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Topic: Back at the Chicken Shack - E9th and Leavitt |
Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 15 Dec 2018 6:44 am |
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Here's my arrangement in E9th tuning of Jimmy Smith's classic blues shuffle tune "Back at the Chicken Shack." E9th is an easy tweak from C6th using the same string gauges. Jerry Byrd, Ralph Kolsiana and many others used it. The only thing slightly tricky is the crisp blocking needed between the first fret chord and the slant chord on strings 2 & 3.
MIDI audio: https://picosong.com/wgere/
Jimmy Smith original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuMd8ldLqxo
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Last edited by Andy Volk on 19 Dec 2018 5:36 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Bill Hatcher
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Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 15 Dec 2018 9:11 am
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| good tune. all the blues bands know this one. good to learn standards. |
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Bill Hatcher
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Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 15 Dec 2018 9:11 am
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| good tune. all the blues bands know this one. good to learn standards. |
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David Matzenik
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Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 15 Dec 2018 1:23 pm
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Andy, I hope you are going to expand that rendition, its very unusual for steel guitar. You are getting a keyboard-like tone, which I suppose is intentional.
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 15 Dec 2018 1:49 pm
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David, that's just the computer-generated output of the software - and just the head of the tune sans any improv. I just arranged it yesterday and haven't recorded it on a steel yet. That keyboard sound is as close as GP6 comes to a lap steel sound - and it's pretty far - even though that patch is called "pedal steel -Leiz"!
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David Matzenik
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Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 16 Dec 2018 6:08 pm
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Well, Andy . . . that shows how musically perceptive I am. 
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Ron Funk
From:
Ballwin, Missouri
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Posted 16 Dec 2018 10:14 pm
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Another song for the Lap Steel Tool Box
Thanks Andy |
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Jesse Pearson
From:
San Diego , CA
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Posted 16 Dec 2018 10:29 pm
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Gees, I thought your steel was Eq'd with too much reverb and was sounding like the old midi computer stuff...LOL. I was thinking, "Andy has some good intonation, but that tone and tamber". I thought I better not say anything...HaHa
You know, some guy has a book on Amazon on "Lap Steel instruction" that has no real lap steel on the audio cd. It's that midi keyboard generated stuff and it has a lot of bad reviews because of the sound? |
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 17 Dec 2018 4:02 am
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Yeah, a lot of people hate the MIDI but I see it as a handy way to demonstrate the rhythms, harmonies and melodies of a tune without making any claims that it sounds exactly like a steel guitar. I should probably make that more clear when I post stuff. Getting a recording I'm comfortable with is always a huge hurdle. With constantly juggling multiple projects at once, the midi solution works for me and for a lot of other people who understand its purpose as a rough blueprint. When I post an arrangement with a midi sound clip, sometimes there are few comments. Perhaps it's midi aversion?  Anyway, I appreciate your comment.
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Paul Seager
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Augsburg, Germany
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Posted 18 Dec 2018 3:08 am
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Andy, what was the decider to use E9? I'm always curious of what comes first, the tuning or the song - By this I mean did you need aspects of the tuning for the song?
\ paul |
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Posted 18 Dec 2018 4:17 am
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I arranged it years ago in C6th and in B11th for my book on that tuning but had never really explored E9th before this week. I was basically looking for more straight bar positions and better flow.
I was playing around with the Leavitt tuning the other day and had an epiphany: it works really well for improvised blues sounds including chord vamps! I had always thought of it was a tuning for set arrangements with lots of string skipping necessary but pentatonic scales are easy and you have fat, full 9ths and diminished sounds so I should probably try "Chicken Shack" in Leavitt tuning too.
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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