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Topic: Looking for copy of an older Emmons course |
John Ely
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Minneapolis Minnesota, USA
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Posted 21 Dec 2015 7:37 am |
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Looking for a copy of the Emmons course "Learn to Play the Pedal Steel Guitar on the 10 String E9 Tuning" for a young learner that I know.
The course includes audio + tabs for:
I Just Destroyed The World
Crazy Arms
Walk Me To The Door
Touch My Heart
Swinging Doors
Are You Sure
The Way To Survive
Take Back Your Old Love Letters
The Other Woman
You Took Her Off My Hands
Jim Palenscar unfortunately doesn't have it. Would gladly purchase the course from someone if available.
Thanks,
John Ely
Minneapolis MN
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Posted 21 Dec 2015 8:13 am
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The full course got discontinued in the early 80s.
I believe half of it is still available under the title "half dozen shuffles."
Mike Auldridge loaned me his. Was INVALUABLE in getting me started.
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Paul Stauskas
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DFW, TX
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Posted 21 Dec 2015 8:26 am
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I have a course by Jim Loessberg that I picked up at the Phoenix convention that covers the intros and solos to most of these tunes. It's fantastic!
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Posted 21 Dec 2015 9:08 am
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Great songs in that older Emmons package, but the tablature is odd and confusing. a & b in the tablature does not mean pedals A & B. It means fingers 1 and 2. And below the tablature are numbers... 1 means the first pedal, 2 the second pedal... A and B below the tablature indicates knee levers. So it's backwards. The fingerings are in the tablature and the pedals/levers are down below. And the a,b (fingers) and A,B (knee levers) is weird. It really slows you down until you get used to it. I would not recommend giving the book to a beginner who it trying to learn standard tab. I have often thought about re-doing the entire book in standard tablature, but I don't know if it would be legal to do that. Probably not.
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Mark van Allen
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Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Posted 21 Dec 2015 11:13 am
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In agreement with Doug for a beginner. Although there are some classic Buddy moves from that time period well-documented, and worth learning, it's convoluted tab.
While a few of the song titles are the same, the versions and arrangements are completely different in the "half dozen shuffles" course. I would say that is one of the best courses ever for getting a real taste of Buddy's style. Some GREAT solos and arrangements, some of which were designed to illustrate use of the newer changes like the G#-F# lower. Highly recommended.
For a beginner I would still recommend the winston/Keith book. Far more information on how and why things are used. The Emmons courses would be a larger benefit if used alongside a one-on-one teacher who could explain how everything works rather than a newbie just learning songs and trying to figure out the "whys" on their own.
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Jack Hanson
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San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 26 Dec 2015 3:28 pm
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| Lane Gray wrote: |
| ...Was INVALUABLE in getting me started. |
Same here.
| Mark van Allen wrote: |
| I would say that is one of the best courses ever for getting a real taste of Buddy's style. Some GREAT solos and arrangements, some of which were designed to illustrate use of the newer changes like the G#-F# lower. Highly recommended. |
The best E9 course I have ever seen (although I haven't seen them all, not by a long shot).
| Doug Beaumier wrote: |
| I have often thought about re-doing the entire book in standard tablature, but I don't know if it would be legal to do that. Probably not. |
It's my understanding the course is owned by the Lashley's. If somehow you could be permitted to adapt the course into a booklet of standard tab, no doubt they'd sell like the proverbial hotcakes. I'd purchase it in a New York (or Massachusetts) minute.
After taking several lessons from four top Twin Cities players to help get me started, I purchased that Emmons Guitar Company course. It was a 12" LP in a box with individual tab booklets for each tune. Despite the aforementioned irregularities from what has since evolved into the standard pedal steel tab nomenclature, I learned more about E9 from that course than all my personal lessons, two Jeff Newman seminars, and every other course I had purchased up to that point combined.
It may still be packed away in a warehouse in Central Minnesota. Plan to head up there in January and do some serious sorting, downsizing, and liquidating. Hopefully it miraculously reappears. |
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