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Bill Duncan
From: Lenoir, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 16 Jul 2013 6:32 am
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Have you ever played a solo and totally blow it by starting the intro run or scale on the wrong strings or fret?
Embarressing and hard to recover from. _________________ You can observe a lot just by looking |
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Jerry Overstreet
From: Louisville Ky
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Posted 16 Jul 2013 6:47 am
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No. Never. ![Winking](images/smiles/icon_winking.gif) |
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Paul Wade
From: mundelein,ill
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Posted 16 Jul 2013 6:52 am
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a few times done that ![Embarassed](images/smiles/icon_redface.gif) |
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Bud Angelotti
From: Larryville, NJ, USA
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Posted 16 Jul 2013 6:56 am
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Hey Bill - I have found it's easier to play the wrong notes than the right notes if that helps. ![Winking](images/smiles/icon_winking.gif) _________________ Just 'cause I look stupid, don't mean I'm not. |
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Dave Harmonson
From: Seattle, Wa
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Posted 16 Jul 2013 7:07 am
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They call that playing outside the lines.
About a week ago I was sitting in on Jim Webb's(local Jim Webb, not the famous song writer, and BTW great player) Emmons. He has it set up Day copedant same as me except that he tunes it to D9. I always just think like I'm a step higher than whatever the band is playing and it works fine. Song is in D I'm playing in E and so forth. Was doing fine until on one song decided to switch over and play C6 in the middle of a song. His C6 is in C not a whole step lower, but I was still thinking a step higher. Took me about 2 measures to get my thinking back in line. Glad there's no recorded evidence that I know of. _________________ www.facebook.com/countrydaveharmonson |
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Jerry Van Hoose
From: Wears Valley, Tennessee
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Posted 16 Jul 2013 7:22 am I'll admit to that.....
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Yes, and of all places, during my 1st studio session in Nashville, Feb. 1983. I sat there quietly waiting for the break, then proceeded to play it in the wrong key . It was in a small studio either adjacent to or beside RCA studios. Lots of Alabama pictures hanging around. I wish that I could remember the name of the studio. At any rate, Nat Stuckey was in the control room during the session, either worked there or was visiting. |
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Jim Eller
From: Kodak, TN (Michigan transplant)
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Posted 16 Jul 2013 7:28 am
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I usually repeat the mistake two or three times, then folks think that's the way it is suppose to be.
Heck, sometimes it even starts to sound good ![Very Happy](images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif) |
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chris ivey
From: california (deceased)
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Posted 16 Jul 2013 8:27 am
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do you mean, has the whole band except yourself ever played in the wrong key during your solo? |
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Bill Duncan
From: Lenoir, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 16 Jul 2013 8:31 am
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No, band was right. I just wasn't paying attention. Trying the BE trick, talking and playing. _________________ You can observe a lot just by looking |
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Doug Beaumier
From: Northampton, MA
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John Billings
From: Ohio, USA
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Posted 16 Jul 2013 11:54 am
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"A quick slide to that fret will often save face."
Yup! Ya gotta be fast on your feet, confident, and not easily flustered. |
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David Graves
From: Indiana, USA
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Posted 16 Jul 2013 12:42 pm
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Not that I make mistakes to start with.. But when the entire band is playing something different than I am I just smile and say " JAZZ!!! You ought to learn some boys" _________________ St. Blues 1984 "Holy Grail"
Take the time to introduce someone young to music... and play a few songs with someone old. |
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John Billings
From: Ohio, USA
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Posted 16 Jul 2013 1:31 pm
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Or point at the bass player and start laughing at him. |
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Donny Hinson
From: Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 16 Jul 2013 1:55 pm
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Every time our old guitar player would hit a clam, he'd raise a finger of his left hand to his eye and exclaim..."I think I got a splinter".
As for me, I had my own little routine - I used to keep a big roadmap folded up in the back of my amp, and whenever someone caused a "train-wreck", I'd pull out the map real quick and open it up right on my steel and exclaim loudly..."Where in the hell were you guys going?" ![Laughing](images/smiles/icon_lol.gif) |
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William Lake
From: Ontario, Canada
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Posted 16 Jul 2013 2:17 pm
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Doug Beaumier & John Billings got it right.
Something I learned a long time ago is that there is no such thing as a 'wrong' note. They are only notes that have not been resolved. As Doug said....one fret away and it just sounds like a chromatic approach so long as you don't freeze and make a face.
To make it sound even better go one fret above the target note and then back to the right note.
For instance you hit an F# instead of a G. Go to Ab and then to G. _________________ Bill
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Paul King
From: Gainesville, Texas, USA
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Posted 16 Jul 2013 2:21 pm
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Reminds me of the story Larry Sasser told while playing the Opry. Come to find out Hal Rugg and Weldon Myrick had taped a fretboard on top of his and he never knew it. They also wired a volume pedal backwards knowing he would change steel guitars. |
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Jack Stanton
From: Somewhere in the swamps of Jersey
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Posted 16 Jul 2013 6:35 pm
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I have a tape somewhere of Buddy Emmons sitting in with Willie Nelson around the time of the Willie and Family Live album (late 70's)doing Rolling In My Sweet Baby's Arms, where Willie steps to the mike and say " Mr. Buddy Emmons, will you please play it on the steel guitar?" and Buddy proceeds to play that brilliant pedal down banjo roll he does in the wrong key, very great authority . He stopped for split second and proceeded to recover nicely. I doubt 95% of the audience had a clue. |
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Jim Park
From: Carson City, Nv
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Posted 16 Jul 2013 6:49 pm Wrong notes
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I remember Buddy on Church street station backing up an an artist, and starting a solo on the E9th neck and struggling for about a second then he switched to the C6th and WOW did he go......... it was almost a seamless transition..I was a relatively new player ....but recognized what had happened and always remembered that lesson The lesson for me was, if it aint workin.....do something else |
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Paul King
From: Gainesville, Texas, USA
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Posted 17 Jul 2013 1:56 am
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I remember a man playing at the ISGC around 1991. He was a music teacher and he made the statement he had never played a wrong not but he had played a bunch of poorly chosen ones. I have to fit right in there with him. |
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Steve Green
From: Gulfport, MS, USA
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Posted 17 Jul 2013 3:32 am
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It happens to everybody. Check out Tom Brumley's lick on the intro (at the 0:14 second mark)of this video compared to the lick played during the lead break (the 2:07 mark). During the intro, when he hits what I believe is a sour note, you can see him look off-camera and grin at someone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96WjJ2WDVug _________________ Some songs I've written |
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Dick Wood
From: Springtown Texas, USA
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Posted 17 Jul 2013 6:56 am
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I've played the wrong intro in the key of the tune we were supposed to play on a few occasions. That will usually screw the lead singer up because he now has that song stuck in his mind. _________________ Cops aren't paid much so I steel at night. |
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Dale Rottacker
From: Walla Walla Washington, USA
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Jim Eaton
From: Santa Susana, Ca
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Posted 17 Jul 2013 8:20 am
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Your not out of tune until the bar stops moving!
JE:-)> _________________ Emmons D10PP 8/4 -75'
Emmons S-10PP 3/4 - 79'
Emmons S-12PP 3/4 -78'
MSA Legend SD12 5/5 -06'
Mullen S-12 4/5 - 1986
Nashville 112 x2 W/Knob Guards - Don't leave home with out one!
Walker SS rack system - 12"BW's
Quilter Steelaire Combo |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From: Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 17 Jul 2013 8:51 am
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Just like Doug B mentions : USE that wrong note - don't let it stop you - move on up or down a fret or 2 & fly on
can be used when playing out of key too
it IS flying by the seat of yer pants until you find the right directions : root, third, fifth, fourth, second minor & whatever else is in the chart
is'nt musik fun ?... ![Winking](images/smiles/icon_winking.gif) |
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Larry Robbins
From: Fort Edward, New York
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Posted 17 Jul 2013 3:59 pm
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I just tell them I was playing Jazz ![Wink](images/smiles/icon_wink.gif) _________________ Twang to the bone! |
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