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Topic: Easy Classical Pieces for E9th? |
b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 31 Dec 2011 8:39 pm Not sure if these qualify or not................ |
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Humoresque (sp?)
Liebenstraum (sp?)
One that Basil Henriquez has done here on the Forum,
Chopan's something or another....... |
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Douglas Schuch
From:
Valencia, Philippines
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Posted 1 Jan 2012 3:09 am
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Bob, I would suggest Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring as a good one for E9. I can play it (well, the first part) on my diatonic harmonica (no pedals required). Most people know and recognize this piece.
Also by Bach you might consider "Air". Bach is noted for his use of counterpoint which would make for interesting work on the pedal steel, I would think, so there are lots of possibilities there with his intertwined melodies.
For something sweet and melodic, something like Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9, no. 2 would be a possibility.
Disclaimer: I am a newbie steel player, so could not play any of these (well, could probably figure out the first one, but play it poorly).
Cheers,
Doug |
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Steve Hitsman
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Waterloo, IL
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Posted 1 Jan 2012 5:18 am
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| I just finished arranging "Habanera" from Bizet's Carmen. I've written tab for it. Fairly easy but it does require splits and a couple of bar slants. |
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Jim Hoke
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2012 7:35 am
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| Hey bOb, do you have my Otto CD? It's got a bunch of them; let me know and I'll send you one. The Satie Gymnopodies are all easy to play and beautiful. Jesu Joy lays perfectly without hardly ever moving the bar. (15th fret, in G, some at the 10th). B.J. Cole does a lovely "Claire De Lune". The main theme of The New World Symphony", (the part everybody knows) is great on steel. "Pavanne" by Faure lays nicely and is on my Otto CD. Then there's "The Swan". Hey Perlowin, come in here pal..... |
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Richard Damron
From:
Gallatin, Tennessee, USA (deceased)
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Posted 1 Jan 2012 7:50 am
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b0b -
J.S. Bach's "Praeludium" is in the key of E major. The classical guitar transcription falls nicely within the open tuning of the E9. Hope your chops are up to playing it at tempo.
Richard |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Frank Freniere
From:
The First Coast
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Posted 1 Jan 2012 8:50 am
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Hi b0b -
Check my arrangements of "Blue Danube Waltz," "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," and "Fuer Elise."
Not so easy is E. Bovine's brilliant "Ave Maria" for 12-string. |
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Richard Damron
From:
Gallatin, Tennessee, USA (deceased)
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Posted 1 Jan 2012 5:35 pm
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b0b -
I apologize. I should have been more specific.
The link which you supplied is for the Cello Suite, No. 1, I Praeludium. I was holding it in abeyance as backup for the one which I thought that I had referenced.
It is the BWV 1006 Prelude from the Lute Suite that I was thinking of.
John Williams here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKcA1UqWEOc&feature=fvsr
If there's a low note that can't be reached, then make a logical substitution.
Either one should be astounding on the PSG.
Richard |
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Richard Damron
From:
Gallatin, Tennessee, USA (deceased)
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Posted 1 Jan 2012 6:02 pm
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b0b
Double post for emphasis. Right. |
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Mark Wayne
From:
Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2012 6:08 pm
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Bob,
"Pachelbel's Canon in D". Can be fun especially with a loop machine 
For more involved pieces there would be "Sleepers' Awake" by Bach.
When I was studying this stuff in the 90's I worked with Marshall Hall, a classical steel player. He would suggest some of Ferdando Sor's pieces.
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2012 7:45 pm
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| Mark Wayne wrote: |
For more involved pieces there would be "Sleepers' Awake" by Bach.
.. Marshall Hall..would suggest some of Ferdando Sor's pieces. |
Sleepers Awake has a beautiful melody at the start that is easy to play. All it needs is the bass line. That's an example of something that is not too hard on guitar, but would be very hard to play on steel if you try to do both parts at once. But it's easy for 2 people, or one person overdubbing
It's a challenge to find stuff that sounds complete on unaccompanied steel. Maybe I should check out Sor. |
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2012 8:05 pm
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The Lute Suite BWV 1006a is Bach's own transcription of the (unaccompanied) Violin Suite 1006. The first movement (Prelude) is one of Bach's most popular pieces. Bach himself seems to have been very proud if it; besides the violin and lute version, he wrote a version for organ, and for a whole orchestra in 1 or 2 cantatas.
It's a common encore for violinists; the violin range goes down to G, and I think there is nothing below G# in this piece. That's 3 frets below your garden variety 10 string E9. so it might work best on steel if you xpose it up to key of G. OTOH my solution is to play these on 12 string. This piece fits nicely on ext E9, sounding an octave lower than written.
Guitar players usually play the lute version, which is the same thing with bass notes added here and there. |
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2012 8:23 pm
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I notice that the range of the viola matches the first fret of 10-string E9th. Is there any solo viola music? I've only ever seen the instrument in string quartets and orchestras.
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2012 8:40 pm
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| b0b wrote: |
| I notice that the range of the viola matches the first fret of 10-string E9th. Is there any solo viola music? I've only ever seen the instrument in string quartets and orchestras. |
You can get the Bach solo suites (6 violin & 6 cello) transposed for violin, viola, cello at the Werner Icking Archive.
http://icking-music-archive.org/ByComposer.php
J S Bach page
http://icking-music-archive.org/ByComposer/J.S.Bach.php
scroll down to BWV 1001-1006, or BWV 1007-1012, and get the viola editions. This is a great exercise in sharpening up your alto clef reading, which of course is a highly lucrative skill for steel players. It may be easier to get the cello edition and just play it up an octave. Or download a MIDI file, put it in your favorite clef, xpose, and print. |
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Frank Freniere
From:
The First Coast
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Posted 1 Jan 2012 9:05 pm
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Peer Gynt suite.
Nessun Dorma.
Bolero. |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2012 9:27 pm
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That's great, Earnest. Yeah, the alto clef is a bit intimidating, but the range matches E9th perfectly. I printed the Prelude of the cello suite arranged for viola and it looks to be very playable on 10-string E9th as written. Do you have a favorite site for MIDI files?
Thanks! 
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2012 9:42 pm
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| Do you have a favorite site for MIDI files? |
I use http://www.classicalarchives.com/midi.html sometimes.
Google
bach midi
a lot of stuff comes up.
I assume you have a program that will import MIDI files, and make and print musical notation. Sometimes some tweaking is required. |
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Jim Hoke
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 2 Jan 2012 11:59 am
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| bOb - If you'll be playing these w/ another player (guitar, bass, cello, whatever) you don't have to worry about bass notes. Just play the top pretty parts. Or if you're going solo, just re-voice chords that go low. "Sunken Cathedral" by Debussy is all very low but doesn't have to be down in that register. That'd be a good one. |
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Roy Thomson
From:
Wolfville, Nova Scotia,Canada
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Posted 2 Jan 2012 12:13 pm
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b0b Happy New Year!
Here's one from my achives that is short and sweet
and most everybody recognizes it when I play it.
http://picosong.com/pB2
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Jim Hoke
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 2 Jan 2012 3:02 pm
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| That's beautiful, Roy. Sounds like you got your concept of tone and articulation from Jerry Byrd. In fact, I'd have thought you played that on no-pedal Hawaiian guitar. |
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Dave Grafe
From:
Hudson River Valley NY
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Posted 2 Jan 2012 3:30 pm
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| I've been working on Mendelssohn's "Nocturne" from "Midsummer Night's Dream" - the french horn parts already sound great on pedal steel, I am thinking about having my friend Chris Kern play steel pans to cover the winds and strings, but the entire thing should be quite playable on the pedal steel... |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 2 Jan 2012 5:34 pm
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Some pieces are sop steel-friendly it's almost as if they were written specifically fr our instrument.
Two of these are "Reverie" by Claude Debussy (which I played at the Phoenix show) and the 2nd movement (Largo) of Anton Dvorak's 9th symphony, more popularly knows as the "New World Symphony." I played this at Jack Lox's 1987 California steel show.
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Roy Thomson
From:
Wolfville, Nova Scotia,Canada
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Posted 2 Jan 2012 6:36 pm
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Here's a pretty one that was previously mentioned
Liberstraum Franz Litz pardon my spelling.
Fits nice on E9th. I recorded this clip several years
ago. As I recall it was quite easy to get the music for it in one of Chet Atkins books.
b0b this one is worth a "GO"
Link:
http://picosong.com/px4
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Daniel McKee
From:
Corinth Mississippi
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Posted 2 Jan 2012 7:01 pm
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| greensleeves is not hard to play. |
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