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Topic: Pedals or no-pedals?
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Ray Montee
Member From: Portland, OR, USA
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posted 06 November 2005 09:14 PM
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Go to www.jerrybyrdfanclub.com and look in the "Ray's Page"......Is this a pedal steel? Could it be done on anything other than a pedal steel? Wasn't "speed picking" the result of the high speed flexibility of the pedal steel guitar? This does require high speed right hand technique does it not? Let me hear your comments. |
Donny Hinson
Member From: Balto., Md. U.S.A.
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posted 07 November 2005 08:59 AM
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"Is this a pedal steel?"Definitely not. Sounds like a C6th Hawaiian tuning to me. Wasn't "speed picking" the result of the high speed flexibility of the pedal steel guitar?, No. "Speed picking" is done by the player, not by the guitar. (Another post has some "speed picking" on a ukelele, only 4 strings, and certainly no pedals.) This does require high speed right hand technique does it not? Yes, of a moderate fashion. I hear some 16ths, but that's about it. No 32nd or 64th note clusters here. Still, it's great playing! |
b0b
Sysop From: Cloverdale, California, USA
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posted 07 November 2005 09:28 AM
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I can't find the link for the music. |
Bobby Lee
Sysop From: Cloverdale, North California, USA
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posted 07 November 2005 09:51 AM
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I've heard Bobby Black tear up "Rocky Top" on a lap steel. Jerry Douglas can probably match speeds with Doug Jernigan and not break a sweat. Speed picking is a technique than can be mastered on any plucked instrument.------------------
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Mark Eaton
Member From: Windsor, Sonoma County, CA
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posted 07 November 2005 10:17 AM
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I don't see a heading for "Ray's Page," I only see "About Ray" with "New Panhandle Rag."------------------
Mark
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Brad Bechtel
Moderator From: San Francisco, CA
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posted 07 November 2005 12:04 PM
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New Panhandle Rag for those of us not using IE & Windows.------------------
Brad's Page of Steel
A web site devoted to acoustic & electric lap steel guitars |
Mark Eaton
Member From: Windsor, Sonoma County, CA
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posted 07 November 2005 12:32 PM
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So I had it right. That recording sounded old enough to pre-date pedals anyway, that's part of the reason I was confused. ------------------
Mark
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Stephan Miller
Member From: Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
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posted 07 November 2005 03:11 PM
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Ray, I enjoyed the ride in the middle. That'd be "fun" to learn. |
Jeff Au Hoy
Member From: Honolulu, Hawai'i
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posted 07 November 2005 03:44 PM
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I second... sounds like straight C6 to me.
E top
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Herb Steiner
Member From: Cedar Valley, Travis County TX
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posted 08 November 2005 05:11 AM
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There were two cuts of New Panhandle by Smokey Rogers and the Caravan. I've got the other one around here someplace and when I find it I'll post a link. Same arrangement, but different solo by Murph.------------------
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Ray Montee
Member From: Portland, OR, USA
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posted 09 November 2005 11:38 PM
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HERB: That would be great to get to hear. Thanks for your willingness to share. |
Stephan Miller
Member From: Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
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posted 11 November 2005 05:50 PM
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Ray, what was the source recording? --Steve |
Ray Montee
Member From: Portland, OR, USA
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posted 11 November 2005 07:42 PM
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STEPHAN: It was a Smokey Rogers "Coral" label from the early to mid-1950's. I was always amazed how far he could get away from the original written tune and still come up each time with a knock-out chorus of his own.
No gimmicks or gadgets.......just talented playing with basic instrument and technique. |
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