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Oystein, could you please refer to the tab section and tell me what measure your talking about? Thanks...

Last night, I played at and completed the final set of a series of Outdoor Car Shows.

It was 58 degrees!! The steels were really cold.

And the last song I played was, you guessed it, SLEEPWALK. In these parts and especially at car shows, it is the most requested and appreciated number. Amazin after all these years....Santo and Johnny, I owe you.......TX

Someday, when I get brave (brazen) enough and figure out how to do it, I'll post my version of this Classic for fun and ridicule! I play it in E6th.
Rgds,

Ron




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<SMALL>It is the most requested and appreciated number</SMALL>

I'll also stick my neck out on this and agree with you 100%.

Whenever I play this song anywhere in public, it never fails to stop people in their tracks. It's got to be thee most recognizable steel solo ever.
Other songs just don't have that ability to grab people's attention.

A simple melody, but very effective . . . only if you are able to nail down the feel and tone.

Ron and Derrick, you guys are so right. I've played lots of tunes for family and friends but when I play that one I usually get a "hey, I know that one! by far, the most recognized steel tune.

Jesse,
Ehm... no, I'm sorry, I can't do that... I haven't said this before because it hasn't come up, but I'm blind, and the tab you posted was in picture form. But the measure I'm refering to is just before the second verse. But when I listen to it now, I can hear that there is more of the song that's slightly off pitch. After all, they were only human back then, too...

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Cheers,
Øystein

• Gold Tone Solid Spruce Weissenborn D / Low G / C+9
• National Dynamic A6th / C6th / Leavitt
• Fender SRV Strat
• Ayers Acoustic
• Koch Twintone II

Oystein, if it's in the tab program that is used on the Olga guitar site, could you work with that? I was thinking I should do my tabs in the Olga program also because my server lost the "Twilight blues" by Dick McIntire I posted. I like the way the tab comes out better when I write it out, but it's a picture that can get lost unlike the Olga type Tab, which is less flexable. Jeff Au Hoy pointed out some changes for "Sleep Walk" that sound right on the money, so I re-wrote my original tab and will post it again when I get a new hard drive.

Jesse,
I'm afraid tab is a bit difficult. It's very hard to get an overview of it all, and it gets very much to remember for a whole song. This is actually a source of some frustration because I feel I'm not getting anywhere with my playing.

But I won't bore you with my troubles. If I only sat down and practiced some more, I'm sure I'd improve...

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Cheers,
Øystein

• Gold Tone Solid Spruce Weissenborn D / Low G / C+9
• National Dynamic A6th / C6th / Leavitt
• Fender SRV Strat
• Ayers Acoustic
• Koch Twintone II

Ostein, what I was thinking is I know there is a program for the blind that can change writtings into spoken voice. I'm guessing thats what you use to read the SGF? Just thought maybe the program could be set up to read written tab to? You got it right however, it's the same for evrybody, practice, practice, practice! <font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Jesse Pearson on 23 September 2006 at 12:23 PM.]</p></FONT>

Hi Jesse,
Yes, I'm using a program which translates what's on the screen to synthetic speech, and Braille. However, written tab is a lot of information, and it's spread over several lines and columns. What this means is it gets hard to keep track of where you are on the "neck", and where in the song you're reading.

But I have, as I said, near perfect pitch, so I have taken down many songs on the guitar just by ear. With enough practice I suppose I should be able to do this on the lap as well.

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Cheers,
Øystein

• Gold Tone Solid Spruce Weissenborn D / Low G / C+9
• National Dynamic A6th / C6th / Leavitt
• Fender SRV Strat
• Ayers Acoustic
• Koch Twintone II