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Topic: New Tune HSGA - Smoke Rings B11 - Gerald Ross |
Gerald Ross
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Posted 30 Jan 2006 6:47 am |
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I heard Les Paul and Mary Ford's 1951 recording of this tune this past weekend. I knew it would make a great steel tune. I tried it in C6 for an hour or so and it wasn't coming.
This one required a major paradigm shift. So I left my comfortable confines of C6, retuned to B11, and lo and behold there it was!
The steel is my trusty 1935 Bakelite Rick in B11 tuning (B D# F# A C# E lo->hi). The uke is my 2005 Lanikai CK-T Tenor Ukulele. The guitar is my recent Christmas gift a Gitane D-500 "Django style" Guitar. Band In A Box Bass.
Guitar and uke recorded acoustically. Steel direct into ProTools.
Smoke Rings
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Gerald Ross
'Northwest Ann Arbor, Michigan's King Of The Hawaiian Steel Guitar'
CEO, CIO, CFO - UkeTone Records
Gerald's Fingerstyle Guitar Website
Board of Directors Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association
[This message was edited by Gerald Ross on 30 January 2006 at 06:48 AM.] |
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Don Kona Woods
From:
Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Posted 30 Jan 2006 8:13 am
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Nice work Gerald.
Now if we could only get a tab to that.
Aloha,
Don |
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Chuck S. Lettes
From:
Denver, Colorado
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Posted 30 Jan 2006 10:03 am
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Hi Gerald,
Nice rendition, and a great job recording. What type of microphone are you using on the acoustic instruments?
Chuck |
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Gerald Ross
From:
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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George Rout
From:
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 30 Jan 2006 10:38 am
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Hey Gerald. Nice clean stuff. Nice tune, really goes well together, including your accompanient. Keep up the good work.
Geo |
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Harry Dietrich
From:
Robesonia, Pennsylvania, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 30 Jan 2006 10:44 am
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Beautiful job Gerald.
I was wondering.....did you ever get a chance to work on any of those Bernie Kaai tunes I gave you at Joliet? Some of those were great songs.
Harry |
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Stephan Miller
From:
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
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Posted 30 Jan 2006 12:00 pm
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| Right up there with your best. Love that B11. Nice ukin' also. |
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Andy Barlo
From:
Schererville, Indiana, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 30 Jan 2006 12:01 pm
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| Very, very nice as always Gerald. Is there anything you can't do? You keep this up and you could become my idol. |
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Bill Leff
From:
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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Posted 30 Jan 2006 12:13 pm
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| Gerald Ross is the True American Idol! |
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Posted 30 Jan 2006 3:58 pm
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| Wonderful, relaxed take on a pretty melody, Gerald. Your guitar sings the song without a lot of characteristic B11th cliches. |
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Jeff Au Hoy
From:
Honolulu, Hawai'i
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Posted 30 Jan 2006 4:00 pm
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| Gerald, I really love your tone on all the instruments. The thing I like about your stuff is that it is always old-style, but never hokey. I think you're my favorite modern day 'ukulele picker. |
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basilh
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 30 Jan 2006 4:09 pm
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| I second what Jeff says EXCEPT I think that you're my ALL time favourite Uke player ..So in tune !!.. |
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Kris Oka
From:
San Francisco, CA, USA
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Posted 30 Jan 2006 5:56 pm
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| Gerald, very nice. Great tone especially the steel. The Man can do it all. |
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Gerald Ross
From:
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Craig Stenseth
From:
Naperville, Illinois, USA
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Posted 30 Jan 2006 9:05 pm
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| Good work Gerald. So what types of things is B11 more suited for than C6 (besides, I am guessing, playing 11th chords in a straight bar position or being slightly lower in pitch). Is this the tuning you went over at the seminar in Indy (no, I was not taking good notes). |
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Jeff Au Hoy
From:
Honolulu, Hawai'i
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Posted 30 Jan 2006 9:17 pm
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Craig, I like to think of the B11 not as an 11th tuning (it actually sounds pretty crummy if strummed across) but instead as a B9/A6 tuning. Everything below the top string is your B9 and the top 4 strings are your A6.
"Advantages" of the B11 (compared to C6): you can play straight-bar 9th chords, straight-bar three note diminished chords, and 6th chords voiced with the 5th on top. One drawback of the B11 off the top of my head is that you cannot play major chords with the root on top. |
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Steve Pierce
From:
San Rafael, California, USA
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Posted 31 Jan 2006 1:33 pm
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Sounds great Gerald! Nice and rich.
Love that intimate little Uke solo too.
Have you ever heard the version of this with Greg Leisz backing up K.D. Lang? Your version has a stronger Hawaiian influence than the Western Swing feel that K.D. and G.L. go after. I think I like yours better.
Thanks for always linking us to such nice listenings while we browse the forum!
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Gerald Ross
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Posted 31 Jan 2006 3:32 pm
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Thanks Steve,
The only versions I heard were Les Paul & Mary Ford's and Django Reinhardt's.
I went out to Itunes and listened to K.D.Lang's version. Very nice! Man! she really know's how to milk the words to that song! Unfortunately you can only hear a snippet of the steel on the 30 second sample they provide.
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Gerald Ross
'Northwest Ann Arbor, Michigan's King Of The Hawaiian Steel Guitar'
CEO, CIO, CFO - UkeTone Records
Gerald's Fingerstyle Guitar Website
Board of Directors Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association
[This message was edited by Gerald Ross on 02 February 2006 at 01:51 PM.] |
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Kay Das
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 31 Jan 2006 3:45 pm
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gerald, congratulations, one of your best. i love the "smokey" lead stylings and tone...the uke accompaniment and solo are beautiful too....in perfect contrast with the lead...
hmmm...wonder if there are more les paul and mary tunes that would lay well on steel guitar...
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Jeff Au Hoy
From:
Honolulu, Hawai'i
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Posted 31 Jan 2006 3:54 pm
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| hmmm...wonder if there are more les paul and mary tunes that would lay well on steel guitar... |
I'm thinking just about all of them! |
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Steve Pierce
From:
San Rafael, California, USA
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Posted 1 Feb 2006 8:48 pm
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Hey Gerald check your email.
I apologize if the file's too big.
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