Christmas music on dobro

Greg Booth · Post by **Greg Booth** » 13 Dec 2006 9:40 am

Hi guys,
I haven't posted much to the SGF recently, since I started playing dobro about a year and a half ago I hang out over at ResoNation. I posted a song I recorded over there you might enjoy. Merry Christmas from Alaska!

The Christmas Song[This message was edited by Greg Booth on 13 December 2006 at 06:14 PM.]

Gerald Ross · Post by **Gerald Ross** » 13 Dec 2006 10:03 am

Beautiful Greg!

Ok, now spill the beans. Tuning? Dobro? Bar? Stings? Recording setup?

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Stephen Gambrell · Post by **Stephen Gambrell** » 13 Dec 2006 10:48 am

One of the prettiest things I've ever heard. Thanks for posting that tune.

Jeff Au Hoy · Post by **Jeff Au Hoy** » 13 Dec 2006 2:30 pm

Greg that was so amazingly beautiful. I'm adding it to my holiday mp3 mix! The way you play melody is so vocal-like... and with all those lush chords beneath... that really sang to me.

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 13 Dec 2006 5:12 pm

Just beautiful, Greg. Rich tone, unhurried pace, wonderful expressive playing.

Stu Schulman · Post by **Stu Schulman** » 13 Dec 2006 6:07 pm

We are so lucky to have Greg Booth living up here in Anchorage,I've known Greg 20 years and have never heard him play a bad note or miss one... seriously he's that good.He kills on Pedal Steel,and Banjo also...Beautiful stuff Bud..Stu

Terry Farmer · Post by **Terry Farmer** » 13 Dec 2006 7:53 pm

Oh man........that was beautiful and perfect ending. I'm going to go learn "jingle bell harmonics" right now! Please post more. This is going in my music folder for sure.

Stephan Miller · Post by **Stephan Miller** » 13 Dec 2006 8:52 pm

Merry Christmas from Maryland, Greg! Man, that was gorgeous....

Gary Anwyl · Post by **Gary Anwyl** » 13 Dec 2006 9:39 pm

Greg, that is really nice! I like both your playing and your arranging skills. You manage to get some really nice chord voicings. What's the tuning? It doesn't sounds like the standard High G tuning.

Greg Booth · Post by **Greg Booth** » 14 Dec 2006 12:34 am

Thanks for the nice comments everyone. They liked it over at ResoNation so I thought I'd let all the steel players over here check it out. Gerald, the tuning is EBDGBD, regular G tuning with the low G dropped to E. I guess maybe you'd call it Em7. The chords lay out pretty well in the key of C. My dobro is a Wechter Scheerhorn Elite 9520, I use an SP2 bar or sometimes a Tipton. The signal chain is AT825-Firebox-computer-Cool Edit.

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Don McClellan · Post by **Don McClellan** » 14 Dec 2006 3:27 am

Beautiful playing and beautiful guitar. Thank you! Don

Eddie Cunningham · Post by **Eddie Cunningham** » 14 Dec 2006 11:25 am

Thank you , Greg , That was beautiful !!!

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John Sluszny · Post by **John Sluszny** » 14 Dec 2006 11:56 am

Thanks,very tasteful playing!
(good idea,that low E)

George Macdonald · Post by **George Macdonald** » 14 Dec 2006 12:32 pm

That was absolutely beautiful. I keep going back to it over and over. Please forgive a basic question, but was a capo used to play that song in the key of C? I've been playing pedal steel for over 30 years but I'm new to Dobro. Thanks, George

Stephen Gambrell · Post by **Stephen Gambrell** » 14 Dec 2006 5:30 pm

That's the same tuning that Mike Auldridge uses on "Killing Me Softly."

Richard Sevigny · Post by **Richard Sevigny** » 14 Dec 2006 5:38 pm

Very nice indeed (the playing and the axe)

I'll have to try the low E.

Also nice to hear from another Cooledit user!

Gary Anwyl · Post by **Gary Anwyl** » 14 Dec 2006 6:30 pm

Regarding George's question about a capo, it doesn't sound to me that he's using a capo. For example in the bridge he plays a C chord at the 5th fret, slides down to the 4th fret and then back up to the 5th fret.

Steinar Gregertsen · Post by **Steinar Gregertsen** » 14 Dec 2006 8:06 pm

I'm speechless........

I didn't open this thread before you contacted me at MySpace, then I remembered having seen a thread about Christmas music on dobro in here.

Thank you so much, this was really beautiful playing.

Steinar

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Greg Booth · Post by **Greg Booth** » 14 Dec 2006 11:03 pm

George, Gary's right, there's no capo. I use the open strings throughout the song, for example, the G7 is made barring the bottom 3 strings at the 3rd fret with the top 3 strings open. There is an Fm6 in the intro played at the 1st fret with string 1 open. However, Gary, there is no place in the bridge where I play a C chord at the 5th fret and slide to the 4th and back. There is a spot where I use C and A notes at the 10th fret and slide to the 9th and back...I've tabbed out the intro so far but that's all. Really glad you like it!

Don Kona Woods · Post by **Don Kona Woods** » 14 Dec 2006 11:35 pm

What more can I say, but excellent, excellent!! You will win the SGF Global Christmas & Hanakah emmy award this year for musical arranging and recording.

Your playing communicates to the heart.

By the way, you must get a lot of practicing in up there in Alaska, since you are snowed in, huh?

Aloha,

Don

Kevin Brown · Post by **Kevin Brown** » 15 Dec 2006 1:30 am

So nice to hear 'another way' of playing Dobro, much prefer this style to the acrobatic displays of some major league players, well done Greg, you are presently floating my boat !

Fred Shannon · Post by **Fred Shannon** » 15 Dec 2006 2:03 am

Greg, super playing and man, what tone from your axe. Good Job.

Phred

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Alan Hamley · Post by **Alan Hamley** » 15 Dec 2006 8:46 pm

Greg,

Wonderful playing. Beautiful tone!!! Thank's for sharing with us.

Merry Christmas forumite's

Cheers

Alan

Jerry Erickson · Post by **Jerry Erickson** » 17 Dec 2006 12:18 pm

Very nice Greg! I was guessing an 8 string guitar.

Greg Booth · Post by **Greg Booth** » 31 Dec 2006 5:22 pm

Since I recorded this a few weeks ago I have kept the low E string and I think I will just leave it this way. So many new ways to play! Anybody else try it?