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Paul Osbty
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Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 6 Mar 2004 1:36 am |
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I first got a lap and played this song (ya gotta!). Everyone in the crowd smiles when they hear this. A good thing.
Now, I also have a Carter S-10, 3+4, E9th which sometimes is the only steel I take with me.
How do you guys play this? |
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Peter
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Posted 6 Mar 2004 9:09 am
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Bill Ford
From:
Graniteville SC Aiken
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Posted 6 Mar 2004 4:00 pm
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I use the AB pedals up and down for position and try not to hear the AB up/down transition exept on slides,where it is tastfull and mostly covered.
Use strings 3/5 instead of the 4/6 slant,sounds cleaner(to me)try 5/6 using AB instead of slant.If I knew how to write tab there is a neat transition run that I do.
At the 5th fret,,AB up,pick 5/6,slide to 4th AB down,back to 5th,still down,slide to 10th fret,releasing on the way,you only pick one time,letting it ring till you reach the 10th ,then pick 3rd...back to the 5th,AB down pick 5/6,release,pick 4 and 3,if you slide about 1/2 fret with the pedal movements,it will blend ok.
Maybe not the right key,but the moves/changes are there.Hope this is not too confusing...Bill |
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Smiley Roberts
From:
Hendersonville,Tn. 37075
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Posted 6 Mar 2004 5:25 pm
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When I first started playin',I couldn't WAIT to learn that song. I still love to hear it,played well. Somewhere,I may still have a version of it by the "Laka Nukee Islanders".
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Doug Seymour
From:
Jamestown NY USA (deceased)
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Posted 6 Mar 2004 10:42 pm
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In 1950 I was staff steel player on KMA Shenandoah IA for about 6 mos. I had a 15 min
Hawaiian show on Sat mornings before our noontime jamboree show w/the whole staff. I used a rhythm guitar man & a bass player trio. I didn't have enough material & I got into their transcription library and learned several tunes from Danny Kuanna & his Islanders transcriptions. I picked out the ones I liked best & could play them on my C6th neck (center) of my home-made triple neck. Epiphone parts, 8 string necks. Bobbe says it's his fault he's spent his whole life
in the steel business 'cause I gave him that steel after I went to pedals. I had heard Bud Isaacs on Slowly. What do you mean E9th??
Of course E9th wasn't there quite yet. It took a bit more tweaking by the other Nashville Pros before it got where it is now.
My first try @ pedals was a 6 string MultiKord w/4 pedals tuned C6th. A MultiKord
is not a pedal steel guitar as we know them today?? Alvino Rey was the only pedal player
I'd heard (that I was aware of?) til Bud Isaacs came on the scene. Alvino's use of the pedals was a different concept than we use today it seems to me. |
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Al Marcus
From:
Cedar Springs,MI USA (deceased)
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Paul Osbty
From:
Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 7 Mar 2004 1:36 pm
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Great, guys. It's just one of those "cliche" sounds/songs that everyone still loves, regardless of the crowd demographics.
I've also found that plucking the strings at about the 12th fret or so will give you that "throat-y" tone. The pluck-point varies a bit, but when you find it, you'll know it. |
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Doug Seymour
From:
Jamestown NY USA (deceased)
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Posted 7 Mar 2004 2:19 pm
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Al, I like to think of 4 note chords on C6th
as you say w/the melody on top. Very much like the George Shearing piano style or a big band sax section! E9th is for backing the singers more than anything? More 3 note
harmonies than anything else? |
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Al Marcus
From:
Cedar Springs,MI USA (deceased)
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Posted 7 Mar 2004 3:32 pm
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Hey Doug, that's the way we always played em. Some fun , eh?.......al 
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