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Anyone have experience capturing the spirit of Bud's Bounce on a lap steel? I have tried all kinds of bar slants and finger pulls on an 8-string with C6 tuning. Nothing seems to work quite right. Could it be that this tune, in particular, is best left to those with pedals?

Forum member Mike Neer worked it out for E9th non-pedal.

http://www.mikeneer.com/lapsteelin/2011 ... ds-bounce/

http://www.mikeneer.com/bud_bounce.mp3

Douglas Bryant wrote:Could it be that this tune, in particular, is best left to those with pedals?

I did a version using a "Duesenberg Multibender" attached to my Gretsch Syncromatic:
Bud's Bounce

I used an Open-D Tuning, with the 5th string tuned to B.

I just picked up my little 8 string C6,,,it seems to lay fairly well on it. I didn't really try to work it up,,,,I think Emmons did a C6 version somewhere,,,maybe in Scotty's book,,,,or maybe Winnie's,,,????

I worked out a learning arrangement of Bud's Bounce for C6th Lap Steel E--C--A--G--E--C
It does not require any slants or string pulls which tends to give the tune a different twist in sound.
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Try these:
(The original tab is somewhere in this forum.)

Here's how I arranged it way back in pre-cambrian era ...

http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopi ... uds+bounce

Hello, I am bumping that topic !
I wanted to share some experiment on this song. I am a beginner lap steel player and that's one I really wanted to be able to play. Unfortunately I quickly found it was very challenging to play without pedals ...
Plus I could not find Mike Neer's version anymore ... So I decided to try with what I am used to that is A6 tuning now, the one I keep playing. Folks on the forum told me, whatever the tuning you chose you got to make music out of it, whatever it is ! So I tried some slants and came up with my version, to this day, of Bud’s Bounce on a nice Guyatone S8 tuned to A6. I tried to incorporate things from Eddie Rivers, Lloyd Green and of course Bud Isaacs in my arrangement. Intonation is not easy for sure, I think I should go for bullet bar now, probably could help … so there is way for improvement, surely far from perfect but at least I can now play this song without the need to buy a pedal steel which is very difficult in Europe. So that’s it I hope it will help overs to play this song. Of course I am widely open to remarks on improvements I could use in my playing. Have a great day.

So here it is => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbg8lWuy2fs

I can play Bud's Bounce on 6-string C6 with an E on top with no problem. Of course it does not sound exactly the same as on a 10-string E9 with the common pedals and levers, but only steel players could likely tell the difference. A few slants, string pulls, and a bullet bar are a must, but it's doable.

I use the Filberto E7 tuning and it lays quite well. Key of F and Lloyd Green's version is a good match for Lap Steel

I just arranged it for my book site in open D for acoustic steel/Dobro

Since you all have been looking for my Bud's Bounce files, I posted up on my blog. Unfortunately, a few years ago my urls changed and I lost links to many of the things I've posted here. You can now listen and download this.

I recorded this so long ago, I'm a little embarrassed. But anyway, the important point of playing this is that the high E has to continue to sound even while the other strings are changing pitch, just like a pedal steel. That's the big secret.

Give it a try.

http://www.lapsteelin.com/2020/05/15/buds-bounce/

That's what I was looking for thanks Mike sounds nice ! And very nice version of Andy too, very enjoyable.

This one I did on 8 string high G C6.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psf8weaEh3Y