G Lever Licks
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G Lever Licks
I have only been playing for 14 months, and I am still clueless as to the function of the F# to G# lever.
Does anyone have some tasty licks or fills incorporating the G lever?
Mason<p ALIGN=CENTER><FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b">[This message was edited by Mason Eubank on 11-09-99]</FONT></P>
Does anyone have some tasty licks or fills incorporating the G lever?
Mason<p ALIGN=CENTER><FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b">[This message was edited by Mason Eubank on 11-09-99]</FONT></P>
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That's not that new "Gastro" lever that Mike Perlowin invented over in the "Humor" section is it?
Just foolin'
Great topic though, I too have had a hard time getting a feel for the knee levers and the best way to use them. It will be nice to get some of the mystery taken out of them.
Thanks for askin' Mason.
Just foolin'
Great topic though, I too have had a hard time getting a feel for the knee levers and the best way to use them. It will be nice to get some of the mystery taken out of them.
Thanks for askin' Mason.
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Hey Mason; I don't see Cincinnati on the books till spring I suppose; sorry about that. As far as the knee lever that raises the F# to G#; I don't have that change and never really had any use for that particular one. So maybe some of the folks here have come up with some cool stuff they would like to "share".
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Mason, this lever originally raised f# to a G.
But now it's doing something all together different. It raises to a G#, as you well know.
I won't mess with the chords and stuff that come from this change, but I will give ya couple of quick trix.
Engage the lever, with your pedals released.
Stings 1 & 3 are in unison. (They sound the same.)
While plucking string #1, release it, and pluck string #3. Or do the opposite.
With pedals A&B engaged, engage the lever.
Pluck #3, then #1 and release, string #2, string #4, string #5, and release #5, and...... Something like that. My guitar is in the case, so I'm doing this from mem'ry. (I don't have much of a mem'ry!)
It's a "lick" and I do it without thinking about it, so I may be off of it just a little, but if ya fool with it you'll get the point.
I should also tell ya that my f# raise is on a verticle lever. LKV.
It has formal applications, but they aren't that important right now.
Good Luck, hope that helps ya.
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But now it's doing something all together different. It raises to a G#, as you well know.
I won't mess with the chords and stuff that come from this change, but I will give ya couple of quick trix.
Engage the lever, with your pedals released.
Stings 1 & 3 are in unison. (They sound the same.)
While plucking string #1, release it, and pluck string #3. Or do the opposite.
With pedals A&B engaged, engage the lever.
Pluck #3, then #1 and release, string #2, string #4, string #5, and release #5, and...... Something like that. My guitar is in the case, so I'm doing this from mem'ry. (I don't have much of a mem'ry!)
It's a "lick" and I do it without thinking about it, so I may be off of it just a little, but if ya fool with it you'll get the point.
I should also tell ya that my f# raise is on a verticle lever. LKV.
It has formal applications, but they aren't that important right now.
Good Luck, hope that helps ya.
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Mason,
I've got that change;F# to G, on an up-knee. That same knee lever lowers my sixth string G# to F#. The sixth string change is worth having. The first string change I never use. It's just as easy to pull that 1st string up with the middle finger of your left hand. Although the first string change will give you some chord combinations, I can do without it. It's hard to play an up-knee and a vertical knee on the same side of the guitar at the same time.
,Kevin
I've got that change;F# to G, on an up-knee. That same knee lever lowers my sixth string G# to F#. The sixth string change is worth having. The first string change I never use. It's just as easy to pull that 1st string up with the middle finger of your left hand. Although the first string change will give you some chord combinations, I can do without it. It's hard to play an up-knee and a vertical knee on the same side of the guitar at the same time.
,Kevin
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Oh hey; I forgot that there is that lick that Paul Franklin does in his version of "Farewell Party"; that I tabbed out on the steel clip page. It's in the 1999 pages and here is the link.
Ricky
http://users.interlinks.net/rebel/steel/steel.html
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http://users.interlinks.net/rebel/steel/steel.html
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Hi Mason,
Forumite and wonderful steeler Bruce Bouton uses that change alot. I had to cop his solo from Lonestar's "Everything's changed", which uses it several times. I've called it a "G" lever here, and written it out in the key of G, I don't know if that's the original key. You can move it around.
L means lower one semitone:
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"Everythings Changed" solo by Bruce Bouton
G C
1--15(g~~15------------------------------|------------------|
2----------------------------------------|------------------|
3----------------------------------------|------------------|
4------------15~~15L--15~~15L------------|----------------8-|
5------------------------------15(a~~15--|--15(a~~8~~8(a----|
6----------------------------------------|--15(b~~8---------|
7----------------------------------------|------------------|
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 3 . 4
D7 D7
1------------10~~10(g)~~10----------------|-----|
2-----------------------------------------|-----|
3--10(b~~10-------------------------------|-----|
4---------------------------10------------|--10-|
5-------------------------------10~~10(a--|-----|
6-----------------------------------------|-----|
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1
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Hope that's useful.
-John <p ALIGN=CENTER><FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b">[This message was edited by John Steele on 11-11-99]</FONT></P>
Forumite and wonderful steeler Bruce Bouton uses that change alot. I had to cop his solo from Lonestar's "Everything's changed", which uses it several times. I've called it a "G" lever here, and written it out in the key of G, I don't know if that's the original key. You can move it around.
L means lower one semitone:
<font size="3" face="monospace"><pre>
"Everythings Changed" solo by Bruce Bouton
G C
1--15(g~~15------------------------------|------------------|
2----------------------------------------|------------------|
3----------------------------------------|------------------|
4------------15~~15L--15~~15L------------|----------------8-|
5------------------------------15(a~~15--|--15(a~~8~~8(a----|
6----------------------------------------|--15(b~~8---------|
7----------------------------------------|------------------|
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 3 . 4
D7 D7
1------------10~~10(g)~~10----------------|-----|
2-----------------------------------------|-----|
3--10(b~~10-------------------------------|-----|
4---------------------------10------------|--10-|
5-------------------------------10~~10(a--|-----|
6-----------------------------------------|-----|
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1
</pre></font>
Hope that's useful.
-John <p ALIGN=CENTER><FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b">[This message was edited by John Steele on 11-11-99]</FONT></P>
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Hey Mason, I've been messing with the F#-G# for a couple of years, the beauty in those changes on the higher strings is how they stick out in a melodic line, or float on top of a lower string chord... It's a great change- 2 to 3 of the scale at "no pedals" position, 4 to 5 at the "A & F pedal" position, (don't miss that one) and 6 to natural 7 at the "pedals down" position-check out "Last Summer" from Garth Brooks for a great example. (Was that you, Bruce?)
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. . . a slightly different twist
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Standard E9 -- I to IV change (in C as shown)
1 F# | 8-8G--8----10 | 13------13G
2 D# | |
3 G# | 8-----8B---10B | 13B-----13
4 E | 8-----8C---10C | 13C-----13
5 B | |
6 G# | |
count 1---2-----3----4----| 1---2---3---
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Hell...I'm a G-lever addict... I just love using the 1-3 string F#-->G# unison bend...the lever I simply can't get used to using is my X-lever (I think that's it)... it's my LKV that lowers B--->Bb... it's kind of bluesy...the only application I've found is with the A/B pedals pressed...butting my knee up and down a few times...gives me a 7th chord that I rarely use...only in bluesy transitions....and I hate blues
Any X-lever ideas?
mark
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Any X-lever ideas?
mark
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Mark..
Sorry... This is a family forum and we don't get into any x-rated stuff
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Sorry... This is a family forum and we don't get into any x-rated stuff
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