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Bakersfield Sound: Is there a "course" teaching it?
Posted: 2 Jul 2002 9:48 pm
by James Zurek
Can anyone recommend a learning course for picking up that Bakersfield sound? I am looking for both videos and tab. I have ordered Winnie’s book to start, but am interested in getting another course that has some degree of emphasis on this style, the more the better. If it teaches Mooney, I would be one happy wannabe steel player...to be.
Thanks!
James Zurek
Posted: 2 Jul 2002 11:36 pm
by Donny Hinson
I teach this style...too bad you're on the west coast.
<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Donny Hinson on 03 July 2002 at 12:39 AM.]</p></FONT>
Posted: 3 Jul 2002 12:41 am
by Colin Goss
I used Jeff Newman's course "Music to back up by" which includes a number of "Mooney style" arrangements. It got me started on the mental gymnastics needed to play West Coast.
Posted: 3 Jul 2002 3:22 am
by Scott Howard
Jeff Newman also has several Woodshed workshops that are done in Mooney style.
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Posted: 3 Jul 2002 4:08 am
by Larry Behm
Move your right hand back toward the pickkup, turn up the treble on your amp, never play more than two strings at a time.
Larry Behm
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There really is a "west coast" style vs the Nashville style, thanks to Ralph and Tom and JD.
Posted: 3 Jul 2002 4:56 am
by Brad Burch
Could somebody post a little tab snippet of something that epitomizes this sound?
Posted: 3 Jul 2002 5:04 am
by Joey Ace
Posted: 3 Jul 2002 6:20 am
by Jeff Lampert
Go to the Tablature section and click on the topic "Dwight Yoakam's What Do You Know About Love". There is tab there for the intro and solo, which are a good representation of the Bakersfield sound, albeit modernized a bit. Playing that tab would be a good start.
Posted: 3 Jul 2002 1:35 pm
by Kevin Hatton
Excellent advice Larry.
Posted: 4 Jul 2002 5:03 am
by Chris DeBarge
<SMALL>never play more than two strings at a time. </SMALL>
Larry, does this mean I now officially have a "style" ?
Posted: 4 Jul 2002 8:38 am
by Joey Ace
Also, there seems to be an "agressive attitude" playing feel that indentifies Bakersfield-Style, IMO.
I suspect it came from Ralph having to stomp the pedals on those old Fenders.
The smooth sound (example: Nightlife, Mansion on the Hill)is not Bakersfield style.
Dwight's "What Do You Know About Love" is.
(Gary Morse on Steel)
Posted: 4 Jul 2002 10:52 am
by chas smith
<SMALL>I suspect it came from Ralph having to stomp the pedals on those old Fenders.</SMALL>
You ever try to play one of those things, you really appreciate how good Ralph is/was.