Bill Ford
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Graniteville SC Aiken
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Posted 19 Apr 2007 10:09 am |
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This has probably been discussed before. How did the pedal change on "Slowly" come about? Was it something that clicked while tuning, a mistake[good one],or what?
Bill
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David Doggett
From:
Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 19 Apr 2007 2:01 pm
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Somewhere Bud said he wanted to get the close moving harmony of twin fiddles. So I'm thinking it was definetly not a mistake. Bud apparently had a sound in mind and he and Bigsby figured out how to make it happen.  |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 19 Apr 2007 2:27 pm
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It's difficult to say, really, but here's my theory on the subject...
When Bud did that famous E to A, and B to E, stuff on "Slowly" back in 1954, pedal guitars had been around for almost 20 years, and the idea of using the pedals for creating moving tones (and not just as a "tuning-changer") had been around at least 15 years. IMHO, what Bud did that was unique was that major inversion, that I-IV change. Remember, the pedal guitar was born out of the Hawaiian guitar, and Hawaiian music used a lot more chords, like minors, minor 7ths, 6ths, and diminisheds. Pedals and levers on early steels (going back to probably 1930) were only used to make these types of changes. The idea of going from one major triad to another using pedals had evidently been just overlooked in the Hawaiian genre. In country music, however, the music was predominately 3 chords, and occasionally 4. So undoubtedly, other steelers had used pedals to make some moving changes over a decade earlier, long before Bud's "epiphany"...but that major I-IV change he popularized had (evidently) just not been done, and it "fit" into the then-popular 3-chord country music like a hand fits into a glove...so simple a thing, yet so ground-breaking and instantly recognizable! |
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