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Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 31 May 2012 2:26 pm

Thanks, Steve! I'm not on facebook, but I appreciate the link.

Thanks for the kind replies. As far as doing tablature for this song... the melody is no problem, but there's no way I could tab out the solos. Those would be 20 pages of cluttered numbers, and I'm not even sure I could recreate what I did.

Jay Doughty · Post by **Jay Doughty** » 3 Jun 2012 6:32 am

Very nice!

Dan Simard · Post by **Dan Simard** » 3 Jun 2012 12:49 pm

Doug, I'm blown away by this! I just wanted to make a suggestion that will help a lot of us here : it would be great to have the camera on the other side of your left hand so we could study more closely what you're doing.

I really wonder what you're doing between 1:02 and 1:17 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0k-eaWmjkM#t=1m02s .

Thanks for this great video!

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 3 Jun 2012 1:16 pm

Thanks Jay and Dan,

The section you asked about is a thumb and two finger roll that goes from string 5 up to string 1, all on fret 12... right up the strings on the same fret, until the last note when the bar moves to fret 13. Pick blocking is very important to prevent all the notes from running together. It's basically a T, 1, 2 pattern, but the thumb and fingers have to drop back onto the strings and dampen them after picking. They are 'blockers' and well as 'pickers'!

To get a closer look at this technique... check out the thread below with a link to a video I made last year. Go to the second half of the video for a close up of the pick blocking style I'm using. In many T, 1, 2 patterns, after finger 1 picks the middle string the thumb moves up to block that string. So the thumb (or a finger) is sometimes used to block a string that it did not pick.

Thread/VIDEO ----> http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopi ... 78#1787978

James Kerr · Post by **James Kerr** » 3 Jun 2012 3:59 pm

I liked that very much Doug.

James.

Rich Sullivan · Post by **Rich Sullivan** » 3 Jun 2012 4:52 pm

That is the coolest version of that song I've heard. Very nice playing. Can't wait to hear your next recording. (Hint, hint)

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 4 Jun 2012 12:51 pm

Thanks James and Rich, I'm glad you like it!

Bill Hatcher · Post by **Bill Hatcher** » 4 Jun 2012 1:18 pm

great video and playing!!

Dan Simard · Post by **Dan Simard** » 4 Jun 2012 3:53 pm

From all the views on this video, there are at least 30 from me

Stephen Watson · Post by **Stephen Watson** » 4 Jun 2012 6:02 pm

Shared it on my FB page as "Cooking With Steel".

Great work and done with a sense of humor.

Gotta love that!

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 5 Jun 2012 8:36 am

Thanks guys, I appreciate your kind words.

Chuck S. Lettes · Post by **Chuck S. Lettes** » 5 Jun 2012 8:49 am

Hi Doug. Very nice, as always. Hope to see you at the PSGA show in November.
Chuck

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 6 Jun 2012 7:25 am

Thanks Chuck! I'd like to make it to the show in November, although I have a couple of gigs that weekend. Anything could happen, and it usually does!

Kevin Brown · Post by **Kevin Brown** » 6 Jun 2012 11:54 am

Amazing stuff Doug, thats a damn fine pair of ears you have there, bravo !

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 7 Jun 2012 7:37 am

Thanks Kevin! I've enjoying watching all of your excellent videos in the past couple of years. Cheers!