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Curry Coster Member Posts: 83 |
posted 24 August 2000 05:46 AM
Susan- "Limited on single string playing" "Limited as to what chords you can produce" Joaquin Murphey and Curly Chalker are rolling over in their graves. Respectfully, |
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Johan Jansen Member Posts: 2207 |
posted 24 August 2000 09:22 AM
Still not seeing through, guys??? Thanks for the nice discussion, Bob! cya.JJ ------------------ |
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Joe Miraglia Member Posts: 771 |
posted 24 August 2000 03:50 PM
Wow--three pages  ! As for playing "Night Life" on C6 or E9, does it have to be played just like Buddy E. plays it? Can't we be original? As far as I am concerned, I can't play it anyway. I think I will go practice my new A6 tuning on the back neck. Back to the original topic, C6 is a good tuning and lives on, but I like to experiment. I can't get everything on it, but I can't learn to play everything anyway,so I'm having fun playing my hybrid A6th/E/6th--- Oh who cares anyway  .Joe |
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Al Marcus Member Posts: 7471 |
posted 24 August 2000 08:10 PM
Susan You are so right on that overused 6th pedal. I hardly ever use it. I get my IV chord F by dropping my 3rd (E)6th string and 5th(G)5th string a whole tone. I use the 5th pedal all the time with the 7th pedal and the D on the first string. I get the 6th pedal minor a lot by using 5th pedal up 3 frets, I do use the 6th pedal with the 5th for my diminished and use it of course with pedal 7 for Aug 11th. I also do recommend 4 picks, for sure. As you mentioned. About 32 years ago, Reece told me to stick that pick on and after a short while I would be using it.(thanks Reece). He was right! [This message was edited by Al Marcus on 24 August 2000 at 08:17 PM.] |
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louie hallford Member Posts: 812 |
posted 25 August 2000 08:42 AM
Kyle,it is not he end of the subject yet. There are some good versions of Night Life being played on E9. See Jeff Newman tab for one of them. It really makes you think . I still prefer the C6 versions, of Night Life,especially Emmons'. Its like John Hughey's version of Look at Us.There is no way to improve either version since they the standard was set so high when they first recorded them. But isn't it fun to try. |
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Bobby Lee Sysop Posts: 14849 |
posted 25 August 2000 11:14 AM
I've played in a lot of bands, and none of them did "Night Life". Go figure. It's just not a popular tune out here. Most people have never heard it. It's pretty hard to justify carrying around all that extra weight to play a song that nobody wants to hear. ------------------ |
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Kenny Dail Member Posts: 2583 |
posted 25 August 2000 12:00 PM
I don't play Night Life but I do use variations of the intro in other music. I use a similar voicing for "Girl from Ipanema" and as a filler in some swing stuff. I use it as a prelucde to the instrumental break in Hank Thompson's classic, "Honky Tonk Angels", "Bubbles In My Beer" and as another poster indicated, he uses it as a closer for "Sleepwalk". Just because you may not play the original voicing or song, it doesn't mean it can't have other applications by just simply varying the tempo. ------------------ [This message was edited by Kenny Dail on 25 August 2000 at 12:03 PM.] |
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Jeff Lampert Member Posts: 2636 |
posted 25 August 2000 03:17 PM
If we're talking about opportunites to play C6 other than "Nightlife", there are always 5-6 songs that my band plays that call for that tuning. One mid-west player who I speak to regularly plays this stuff 50% of the time. However, over here in New York City, we mix this together with top 40 country from the past 10 years, a few older country numbers, and some classic rock from the 60's (on which I play a Rickenbacker 12-string or Ovation acoustic). The C6 that we're currently doing: 1. Crazy (Classic) These songs cover various swing, rockabilly, pop, and torch styles, but are all suitable to the C6. [This message was edited by Jeff Lampert on 27 August 2000 at 05:25 AM.] |
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John Kavanagh Member Posts: 378 |
posted 26 August 2000 06:22 AM
...you never know when a good sound will come back. I might point out that there are a lot more people playing the harpsichord now than there were fifty years ago, and the ukulele seems to around again, too... ------------------ |
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Moon in Alaska Member Posts: 1155 |
posted 27 August 2000 10:33 AM
I thought I would move this one to the top so Bob could have 3 post together !!  |
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Susan Alcorn Member Posts: 259 |
posted 27 August 2000 12:44 PM
Curry, I loved Curley Chalker's playing and I have bought and worn out every album he ever made, and I loved Joaquin Murphy. I am definitely not a critic of their (or anyone else's) playing. To ME and perhaps to ME only is the C6th tuning limited -- and I didn't abandon it, I modified it. If you're into playing just like Curley Chalker or Juaquin Murphy or Doug Jernigan or Buddy Emmons or Jimmy Day (all of them wonderful players), then stay with that tuning. Hoever . . . listen closely to their chords, and listen closely to their single string playing. I think you'll find som commonalities in their styles. For one, they tend to play more diatonically on the top strings, and more arpeggiated on the bottom strings. When they make chords, the chords are voiced roughly the same way all the time. These people were and are some of the greatest musicians ever to happen to play the steel guitar, and they are all pioneers. But after a certain amount of time, you have to abandon hero worship if it gets in the way, and listen very very closely to your heart and your own voice. Be yourself -- on C6th, E 9th or whatever. |
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Kenny Dail Member Posts: 2583 |
posted 27 August 2000 01:51 PM
How can any student or accomplished Steeler "disqualify" any tuning? ------------------ |
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Bob Anderson Member Posts: 119 |
posted 27 August 2000 02:21 PM
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