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Topic: Pretending my Zum is a 6-Shooter |
Lane Gray
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Posted 29 Sep 2015 4:42 am |
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One of my FB friends has a 6-Shooter and was frustrated with its limitations.
Yes, there's a lot my Zum can do that a 6-Shooter can't.
I think the biggestproblem is that it is hard to think like pedal steel until you know how to play one.
I actually enjoyed the challenge of making these two.
Playing suitable for a 6-Shooter, country: http://youtu.be/T8YAvEXw4-I
Blues suitable for the 6-Shooter: http://youtu.be/OHSRmNColRA
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 30 Sep 2015 5:13 am Re: Pretending my Zum is a 6-Shooter
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Very instructive; thanks.
I'm glad I got a ten-string, but for purposes of starting over (re-learning), I'm taking the middle path (the six string approach).
| Lane Gray wrote: |
| I think the biggest problem is that it is hard to think like pedal steel until you know how to play one. |
Good wisdom.
Are you hooked up to the Milkman yet? |
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Lane Gray
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Posted 30 Sep 2015 5:26 am
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Yup. That's the Milkman in the video.
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 30 Sep 2015 6:22 am
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| Sounding good, and I do like your approach to the subject. |
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Posted 1 Oct 2015 4:06 am
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I think I could probably play a lot of my vocabulary with this if I removed the low B, put the low E on 6 and added an F# on string 5.
This was actually kinda fun.
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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Daniel Policarpo
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Posted 4 Oct 2015 3:40 pm
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| The flags are a great idea for video representation, Lane. The Milkman? Sweeet! |
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 5 Oct 2015 2:22 am
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With respect to F# on 5--my thinking about six-strings psg's is about a guitar that will bring guitarists into the fold, ones that, to paraphrase,
don't think pedal steel because they don't know how to play one. The layout of G# E B G# E B seems more underarm or lapsteel guitar friendly. Perhaps I shouldn't speak, because you've accomplished more with the middle F# than without it, whereas I've tried it again and abandoned it again. It's practically heresy so I don't mention it elsewhere, and it's one of those things that a player will have to come to grips with when he moves to a ten/twelve string (the object of an introductory guitar, it seems to me).
When I mentioned looking at six-strings, Larry Bell said the high D# is the one he couldn't do without.
It's a good conversation, one that I hope will get more play in the future. |
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Jeff Mead
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Posted 5 Oct 2015 2:51 am
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| Charlie McDonald wrote: |
With respect to F# on 5--my thinking about six-strings psg's is about a guitar that will bring guitarists into the fold, ones that, to paraphrase.
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I come from a lap steel background (I think of A6 as my main tuning) and when I got a six shooter, I strung it as (high to low) E B G# F# E B with the normal A and B pedal changes meaning that with the pedals down I had my familiar A6.
Playing the 6 stringer was definitely a useful stepping stone when I decided, earlier this year to go for A 10 stringer. I have since re-strung the Fessy with a high G#, discarding the low B - giving me the middle 6 strings of a 10.
A couple of weeks back, a friend of mine was over from Australia and was doing a few gigs down in Cornwall - this was going to involve train rides, camping and squeezing into an already overcrowded car so using a 10 stringer was really out of the question. He borrowed my 10 stinger but opted to use the top 6 strings of a 10 string tuning. He ended up tuning the 2nd string to D instead of D# though, I think.
I've got to say, it sounded pretty good when he played it although it looked a bit strange with 6 plain strings. |
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Lane Gray
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Posted 5 Oct 2015 2:52 am
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Actually, I haven't tried to play just those 6.
I might try one, but I certainly see your point about trying to keep a tuning "underarm-friendly".
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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Jeff Mead
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Posted 15 Aug 2017 11:48 pm
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| Charlie McDonald wrote: |
With respect to F# on 5--my thinking about six-strings psg's is about a guitar that will bring guitarists into the fold, ones that, to paraphrase,
don't think pedal steel because they don't know how to play one. The layout of G# E B G# E B seems more underarm or lapsteel guitar friendly. Perhaps I shouldn't speak, because you've accomplished more with the middle F# than without it, whereas I've tried it again and abandoned it again. It's practically heresy so I don't mention it elsewhere, and it's one of those things that a player will have to come to grips with when he moves to a ten/twelve string (the object of an introductory guitar, it seems to me).
When I mentioned looking at six-strings, Larry Bell said the high D# is the one he couldn't do without.
It's a good conversation, one that I hope will get more play in the future. |
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