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Douglas Bryant

 

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Post  Posted 28 May 2014 4:11 pm    
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Anyone have experience capturing the spirit of Bud's Bounce on a lap steel? I have tried all kinds of bar slants and finger pulls on an 8-string with C6 tuning. Nothing seems to work quite right. Could it be that this tune, in particular, is best left to those with pedals?
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Steve Green


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Post  Posted 28 May 2014 4:54 pm    
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Forum member Mike Neer worked it out for E9th non-pedal.

http://www.mikeneer.com/lapsteelin/2011/01/19/new-tabnotation-package-for-buds-bounce/

http://www.mikeneer.com/bud_bounce.mp3
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Peter Funk


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Post  Posted 2 Jun 2014 5:10 am     Re: Bud's Bounce
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Douglas Bryant wrote:
Could it be that this tune, in particular, is best left to those with pedals?


I did a version using a "Duesenberg Multibender" attached to my Gretsch Syncromatic:
Bud's Bounce

I used an Open-D Tuning, with the 5th string tuned to B.
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Sonny Jenkins


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Post  Posted 2 Jun 2014 5:31 am    
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I just picked up my little 8 string C6,,,it seems to lay fairly well on it. I didn't really try to work it up,,,,I think Emmons did a C6 version somewhere,,,maybe in Scotty's book,,,,or maybe Winnie's,,,????
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Roy Thomson


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Wolfville, Nova Scotia,Canada
Post  Posted 2 Jun 2014 6:02 am    
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I worked out a learning arrangement of Bud's Bounce for C6th Lap Steel E--C--A--G--E--C
It does not require any slants or string pulls which tends to give the tune a different twist in sound.
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Jouni Karvonen


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Helsinki, Finland
Post  Posted 2 Jun 2014 8:37 am    
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Try these:
(The original tab is somewhere in this forum.)




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Andy Volk


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Boston, MA
Post  Posted 2 Jun 2014 1:32 pm    
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Here's how I arranged it way back in pre-cambrian era ...

http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=44137&highlight=buds+bounce
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Maxime Ledon

 

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Steelopolis, France
Post  Posted 18 Apr 2020 2:29 am    
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Hello, I am bumping that topic !
I wanted to share some experiment on this song. I am a beginner lap steel player and that's one I really wanted to be able to play. Unfortunately I quickly found it was very challenging to play without pedals ...
Plus I could not find Mike Neer's version anymore ... So I decided to try with what I am used to that is A6 tuning now, the one I keep playing. Folks on the forum told me, whatever the tuning you chose you got to make music out of it, whatever it is ! So I tried some slants and came up with my version, to this day, of Bud’s Bounce on a nice Guyatone S8 tuned to A6. I tried to incorporate things from Eddie Rivers, Lloyd Green and of course Bud Isaacs in my arrangement. Intonation is not easy for sure, I think I should go for bullet bar now, probably could help … so there is way for improvement, surely far from perfect but at least I can now play this song without the need to buy a pedal steel which is very difficult in Europe. So that’s it I hope it will help overs to play this song. Of course I am widely open to remarks on improvements I could use in my playing. Have a great day.

So here it is => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbg8lWuy2fs
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Jack Hanson


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San Luis Valley, USA
Post  Posted 18 Apr 2020 5:35 am    
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I can play Bud's Bounce on 6-string C6 with an E on top with no problem. Of course it does not sound exactly the same as on a 10-string E9 with the common pedals and levers, but only steel players could likely tell the difference. A few slants, string pulls, and a bullet bar are a must, but it's doable.
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Joel Monson

 

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Alabama, USA
Post  Posted 13 May 2020 8:25 am    
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I use the Filberto E7 tuning and it lays quite well. Key of F and Lloyd Green's version is a good match for Lap Steel
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Andy Volk


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Post  Posted 13 May 2020 10:24 am    
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I just arranged it for my book site in open D for acoustic steel/Dobro
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Mike Neer


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Post  Posted 14 May 2020 9:07 pm    
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Since you all have been looking for my Bud's Bounce files, I posted up on my blog. Unfortunately, a few years ago my urls changed and I lost links to many of the things I've posted here. You can now listen and download this.

I recorded this so long ago, I'm a little embarrassed. But anyway, the important point of playing this is that the high E has to continue to sound even while the other strings are changing pitch, just like a pedal steel. That's the big secret.

Give it a try.

http://www.lapsteelin.com/2020/05/15/buds-bounce/
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Maxime Ledon

 

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Post  Posted 15 May 2020 3:41 am    
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That's what I was looking for Wink thanks Mike sounds nice ! And very nice version of Andy too, very enjoyable.
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Mick Hearn

 

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Post  Posted 3 Jun 2020 3:04 pm    
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This one I did on 8 string high G C6.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psf8weaEh3Y
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