Mike Neer
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Posted 24 Apr 2015 5:02 am |
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Lee plays a Wright pedal steel mainly, but he recently got a Fender D-8 nonpedal. Lee is one of my favorite people/players and I posted a conversation we had on my blog. In it, he said:
"I use F13, Boggs’ tuning and I just have the split pedal change like Vance did on the Bob Wills and Billy Jack stuff and the front neck is probably considered just standard C6 changes, but it’s in Bb6. But I do have the option…the pedals that operate the back neck also come to the front neck and they lower the high 3rd and the high root ½ tone, so when I go to the IV chord, I can fake Bud Isaacs’ changes there. That lowers the 3rd to the 2nd and the root down to the maj7. It’s backwards—a lot of guys did that in the ‘50s—they got these E9 things in 6th tunings. I first picked up on it on Brisbane Bop. I remember telling a couple of old-timers about it and they were like, 'Oh yeah, everyone was doing that.'"
Here is a link to the article: http://www.mikeneer.com/lapsteelin/2011/07/07/conversation-with-lee-jeffriess/
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