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Topic: It just won't fall into place |
Les Anderson
From:
The Great White North
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Posted 25 Feb 2007 8:26 pm |
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How many of you guys have racked your brains out for months on end trying to get a tune to work for you but, for some reason it just doesn’t seem to fall into place?
For the past six months I have been trying to get “Tico Tico” to work on my C6 neck but, it just doesn’t seem to fall into place. I run it through in my head a thousand times and paint mental pictures of the bar and finger work; however, as soon as I sit before the steel, it just doesn’t pan out. |
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Bill Hatcher
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Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 25 Feb 2007 9:47 pm
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| Great tune. I worked it out on Electric bass. If I can do Tico Tico on bass then you can do it on steel! |
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Les Anderson
From:
The Great White North
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Posted 25 Feb 2007 11:55 pm
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Jeez Bill you are a much better picker than I am because I can't get it on my bass; stand up or electric.
I am beginning to wonder if I shouldn't drop music and take up painting.  |
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Randy Reeves
From:
LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 26 Feb 2007 4:50 am
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Les, I am a fine arts painter. it aint any easier. stick to lap steel!
I do have a garage that needs a coat. up for it? |
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Don Kona Woods
From:
Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Posted 26 Feb 2007 1:35 pm
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How many of you guys have racked your brains out for months on end trying to get a tune to work for you but, for some reason it just doesn’t seem to fall into place?
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I believe that I have certainly experienced something similar. What I have concluded is that some songs are beyond my technical capabilities. It might be a brain, eye, hand, ear (hearing) coordination problem, or it might be that my left hemisphere is not cooperating with the right hemisphere with a corpus collusum problem. Anyway that is my scientific explanation, for what is worth. And that aint much.
Aloha, 
Don |
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 28 Feb 2007 11:07 pm
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| Les,just keep trying it WILL come. |
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Edward Meisse
From:
Santa Rosa, California, USA
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Posted 1 Mar 2007 7:54 am
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| I never give up on anything. But if it isn't working, I sometimes do let it lie for awhile. Then I come back to it later with a different perspective. Often it will magicly fall into place. |
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Bryan Bradfield
From:
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Posted 2 Mar 2007 3:02 pm
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Les -
Do you some of the arrangement in control? Is there a sticking point? If so work out the sticking point over a different chord (position), and then perhaps another different chord, until you get something you are happy with. If you can get the sticking point to work better against a different chord, then change the key of the tune to accomodate that new chord.
This is the process I use for arranging instrumentals for solo non-pedal steel. |
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Mike Fried
From:
Nashville, TN, USA
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Posted 2 Mar 2007 4:07 pm
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Les, I've found that some songs just won't "layout" well in a particular tuning, but will fall right under the bar in a different one. I know this is counter to some players' opinions of different tunings being a "crutch", but unless you're playing a chromatic scalar tuning (anyone?), ALL tunings employ "tricks" of one sort or another! Some songs that are an absolute bear to play in a straight 6th tuning will suss out more easily in a flatted-5th tuning such as B11, or a dominant-7th tuning like E13.
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