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Jean-Sebastien Gauthier


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Post  Posted 10 Nov 2020 8:03 am    
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I have an old Harmony that I want to setup with a nut raiser for blues and swing and from searching on the forum I found that video and I am really amazed how good this guy is!

https://youtu.be/jpd1qOptcdg

He really sound like a guitar and even get all the the good rhythm witch I was thinking it was impossible on steel.

He play all the good 9th and 6th chord so Im thinking tuning mine to JM C6 /A7 add 9 but Im really curious if anybody know the tuning Glenn Ross Campbell use?
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Jean-Sebastien Gauthier


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Post  Posted 10 Nov 2020 6:27 pm    
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I messed a little with West Coast and Jump Blues tonight and I a think that with the Jerry Byrd C6/A7 everything is there! In his book he show a lot of positions for 7th and 9th chords, just just have to master the slants!
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Mike Neer


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Post  Posted 10 Nov 2020 7:38 pm    
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He’s is a really good player (don’t know if he still plays), a kind of pioneer. Check him out with Juicy Lucy.

Sounds like a 6th tuning to me.
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Jean-Sebastien Gauthier


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Post  Posted 11 Nov 2020 9:36 am    
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Mike, since I know you are probably the best to know if a guitar trick can be done on steel, do you think West Coast and Jump Blues (Jr Watson, William Clarke, Little Charlie, Duke Robillard...) comping with a 6 strings C6/A7 steel?

I would miss lot of bass (E string) but most of the sound can be done I guess. Like all the 2 notes Freddy Green stuff...
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Jack Hanson


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San Luis Valley, USA
Post  Posted 11 Nov 2020 12:38 pm    
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Mike Neer wrote:
He’s is a really good player (don’t know if he still plays), a kind of pioneer. Check him out with Juicy Lucy.

Agreed. Juicy Lucy should have been more popular. Very few ever played steel like Campbell played steel.

circa 1971
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Jean-Sebastien Gauthier


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Quebec, Canada
Post  Posted 12 Nov 2020 2:48 pm    
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Maybe for my 6 strings archtop C#m EBEG#C#E can be good? I would get the guitar range (low E to high E) and be able to do most 2 and 3 notes harmonies.
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Tommy Martin Young


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Sacramento-California, USA
Post  Posted 12 Nov 2020 3:27 pm     Hey Mike N! How 'bout re-releasing Skiddle Dee Boo?
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Jean-Sebastien Gauthier wrote:
Mike, since I know you are probably the best to know if a guitar trick can be done on steel, do you think West Coast and Jump Blues (Jr Watson, William Clarke, Little Charlie, Duke Robillard...) comping with a 6 strings C6/A7 steel?

I would miss lot of bass (E string) but most of the sound can be done I guess. Like all the 2 notes Freddy Green stuff...


Jean-Sebastian - I am also a big fan of the Jump/West Coast sound and just heard a Speedy West track called "Skiddle Dee Boo" that reminded me of Tiny Grimes and T-Bone. I googled it and saw that Mike Neer offered it as a lesson back in 2011 (yes, I am late to the game...but still here!) https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=200169&sid=a0601e7377b266112ac40889e1b049ea

Mike, any thoughts of dusting it off and putting it back on the market?

This version is better than the cheesy youtube radio transcript: https://archive.org/details/78_skiddle-dee-boo_speedy-west-jimmy-bryant_gbia0070632a/Skiddle-Dee-Boo+-+Speedy+West+-+Jimmy+Bryant.flac
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Jean-Sebastien Gauthier


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Post  Posted 12 Nov 2020 4:16 pm    
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Jack Hanson wrote:
Mike Neer wrote:
He’s is a really good player (don’t know if he still plays), a kind of pioneer. Check him out with Juicy Lucy.

Agreed. Juicy Lucy should have been more popular. Very few ever played steel like Campbell played steel.

circa 1971


It’s always a big pleasure to find « new «  stuff to listen!!!!
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Jean-Sebastien Gauthier


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Post  Posted 13 Nov 2020 8:40 am    
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I have maybe found a tuning that give me some important chords for blues.

C#m:
EC#EG#C#E

I just take the C#m and raise the low B to C# to get more 6th, 7th and 9th chord for comping.

I want to be able to comp like a guitar and do solos. If it work it will be my acoustic tuning for everything (blues, swing, country, hawaiien).

I made a little video, I know its messy but I just try to find some stuff on the tuning.


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Jean-Sebastien Gauthier


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Post  Posted 14 Nov 2020 11:36 am    
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After lots of playing searching for chord and stuff I realized the best is really C13.

I will have to look to put an 8 strings neck on my archtop of simply keep playing my Clinesmith JM for blues too.
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Peter Funk


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Post  Posted 14 Nov 2020 12:31 pm    
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Jean-Sebastien Gauthier wrote:
Maybe for my 6 strings archtop C#m EBEG#C#E can be good? I would get the guitar range (low E to high E) and be able to do most 2 and 3 notes harmonies.
This is what I would suggest! If I need a more bluesier/jazzier sound on my acoustic lapsteel without losing the bass, I raise the second string of the Open-D tuning from A to B.
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