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- 8 Aug 2006 10:12 am
- Forum: Pedal Steel
- Topic: Tone bars - everything you know is wrong.
- Replies: 52
- Views: 9193
To Billy Wilson, still no info about bronze bars! Am I the only player using one? Do I record my U12? Now and then, as follows. I am a pianist/arranger, no longer working professionally, but using computer software such as Cubase, Garritan personal orchestra, a soundfont collection, Steinberg B4 Ham...
- 6 Aug 2006 12:07 am
- Forum: Pedal Steel
- Topic: Tone bars - everything you know is wrong.
- Replies: 52
- Views: 9193
I use a bronze bar which I bought in the UK during WW2 because it was the only type available,and I've used it ever since. I don't see any mention of bronze bars in the many posts on the subject, so any opinions would be welcome. Incidentally it was made for 6 string lap steel, and therefore suits m...
- 30 Jul 2006 8:48 am
- Forum: Music
- Topic: King Sists
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1422
- 28 Jun 2006 11:16 am
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Hammond Organs
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10110
- 11 Mar 2006 12:44 pm
- Forum: Steel Players
- Topic: List of Chords and formulas wanted
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1028
JD,a lot of excellent suggestions in these posts. I live in Alfaz del Pi, am no great shakes on the steel, but was a pro piano player for 50 years. I would be happy to do a keyboard harmony/chord demo chat session with you any time, if you think it would be useful, and you can get yourself down here...
- 16 Jan 2006 11:30 am
- Forum: Steel Players
- Topic: tennis elbow anyone?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1876
- 2 Dec 2005 8:27 am
- Forum: Pedal Steel
- Topic: Documenting my Progress: Taking a step Back
- Replies: 6
- Views: 931
- 2 Dec 2005 8:04 am
- Forum: Pedal Steel
- Topic: A Modest Reading Manifesto
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1978
Quote; Learning to read a piece of sheet music is much learning to read text...You start by seeing the alphabet--- True, but there are only 26 letters in the alphabet, whereas the signs and symbols in written music number many more. I started reading music (piano) at age 5, and by age 12 I was prett...
- 30 Nov 2005 1:18 pm
- Forum: Pedal Steel
- Topic: Playing from sheet/book music?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 5912
- 25 Nov 2005 6:55 am
- Forum: Music
- Topic: 12 Essential Tunes" - how many?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1030
- 24 Nov 2005 7:26 am
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Perfect pitch....can it be taught?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 6185
Memorising music has long been a part of the teaching, and learning, of Western music also. The perfect pitchers don't need to learn how, they just do it. It certainly has nothing to do with magic, to call it a gift is convenient, but maybe it would be more accurate to describe perfect pitch as a fa...
- 24 Nov 2005 2:00 am
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Perfect pitch....can it be taught?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 6185
Jim, certainly many musicians with only relative pitch can memorise, say, piano scores (I can) but the perfect pitch people do it so much more easily. Andre Previn, for instance, during the time he was performing as a piano soloist with leading symphony orchestras, could learn and perform complex mo...
- 23 Nov 2005 1:38 pm
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Perfect pitch....can it be taught?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 6185
- 23 Nov 2005 2:28 am
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Perfect pitch....can it be taught?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 6185
I have just taken a look via the web at a list of people with perfect pitch. Here are just a few of the names. Andre Segovia,Oscar Peterson, Andre previn, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat Cole, Michael Jackson, Bing Crosby, Marvin Hamlish,Jasha Heifitz, Miles Davis,Chopin, Mozart,Julie Andrews, B...
- 3 Nov 2005 11:48 am
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Aha Moment a Dummy: 3rd/b7th inversions....
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5359
If there is a forumite who is not absolutely 100% sure what Eric was writing about in his original post and would like to know, try the following. At fret 8 on your steel, play the note E, and note Bb above it, and have your friendly bass player sinultaneously play the note C in the bass. Together y...
- 24 Oct 2005 11:44 am
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Aha Moment a Dummy: 3rd/b7th inversions....
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5359
- 26 Sep 2005 1:56 pm
- Forum: Steel Without Pedals
- Topic: Advice for New & Old Students of Steel Guitar
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1529
- 1 Aug 2005 1:42 pm
- Forum: Steel Players
- Topic: pedal steel guitarists.. INSTANT virtuosity...
- Replies: 72
- Views: 15583
Quote.Every really great musician I've heard of or known went through a period of playing 12, 14, even 16 hours a day. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arthur Rubinstein, one of the great pianists of the 20th century, didn't. He had a faultless musical...
- 22 Jul 2005 9:50 am
- Forum: Pedal Steel
- Topic: How many players own a sierra?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5325
- 20 Jul 2005 11:13 am
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Fingerboard notes Learning Game
- Replies: 3
- Views: 605
IMHO these things are of doubtful value, as thinking note names when reading music is not a good way to go. A better way is to connect the position of the dot on the stave with where the note is on the instrument. Does the next note go up or down, and by how much? I started to learn this at age 7 on...
- 13 Jul 2005 12:02 pm
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Sleazy tales from the classical pit
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1079
- 12 Jul 2005 5:18 am
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Number System Question
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4160
HowardR, a chord played in isolation can be nice, but sometimes sounds even better when followed by another. A keyboard is the best way to demonstrate musical ideas, such as the different resolutions for a dominant 7th chord, and an augmented 6th chord, but to try it here I have to assume that you k...
- 11 Jul 2005 7:58 am
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Number System Question
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4160
- 15 Jun 2005 3:03 am
- Forum: Pedal Steel
- Topic: Triads, chords, voicings, inversions
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3453
Bobby and Jon, I dig your replies to my previous post, a bit of humour,I like it! To seekers of knowledge, I would suggest that they study the posts by Jeff, Larry, James, Dan and Ed. These guys have nailed it, they know whereof they speak, they have got it RIGHT! To those who prefer to invent their...
- 14 Jun 2005 12:35 pm
- Forum: Pedal Steel
- Topic: Triads, chords, voicings, inversions
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3453