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I don't know who the steel player was on this recording, but there are some really cool things going on during the last 2 steel solos starting at 3:15 in the video below. I'm having a difficult time figuring out the ascending run in the 2nd solo. If anyone could write a tab for that part for me, I would really appreciate it. I think I have everything else figured out.

The run starts at about 3:47 of this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oN10UjAJUQ

Thanks,

Sure that's not a guitar doing that ascending run?
Even if it is, I think you could do something close on steel.
I'll try it out. Back to you later

It's definitely pedal steel. The guitar and pedal steel trade off solos a couple of times.

Sounds like Paul Franklin.

Has anybody taken a stab at this? It's a great run.

My money says it's Paul Franklin, and that ascending run is one of his patented double-stop runs. Not quite sure exactly how it's played, but it's a goodun. Worth a deep dive into a transcribing app!

Yes John. That's the exact lick I'm trying to lean and get someone to show me how to play it!

John McClung wrote:a transcribing app!

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For kicks, I slowed this down this afternoon, and this is what I came up with for that ascending lick.
Could be in the neighborhood, could be nowhere close. I can't actually PLAY it, but I did write it down...

I took a stab at it -- go ahead and fix it wherever it's broken!

The 'a2' is a half-pedal of A.

[tab]
1 ___________________________________________________
2 ___________________________________________________
3 ___________________________3____4~5__6~~7___9~10___
4 ___________________3~4~6________4~5R_6R~7R__9~10R__
5 ________2__3__4-a__3~4~6___________________________
6 ___3~4_____3__4-b__________________________________
7 ________2__________________________________________
8 ___3~4_____________________________________________


1 ______________________________________________________
2 ______________________________________________________
3__10~~12___10____8~9___________________________________
4__10R~12R__10R___8~9__9--__7----___6___4____4---_______
5______________________9-a__7a2-a_______4-a__4a--4__4a__
6___________________________________________________4b__
7_______________________________________________________
8_______________________________________________________


[/tab]

Thanks Randy. I'll give it a try this week and see how it sounds!

Randy Schneider wrote:For kicks, I slowed this down this afternoon, and this is what I came up with for that ascending lick.
Could be in the neighborhood, could be nowhere close. I can't actually PLAY it, but I did write it down...

I took a stab at it -- go ahead and fix it wherever it's broken!

The 'a2' is a half-pedal of A.

[tab]
1 ___________________________________________________
2 ___________________________________________________
3 ___________________________3____4~5__6~~7___9~10___
4 ___________________3~4~6________4~5R_6R~7R__9~10R__
5 ________2__3__4-a__3~4~6___________________________
6 ___3~4_____3__4-b__________________________________
7 ________2__________________________________________
8 ___3~4_____________________________________________


1 ______________________________________________________
2 ______________________________________________________
3__10~~12___10____8~9___________________________________
4__10R~12R__10R___8~9__9--__7----___6___4____4---_______
5______________________9-a__7a2-a_______4-a__4a--4__4a__
6___________________________________________________4b__
7_______________________________________________________
8_______________________________________________________


[/tab]

This is actually very close. Great job, Randy! This is in a weird key (C#) so not at points on the fretboard that I regularly visit. This particular run is over the 5 chord, resolving to the 1, so a couple of the entries sound a little off to me, but I will likewise take a hard listen and try to post my modifications. I need me one of them transmogrifyer apps!!!

Thanks, Ken.

Prior to 'slowing down,' I will use Audacity's "Vocal Reduction and Isolation" effect to either isolate or remove the center of the stereo image. It helps to remove a lot of noise and distraction, and isolate the instruments you want to hear. Then I slow that result down with the Transcribe software from Seventh String, and just pick out fragments at a time. That process has worked pretty well for me.

Ken, C# is not unusual or weird in a modern country song. A lot of bands, Jason Aldeen's band in particular, tune down a half step. So if the guitar player is doing a drop D tuning and tuned down a half step, they are actually in concert C#, not D.

I didn't mean to insult C# by calling it "weird." I'm sure it gets a workout in the studio; just not so much on the bandstand, where it's usually changed, in my experience. Consequently, I rarely visit those points on the fretboard.