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Topic: Jerry Byrd live ... "come a little closer" |
Andy Volk
From: Boston, MA
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Erv Niehaus
From: Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 24 Mar 2017 8:58 am
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Interesting!
And he only used it for a very short period of time. |
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Doug Beaumier
From: Northampton, MA
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Andrew Roblin
From: Various places
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Posted 25 Mar 2017 7:02 am
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Thanks for that, Andy!
And thanks Erv & Doug.
What a great place we here at the Forum. |
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Doug Beaumier
From: Northampton, MA
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Erv Niehaus
From: Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 25 Mar 2017 8:20 am
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Doug,
That's what good playing is all about, to take a difficult song and make it look easy.
Some songs are just made for certain tunings. For instant, "Sand", that song was made for the B11th tuning, or maybe the other way around. |
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b0b
From: Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 25 Mar 2017 9:52 am
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Are you sure he didn't do that effect with with his volume pedal? It's so perfectly timed to the tempo of the song! _________________ -𝕓𝕆𝕓- (admin) - Robert P. Lee - Recordings - Breathe - D6th - Video |
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Andy Volk
From: Boston, MA
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Posted 25 Mar 2017 11:31 am
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b0b, that doesn't sound like a volume pedal effect to me but perhaps I'm wrong!
and Doug, I was originally gonna peg that as C diatonic but the arpeggio at the end fooled my ear. On closer listening you are of course, right. _________________ Steel Guitar Books! Website: www.volkmediabooks.com |
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David Famularo
From: New Zealand
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Posted 26 Mar 2017 9:56 pm 1950s version
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Doug Beaumier wrote: |
Jerry played that song on his C diatonic tuning. I like his 1950's recording of the song. It's faster than this live one, more energy, and has a nice bakelite tone. |
What album is the original from and is it available to listen to online? |
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David Famularo
From: New Zealand
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Posted 26 Mar 2017 10:09 pm Beautiful
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I've got to say, that is an absolutely beautiful piece of playing. Is it a non-pedal steel he is using?
Early on when I started learning the lap steel I realised you can't "fake" playing well on that instrument. You don't sound good until you are actually that good to sound good, if that makes any sense. I think it is because it is an instrument that is extremely sensitive to way the musician plays it, with a subtle richness of sounds available. |
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Doug Beaumier
From: Northampton, MA
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David M Brown
From: California, USA
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Posted 27 Mar 2017 1:23 am
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Doug Beaumier wrote: |
Jerry played that song on his C diatonic tuning. |
Do any of y'all play that C diatonic tuning? |
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Andy Volk
From: Boston, MA
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Posted 27 Mar 2017 2:31 am
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Diatonic tunings are a kettle of worms! It helps a bit when you realize that the C6th tuning is imbedded in there on strings 1,2,4,5 and 7 (I don't have a 7 or 8 stringer right now so I end with the string #6 F note). You can get some very rich, close voicings and harp-like effects but there are some complex tuning issues that are over my math-challenged head.
I worked out "My Funny Valentine" in C Diatonic about 15 years ago and then never touched the tuning again till this weekend. I just arranged this version of One Note Samba in C Diatonic ... it was tricky ... you gotta keep that F (and then Bb) note on top for all the voicings in that tune.
PDF:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lhmwu6p4ral7qlk/One%20Note%20Samba.pdf?dl=0
One Note Samba MIDI audio: http://picosong.com/p84i/
I'm working on trying to transcribe "Come a Little Closer" .... more on that later.
Here's JB's version from Hi-Fi Guitar: http://picosong.com/p84w/ _________________ Steel Guitar Books! Website: www.volkmediabooks.com
Last edited by Andy Volk on 27 Mar 2017 4:38 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Andy Volk
From: Boston, MA
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Doug Beaumier
From: Northampton, MA
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David M Brown
From: California, USA
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Posted 27 Mar 2017 6:36 am
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Thank you for the C diatonic info. |
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