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Mike Anderson
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Posted 7 May 2019 7:35 am |
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Was doing some online research on Bob Dunn and came across this, thought maybe some members might be interested:
https://dc.uwm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1092&context=etd
It's a Master's degree in Music thesis and contains a complete transcription for all instruments for the song "Who's Sorry Now." The Bob Dunn line even has tabs for his A tuning.
cheers, Mike. |
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Jack Hanson
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San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 7 May 2019 7:55 am
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Awesome! Thanks for sharing.
UWM is also the alma mater of the prodigious young finger-style guitarist Macyn Taylor. There's definitely something in the water (or the beer) up there in 'Sconnie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzbAj279g5g |
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Mike Anderson
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British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 7 May 2019 8:58 am
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Merle and Chet would be proud.  |
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Tommy Martin Young
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Sacramento-California, USA
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Posted 7 May 2019 9:18 am
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In case it says "502 Bad Gateway" when trying to open remove the https:// and reload. Worked for me!
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Loren Tilley
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Maui, Hawaii
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Posted 8 May 2019 12:35 am
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My alma mater! And it turns out the song was recorded in the same building I used to do my grocery shopping in. 127 pages on Milton Brown, good stuff!
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Mike Anderson
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British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 8 May 2019 4:56 am
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| Glad people are enjoying this! On a side note, does anyone happen to know what Leon’s first tuning was when he was still playing single neck steel? Wondering if he just adopted the A major? |
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 8 May 2019 9:55 am
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When you're not a player of the instrument you're transcribing, errors can creep in - like this example from the Dunn steel guitar transcript.
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Scott Thomas
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Posted 8 May 2019 1:48 pm
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I saw that too, and was going to post it. Good catch.
That was a really interesting read! |
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Lee Baucum
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McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 8 May 2019 7:16 pm
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When you're not a player of the instrument you're transcribing, errors can creep in - like this example from the Dunn steel guitar transcript.
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A simple forward/reverse combination slant on adjacent strings!
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Andy DePaule
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Saigon, Viet Nam & Springfield, Oregon
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Posted 8 May 2019 9:06 pm
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| Andy Volk wrote: |
When you're not a player of the instrument you're transcribing, errors can creep in - like this example from the Dunn steel guitar transcript.
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You don't have a bar with a hinge in the middle? 
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Mike Anderson
From:
British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 9 May 2019 8:14 am
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Yikes.  |
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Jouni Karvonen
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Helsinki, Finland
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Posted 9 May 2019 9:38 am
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Madeline Dietrich
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Virginia, USA
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Posted 6 Jun 2019 9:51 am A note from the author.
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Hi, this is Madeline Dietrich and the author of the paper y'all are talking about. First of all, thank you Mike Anderson for looking at my work and for sharing the link. There was a tremendous spike in readership starting the day of your post and lasting for several days.
Regarding my tablature error, ugh! I'm so embarrassed! I wrote up an entire page laying it out for the casual reader how the steel player uses the bar to cover straight and diagonal groups, and then...Duh.
As Andy suggests, I am not a lap steel player. My primary is upright bass, and I play fiddle and mando, but I at least own a little Smith Mellobar lap steel I bought in Houston many years ago. (Andy--I cited your book at some point in there). I was living in Milwaukee during the time of my research and I arranged a consultation with Kieth Baumann (Chicago area musician--banjo, steel, etc) who has worked with Stacy Phillips (and whose work I consulted heavily, esp for the fiddle stuff). Kieth advised me on some spots in the lap steel and tenor banjo transcriptions. I also consulted a couple of jazz pianists about Calhoun's piano style (notably Johnny Case in Ft. Worth). But in the throws of getting that damned thesis together I overlooked a lot of things and I've had a few errors pointed out to me since I published it. Which is GOOD. It's exactly what I want--people who know better than I to step in and point these things out. So thanks to all of you who commented here!
Wow, can you tell I've been drinking coffee?
Y'all take care!
--Madeline |
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Jeremy DeHart
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North Carolina, USA
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Posted 6 Jun 2019 1:11 pm
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| Very amazing and thorough work Madeline! Kudos to you! |
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Bill McCloskey
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Nanuet, NY
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 6 Jun 2019 1:37 pm
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Madeline, my own glass house is so large I am not throwing any stones!
We all make mistakes - I mistakenly ran a global spell check while trying to change one one word in a book and it created some unimaginable typos. Thanks so much for your hard work on Bob Dunn's story - he is a player who is really underexpolored despite his seminal role.
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Mike Anderson
From:
British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 7 Jun 2019 3:50 am
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Really cool to meet you Madeline! My own appreciation of Western swing of the 1930s came pretty late in life, and I think what you've accomplished is very impressive. I hope you have a really satisfying career in music, wherever it might lead you.  |
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