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Topic: C6th and Horns |
Roual Ranes
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Atlanta, Texas, USA
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Posted 23 Jul 2012 7:50 pm |
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| Do you ever use C6th as a "horn" section? |
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 23 Jul 2012 8:00 pm
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If you play much C6 and choose to look for licks and ideas outside of the steel (why not? the big dogs do), sax players like Stitt and Turrentine are good, also blues and soul horn sections (I love Al Green for that).
B3 guys (and gals: Shirley Scott was no slouch) are also good places to look
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Billy Tonnesen
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R.I.P., Buena Park, California
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Posted 23 Jul 2012 8:20 pm
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I talked briefly with Spade Cooley after he had hired Noel Boggs to play in his new primarily "Horn Band". Noel used an A6th and E13th tunings. Noel played a lot of Block Chords. Spade commented that it was like having an additional Horn Section in the Band. When playing with Horns most everything is arranged and played in the Flat Keys.
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 23 Jul 2012 11:17 pm
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i had understood that, during WWII considering musicians had been drafted & off to the fronts, the steel guitar replaced the horn sections
it's no wonder all those big bad swing tunes are part of the C6 repertoire |
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Fred Glave
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McHenry, Illinois, USA
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Posted 24 Jul 2012 6:06 am
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Without a doubt! Some of the best riffs can be found on those old big band swing tunes. I think I remember on Cindy Cashdollar's non-pedal C6 instruction video she advises studying and using those old horn arrangements as a resource for learning.
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 24 Jul 2012 7:27 am
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I am lucky to have an album called Other Voices, on which Ed Black interpretates Sonny Criss' "The Dreamer.
No horn section, only solo sax:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZtzUh1-vxo
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Roual Ranes
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Atlanta, Texas, USA
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Posted 24 Jul 2012 8:08 am
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| I have used the C6th this way for years and it adds a lot of "fullness" if not to loud. Most of the people I have worked with like it for that reason. I remember working for one guy that wanted only E9th......I quit that night. |
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Dave Grafe
From:
Hudson River Valley NY
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Posted 24 Jul 2012 8:13 am
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| While it does not contain all the close intervals of the C6 the E9 tuning can replicate most horn lines as well, some of us have been doing it for years.... |
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Roual Ranes
From:
Atlanta, Texas, USA
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Posted 24 Jul 2012 2:24 pm
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| While E9th can do some horn sounds it really does not get the lower notes of a C6th. It just doesn't have the same feeling. |
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Paddy Long
From:
Christchurch, New Zealand
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Posted 24 Jul 2012 4:56 pm
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I play horn lines quite a lot on C6th - the tuning is made for them 
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