Your favorite song from Winnie's book

Gerald Menke · Post by **Gerald Menke** » 27 Jul 2006 10:03 am

It still makes me sad that Winnie Winston left us, but he left us the great resource we have in his book "Pedal Steel Guitar". I have tried to play all of the songs in it (I have to say I don't understand the forum members who say things like "I can't play such and such song and never will") I can play a few from memory at this point. But I have to say, my favorite in the whole book probably is "A Mighty Fortress", something about the way it's phrased, the modulations and voice leading are so fun to play, I never tire of it. Any of you all new members who haven't tried it or don't have Winnie's book, go get a copy and check it out. I feel a great debt to Winnie and Bill Keith for creating such a great book for us to use. What's your favorite song from the book to play?

Thanks for reading my post.

Gerald

Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 27 Jul 2006 10:09 am

The only one I ever memorized was "Nashville to Bakersfield". For quite a few years we used that one as an opening song on the bandstand.

Lee, from South Texas

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 27 Jul 2006 10:18 am

Red River Valley.

Calvin Walley · Post by **Calvin Walley** » 27 Jul 2006 10:38 am

red river valley is very pretty the way Winnie does it in the book

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Joseph Meditz · Post by **Joseph Meditz** » 27 Jul 2006 12:07 pm

I feel a great debt to Winnie and Bill Keith for creating such a great book for us to use.

So do I!

My favorite is what I'm working on now, the first Londonderry Air.

Joe

Andy Sandoval · Post by **Andy Sandoval** » 27 Jul 2006 12:52 pm

I'm really gettin into Bud's Bounce right now.

Jim Gorrie · Post by **Jim Gorrie** » 27 Jul 2006 12:59 pm

. . . I'm still strugglin' along with that line at the bottom of page 23 -- "How to read tablature." ! !

Bill Cunningham · Post by **Bill Cunningham** » 27 Jul 2006 2:07 pm

Welephant Walk in F#.

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Jonathan Shacklock · Post by **Jonathan Shacklock** » 27 Jul 2006 2:33 pm

Not really songs but the two West Coast style blocking excercises on p50-51 are brilliant. I never get bored of these two tunes and although I've yet to master them they have got me further along the palm blocking road than anything else. Inspirational.

I think there are a couple of mistakes in the tab on p51 but nothing you can't work out from the CD.

I have found some of the book quite challenging but that's just as it should be. I'll be coming back to it for many years.

Sherman Willden · Post by **Sherman Willden** » 28 Jul 2006 6:22 am

Bill C.

What am I missing. I looked for Elephant Walk but didn't find it.

Thanks in advance;
Sherman

Mike Perlowin · Post by **Mike Perlowin** » 28 Jul 2006 6:23 am

Shenendoah,

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Ariel Lobos · Post by **Ariel Lobos** » 28 Jul 2006 10:01 am

mmmmm,really difficult to choose only one...."shennandoah" and "a mighty fortress"...but I love the whole book.

DJ Sillito · Post by **DJ Sillito** » 28 Jul 2006 10:47 am

"Nashville to Bakersfield" is still on of my favorites . I use it to noodle or warm up with. I also use the Picking exercise to warm up with that resembles west coast pickin style, kind of like "above and Beyond" sung by Vince Gill.

Bernie Straub · Post by **Bernie Straub** » 28 Jul 2006 12:29 pm

For me it is "Danny Boy." Probably because that is my only son's name.

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Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 28 Jul 2006 1:09 pm

I think Welephent Walk is in a different book.

Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 15 Aug 2006 5:35 am

Londonderry Aire

"Welephant Walk", if my memory serves me correctly, is by Weldon Myrick, and it's in the book with the "flesh" colored cover, that has sections on Weldon, John Hughey, and two other masters (embarassed that I can't remember the names), and it came with two little records. Got the book but it's 10 miles away from me right now...

If this piques any other's memory please feel free to add...[This message was edited by Ray Minich on 15 August 2006 at 01:12 PM.]

A. Roncetti · Post by **A. Roncetti** » 16 Aug 2006 11:49 am

Great Speckled Bird and Crazy Arms!!

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John Lockney · Post by **John Lockney** » 16 Aug 2006 5:01 pm

"Here's a lick to get from a one to a form."
I've listened to that little album about a million times.

His other book, with "Welephant Walk", was the "The Manual of Style" http://www.julianwinston.com/music/the_manual_of_style.php

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 16 Aug 2006 6:32 pm

London Derriere

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 16 Aug 2006 7:27 pm

Me too, ALL OF THEM, exercises included. "Streets of Laredo", not to be anti-social.

When I tried to play SOL first, without listening to the accompanying record, I kinda
thought I was playing it right. But the melody didn't seem quite right. So I put the record on, and it hit me big time. I KNEW THIS SONG. I KNEW THIS MELODY. Probably from old Hollywood Westerns.
It was a gas. I immediately saw that even though I was close to the melody, the record showed me where I was missing some critical changes.

I still go back to this epic, ground-breaking
steel guitar tutorial, all the time.

I think the "Big E" even commented on the book, that it's beauty lies in the fact, that you can get away from the basics as you move on, and we all should go back, now & then, and take refresher courses - which is at the heart of this book.

It is the steel Bible, for sure. [This message was edited by CHIP FOSSA on 16 August 2006 at 08:28 PM.]