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Topic: It Was a Very Good Year ---> mp3 ---> Listen |
Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Bill Hankey
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Pittsfield, MA, USA
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Posted 5 Mar 2009 4:50 am |
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Are you readdressing the Bill Levitt tuning? I like that saucy finish at the song's ending. |
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Bill Hatcher
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Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 5 Mar 2009 5:59 am
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| VERY nice!! I like the sound of your guitar. Hearing all the nuances of the attack and the tone makes is seem like the guitar is right in the room with the listener. |
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 5 Mar 2009 6:12 am
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Beautiful and haunting, Doug. I started an arrangement of that tune a while back but it derailed. Yours is much nicer. JB diatonic?
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 5 Mar 2009 10:09 am
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| Those diatonic tunings can be tricky to get your head around. A few years back I dived into JB's tuning long enough to record a version of My Funny Valentine. You can get all sorts of cool scale cascades with the diatonic tunings but chords are more mostly clusters. If I had to play something on it today I'd be back to square one. IWAVGY is a perfect tune for that sound. Great job, Doug. |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Posted 5 Mar 2009 10:33 am
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Thanks Andy, yes diatonic tunings are complicated, and they offer a lot of interesting voicings and chromatic sounds. Some of the strings are tuned a half step apart, so the player has to be very selective in picking the strings and avoid certain strings. Diatonic tunings are based on a scale or a mode, not based on a chord, as most non-pedal tunings are. I've been tinkering with this A Diatonic tuning for a while, and with JB's C Diatonic tuning, and I like the A better. Just my personal preference. There are a lot of beautiful voicings for extended chords, especially minors. The tuning also offers lots of positions for 3rds, so it could work well for country, with selective picking of the strings. It does seem to be a little weak on dominant 7ths however. I have to do a little more woodshedding on this tuning to understand it fully.
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James Mayer
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back in Portland Oregon, USA (via Arkansas and London, UK)
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Posted 21 May 2009 11:35 am
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| This is awesome. I love this song. Do you have this tabbed out? I'd love it give it a try. |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Tom Pettingill
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California, USA (deceased)
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Posted 21 May 2009 11:55 am
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| Bill Hatcher wrote: |
| VERY nice!! I like the sound of your guitar. Hearing all the nuances of the attack and the tone makes is seem like the guitar is right in the room with the listener. |
Thats exactly what I was thinking too ... Very nice 
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James Mayer
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Posted 21 May 2009 12:01 pm
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| Thanks James, I don't have any tab for it, sorry. I learned it directly from the sheet music and by listening to the Sinatra recording... a combination of the two and a few ideas of my own. The tuning is Diatonic. |
Ah, so you are gonna make me do it the hard way. |
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Jason Dumont
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Bristol, Connecticut, USA
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Posted 21 May 2009 3:32 pm
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| Great job Doug. That's a great song. Well done! |
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Roy Thomson
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Wolfville, Nova Scotia,Canada
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Posted 21 May 2009 3:41 pm
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Good Execution there Doug. I like to hear the
Solo arrangements on steel. I hope you do more.
The Guitar sounds great BTW.
Is that the Jerry Byrd Diatonic?
Roy
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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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 21 May 2009 9:29 pm
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| That's really beautiful, Doug. A diatonic tuning is really a harp tuning, except that pedal harps can get chromatics with the pedals. |
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Jeff Strouse
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Jacksonville, Florida, USA
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Posted 22 May 2009 5:04 am
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| Very nice, Doug! |
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Lee Gillespie
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Cheyenne, Wy. USA
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Posted 22 May 2009 5:20 am Very Good Year
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| Hey Doug....you did a bang up job on that tune. I'm with Roy... Lay somemore on us. Lee |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 24 May 2009 4:01 am
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| After Rick's death hearing your version of this tune really adds a special poignance. Regardless of the guitar, the tuning, etc., as pure music, you played the song with great feeling. Haunting and beautiful, Doug. |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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John P. Phillips
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Folkston, Ga. U.S.A., R.I.P.
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Posted 24 May 2009 6:31 pm
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Great tune Dougie and a good arrangement too. It's now on my hard drive so I can listen any time I get the urge. A lot of those older tunes deserve a similiar treatment. Keep em coming !
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Mike Ihde
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Boston, MA
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Posted 25 May 2009 8:19 pm
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| Beautiful Doug! Love those half steps on the minor chords. Very nicely done. |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 26 May 2009 4:26 am
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| Even though the tune is indelibly associated with Sinatra, it was originally conceived as a folk song. Ervin Drake wrote it specifically for Bob Shane of the Kingston Trio. Sinatra was driving through the desert, heard it on the radio, and the rest is musical history. Drake said it took him only an hour to write. |
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