roy Thomson
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Wolfville, Nova Scotia,Canada
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Posted 21 Feb 2007 4:41 pm |
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I have always enjoyed A capella singing and what I have
heard is mostly performed by Bluegrass artists. I thought it
would be interesting to try it on steel guitar and recorded
the undernoted sample.
I just use six strings of the C6th tuning with "E" on top.
I did the three parts on a Gibson Consolette. The song is
" Walking My Lord "
I have the arrangement in tablature for the individual parts
and also MP3's of each part as well. Anyone interested
in trying this approach please email me for details.
roythomson@eastlink.ca
Great for recording practice and also for trio or group
playing.
You can listen :
http://freefilehosting.net/download/MTAyOTA3 |
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Mike Howard
From:
Grandfield, OK USA
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Posted 21 Feb 2007 8:05 pm
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Very beautiful Roy!
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Michael Johnstone
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Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 22 Feb 2007 12:58 am
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| Very nice. One thing though - A Cappella means "in the chapel" in Italian musical parlance. Back in the day,instruments were not allowed in the chapel because only the voices of the monks were deemed worthy of that. So the term "A Cappella" only applies when you're talking about the human voice. If you're talking about solo instrumental music you'd call it "unaccompanied". |
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Ed Altrichter
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Schroeder, Minnesota, USA
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Posted 22 Feb 2007 2:54 am
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| Sounds about right. Asides, who's gonna argue with a man holdin' a gun . . . ? |
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Roy Thomson
From:
Wolfville, Nova Scotia,Canada
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Posted 22 Feb 2007 4:18 am
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Hi Michael!
Thank you for the clarification. 
Roy |
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Charlie McDonald
From:
out of the blue
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Posted 22 Feb 2007 5:07 am
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I can sure hear it in the chapel, with all its natural reverberation.
I'm sure those chords on pedal steel come from emulating the close, moving harmonies of mountain singing.
Lovely, as always.
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Carroll Hale
From:
EastTexas, USA
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Posted 22 Feb 2007 5:29 am
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| Ed Altrichter wrote: |
| Sounds about right. Asides, who's gonna argue with a man holdin' a gun . . . ? |
yes indeed....and pointed at your wazoosie...... 
makes me want to duck every time i read one of his posts...
and I live in texas where most everyone has some/many of those sidearms.....  |
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Terry Wood
From:
Lebanon, MO
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Posted 22 Feb 2007 5:55 am
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Great job Roy!
Yep, with Michael pointing his sidearm at us, we better be playin' in tune! Looks like he had a rough day at the office!
Terry |
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Nigel Mullen
From:
Cassilis, New Brunswick, Canada
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Posted 22 Feb 2007 6:52 am
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| Wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Lee Gillespie
From:
Cheyenne, Wy. USA
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Posted 22 Feb 2007 7:50 am Walkin my Lord
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As Lawrence Welk use to say.. WON NER FUL WON NER FUL.
You did it again Roy. Thought of in the past ... what 4 steels would sound like, playing 4 part harmony. Now I know.
wonnerful wonnerful..... Lee |
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Stan Paxton
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1/2 & 1/2 Florida and Tenn, USA (old Missouri boy gone South)
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Posted 22 Feb 2007 5:50 pm
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| Very pretty, AND intrigueing (or however it is spelled); never heard anything done like that before.. |
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 22 Feb 2007 7:57 pm
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| Stan Paxton wrote: |
| never heard anything done like that before.. |
Don't we all play unaccompanied when we're practising ? |
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Ed Altrichter
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Schroeder, Minnesota, USA
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Posted 23 Feb 2007 12:13 am
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Yup Alan, I hever play WITH accompaniment. I am strictly a back-porch lawn chair picker on Dobro, National tri-cone and
Superslide. I'm probably missing something, but I get to hog the whole show ! |
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Roy Thomson
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Wolfville, Nova Scotia,Canada
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Posted 24 Feb 2007 12:19 pm
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Lefty Frizell band used to play this type of harmony
back in the 50's. The song "Always Late " comes to mind
and there were others. Of course they used the band accompanyment.
Roy |
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Dennis Schell
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Shingletown, Shasta county, Kalifornia
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Posted 24 Feb 2007 2:37 pm
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| Ed Altrichter wrote: |
| Sounds about right. Asides, who's gonna argue with a man holdin' a gun . . . ? |
 
Dennis
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Dennis Schell
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Shingletown, Shasta county, Kalifornia
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Posted 24 Feb 2007 2:38 pm
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| Ed Altrichter wrote: |
| Sounds about right. Asides, who's gonna argue with a man holdin' a gun . . . ? |
Dennis
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Dennis Schell
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Shingletown, Shasta county, Kalifornia
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Posted 24 Feb 2007 2:39 pm
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| Ed Altrichter wrote: |
| Sounds about right. Asides, who's gonna argue with a man holdin' a gun . . . ? |
Dennis
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Dennis Schell
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Shingletown, Shasta county, Kalifornia
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Posted 24 Feb 2007 2:41 pm
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| Ed Altrichter wrote: |
| Sounds about right. Asides, who's gonna argue with a man holdin' a gun . . . ? |
Dennis
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Dennis Schell
From:
Shingletown, Shasta county, Kalifornia
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Posted 24 Feb 2007 2:48 pm
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Dang it, I kept getting an error message and next thing I know there's a whole posse! Where in heck is the delete button?!? 
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Damir Besic
From:
Nashville,TN.
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Dennis Schell
From:
Shingletown, Shasta county, Kalifornia
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Posted 25 Feb 2007 2:23 am
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cool,nice pair of SA cowboy shooters
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Thanks Damir. The one with the good view of it's bore is a 10" barreled Ruger "Flattop" .44 mag made in 1960. Not many 10" Flattops were built.....
Just FYI
Dennis
BTW, I guess Bob will have to delete the excess photos. From what I can gather, after a post is "answered", I lose the ability to delete. Kind of odd but...... (A computer whiz I'm NOT!) 
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Damir Besic
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Nashville,TN.
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Posted 18 Mar 2007 8:54 pm
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Ruger,yeap,good guns,I have few of those myself but not a flattop,In SA I have nice New Vaquero,it looks so nice I didn`t have a heart to shoot it yet.
Db
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