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Topic: If Your Looking For Chords... look here |
Philip Mitrakos
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Posted 12 Sep 2015 11:35 am |
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Some knee levers on the chart aint exactly emmons but not hard to figure out the difference
They are about 6 bucks on the forum store..
I was gonna post a photo of the chart but thought it might be a copy right problem
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Ian Rae
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Redditch, England
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Posted 13 Sep 2015 5:40 am
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That's a really elegant style of tablature. Does anyone else use it apart from Mel Bay?
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 13 Sep 2015 5:58 am
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I've used that chart for years. My first copy cost me $1.50  |
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Jamie Howze
From:
Boise, ID
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Posted 15 Sep 2015 9:25 am
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| I always have a copy close at hand in my practice area. I don't use it very often, but it is a very handy quick reference when the brain occasionally locks. |
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Michael Hummel
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 15 Sep 2015 10:54 am
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It is a neat way to notate.
Just curious...I see a whole tone raise is a filled circle, and a semitone drop is a filled down arrow -- how do they notate whole tone drop and semitone raise?
Mike
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 15 Sep 2015 1:03 pm
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Michael,
That is the wrong interpretation of the chart.
It doesn't show all of the chart. What they are showing is the various pedals and levers that are used to make a particular chord that is not shown.
The open circles are for strings that are not affected by any pedals or levers. The solid circles are for the strings that are affected by pedals or levers and the arrow pointing down indicates that the string is lowered. |
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Philip Mitrakos
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The Beach South East Florida
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Posted 15 Sep 2015 1:16 pm
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I did have a good photo of the whole chart on the
Thread and removed it cause'somebody woulda complained about something ..copy right or...
And the forum store sells em too..
So the chart I did post for an example is an E minor ...3rd fret A pedal...8th fret D lever and 10th fret B and C pedals..all E minors ..letters at the bottom of the chart are pedals and levers not notes.
Pedals are solid dots.. levers lower are arrows down lever raise is an arrow up.
All marks are the only strings played for that chord..circles solid dots and arrows.
Chart folds open and there are 48 chords in all.
Last edited by Philip Mitrakos on 16 Sep 2015 4:55 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Bobby D. Jones
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West Virginia, USA
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Posted 15 Sep 2015 8:22 pm
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| To me that chart is the Holy Grail for the steel guitar. When I first started trying to learn the steel guitar, A friend showed me where G,C and D was on the neck and how to use the A and B pedal get the C chord at the 3rd fret and D at the 5th fret. I found a lot of things that fitted in a song I did not know what it was. Years later friend John loaned me a copy of the Mel Bay chord chart. Using the chart,I learned I had found a lot of things by hunt and pick to use in songs that were charted out on this. I would suggest it to any person as a reference. |
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David Weisenthal
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 16 Sep 2015 6:44 pm
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Thanks for letting me know about this, sounds great. Definately gettin' one this week.
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Lem Smith
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Long Beach, MS
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Posted 17 Sep 2015 12:48 am
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This, along with the Winnie Winston/Bill Keith book are the only two pieces of teaching material I was able to find back in my early days on the pedal steel. This chord chart was a tremendous help to me in learning the E9th neck. It really made a huge difference in my understanding of the tuning, as back when I started, instruction material for the pedal steel was still extremely difficult to find in small town U.S.A.!
Anyone who doesn't have one would be doing themselves a HUGE favor by ordering one from b0b. |
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DG Whitley
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Posted 17 Sep 2015 4:24 am
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For me, Jeff Newman's "E9th Chord Dictionary" video was all I ever needed. Just about every chord you would ever need with 3 pedals and 3 knee levers. All done in a logical sequence you could easily commit to memory.
Just my 2 cents, YMMV. |
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Tom Watterson
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 17 Sep 2015 9:12 am
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| Lem Smith wrote: |
Anyone who doesn't have one would be doing themselves a HUGE favor by ordering one from b0b. |
I just did! Thanks to the OP for posting this thread. |
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Lem Smith
From:
Long Beach, MS
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Posted 17 Sep 2015 9:20 am
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I'm sure you'll be glad you did, Tom. It's truly a great resource for the pedal steel guitarist.
Now b0b, about that commission... LOL  |
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 17 Sep 2015 11:06 am
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Scotty was at the Iowa steel show and I got to talking to him. I told him there was a mistake on his Chord Chart. I showed it to him and he said: "You are right, no one has ever pointed that out to me before."
If you have the chart, on the bottom row on the chart, the Adim chord is off one fret. |
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Philip Mitrakos
From:
The Beach South East Florida
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Jeff Spencer
From:
Queensland, Australia
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Posted 18 Sep 2015 1:34 pm
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| I have used this too. I always thought it an oversight however with no B chord. I know it's a no brainer to work out but.....Also many chords are repeated like the Amin, E min. Still a great resource |
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Edward Rhea
From:
Medford Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 20 Sep 2015 9:23 am
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| Formite Jeff Pickering gave me the chart 2 1/2 years ago, to help me get started. Thanks Jeff! I still go back to it occasionally, and have an AH-HA moment. |
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Tom Watterson
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 22 Sep 2015 6:41 pm
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Well, I must have gotten the last one! Mine came yesterday, and I've already used it to find a smoother way to transition from A maj to Cm to F#m on a song I'm working on. This is going to get a ton of use.
Many thanks for the thread, Philip! |
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