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Topic: Slanting the Scale using triads |
Mike Neer
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NJ
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Bill Hatcher
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Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 16 Sep 2022 8:13 am |
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as usual a very cool teaching lick. love the C7 chord.
these slant positions would allow a player to cover 1 4 5 and a 7 chord on either 4 or 5 or even 1. you could use this for comping. mix and match positions and also right hand rhythms. |
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David DeLoach
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Tennessee, USA
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Mike A Holland
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 16 Sep 2022 10:57 am
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| Good one Mike. Slants are always work in progress for me. One day I am slanting like a champion ...the next, well its back to wood shedding. I have noticed on my 6 string instruments that my bar is not quite long enough for some slants. In particular those that involve double string skipping and you have a couple here in this exercise. The bar I use is a dunlop 918 bar. 3/4" dia by 2 and 3/4" long. The bar is just not quite long enough. I assume your 8 string is a slightly narrower string spacing. Just interested to know if you have a similar problem or is your bar a little longer. Nice exercise though Mike. Had to give this a few goes before I stopped cringing! |
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Jim Mckay
From:
New Zealand
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Posted 16 Sep 2022 11:19 am
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Great post Mike. Great playing as always. 
I use A6 a lot with C6th and find a some use full three string grips with slants. Often the slightly out of tune string can sound quite correct with vibrato.
Like mike Holland some days it works better than others.
One thing that is for sure is you need a good ear for intonation, and I guess that that goes for all steel guitar. 
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 17 Sep 2022 3:04 am
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Thanks for sharing, Mike! Very Vince Guaraldi-ish vibe to the example video.
Being mostly self taught I didn't realize slants were hard when I started so integrated them from the start but some of these are indeed Ninja-level to pull off.
I tried 'em with my Dunlop 920 pedal steel bar, rather than my usual Clinesmith bar, and the extra length and width of the 920 makes them easier to pull off. Definitely some nice pedal steel style glasses available in a subset of the positions
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Tim Toberer
From:
Nebraska, USA
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Posted 17 Sep 2022 4:52 am
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| Great exercise Mike. I could see spending lots of time with this one, transposing it in all keys and doing variations in different time signatures. There is so much in this! |
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Gene Tani
From:
Pac NW
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Posted 17 Sep 2022 5:35 pm
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Thanks, I'll gonna be on this.
To make it more challenging but maybe more intonated I've been combining slants and behind the bar pulls, which is like learning violin or C++ programming, you spend hours and hours in pure frustration but one day, you see progress is happening.
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Stefan Robertson
From:
Hertfordshire, UK
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Posted 18 Sep 2022 2:08 am
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Finished your exercise.
Thanks Mike.
Working on Buddy Emmons Slants at the moment.
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Dane Carlson
From:
Bay Area, California
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Posted 20 Sep 2022 12:14 pm Re: Slanting the Scale using triads
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| Mike Neer wrote: |
| A couple of extreme slants and also a new discovery for me that is not quite in tune but will be once I get it under my bar. |
Very cool video...I play a 6 string in high A6 tuning...would this be applicable for me? |
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Carey Hofer
From:
South Dakota, USA
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Posted 20 Sep 2022 3:55 pm
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| Very interesting exercise Mike. I experimented with it and adapted to my 8 string tuning. I was surprised at what I could come up with. I think it will be a great way for my to practice forward, backward and split slants and be organized about it. Thanks again for the inspiration! |
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