| Do you keep a notebook on tunings ? |
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39% |
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| No, I keep everything in memory (or try to). |
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42% |
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| I don't use multiple tunings. |
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18% |
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Topic: Multiple Tunings ...Do You Keep a Notebook |
Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 11 Jul 2010 9:41 am |
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Those of you who use multiple tunings: how do remember what you're doing ? Do you keep a notebook, or just remember what you can ?
I know Cindy Cashdollar keeps a notebook as she mentioned it in Andy Volk's book. |
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Tom Campbell
From:
Houston, Texas, USA
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Posted 11 Jul 2010 9:58 am
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Each of my steels has it's own folder. Everytime a copedent change is made it is recorded. If there are major changes, a completely new copedent sheet is made out and dated. Recorded information includes:
1. string #
2. pedal# or lever#
3. changer slot
4. bell crank position |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 11 Jul 2010 8:16 pm
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I write my pedal steel rodding charts in a journal. Wiring diagrams, too. I do most of my copedent charts on my computer, so they don't really go into a physical notebook.
I answered Yes because of the rodding charts, which are a kind of tuning chart.
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Ryan Barwin
From:
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 12 Jul 2010 2:58 am
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No I don't...I just remember all my non-pedal tunings, and all my copedents and stuff are on spreadsheets on the computer.
But it would be a good idea.
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 12 Jul 2010 7:59 pm My notebook has become a three ring binder.............
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Initially, I was able to remember all of the different tunings as my music basics was just getting started.
I'd associate a specific tuning with a specific sound and/or recording. "Boot Heel Drag"...C# min.
As more and more bands toured thro' this area, I started logging all of the tunings I could get ahold of. Ultimately, my memory bank just couldn't hold any more stuff. Then of course, JERRY BYRD had some 11 different tunings +/- that he used at various times during his lengthy career.
I've lost many of them but for the most part, I still have them on the shelf. |
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Papa Joe Pollick
From:
Swanton, Ohio
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Posted 12 Jul 2010 8:18 pm
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| I no longer have multiple tunings since I sold all my non-pedal guitars [except one] but I kept the string packages and tuning info in the case along with the date of the new strings. |
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Wayne Cox
From:
Chatham, Louisiana, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 15 Jul 2010 10:26 am
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I suppose that for me to to answer honestly, the question should have been," How many notebooks do you keep on your tunings?" For the first 25 years of my career I played a D-12 with E9 & C6, so I pretty much had everything I needed. I made a couple of changes but most everything stayed standard. I was working so much I just didn't have time for a lot of experimenting. Then, in the '80s I retired from the road and had more time to experiment. I've been a mess ever since.
~~W.C.~~ |
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 15 Jul 2010 12:49 pm
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I use this hi-tech method....taped to the back of my laps and slides for the most used tunings. Looks like some touching up the letters is is order.. maybe just washed out by the flash.
I do keep charts of original rodding setups on pedal steels that I alter the copedent on too.
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Rick Winfield
From:
Pickin' beneath the Palmettos
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Posted 16 Jul 2010 12:28 am experimental
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I have a notebook, but...I have a bigger listing of "experimental" tunings, that I try to use and develop,while I search for the "perfect tuning"
Rick |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 16 Jul 2010 2:09 pm
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| I created a "tuning ruler" in Excel. The strings are in adjacent columns and by moving the columns up and down you can do quick chord calculations. |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 20 Jul 2010 10:43 am
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| Alan Brookes wrote: |
| I created a "tuning ruler" in Excel. The strings are in adjacent columns and by moving the columns up and down you can do quick chord calculations. |
I made a real one out of cardstock. I called it a "steel guitar slide rule". That was nearly 40 years ago, but I still have it!
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