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Topic: I'll Fly Away - Video ------>> |
Doug Beaumier
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Allen Hutchison
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Kilcoy, Qld, Australia
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Posted 17 Apr 2014 3:16 pm |
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Great stuff Doug 
Is this in the new book?
Any news on that BTW???
Cheers, Allen. |
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C. E. Jackson
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Posted 17 Apr 2014 3:37 pm
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Very nice Doug, as usual. I have an old Sears Home Study Course for Hawaiian Guitar, copyright 1938, by Nick Manoloff. The course covers playing on 6 string flat top acoustic steel guitar. The tuning was: E C# A E C# A (H-L). Nick called the tuning Octave, High Bass, Orchestra, or DOUBLE A MAJOR CHORD TUNING in the course.
C. E.
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Jerry Berger
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Nampa, Idaho USA
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Posted 17 Apr 2014 5:40 pm I'll Fly Away
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Wow Doug, that is some fancy steel pick'en! It gives me a lot of motivation to play once my Sierra lap steel arrives next week.
JB
Last edited by Jerry Berger on 18 Apr 2014 1:35 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Len Amaral
From:
Rehoboth,MA 02769
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Posted 17 Apr 2014 7:26 pm
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Nice tune and technique Doug. That guitar has a nice tone. The Gibson EH-150 was sold to someone else when I asked to have the ohms on the pickup measured. That tells me something was not right.
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Deirdre Higgins
From:
Connecticut, USA
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Posted 17 Apr 2014 7:58 pm
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Beautiful Doug just Beautiful!
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Jim Williams
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Meridian, Mississippi, USA - Home of Peavey!
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Posted 17 Apr 2014 8:34 pm
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Great playing as usual Doug, and I love that old Gibson.
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Bosse Engzell
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�ppelbo, SWEDEN
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Posted 17 Apr 2014 11:47 pm
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WOW, nice start on a new day. Is this the tune writing of a person that have a famous son that was playing steel.
Bosse in Sweden |
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 18 Apr 2014 4:13 am
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Smooth and clean.
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Doug Beaumier
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Bosse Engzell
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�ppelbo, SWEDEN
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Posted 18 Apr 2014 7:37 am
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Doug, I know the song, writing by Albert E. B. Maybe the name of the son T B. Know for playing a ZB Custom?
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 18 Apr 2014 7:47 am
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Yes, Albert E. Brumley.
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Sonny Jenkins
From:
Texas Masonic Retirement Center,,,Arlington Tx
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Posted 18 Apr 2014 8:16 am
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| Grrrreat Doug,,,,,just Great!!!!! |
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Ron Bednar
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Rancho Cordova, California, USA
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Posted 18 Apr 2014 9:47 am
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Me and Mary put you on full screen with replay and watched four times in a row.
We were both in awe...really enjoyed it! |
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Steve Branscom
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Pacific NW
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Posted 18 Apr 2014 11:00 am
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Simple yet elegant. Listened to it a couple of times and enjoyed it immensely. Thanks for posting your rendition.
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Jack Hanson
From:
San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 18 Apr 2014 5:33 pm
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| That's great, Doug. Wish I could make my Century 6 sound like that. Do you use your regular C6 string gauges and drop the bottom three strings without changing them? |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Posted 18 Apr 2014 5:54 pm
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Jack, yes, I re-tuned my C6 strings. I didn't change any strings.
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C6 A Major
E E
C ----> C#
A A
G ----> E
E ----> C#
C ----> A
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Strings 4, 5, and 6 go down three half steps each, which is quite a bit, and they are kind of floppy. If I played this tuning all the time I would change the strings, but for one song, I can live with floppy strings.
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Steve Hogge
From:
Florida, USA
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Posted 18 Apr 2014 6:15 pm
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Steve Green
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Gulfport, MS, USA
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Posted 19 Apr 2014 4:06 am
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| Wow, I didn't know that! Tom Brumley was the son of Albert E. Brumley. |
Albert E. Brumley wrote hundreds, if not thousands of Gospel songs.
Todd Brumley (Tom's son) put out a cd a few years ago called "A Family Heritage", where he sang songs that his grand-father Albert E. Brumley had written, and had his dad, Tom playing steel on them.
http://www.tower.com/a-family-heritage-todd-brumley-cd/wapi/117152653
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Rob Munn
From:
British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 19 Apr 2014 6:50 am
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Well done Doug!
Beautiful chording and great picking! Shows that both styles can be used on the same song (in deference to the great discussion on C6th and other tunings) One of my Pa's favorite tunes. Before he passed away, he left us a cd of him singing a number of these classic tunes, and he nailed "Ill Fly Away" with his voice. He did others, "PS I love you", "I'd be lost without you" "A Satisfied Mind". He pulled out some folk/bluegrass standards as well, like "Whiskey in the Jar". Would these songs be adaptable to a High G dobro tuning?
Hey Doug, are you going to put out an instrumental cd with other similar tunes?
Nice playing. |
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