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Gordon Black Member Posts: 166 |
posted 27 April 2001 09:21 AM
I'm working up the courage to do an instrumental with my band. Up to now I've just done fills and a few rides. What do you guys (and gals) do that is fairly easy and yet gets the steel into the spotlight (either E9 or C6)? Thanks in advance. |
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Bobby Lee Sysop Posts: 14849 |
posted 27 April 2001 09:47 AM
I try to stick to tunes that the band is likely to know: Steel Guitar Rag, Panhandle Rag and Sleepwalk. If you have the luxury of a rehearsal, you can do anything. This weekend I'll be playing "Pagan Love Song", an easy tune that I played at a rehearsal just for jamming. The leader liked it and suggested that we play it in concert. ------------------ |
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c c johnson Member Posts: 1353 |
posted 27 April 2001 11:39 AM
In the WS band I do Roadsde Rag, George Steel,and mostly This is the Southland. The Hawaiian Band, Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Hule Blues, Maui Chimes, and My Only Love. ------------------ |
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chas smith Member Posts: 3168 |
posted 27 April 2001 11:49 AM
We used to do do a number of instrumentals, one of them being 'Steel Guitar Rag', one of my least favorites and the topic of an earlier thread. We had fiddles, guitars, steel guitar, accordian and bass. The first time thru it, everyone would play it in a different key, it was a real attention-getter. |
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Joe Smith Member Posts: 510 |
posted 27 April 2001 11:56 AM
I like to do slow tunes that people can dance to. The most requested tune I do is Tenn. Waltz. It's very easy to play on E 9th ------------------ |
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Tom Ward Member Posts: 241 |
posted 27 April 2001 12:03 PM
Try "Faded Love" (E9)...good for listening or dancing. [This message was edited by Tom Ward on 27 April 2001 at 12:05 PM.] |
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Jack Stoner Sysop Posts: 8119 |
posted 27 April 2001 12:17 PM
Almost everyone asks for Steel Guitar Rag. I don't know if it's the only song they associate with the steel or only "steel guitar" song they know of. A lot of guys don't like doing SGR but if someone in the paying audience requests it, I do it - without hesitation. There are a lot of other songs that can be done. Sleepwalk usually gets a good reception as does The Waltz You Saved For Me. |
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BobbeSeymour Member Posts: 5664 |
posted 27 April 2001 12:30 PM
Tangerine ! |
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John Knight Member Posts: 308 |
posted 27 April 2001 01:06 PM
Bobbe I've never heard you do that song. Anyway when I can get away with it, Raisin the Dickins, Take the A Train or Secret Love on the C6th and the E9th I like Sawed Off Shotgun and Rose City Chimes ------------------ |
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randy Member Posts: 702 |
posted 27 April 2001 01:21 PM
People like any of the Ray Price songs and SGR but I think I get asked for Harbor Lights more than anything else. |
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ROBERT MYERS Member Posts: 293 |
posted 27 April 2001 01:43 PM
Steel Guitar Rag, Harbor Lights, Last Date and Crazy. ------------------ |
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Donny Hinson Member Posts: 9192 |
posted 27 April 2001 02:11 PM
I'll do just about any song that the band members know. I don't limit the break songs and solos to only traditional steel stuff, but play a wide variety. I've played everything from "Tangerine", to "Misty", to "I Feel Fine", and a lot of '60s R&R stuff like "Sugar Pie Honey Bunch", "Groovey Kind Of Love", "Chains", and "Sukiyaki"...and even "Up On The Roof". They wrote some really catchy melodies in the '60s. For a beginner, I would recommend any of the slow Hank Sr. songs (like "Cold, Cold Heart", "Cheatin' Heart", etc.) played up-tempo. These are easy melodies, and everybody knows them. Once you get so you can play slow melodies "cold"...just speed 'em up, and you got a million solos! |
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Bob Hayes Member Posts: 951 |
posted 27 April 2001 06:40 PM
When I get the chance to PLAY and Instumental..I'll keep it a little country..I do I love You Because and Faded Love up tempo with a little Jazz/swing.Last Date, My window faces the south(badly)Sweet temptation,On a Clear Day..and of course the "RAG"...Soft winds and secret love are good also..but sometimes the band that I'm with at the time do not know them Grouchy |
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Shaan Shirazi Member Posts: 210 |
posted 28 April 2001 07:23 AM
Here are the instrumentals I've been known to do: Sleepwalk, Last Date, Midnight (by the surf-instrumental legends the Shadows), Apache, Buckaroo, Buck's Polka, You're Cheatin' Heart (James Burton-Ralph Mooney version), Corn Pickin', Moonshine, Crazy Arms (Duane Eddy version), Detour, Pan Handle Rag, Hurricane, The Rockin' Gypsy, and Early American by Joe Maphis, and September In the Rain. Shaan ------------------ |
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Herb Steiner Member Posts: 6119 |
posted 28 April 2001 07:57 AM
Instrumentals performed by yours truly recently with the Cornell Hurd, Johnny Bush, and Terri Joyce bands: Steel Guitar Rag, Midnight in Amarillo, Panhandle Rag, Steel Guitar Jubilee, Liberty Drive, Steelin' Home. I get a lot of requests regarding instrumentals. But I usually perform them anyway, ignoring the complaints of the paying customers. ------------------ |
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ajm Member Posts: 556 |
posted 28 April 2001 09:51 AM
I'm surprised.....not one person mentioned "Bud's Bounce". |
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BobbeSeymour Member Posts: 5664 |
posted 28 April 2001 09:53 AM
TANGERINE! |
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Paul Graupp Member Posts: 3199 |
posted 28 April 2001 09:54 AM
Herb: It was nice to see someone is still doing Liberty Drive. I remember that from an early Jimmy Day album and I liked it so much even then that it got special comment in a review. The band I'm with currently does a medley of Wildwood Flower, John Henry and Under The Double Eagle. All in C but in the Eagle it modulates to F and I get to blow out the carbon on the Carter and when I'm through it rolls back into C. It is mainly the lead guitar but it's nice work playing side and vamp chords against his front. |
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Lee Baucum Member Posts: 3201 |
posted 28 April 2001 10:29 AM
Tangerine might be a nice one. I wonder if anyone has ever worked that one up.  Lee, from South Texas |
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Al Marcus Member Posts: 7471 |
posted 28 April 2001 10:46 AM
Hey Bobbe, my man. I like "tangerine" too a great song with a good beat, lots of nice chord changes. The trouble is that when I do play at the Senior Center, the band doesn't know or want to play my kind of songs. But I get to play "Somewhere my Love", I wish I could get backup on Linda Rhondsat's "Whats New", "Here's that Rainy Day", "Body and Soul", " Unforgetable" and Hey Bobbe your "Tangerine" and those kind of tunes. But no way, so I play them in my Music room, for my own amazement!.....al |
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Steven Welborn Member Posts: 666 |
posted 28 April 2001 11:00 AM
Paul, do you remember which J. Day album Liberty Drive was on? |
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Al Marcus Member Posts: 7471 |
posted 28 April 2001 11:02 AM
Hey Lee. "Tangerine" is an fairly easy tune to play on C6, B6, E6 ,Bb6, A6. All I use is the standard C6 type pedals 5-6-7. I put my right foot on pedal 7 and left foot on 5 & 6. Just like I have seen the big boys do. Pedal 5 & 7 are used a lot. Some guys put pedal 7 on a knee, makes it possible to use the volume pedal, when needed. I made a video of myself playing a bunch of these old tunes, and was going to use it to teach C6 stuff on it. I gave up on it as too much work for what it was worth. Anyone that wants to learn that advanced type playing can go to many fine teachers available today. I personally know of two, Jeff Newman and Reece Anderson, and of course many others......al |
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Drew Howard Member Posts: 2390 |
posted 28 April 2001 11:18 AM
Dixie Steel Rag by the National Hillbillies |
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Paul Graupp Member Posts: 3199 |
posted 28 April 2001 11:52 AM
Steven: Tom Bradshaw just sent me copies of my book Pushin' Pedals and I actually had to look up my own work for your question. 1963, Vol 5. Jimmy Day's Golden Steel Guitar Hits put out by Philips, 600-616. I'm surprised that Bobbe hasn't put up Almost To Tulsa or Oklahoma Stomp !! And last night on the way home from playing I heard Buddy Emmons doing Rose City Chimes but |
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John Russell Member Posts: 455 |
posted 28 April 2001 01:44 PM
I to the "rags" mentioned above plus Remington Ride, Dream (J. Mercer), Canadian Sunset, Westphalia Waltz. JR |
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Steven Welborn Member Posts: 666 |
posted 28 April 2001 05:48 PM
Thanks Paul. I'll put that on my next music shopping list. BTW, although none of the public at large will have heard of it, Tommy Hannum penned a beautiful instrumental titled "Air Conditioned" on his "not Rocket Science" tape. Kind've in the Sleep Walk vein, but I like it much more. Pretty simple but georgious. SW |
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Ray Montee Member Posts: 4090 |
posted 28 April 2001 06:46 PM
I routinely get requests for instrumentals. Some of the favorites seem to be: Draggin' the Steel |
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Bill Myrick Member Posts: 1007 |
posted 28 April 2001 07:05 PM
Anybody ever try "Under The Double Eagle" ? |
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Bobby Lee Sysop Posts: 14849 |
posted 29 April 2001 10:13 AM
Yes, I used to play "Under the Double Eagle" a lot. People don't request polkas so much anymore, though. |
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Mike Sweeney Member Posts: 2715 |
posted 29 April 2001 10:46 AM
I like Tangerines but they give me heartburn. Lee, Reece recorded "Tangerine" a long time ago and it is a great version just like everything else he does. Mike |
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Tim Rowley Member Posts: 957 |
posted 29 April 2001 01:28 PM
Soon as I get C6th, I'm gonna learn "Back Home Again in Indiana". Tim R. |
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Frank Parish Member Posts: 2327 |
posted 29 April 2001 07:32 PM
Tangerine? Bobbe I heard it was Sweet Georgia Brown in E flat! |
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John Russell Member Posts: 455 |
posted 29 April 2001 08:00 PM
Tim: Some may argue with this, "Back Home in Indiana" is no biggie on E9. I've played for a couple years on my S12U and I never touch the "B side" pedals. If you're going for the pure Doug Jernigan version, then I guess it would be a little more difficult. Depends, of course, on your setup and how you want to embellish the melody. D. Jernigan's version on Hillbilly Jazz is a tour-de-force C6 jam. I'll never touch that. But that melody and chords play real nice on E9. |
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BobbeSeymour Member Posts: 5664 |
posted 29 April 2001 11:20 PM
TANGERINE!! OK, Iv'e been doin' the "Bonanza Boogie" a lot recently,you know,turbulence and all. Doctors love it! It just kills'em! "Tangerine" will keep you workin' the pedals a lot too! V tails forever! Bobbe |
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Mike Weirauch Member Posts: 3528 |
posted 30 April 2001 05:41 AM
Tangerine? I thought you played "In The Pines"!  ...lest we not forget |
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Dave Van Allen Member Posts: 5369 |
posted 30 April 2001 07:42 AM
Tunes I have done as "features" on the saturday evening radio show over the last 6 months include: Steelin' The Blues (on the Panda Rick) Maiden's Prayer (lap steel in G tuning/pedal steel on different verses) Zing Went the Strings of My Heart (unaccompanied U12) Old Kentucky Home (unaccompanied U12) San Antonio Rose You're Stronger Than Me (the slow Cline version not the "I fall to Pieces" clone version) When Irish Eyes are Smiling (unaccompanied U12) Last Date ( with a loooong ritard on the second half of the last verse slowing to almost a dead stop = "Last Sedate" ------------------ Zumsteel U12 "Loafer" 8&6 :: Fender T-8 Stringmaster :: Fender Tube Amplification [This message was edited by Dave Van Allen on 30 April 2001 at 07:47 AM.] |
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Steve England Member Posts: 542 |
posted 30 April 2001 08:19 AM
Usually it would be stuff that the band are likely to know, Sleep Walk, Steel Guitar Rag etc. But my new band REHEARSES!!! so we are working up "Take the A Train", "Midnight In Amarillo", and possibly "Don't Get Around Much Anymore"and "Going Away Party". Gulp!!!! |
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ScoobyDoo unregistered Posts: 542 |
posted 30 April 2001 09:06 AM
Rocky Top, Orange Blossom Special, and Four Wheel Drive. |
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louie hallford Member Posts: 812 |
posted 01 May 2001 01:41 PM
I play all of them that I do live.
How about All Of Me |
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VERNON PRIDDY Member Posts: 301 |
posted 01 May 2001 05:26 PM
Last Date. Danny Boy. Ect. ------------------ |
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