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Topic: Unplayable old TABS? |
David M Brown
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California, USA
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Posted 16 Dec 2016 6:55 am |
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I have a question about some of the old TAB arrangements for steel guitar that I have come across.
Although most of the arrangements in these older books are very playable, I have a few doubts about some others.
Like, did a guy just sit down with a lap steel fingering chart and imagine something that looks like it could be played but really can't?
For example, in a book of Ray Kinney's Hawaiian Songs with arrangements by "John Martell", there is a version of "On The Beach at Waikiki" for Hawaiian guitar in A low bass and for regular guitar.
I question the real playability of a few passages. I'll try to scan them later but for now:
On an F#7 chord, the arranger wants you to hold a half note F# on string 1 and also play an open 2nd string C# AND a 3rd string 1st fret A#.
How can you do that? Sure you can slant the bar to get the A# and the F#, that's easy - but getting an open string to sound in the middle of the slant?
Then there's a passage with a B7 chord, where you are supposed to hold a half note 1st string 9th fret C# and hit a 2nd fret F# on the same string while the C# is still sounding?
There are many more examples of this sort of sloppy arranging.
Have you guys also run into this? |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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David M Brown
From:
California, USA
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Posted 16 Dec 2016 7:57 am
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| Doug Beaumier wrote: |
| In the early days of steel guitar, some music publishers would have their "in house" guitar instructors write the steel guitar instruction books. A writer may have played and taught guitar, bass, uke, Hawaiian guitar, etc. In other words, they were not always expert steel guitarists. |
That makes sense in this particular case as the standard guitar arrangements are OK. Thanks. |
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