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Topic: African/Latin/Hawaiian Steel-VIDEO |
Steve Cunningham
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Atlanta, GA
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John Rockefeller
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Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 30 Apr 2024 11:41 am |
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| Fantastic! |
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John Laidler
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New South Wales, Australia
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Posted 30 Apr 2024 5:40 pm
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Love it!
Thanks Steve.
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Tim Whitlock
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Colorado, USA
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Posted 1 May 2024 7:45 am
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| Wonderful! You have such a unique and masterful style Steve! |
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Joe A. Roberts
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Seoul, South Korea
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Posted 1 May 2024 8:02 am
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Wow that is some awesome playing and the underlying groove is so cool, like a Congolese musical vacation to the Caribbean!
How did you make/get that awesome backing track? |
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Paolo Conti
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France
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Posted 1 May 2024 8:27 am
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| Love it too ! Thanks for sharing Steve ! |
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Lee Baucum
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McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 1 May 2024 9:16 am
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Well, that was fun.
My foot is still tapping to the beat and the video ended some time ago!
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David Matzenik
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Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 1 May 2024 12:51 pm
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So good to be able to see what you are doing. Some of those syncopations are pretty slick. Wonderful music. 
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Nathan Laudenbach
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Montana
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Posted 1 May 2024 6:37 pm
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| THAT music should be on the radio, so good. What tuning or tunings? |
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Steve Cunningham
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Atlanta, GA
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Steve Cunningham
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Steve Cunningham
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Steve Cunningham
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Steve Cunningham
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Steve Cunningham
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Steve Cunningham
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Steve Cunningham
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Levi Gemmell
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New Zealand
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Posted 7 May 2024 4:32 pm
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Congolese rumba is the only other music to make an impression on me as deep as Hawaiian music in the past decade - the latter being the reason that I even started to play the steel! I've been exploring very similar ideas myself.
Interesting that Docteur Nico introduced the steel guitar to Congolese rumba before 1960, but he used it basically for effects on a few recordings, and never really attempted either fast runs or full legato melodies. It makes sense that his gifted style of playing electric guitar was never going to be the thing he tried with a steel.
However for us, it makes so much sense to play the fast runs and the harmonised scales!
All the things that the great Congolese soloists did with their electrics are things that steel was made to do: especially the so-called "mi-solo," the riffs which sit in between the improvising lead and the rhythm guitar, so easily executed in say, C6th, playing harmonised thirds on adjacent strings, etc.
As a side note on Demola Adepoju's pedal steel playing in King Sunny Ade's Nigerian group: it seems to have much more in common with Docteur Nico's early style than it does with typical E9 playing or anything else, even though Ade talked about country music in interviews!
Sounds gorgeous, Steve, thanks for sharing! 
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Joseph Lazo
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Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 7 May 2024 5:07 pm
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| Love it! |
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Steve Cunningham
From:
Atlanta, GA
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Posted 12 May 2024 9:39 pm
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| Levi Gemmell wrote: |
Congolese rumba is the only other music to make an impression on me as deep as Hawaiian music in the past decade - the latter being the reason that I even started to play the steel! I've been exploring very similar ideas myself.
Interesting that Docteur Nico introduced the steel guitar to Congolese rumba before 1960, but he used it basically for effects on a few recordings, and never really attempted either fast runs or full legato melodies. It makes sense that his gifted style of playing electric guitar was never going to be the thing he tried with a steel.
However for us, it makes so much sense to play the fast runs and the harmonised scales!
All the things that the great Congolese soloists did with their electrics are things that steel was made to do: especially the so-called "mi-solo," the riffs which sit in between the improvising lead and the rhythm guitar, so easily executed in say, C6th, playing harmonised thirds on adjacent strings, etc.
As a side note on Demola Adepoju's pedal steel playing in King Sunny Ade's Nigerian group: it seems to have much more in common with Docteur Nico's early style than it does with typical E9 playing or anything else, even though Ade talked about country music in interviews!
Sounds gorgeous, Steve, thanks for sharing! |
Cool info, thanks Levi!
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