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Topic: Help me to play an simple lick pls? |
Steve Huddleston
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Arizona, USA
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Posted 16 Jun 2016 6:50 am |
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Hi, all. I am so new at the pedal steel my ears are still wet. I've taken a lesson and looked at a bunch of youtube things and I'm really enjoying the instrument. I've been a life long guitar player which sorta helps and sorta hinders maybe.
Anyway I'm trying to figure out how to play an easy guitar lick on the PS. I call it a shuffle but I'm sure no one else does. It's simply (in G) GBD, GCE, GDF. Is there an efficient way to do this? Thanks |
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Lane Gray
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Posted 16 Jun 2016 8:38 am
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If you mean the famous "Memphis vamp" (or, with different phrasing, Miles Davis' All Blues), in G I'd play it on strings 5,6 and 8.
Fret 3, then fret 3 with A and B pedals, then release the pedals, go up to the 6th fret, and add the F lever (the one that raises the Es to E#/F)
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Posted 16 Jun 2016 8:41 am
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Or fret 8 with lowered Es, strings 7, 8 and 10.
Then release the lever, strings 6, 8 and 10.
Then add the B pedal, strings 6, 7 and 10
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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Carl Mesrobian
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Salem, Massachusetts, USA
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Posted 16 Jun 2016 9:18 am
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For the third harmony, if you have a knee lowering 9 a half, try fret 6 strings 5, 6, 9 with 9 lowered a half. You can hold G as a pedal note through all three changes 
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"The better it gets, the fewer of us know it." Ray Brown |
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Posted 16 Jun 2016 10:29 am
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That's why I came back with the 8th fret example
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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Roddy Ring
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Alexandria, Virginia, USA
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Posted 17 Jun 2016 8:53 am
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The way I do it, in the given key here,
3rd fret 5, 6 and 8
3rd fret AB 5. 6 and 8
1st fret AB 4, 5 and 7 (A pedal obviously is unnecessary).
3rd fret AB 5, 6 and 8
And repeat.
Now that I've taken credit, I will admit that Billy Cooper showed me.
Roddy |
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Carl Mesrobian
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Salem, Massachusetts, USA
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Posted 17 Jun 2016 10:12 am
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| Roddy Ring wrote: |
The way I do it, in the given key here,
3rd fret 5, 6 and 8
3rd fret AB 5. 6 and 8
1st fret AB 4, 5 and 7 (A pedal obviously is unnecessary).
3rd fret AB 5, 6 and 8
And repeat.
Now that I've taken credit, I will admit that Billy Cooper showed me.
Roddy |
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--carl
"The better it gets, the fewer of us know it." Ray Brown |
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Bob Hoffnar
From:
Austin, Tx
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Posted 17 Jun 2016 11:02 am
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| Roddy Ring wrote: |
The way I do it, in the given key here,
3rd fret 5, 6 and 8
3rd fret AB 5. 6 and 8
1st fret AB 4, 5 and 7 (A pedal obviously is unnecessary).
3rd fret AB 5, 6 and 8
And repeat.
Now that I've taken credit, I will admit that Billy Cooper showed me.
Roddy |
You do need the A Pedal in the third chord or you will be playing a C instead of a D.
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Bob |
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 17 Jun 2016 11:32 am
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I think he meant B pedal is unnecessary, as the strings affected by it aren't played.
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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Carl Mesrobian
From:
Salem, Massachusetts, USA
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Posted 17 Jun 2016 12:14 pm
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I saw that 3 and 6 weren't used and figured it was the B pedal. No biggie - your ears tell all!
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"The better it gets, the fewer of us know it." Ray Brown |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 18 Jun 2016 7:46 am
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IMHO, this paint-by-the-numbers approach is not the best way to learn this or anything else.
Steve, you wrote that you're a guitarist. Surely you know all the basic chords. The lick you spelled is 3 chords; G, C, and G7. You should learn where these are and how to make them on the steel.
You should learn all the basic chord positions for the essential major, minor and 7th chords. There aren't that many positions, and they are all movable. Once you know how to make chords, and where they all are, figuring out licks and other stuff becomes a lot easier.
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Steve Huddleston
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 23 Jun 2016 5:41 pm
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| I hear you, Mike. It's such a go-to thing musically I was looking for the way real steel players normally do it. Thanks everyone! |
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