Herb Steiner
From:
Spicewood TX 78669
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Posted 30 Aug 2004 4:03 am |
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I've listed elsewhere... in Music, Lessons For Sale... about a course for steel players that feature tabbed solos for country songs in the G tuning. I also discuss slant bar techniques in playing harmonized scales, which are the building blocks of good soloing. For those interested in gaining some knowledge of the G tuning, this might be a course to consider.
The material is a 30-page book and a CD. The book has tabbed arrangements of 13 popular country songs of the past, and essays on scales, slant bar playing, and harmonized scales. I discuss the role of dominant, diminished/augmented, and minor chords and where to find them. I list the major slant bar positions and all harmonized scales I play with them.
The CD has me playing the scales, then playing the tunes with a BIAB rhythm track that is suitable for practice. The tunes are: Wildwood Flower, Great Speckled Bird, Wabash Cannonball, What A Friend We Have In Jesus, Blue Moon of KY, You Win Again, Cold Cold Heart, Your Cheating Heart, Wabash Blues, I Still Miss Someone, Born To Lose, and Foggy Mountain Breakdown.
The book assumes the player knows how to hold the bar, wear picks, read simple tablature, and has a little experience with music. The tab and the material is for the beginner with a little experience, or the intermediate player. A totally rank beginner in music might find the material a little over his head without private or supplementary instruction.
The price for the course is $22 postage paid. I will have them for sale at my product table at ISGC for $20. There's no information on my website as yet about the product, this is the first notice. I just got the books back from the printer.
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Herb's Steel Guitar Pages
Texas Steel Guitar Association
[This message was edited by Herb Steiner on 30 August 2004 at 06:05 AM.] |
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Bob Hickish
From:
Port Ludlow, Washington, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 30 Aug 2004 4:27 am
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Herb
I think your system should be a big seller !
the G tuning is more versatile than folks give it credit , and the up and coming Steel player can adapt this same info to the 8 string steel as well ,by using - bottom to top - GBDGBDEG - this will give you the 6th sound on the upper register.
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