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Topic: Bakersfield Sound: Is there a "course" teaching it?
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James Zurek
Member From: San Diego, California, USA
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posted 02 July 2002 10:48 PM
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Can anyone recommend a learning course for picking up that Bakersfield sound? I am looking for both videos and tab. I have ordered Winnie’s book to start, but am interested in getting another course that has some degree of emphasis on this style, the more the better. If it teaches Mooney, I would be one happy wannabe steel player...to be.Thanks! James Zurek
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Donny Hinson
Member From: Balto., Md. U.S.A.
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posted 03 July 2002 12:36 AM
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I teach this style...too bad you're on the west coast.  [This message was edited by Donny Hinson on 03 July 2002 at 12:39 AM.] |
Colin Goss
Member From: St.Brelade, Island of Jersey, Channel Islands, UK
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posted 03 July 2002 01:41 AM
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I used Jeff Newman's course "Music to back up by" which includes a number of "Mooney style" arrangements. It got me started on the mental gymnastics needed to play West Coast. |
Scott Howard
Member From: Georgetown, TN, USA
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posted 03 July 2002 04:22 AM
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Jeff Newman also has several Woodshed workshops that are done in Mooney style.
#23 Under Your Spell Again
#24 Heartaches By The Number
#46 Swinging Doors
#47 The Bottle Let Me Down
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Larry Behm
Member From: Oregon City, Oregon
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posted 03 July 2002 05:08 AM
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Move your right hand back toward the pickkup, turn up the treble on your amp, never play more than two strings at a time.  Larry Behm
503-722-7562 There really is a "west coast" style vs the Nashville style, thanks to Ralph and Tom and JD. |
Brad Burch
Member From: Athens, Ga USA
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posted 03 July 2002 05:56 AM
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Could somebody post a little tab snippet of something that epitomizes this sound? |
Joey Ace
Sysop From: Southern Ontario, Canada
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posted 03 July 2002 06:04 AM
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Listen to "Under Your Spell Again" at http://users.interlinks.net/rebel/steel/1959.html
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Jeff Lampert
Member From: queens, new york city
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posted 03 July 2002 07:20 AM
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Go to the Tablature section and click on the topic "Dwight Yoakam's What Do You Know About Love". There is tab there for the intro and solo, which are a good representation of the Bakersfield sound, albeit modernized a bit. Playing that tab would be a good start. |
Kevin Hatton
Member From: Amherst, N.Y.
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posted 03 July 2002 02:35 PM
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Excellent advice Larry. |
Chris DeBarge
Member From: Boston, Mass
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posted 04 July 2002 06:03 AM
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never play more than two strings at a time.
Larry, does this mean I now officially have a "style" ?  |
Joey Ace
Sysop From: Southern Ontario, Canada
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posted 04 July 2002 09:38 AM
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Also, there seems to be an "agressive attitude" playing feel that indentifies Bakersfield-Style, IMO.I suspect it came from Ralph having to stomp the pedals on those old Fenders. The smooth sound (example: Nightlife, Mansion on the Hill)is not Bakersfield style. Dwight's "What Do You Know About Love" is.
(Gary Morse on Steel)
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chas smith
Member From: Encino, CA, USA
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posted 04 July 2002 11:52 AM
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I suspect it came from Ralph having to stomp the pedals on those old Fenders.
You ever try to play one of those things, you really appreciate how good Ralph is/was.
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