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Topic: George Van Eps Exercises for C6th lap steel |
Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 20 Nov 2015 7:47 am |
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Jazz guitarist George Van Eps mastery of all the elements of finger style standard guitar playing has amazed players for years. Harmonic Mechanisms For Guitar is his 3-volume tour de force of exercises for complete fretboard mastery.
This is complex stuff - all written in only standard notation. Much of it is instructive for steel guitarists if you can wade in these deep waters. I only own volume three and only gingerly dip a toe in there now and then. Here are some of Van Eps exercises from the book for C6th plus a few that Mike Neer posted a while back that I incorporated here. Free to download.
PDF: https://www.dropbox.com/s/uviudz0e9vfgoao/Van%20Eps.pdf?dl=0
Computer-Generated Audio: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9t0vl02afylako3/Van%20Eps.mp3?dl=0
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Christopher Woitach
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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Posted 20 Nov 2015 4:56 pm
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Man, I went through a good bit of those volumes on jazz guitar... It's hard enough to do that, I'm guessing (without having looked at your files yet, I will, though!) absolutely brutal on even pedal steel, super brutal on lap...
Needless to say, can't wait to try...
Glutton for this kind of punishment
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Christopher Woitach
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Christopher Woitach
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA
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Posted 20 Nov 2015 5:01 pm
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Now that I've looked, these exercises are very playable
I was thinking of the first ones in Vol 1, where you hold a note while playing a scale. Some of those would be quite doable in all keys on pedal steel, probably doable on non pedal with certain tunings and in certain keys.
Sigh - Van Eps, master indeed
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Stefan Robertson
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Hertfordshire, UK
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Posted 21 Nov 2015 10:02 pm
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Great post will transcribe and check out today.
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