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Topic: Hawaii Music Awards 2006: Steel Guitar |
Kay Das
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Los Angeles CA
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Posted 4 Feb 2006 8:11 am |
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A gentle reminder that voting on the Hawaii Music Awards closes on February 12th. There are two steel guitar entries in Section 29. Apart from the excerpt files on www.hawaiimusicawards.com, excerpts of the first seven tracks of my new CD " Lei of Crimson", can be heard on my website: http://web.mac.com/kaydas/iWeb/kaydas/Podcast/Podcast.html. Some of the tracks are already available on www.hsga.org.
At the Hawaii Music Awards website there is also a composite poster the over 100 CDs competing in various categories!! There are many many beautiful CD covers/inlays.
Congratulations to Johnny Kai and the HMA organisers on promoting so much new music in Hawaii....
And ...steel guitar lives on  !
Kay (in LA)
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Jeff Au Hoy
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Honolulu, Hawai'i
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Posted 4 Feb 2006 9:16 am
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| Hi Kay, I had a listen to your song "Lei of Crimson", and noticed a curious harmony you use. The rhythm instruments play Dm while you imply a Dmaj. (voiced 1-3, or D & F#) on the steel. Are my ears hearing this correctly? Could you expound a bit on your use of this harmony? |
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Bill Leff
From:
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2006 9:58 am
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Uh oh....  |
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Kay Das
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 4 Feb 2006 10:27 am
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jeff,
you have a great ear! you are right, but am not attempting anything too scientific. i sometimes deliberately, sometimes not, mix minors and majors attempting to leave the listener undecided and guessing about the harmony, sound less "country", a little different. some examples, much more musical than my attempts, of course, are: Ravel’s “Bolero” ,the Shadows' "FBI", some Debussy.. surely in some jazz examples...
my son david, and bill leff, noticed this too, and the early version of "lei of crimson" on the hsga website has been updated in the CD version where i have delayed the introduction of the major-minor "harmony" conflict to later in the tune.
charlie mcdonald and i had a big dialogue about this when we were working on " bossa sol" a major-minor version of which is on the hsga website as well as on the CD. (would love to have your great ear listen to that). i have to say that neither of us liked the minor-minor of the same tune version that we also generated.
should i drop the idea for steel guitar ?
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Jeff Au Hoy
From:
Honolulu, Hawai'i
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Posted 4 Feb 2006 5:33 pm
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| Kay, interesting. I'm familiar with major/minor harmony, but only in the case of raised 9th chords in music that is more harmonically dense throughout. Your application of maj/min is something new to my ears. I think it's definitely a concept worth exploring. However, I feel one of the hurdles might be conveying to the listener that the harmony is indeed intentional and not an oversight(?). My thinking may of course be too western. [This message was edited by Jeff Au Hoy on 04 February 2006 at 05:34 PM.] |
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