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Andy Volk


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Post  Posted 26 Feb 2017 5:37 am    
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Doug's great post inspired me to tab out something I've been playing for a while by ear but never thought about writing out. This is a steel guitar interpretation of the electric piano riffs Ray played on his classic hit "What I say." It's a Latin groove in E played out of the same E7th position Doug used. The music shows the same groove pattern throughout but in practice, you would vary it slightly. The two riffs over the B7 chord are a paraphrase of what Ray played. B11th tuning (Hi to low) E C# A F# D# B.




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Andy Volk


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Post  Posted 26 Feb 2017 5:45 am    
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I started to record the riff but hated the sound I was getting so, in the interest of expediency, here's a midi to hear how it sounds. It stops abruptly after the turnaround back to E7 but is intended to repeat as often as desired.
https://soundcloud.com/aev/ray-charles-style-riffing-in-b11th
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Doug Beaumier


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Post  Posted 26 Feb 2017 12:16 pm    
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Cool stuff, Andy. That riff in line 6 is also in the 1960's song "Peppermint Twist"
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