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Andy Volk


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Boston, MA
Post  Posted 11 Jan 2023 11:04 am    
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Classical pieces can be really challenging on lap steel. In the past, I did arrangements of Sheherazade and Girl With the Flaxen Hair but lost focus before I got them up to a real performance level. I worked Bolero out more as an arranging exercise than as something I want to learn and play, but it's fun to dip into such a familiar theme. About 8 yrs ago, I took an existing guitar arrangement of Bolero and moved it to Dadd9 tuning for one of my books. Recently, I tried transposing to C6th ... dropping a lot of bass notes and eliminating repeats so it's just one-time thru each section. Mostly melody with occasional backup note stabs. I'll keep messing with it but this is how it is today.

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Andy Volk


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Post  Posted 11 Jan 2023 11:13 am    
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Here's Debussy's "Maid with the Flaxen Hair" from about ten years ago. This is as polished as I ever got it. Bear Creek Weissenborn.

https://soundcloud.com/aev/maid-with-the-flaxen-hair-weissenborn
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Ethan Shaw

 

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Post  Posted 12 Jan 2023 11:42 am    
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Super cool, Andy!
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Tim Toberer


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Nebraska, USA
Post  Posted 12 Jan 2023 2:24 pm    
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Great to hear this on steel Andy! Nice playing for sure!!
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Andy Volk


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Boston, MA
Post  Posted 13 Jan 2023 5:18 am    
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Thanks!
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