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Topic: Help Me With My Crash Course!!! First 2 Strings??? |
Tommy Everette
From:
Whitakers, NC
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Posted 27 May 2011 8:55 am |
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 Well, I started playing E9 on 10 strings a few weeks ago. I'm getting a pretty fair hang of the lower 8 strings. BUT what do I do with those 2 top strings?  
If I just had a lick or 2 I could use them on, I'd eventually get the idea I believe.
Someone told me at the Saturday Night Dance, I was the best steel guitar player there! I was very excited! 
Last edited by Tommy Everette on 27 May 2011 3:29 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Ken Metcalf
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San Antonio Texas USA
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Posted 27 May 2011 9:34 am
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Try Pedals up.
String 3, 1, 4, 2, 5 Pedal down to 4 chord
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Larry Rafferty
From:
Ballston Spa, NY
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Posted 27 May 2011 9:35 am
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I think I can help you in 3 easy steps.
(1)Purchase a half dozen lollipops in different flavors.
(2) Cut the stems off 1/4" below the pops.
(3) Insert the Lollipops between strings one and two at frets 3,5, 8, 10, 12 and 15.
You should now be able to get many sweet licks in a variety of positions.
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pair of Peavey Vegas 400's; Peavey NV112; Webb 614E with matching extension cabinet; Fender Twin Reverb and 3 cats.
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Carl Kilmer
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East Central, Illinois
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Posted 27 May 2011 9:41 am
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Well, when your arms get long enough to reach 1 thru 4,
try this for a start: 3-1-4-5 as in "I'm not Lisa" 
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Clete Ritta
From:
San Antonio, Texas
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Posted 27 May 2011 1:58 pm
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| Ken Metcalf wrote: |
| ...String 3, 1, 4, 2, 5 |
Practice picking this string order forwards and backwards as an exercise for playing scales. Use the A pedal and F lever together for a major scale and just pedal A for a minor scale.
Clete |
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Bo Legg
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Posted 27 May 2011 3:16 pm
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| Just stay on that C6 neck for a few years. |
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Tommy Everette
From:
Whitakers, NC
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Posted 27 May 2011 3:22 pm
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LOTS OF GREAT INPUT/INFO SO FAR!!!!
I am mostly enjoying the funny stuff!!!! |
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Tommy Everette
From:
Whitakers, NC
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Posted 27 May 2011 3:45 pm
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| Bo Legg wrote: |
| Just stay on that C6 neck for a few years. |
Oh! I thought that was the back-up E9 neck in case you broke a string in the middle of a song or something!
All the strings are way out of tune for E9 anyway. |
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Tommy Everette
From:
Whitakers, NC
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Posted 27 May 2011 3:47 pm
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| Clete Ritta wrote: |
| Ken Metcalf wrote: |
| ...String 3, 1, 4, 2, 5 |
Practice picking this string order forwards and backwards as an exercise for playing scales. Use the A pedal and F lever together for a major scale and just pedal A for a minor scale.
Clete |
er, um, which one is F lever? |
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Tommy Everette
From:
Whitakers, NC
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Posted 27 May 2011 3:49 pm
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| Carl Kilmer wrote: |
Well, when your arms get long enough to reach 1 thru 4,
try this for a start: 3-1-4-5 as in "I'm not Lisa" |
Imagine the trouble I'm having reaching the pedals!!! |
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Tommy Everette
From:
Whitakers, NC
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Posted 27 May 2011 3:53 pm
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| Larry Rafferty wrote: |
I think I can help you in 3 easy steps.
(1)Purchase a half dozen lollipops in different flavors.
(2) Cut the stems off 1/4" below the pops.
(3) Insert the Lollipops between strings one and two at frets 3,5, 8, 10, 12 and 15.
You should now be able to get many sweet licks in a variety of positions. |
But the Drool keeps rusting the strings! |
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Joey Ace
From:
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Bill Terry
From:
Bastrop, TX
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Bo Legg
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Posted 3 Jun 2011 12:41 pm
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| It's best to wait until after your nap then you won't be so cranky. |
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Joseph Barcus
From:
Volga West Virginia
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Posted 3 Jun 2011 2:31 pm
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top string is where the 9th term comes into play the high f# is the 9th. its also what makes up your chromatic scale fourth string E, first string F#, third string G# push B pedal gives you A. what happen there was you just went though part of the E scale E,F#,G#,A,B would be your 5th string open then push pedal A you have the C#, then the second string D# back to open fourth E thats one of many scales. now you could go around the first string by pushing you C pedal open E then C pedal gives you the same F# open third G#,B pedal A, back to the 5th string B push A pedal for your C# no instead of your 2nd string lower string 4 for the same D# note then release back to home E. you should be getting some kind of picture now about those strings and why they are there. hope that helps a little
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Elton Smith
From:
Texas, USA
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Clete Ritta
From:
San Antonio, Texas
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Posted 3 Jun 2011 8:28 pm
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| Tommy Everette wrote: |
| ...which one is F lever?... |
The F lever raises your two E strings on 8 and 4 a half step to F. Its commonly located on LKL with the Emmons copedent. I dont know how you reach the A pedal, but I think you could kick that knee lever with your foot in a tantrum.
Clete |
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David Nugent
From:
Gum Spring, Va.
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Posted 5 Jun 2011 4:05 am
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| Tommy...A simple use for strings 1&2 is to form your #5 chord. For example; fret 3, no pedals (string groups 3,4,5/ 4,5,6/ or 5,6,8)will give you a 'G' chord, A&B pedals down will give you a 'C' chord, playing strings 1,2,&5 open (no pedals) will give you your 'D'. (Sliding down from fret 3 to 2, then 1 and resolving it by playing any 'G' chord string group on fret 3 makes a nice #5 chord(D)to #1 chord(G)change). |
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Elton Smith
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 5 Jun 2011 12:30 pm
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By the way. Thats a mighty fine up and comming steel picker you got in the pic.
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Tommy Everette
From:
Whitakers, NC
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Posted 5 Jun 2011 12:35 pm
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| Elton Smith wrote: |
| By the way. Thats a mighty fine up and comming steel picker you got in the pic. |
I hope he grows into one! |
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Elton Smith
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 5 Jun 2011 12:45 pm
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I think we all do ,Tommy
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Joe Miraglia
From:
Jamestown N.Y.
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Posted 5 Jun 2011 3:46 pm
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| I like most tune string 1 F# and string 2 D# But why? It would through my playing off if I changed it ( so used to having it that way),but why not tune String 2 F# and string 1 D#? Joe |
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Tommy Everette
From:
Whitakers, NC
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Posted 5 Jun 2011 4:00 pm
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| Joe Miraglia wrote: |
| I like most tune string 1 F# and string 2 D# But why? It would through my playing off if I changed it ( so used to having it that way),but why not tune String 2 F# and string 1 D#? Joe |
VERY INTERESTING! |
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Sonny Jenkins
From:
Texas Masonic Retirement Center,,,Arlington Tx
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Posted 6 Jun 2011 4:46 pm
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For someone just starting,,,I would certainly take a VERY serious look at Zane Kings tuning (an off shoot of Zane Beck's). It make a LOT MORE sense, musically, than the tuning we have all come to call "standard".
http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=206699 |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 8 Jun 2011 8:26 am
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You just needed to add a space after "link."
Now it works, and it's an interesting link. Thanks Elton.  |
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