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Topic: Playing Around The Melody Non Pedal Steel |
Roy Thomson
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Posted 13 Jan 2014 11:39 am |
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My Skype and Internet friend Billy Sharpe, Cambridge Ontario sent me a back up track for Take These Chains From My Heart (Hank) and asked me to add some melody. Did the following "Ad Hoc" pass. 
This is the type of playing I did in my early years when I was not sure of the melody. Just played around it and the dancer floor used to perk up considerably. It helped to turn on the other band members also. Fun way to play. Let it swing.
Hope it is of interest/help/.
http://picosong.com/kri8
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Lee Gillespie
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Cheyenne, Wy. USA
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Posted 13 Jan 2014 1:57 pm Take these chains
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| Ha... I use to do the same thing...Some time when I was feeling "HONREY....I would play all around the melody of the song we we're playing. Sometimes it would make the band members scratch their heads... They would say we dont know what your playing...I told them to hum the tune to their self and we would all come out together in the end....HONREY ME..lee HA |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Posted 13 Jan 2014 8:20 pm
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I think a lot of us improvise around the melody. Believe it or not, the melody for this song... Take These Chains From My Heart, is not all that easy to play. It has a wide range of notes and not all players play it exactly correct. This thread reminds me of when I first started playing steel in my area about 40 years ago. A longtime country singer told me... "you're quite a talent, but you don't always play the right melodies in your instrumentals"! What a wicked slap down that was! 
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David Goodale
From:
Maine, USA
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Posted 14 Jan 2014 7:29 am
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"What a wicked slap down that was"
Even if you didn't have your location listed, we would know you were from Mass. |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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John Mulligan
From:
Ontario, Canada
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Posted 14 Jan 2014 9:15 am
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| Is it considered necessary to play the exact melody as a solo? I grew up listening to rock and roll and Motown (graduated high school in '71)and jazz and it would never occur to me to play the exact melody all the time. Maybe it's a country thing...I came to country music after assimilating those other styles. |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Larry Lenhart
From:
Ponca City, Oklahoma
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Posted 15 Jan 2014 3:29 pm
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| Roy my friend, that was, as always from you, great playing ! Wish I had a fraction of your touch ! Keep it up ! |
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Rob Munn
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British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 16 Jan 2014 6:09 pm
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Yeah Roy,
That was really nice; very nice tone! What tuning and what kind of steel are you using? |
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Roy Thomson
From:
Wolfville, Nova Scotia,Canada
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Posted 17 Jan 2014 5:12 am
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Nice comments notwithstanding the obvious "clunkers".
Rob: The steel is a homemade (not by me) model that I picked up. The tuning C6th standard six string(no high G).
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