Dammit, cant figure it out.... Help with BR549

Andy Zynda · Post by **Andy Zynda** » 18 Feb 2004 1:07 pm

There's a tune on BR549's Backyard Beat CD called "You're Never Nice to Me" and it's got a nifty lapsteel riff that runs throughout the song. Sounds simple....
I'm thinking that the player's using a slightly modified tuning to get the minor/diminished color, and I can't frikkin' figger it out and it's driving me nuts!
Keeps on playing in my head, and it just aint comin' out my hands! Everything I try sounds wrong...
Help, Help, and more HELP!!!
-andy-

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 18 Feb 2004 1:10 pm

Can you whistle a few bars?

Andy Zynda · Post by **Andy Zynda** » 18 Feb 2004 2:02 pm

Sure....
I can hum it, whistle it, etc...
Just can't play it right....

Very helpful question by the way...
-andy-

Jon Light · Post by **Jon Light** » 18 Feb 2004 2:12 pm

Chris Scruggs ought to have some insights on this.

Andy Zynda · Post by **Andy Zynda** » 19 Feb 2004 6:58 am

Yep, I was a-hopin' that he'd chime in.
Sure hope those guys find the dirty rotten friggers that stole their stuff...
-andy-

Bob Stone · Post by **Bob Stone** » 23 Feb 2004 7:49 am

Andy,

Try posting on "Steel Players". BR549 steeler Donny Hinson is on there a lot.

Herb Steiner · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 23 Feb 2004 7:54 am

Uh, Bob... BR549's steel player is Don HERRON. Donny Hinson is another cat, entirely.

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Walter Thut · Post by **Walter Thut** » 23 Feb 2004 10:13 am

Andy,
Don uses a so called Splittuning on one Neck and on the other he's got a E13

David Doggett · Post by **David Doggett** » 23 Feb 2004 10:23 am

And what would a split tuning be?

Bob Stone · Post by **Bob Stone** » 23 Feb 2004 10:29 am

Thanks Herb. A mind is a terrible thing to ah,um...

Chris Scruggs · Post by **Chris Scruggs** » 25 Feb 2004 9:49 pm

Most of Donny's steel playing is E13.

Around the time "Beat Show" was recorded, his tunings where:

E13:

G# E C# B G# E D E(inside neck)

A6:

E C# A F# E C# A F#(middle neck)

D13/9:

D B A F# E C A D(outside neck)

Donny probably wouldn't remember what he played six years ago on that record, heck, he can't even remember what he played last night!

Just to make things worse, Donny told me when he recorded that record, he set up every steel he owned(that's alot) and tuned each one slightly different.

Most of that record was recorded with a metal body Rickenbacker Electro double six string.

That song has a 3 6- 2 5 bridge. He usually plays that D13/9 on those kind of progressions. If that D tuning looks a little wierd, it's just Leon's E13/9, but tuned down a step with the 7th string tuned up to a fifth instead of a third.

I'll listen to it tommorrow, and see if I can't figure out what he's up to.

C.S.

Andy Zynda · Post by **Andy Zynda** » 26 Feb 2004 8:07 am

Way Cool! Thank you so much, exactly what I'm looking for.
You guys are the slickest thing since teflon.
(BR549, that is...)
-andy-
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