Taking a break from the Christmas music! I played this little groovy track a while back on my Pedal Guitar so I thought it would be cool to also sit down with it on my Jackson S12. It's just a little work in progress as I work toward a new CD recording. It's more of an experiment than anything else at this point just perfecting the styling of what I intend to do with it ultimately.
For many of you are following or checking out my tuning approach this will showcase some ideas. From this demo you can clearly see some vertical movements that happen which make for some great improvisation ideas.
Here ya go....click here...oh and I can't apologize for the facial expressions..seriously, I can't sit still and play for anything! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7mcxpPSZag
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I'll admit this is certainly out of the box and unstructured at this point. What can I say I've had people say to me my whole life "man, you are really inZane"
Thanks Allan & Jerry! I appreciate you guys commenting today.
Wally - Bass players never like me anyway so why not just go ahead lay it out there! HAHA!
Monstrous talent you have Zane!!! Ferocious chops.
I see you are from Nashville.. Do you tour with any one, or do sessions in town??.. From what I have seen here, you are a steel player of elite ability, and I was just wondering if you play for a living... bob
I'm over the hill and hittin'rocks on the way down!
no gear list for me.. you don't have the time......
Zane
You really got it "going on" on this one. I would say that you are in the groove, "The Zaney Groove". Hey, that would be a good title for your piece of art that you have created.
I enjoy all your productions ..keep them coming..Excellent
Thank you for your kind words. I have been around a while. I have played steel guitar since I was 9. I grew up in the shadow of the great steel player and builder Zane Beck. I started playing steel guitar shows as a pre-teen and spent many years in and around the steel guitar community. I have been in Nashville for the better part of the last 2 decades now. I am very blessed to have made a mark if you will in the music industry here. Mostly as a producer, record executive, songwriter, and publisher. So I don't make my living per se as a steel guitarist but it has been a very large part of my life and will continue to be. I'm blessed now to have some time to devote to by playing and ideas. Thanks again!
Zane, you capture a lot of the style and sound of the 70's jazz era: Herbie Hancock, Weather Report, etc.... Except they had full bands, with synthesizers doing it. Except for a modest backup track, you are doing it all, no electronic effects (well, some, but not so much that they dominate the song anyway).... I like all types of music (including the 70's jazz and country) but is nice to hear a steel doing something I've never heard one do before. "Boldly going where no steel player has gone before" (with respect to William Shatner).
zane..i dunno about the song or whatever, but i like your style. especially finding a single neck tuning that let's you express whatever you want. very cool!
in the back of my gray matter, i know there is a 12 string set up for each person.
The steel guitar is a hard mistress. She will obsess you, bemuse and bewitch you. She will dash your hopes on what seems to be whim, only to tease you into renewing the relationship once more so she can do it to you all over again...and yet, if you somehow manage to touch her in that certain magic way, she will yield up a sound which has so much soul, raw emotion and heartfelt depth to it that she will pierce you to the very core of your being.
You know Zane, it's really cool for you to share that with us on the forum, but IMO, you need to go out and play that for the people who normally listen to that kind of music, but who are unaware of the steel guitar.
You should be playing at jazz festivals, with people like Chick Corea and Alan Holdsworth. You could be our instrument's ambassador to that world.
Douglas S. - I'm not sure I'm going where no one has gone before but I do like that folks can appreciate playing a "clean" sound on grooves like this. It does take some doing in order to make it sound appropriate if you will.
Chris I. - 12 strings rule!
Mike - that would be fantastic to be on stage with some players like that. I really do believe with some very hard work on my part I could be relevant in those styles.
Very cool Zane, keep it comin bro....Stormy 
