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Joe Burke · Post by **Joe Burke** » 15 May 2019 6:52 am

Love it! Thanks.

Keith Glendinning · Post by **Keith Glendinning** » 15 May 2019 6:59 am

Great stuff Doug.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 15 May 2019 8:29 am

Thanks for checking it out!

Bill Groner · Post by **Bill Groner** » 15 May 2019 9:12 am

I think you're in love with that Fender! Sounds great!

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 15 May 2019 9:17 am

Yes, it's the Fender for now! Thanks

Joe Elk · Post by **Joe Elk** » 15 May 2019 11:12 am

Doug Nice Stuff!!!
Joe Elk Central Ohio

Jim Fogarty · Post by **Jim Fogarty** » 15 May 2019 11:31 am

Well, THAT was all kinds of awesome.

Gee, I just got a Deluxe 8 myself, and it doesn't seem to sound quite like that when I play it.

Thanks!

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 15 May 2019 12:51 pm

So good, Doug!

Brad Richard · Post by **Brad Richard** » 15 May 2019 2:49 pm

Incredible, Doug. You haven't tabbed that out by any chance? Jus' thought I'd ask.

Barbara Berg · Post by **Barbara Berg** » 15 May 2019 4:25 pm

Thanks for sharing Doug......if only I could play near that level!

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 15 May 2019 5:08 pm

Thanks all! The track is in the key of C#, which makes the main riff easier to play. Just raise the back of the bar and keep the nose of the bar on two other strings (on C6 tuning). In any other key that would require a split slant.

I don’t have tab for this. I just made a quick BIAB track and played through it a couple of times and recorded it.

Michael Sheehan · Post by **Michael Sheehan** » 15 May 2019 5:14 pm

I love this, sounds great!

I sure like that "syncopated" open string business (not sure if my terminology is correct). I play a thing on my regular six string guitar in Db where I do something similar, but not NEARLY as cool.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 15 May 2019 5:24 pm

Thanks Michael, yes, I think syncopated would be the right term for that picking. It’s similar to the picking style we hear on dobro a lot. Funny though, when I play that kind of pattern on dobro no one pays much attention, but on lap steel it really stands out and catches people’s attention.

Mike A Holland · Post by **Mike A Holland** » 16 May 2019 10:35 am

Very nice Doug. Great bar control and a lovely even picking style!
Excellent!

Ed Baker · Post by **Ed Baker** » 16 May 2019 11:46 am

Yikes. I'll always like the way you mix the open strings pull offs and hammer ons in your arrangements.

I've struggled for years trying to play your arrangement of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman" in your "25 More Songs for C6th" book. But, this exercise you created puts that one to shame.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 16 May 2019 12:06 pm

Thanks Mike and Ed. That syncopated finger roll is one that I've been playing for many years. It's similar to a banjo or dobro roll.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 27 Jan 2020 7:31 am

Bump on a cold winter day!