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Topic: New Tune HSGA - Moonglow - Jeff Au Hoy
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Gerald Ross
Member From: Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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posted 22 March 2006 07:23 AM
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Jeff Au Hoy recorded another beautifully executed steel guitar tune last night! This time Jeff shows his Swing chops on the classic 'Moonglow'. Jeff plays all the instruments and does a fantastic job! Listen - you'll like it!  Jeff Au Hoy - Moonglow ------------------
Gerald Ross
'Northwest Ann Arbor, Michigan's King Of The Hawaiian Steel Guitar' 
CEO, CIO, CFO - UkeTone Records
Gerald's Fingerstyle Guitar Website
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Mike Neer
Member From: NJ
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posted 22 March 2006 08:17 AM
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Really nice arrangement and playing, Jeff. |
Bob Stone
Member From: Gainesville, FL, USA
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posted 22 March 2006 08:35 AM
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Wow! Great job Jeff. Tasty arrangement, beautifully played, and it really swings. |
Roy Thomson
Member From: Wolfville, Nova Scotia,Canada
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posted 22 March 2006 08:37 AM
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Wonderful playing Jeff! You are a natural
talent.
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basilh
Member From: United Kingdom
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posted 22 March 2006 08:40 AM
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Lovely improvisation second time 'round.. I DID notice the veiled reference to 'Beginning to see the light' and 'How Dya Do'
The right key as well.... Pat and I really liked you rhythm playing also..
Smart stuff..------------------
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Steel players do it without fretting
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Dave Giegerich
Member From: Ellicott City, MD USA
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posted 22 March 2006 09:08 AM
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Great playing Jeff, it really swings. |
Steinar Gregertsen
Member From: Arendal, Norway
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posted 22 March 2006 09:49 AM
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 I'm speechless....... Steinar ------------------
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Rick Aiello
Member From: Berryville, VA USA
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posted 22 March 2006 10:31 AM
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I like the other tune listed on that page better ...  All I can say 'bout this one is ... phewwwww    ------------------
 [This message was edited by Rick Aiello on 22 March 2006 at 10:31 AM.]
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Andy Sandoval
Member From: Bakersfield, California, USA
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posted 22 March 2006 10:55 AM
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Wow,wow,wow, sounds great Jeff. |
Andy Volk
Member From: Boston, MA
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posted 22 March 2006 11:09 AM
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The rhythm guitar sounds a good as the steel and the steel sounds great, Jeff. Nice! |
Scott Thomas
Member From: Oregon, USA
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posted 22 March 2006 11:59 AM
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Jeff, I think you have a time machine or a way-back machine like Mr. Peabody. Fess up! You set it for 1940 something, and with your portable tape recorder bring these classic gems played by the greats of the era back to us poor souls stuck here in the present.I'll lend another voice to the clamor for you to make a cd of your music available through the forum or direct from you. I love everything about your playing! |
Jack Knight
Member From: kailua kona, Hawaii
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posted 22 March 2006 12:40 PM
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Attaboy, Jeff, youda man. jack |
Ray Montee
Member From: Portland, OR, USA
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posted 22 March 2006 02:06 PM
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Great sound, great tone.....exceptionally fine technique. You've put it all together in a really nice package. Keep up the great work. Very listenable, to be sure, and that's what it's all about! |
Todd Weger
Member From: Safety Harbor, FLAUSA
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posted 22 March 2006 02:15 PM
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Now THAT'S what I'm talkin' about! You sure you weren't born once before, say, about 1910!? Excellent playing on all accounts, Jeff. This is the kind of stuff I really dig the most. ------------------
Todd James Weger --
1956 Fender Stringmaster T-8 (C6, A6, B11); 1960 Fender Stringmaster D-8 (C6, B11/A6); Regal resonator (C6); 1938 Epiphone Electar (A6); assorted ukuleles; upright bass
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Warren Slavin
Member From: Southampton, PA, 18966. USA
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posted 22 March 2006 02:40 PM
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Jeff,You sound great, Hawaiian, Jazz or Pop -- keep the sound of the Hawaiian Steel Guitar always in Hawaii. When are you coming out with your solo album? Warren ------------------
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Rick Alexander
Member From: Florida, USA
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posted 22 March 2006 02:50 PM
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That's just beautiful Jeff!
Makes me want to hear more . . |
Mike Ruffin
Member From: El Paso, Texas, USA
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posted 22 March 2006 03:44 PM
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Jeff, that is really great. What guitar are you playing? |
Fred Kinbom
Member From: Brighton, UK
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posted 22 March 2006 03:48 PM
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That's just beautiful! Can one get any better at playing than that?! I'm a beginner at lap steel and my knowledge of Hawaiian music is very limited - still, after hearing that I feel qualified to say that you must be a very rare talent Jeff! I'd love to hear more of your music.Fred |
Bill Creller
Member From: Saginaw, Michigan, USA
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posted 22 March 2006 06:09 PM
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After hearing Jeff for the first time, I knew we would be hearing this stuff, and knew he would the rising star of the steel guitar. Great stuff Jeff!
BILL
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Jeff Au Hoy
Member From: Honolulu, Hawai'i
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posted 22 March 2006 06:21 PM
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Hey thanks for the kind words everybody. I was hesitant to post at first because my rhythm guitar work is kind of, well... whatever word describes the opposite of metronomic. Haha, Baz you spotted the How D'ya Do... or rather, my panic as I ran out of chordal ideas at that moment. I really have to work on my chord playing. Mike, the guitar is an acoustic Gibson L-7. The steel is a Rick frypan... it kind of ended up sounding muddy to me... (Is that what they mean by "warm sound" on the box that the tape recorder came in?!) |
George Rout
Member From: St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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posted 22 March 2006 07:59 PM
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Call it "muddy" if you want!!!! As they say in Quebec, "C'est magnifique"!!!!! Wow, like the others said, it has that old timey sound to it, including the rhythm. More, Jeff, More..... . George |
Kay Das
Member From: Singapore and Irvine CA
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posted 23 March 2006 01:11 AM
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Jeff, That was really pretty, highly musical and innovative. And much more than that, played by someone as young as you, this should surely be an inspiration to others of your generation. The great tradition of Hawaiian steel guitar playing must be preserved and further enhanced for future generations. That elusive and fast-dying old Hawaiian style you adopted for the rendition of a "non-Hawaiian" tune is real magic. Where were you at Hawaii Music Awards 2005?We need you! ------------------
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Kris Oka
Member From: San Francisco, CA, USA
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posted 23 March 2006 04:11 PM
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Jeff, I love that mellow tone. So smooth. Anybody who hears you play that tune has got to stop, pause and take note. Did you play that tune at the House Without a Key? I would love to hear you play in person someday. It still amazes me how you guys can play all the instruments. Even the bass. Makes feel so inadequate. Ugh. |
Al Terhune
Member From: Newcastle, WA
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posted 23 March 2006 08:04 PM
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Wow, Jeff. It's just very satisfying for me, personally, to hear a Hawaiian playing this music. Not to knock all you crackers out there who wish you were Hawaiian, but let's face it -- this is the real thing. This is like hearing Howlin' Wolf sing the blues or Don Helms playing hillbilly music. But I digress (and I'm sorry if I've insulted any of my white brahs -- but appreciate your roots. Believe me -- you're not Hawaiians trapped in the bodies of crackers).It's also the first time I got to hear your first tune, because each time I tried to access it through the link in your post, I couldn't get it. I'm not an authority on who's an incredible player, but I can tell you that I'm a big Greg Sardhina fan (if that's how you spell his last name), and although your playing reminds me of his, you've got something on him -- you've got a great touch. YOUR CD, my Hawaiian friend, I will buy and listen to many, many times. And a DIY one would do me just fine. How about a trade with some of my redneck music? It's gotta lot of white lap steel on it! Al |
Don Kona Woods
Member From: Vancouver, Washington, USA
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posted 23 March 2006 09:56 PM
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Actually guys, Jeff is a much older man living in a young man's body. That is why he plays the old style so well. Great Job, Jeff. Al: Greg Sardinha Aloha,
Don[This message was edited by Don Kona Woods on 23 March 2006 at 11:13 PM.] |
Jeff Au Hoy
Member From: Honolulu, Hawai'i
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posted 24 March 2006 06:18 AM
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Aye, too much you guys! Al, LOL I thought I was playing "jazz" style, not Hawaiian. Honestly, I'm happy with the way my little project turned out but I don't find it especially great or innovative. I'm really just an unreasonable facsimile (as Bugs would put it) of all the guys I like to listen to. God bless Bobby Ingano for turning me onto them; he's really been my guiding light. I've been trying to develop more fluency with simple horn-type lines but it's coming along kind of slowly. At gigs I get lazy because nowadays nobody in the audience is really listening. I could play a memorized solo every week and probably nobody would even notice. My lines still sound very arpeggiated, often like I'm following visual patterns rather than playing something melodic. I still conceptualize the fretboard as a series of shapes and I need to learn to approach it from a more scalar point of view, or at least incorporate that more into my improv. |
Whit Snell
Member From: San Antonio, TX
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posted 24 March 2006 07:22 AM
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I suspect this recording is and will be playing on computers all over the world. I want the CD. How simple and beautiful. Guitar is awesome as well.Anybody else hear movie soundtrack???
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Al Terhune
Member From: Newcastle, WA
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posted 25 March 2006 07:38 AM
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Whit -- I agree. And although you say simple (and I know it's meant in a very complimentary way), there are many movements done with the bar in these tunes that take a loooot of practice to master (and I know you agree!). Jeff: My wife is forced to listen (and sometimes is pleasantly surprised, as with your music) when I play all these tunes from the forum on my laptap as we're in the living room, and when I played your tunes (the second one first), she looked up and said, "Now, that one sounds Hawaiian..." You could probably play salsa on your lap and your Hawaiian touch would shine through. No "aloha" from me -- it's "Boy, howdy!!!!" Al |
Todd Weger
Member From: Safety Harbor, FLAUSA
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posted 26 March 2006 10:20 AM
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I still conceptualize the fretboard as a series of shapes and I need to learn to approach it from a more scalar point of view, or at least incorporate that more into my improv.
Hey Jeff -- I tend to do this too, although, having been trained as a vocalist, I'm always silently "singing" the solo I hear in my head, which I think helps with creating a melodic solo. Unfortunately, executing what I'm hearing in my head is another kettle o' fish. Most of the time, the melody that I'm trying to play sounds just that -- like it's being executed! 
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Todd James Weger --
1956 Fender Stringmaster T-8 (C6, A6, B11); 1960 Fender Stringmaster D-8 (C6, B11/A6); Regal resonator (C6); 1938 Epiphone Electar (A6); assorted ukuleles; upright bass
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MUSICO
Member From: Jeremy Williams in Spain
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posted 26 March 2006 03:22 PM
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It´s a favourite tune of mine and I loved how you played it. ¿What tuning were you using? Jeremy Williams
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Jeff Au Hoy
Member From: Honolulu, Hawai'i
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posted 26 March 2006 07:44 PM
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Thanks Jeremy, I used B11... just flatted one string in A6, which I usually use.Todd, I also try singing or scatting behind the lines... but I need to watch myself or my scatting starts to follow the positions I'm playing rather than vice versa! [This message was edited by Jeff Au Hoy on 26 March 2006 at 07:48 PM.] |
Don Kona Woods
Member From: Vancouver, Washington, USA
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posted 27 March 2006 10:24 PM
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Jeff says,
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I still conceptualize the fretboard as a series of shapes and I need to learn to approach it from a more scalar point of view, or at least incorporate that more into my improv.
Jeff, Could you help the musically uneducated on your meaning or meanings for approaching the fretboard from a
scalar point of view. Mahalo,
Don |
Jennings Ward
Member From: Edgewater, Florida, USA
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posted 28 March 2006 01:38 PM
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SUPERBLT EXCELLANT'
JENNINGS------------------
EMMONS D10 10-10 profex 2 deltafex ne1000 pv1000, pv 31 bd eq, + |
Bill Creller
Member From: Saginaw, Michigan, USA
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posted 28 March 2006 06:31 PM
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That's Ok with me Jeff, 'cause I don't know what the hell "scalar" means anyway! |
Jennings Ward
Member From: Edgewater, Florida, USA
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posted 28 March 2006 10:42 PM
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I JUST LISTENED TO BOTH SONGS FOR THE SECOND TIME.. JEFF YOU GET A TONE THAT I WOULD
DIE FOR.....SOUNDS LIKE YOU ARE USING AN OLD
" CLASS 'A' AMPLIFER....ARE YOU????
ABSOUTLY GREAT SOUND , SUPERIOR, TONE AND ECT:LIKE SOMEONE SAID,, MORE, MORE,, MORE....
THANKS JEFF FOR YOUR E MAIL AND YOUR MUSIC....
JENNINGS,,,,U PK;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ------------------
EMMONS D10 10-10 profex 2 deltafex ne1000 pv1000, pv 31 bd eq, + |
Jesse Pearson
Member From: San Diego , CA
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posted 29 March 2006 10:46 AM
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Jeff, nice punch this time. Everything sounds like you recorded against a metronome and then took it out of the mix. The sound levels are great, sweet mix job. Sounds like you got some real garlic happening. I'm on dial up and the whole page and the song took a long time to load, that's why it took me so long to get to it. Thanks... P.S. Gerald, thanks for taking the time to make these recordings available for everyone to hear. |
Jerry Erickson
Member From: Atlanta,IL 61723
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posted 29 March 2006 10:10 PM
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Sounds great Jeff. I could almost hear the scratches in the grooves! |
Andy Sandoval
Member From: Bakersfield, California, USA
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posted 25 July 2006 03:02 PM
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Jeff, you've inspired me to learn this tune. I found a tab for it in C6 that sounds cool and have been usin a BIAB rhythm track to practice it with. If anyone wants the BIAB file to pratice with, email me. |
Garry Vanderlinde
Member From: Garden Grove, California, USA
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posted 25 July 2006 06:22 PM
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I also learned Moonglow because of this post. I really like the slants on the 9ths. Thanks Jeff.
Andy, you got mail. |
Al Marcus
Member From: Cedar Springs,MI USA
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posted 25 July 2006 07:59 PM
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Jeff-Very good. Sounds like real Hawaiian swing as we all played it in 1936 on our 6 strings. You have a nice touch and tone is not muddy, as you said.You sound like a Happy player in your playing. I like it....al ------------------
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