Tampered tuning
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Tampered tuning
I've been making noise on my steel just a month and spend a lot of time with it. I write out charts to help me find notes and chords, which strings, pedals and levers do what. At the end of an evening of concentrated practice, I'm sure I finally have a good idea what I'm doing. Now, here's the problem: I'm becoming suspicious my cat is moving all the notes around in the middle of the night. I sit down for another thrilling experience and discover notes and chords are not where I left them. The cat grins then waddles off to his food bowl. Is this a common thing? Do seasoned players still have gremlins playing their guitars in the wee hours of the night? Unspoken secrets in the journey to Steel Guitar Nirvana? Would a cat fur pouch to hold my bar and picks look cool hanging form the end of my steel?
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Hi fellas.
Just a little playfulness dealing with learning this great instrument. There are times when nothing goes right. Trying to learn a song by ear and forget where the minors and 7ths are. I've found it's best to laugh it off and walk away. Other times it's heaven. I'm better at it than I was last week and not as good as next week. Practice, practice, practice. The rough spots are to be worked through and the good is to be savored. Pedal steel is a lot like life, isn't it?
Mike
Just a little playfulness dealing with learning this great instrument. There are times when nothing goes right. Trying to learn a song by ear and forget where the minors and 7ths are. I've found it's best to laugh it off and walk away. Other times it's heaven. I'm better at it than I was last week and not as good as next week. Practice, practice, practice. The rough spots are to be worked through and the good is to be savored. Pedal steel is a lot like life, isn't it?
Mike
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Young children are much more into tampered tunings than cats are. In my experience it takes the better part of two decades to ween a kid off of tampered tuning - which not coincidentally is about the time it takes to get them out of the house. Also, the cats usually leave the bar alone, but not so kids. They keep the bar makers in business. Also, the picks will frequently be where you left them, but bent to several sizes smaller.
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I have two cats and they like bothe of my pack seats. I think i will teach my cat how to play hehehe. Now what do i do for the hair on my pack seat though. The next hit record might have a steel player called Puss n Boots hehehee.Called the "Fur a flying shuffle". Or i couild stomp my feet and name the song, " Paws don't fail me now" . Just joking had to laugh at this one.
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I discoverd my fat cat was sleeping on the strings! Didn't seem to affect it. BUT I don't leave it uncovered in a cat-acessable area anymore - I'd hate to see a furball in the changer They love to hork up a good one on stuff they know is yours.
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