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Bob Hoffnar
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Austin, Tx
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Posted 16 Aug 2020 6:51 am |
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I was listening to an interview with Jacob Collier where he said his quarantine project is learning how to play the pedal steel. The guy is a real deal musical genius who has been making a significant difference already. I’m looking forward to seeing what he comes up with.
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Brett Lanier
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Hermitage, TN
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Posted 16 Aug 2020 8:05 am
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Uh oh!
I'd love to hear him weigh in on a tuning thread. |
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Jordan Stern
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Texas, USA
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Posted 16 Aug 2020 8:20 am
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| I heard this too! Jacob is such an amazing musician on so many instruments, I am interested to see what he could bring to the steel (and what the steel can bring to him). |
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Jim Cohen
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Philadelphia, PA
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Sam Conomo
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Queensland, Australia
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Posted 16 Aug 2020 5:47 pm Jacob
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Wow,
That is going to be something a bit
Special ,lets hope he gets into the steel.
I cant wait to see what jacobs
Gift,s makes of the steel,and all it
Compromises...
Sam. |
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Bob Hoffnar
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Austin, Tx
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Posted 16 Aug 2020 7:03 pm
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In the interview he just mentioned the pedalsteel towards the end. He said something about its ability to bend the notes in different directions to move from chord to chord.
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Michael Johnstone
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Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 18 Aug 2020 9:50 pm
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He's the only singer I know of whose sense of microtonal pitch is so subtle and refined, he can sing in different temperaments and modulate between them as if they were different keys for musical color. Plus he plays about 6 instruments brilliantly including a sort of vocal harmonizer derived from his own voice and sung/played in real time on a keyboard. A gifted and funky sumbitch. Stone. Cold. Genius.
https://youtu.be/JgturagD0hA
https://youtu.be/Xd54l8gfi7M |
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Bruce Bouton
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Nash. Tn USA
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Rick Schmidt
From:
Prescott AZ, USA
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Posted 30 Aug 2020 6:36 am
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I can’t wait either!
It’s easy to see why he’s intrigued with the pedal steel. It’s probably the one instrument that can truly emulate the shifting tonal centers and the micro tonal melismatic counterpoint of the greatest jazz vocal groups....in real time! Take 6 and 4 Freshmen here we come!
Maybe Jacob will be the guy who answers the temper tuning question once and for all?
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Rick Schmidt
From:
Prescott AZ, USA
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Posted 30 Aug 2020 8:26 am
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| Bob Hoffnar... do you have a link for that interview? |
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Landon Jarrel
From:
Space
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Posted 30 Aug 2020 2:20 pm
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| Jacob Collier may very well be the future of music. Odds are, if his sound becomes popular, the traditional western musical scale will be thought of as restrictive. His microtonal expressions are so fresh and new. I am excited for his endeavors in the Steel Guitar. Maybe he will have pedals that change a note by a quarter tone, for example. |
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Dale Rottacker
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Walla Walla Washington, USA
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Rick Schmidt
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Prescott AZ, USA
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Posted 30 Aug 2020 5:24 pm
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What I like is it's not always about crazy over the top harmonic chops. Sometimes he goes for pure emotional genius via Harmony...
https://youtu.be/4PIMR_oGRcU |
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Slim Heilpern
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Aptos California, USA
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Posted 31 Aug 2020 5:24 am
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| Rick Schmidt wrote: |
What I like is it's not always about crazy over the top harmonic chops. Sometimes he goes for pure emotional genius via Harmony...
https://youtu.be/4PIMR_oGRcU |
Indeed, that is gorgeous. I can't think of any other musician who's covered so much musical ground at such a high level in such a short time.
Incidentally, the other guy I'd like to see get his hands on a pedal steel is Rory Hoffman.
- Slim
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Chromatic Harmonica, Guitar, and Pedal Steel (Williams U12 Series 700, Emmons lap)
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Russ Wever
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Kansas City
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Posted 1 Sep 2020 1:21 pm
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| Slim Heilpern wrote: |
Incidentally, the other guy I'd like to see
get his hands on a pedal steel is Rory Hoffman.
- Slim |
Rory has had a pedal steel for some
years. It is an Ernie Ball.
It is a right-handed steel and Rory
is left-handed. You likely know that
Rory plays other right-handed fretted
instruments by simply 'flipping' them
'head for toe' . . Not quite that easy
with a pedal steel.
Rory hasn't played on it in recent years
and it stays at his home in South Dakota.
~Rw
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Slim Heilpern
From:
Aptos California, USA
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Posted 1 Sep 2020 1:36 pm
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| Russ Wever wrote: |
| Slim Heilpern wrote: |
Incidentally, the other guy I'd like to see
get his hands on a pedal steel is Rory Hoffman.
- Slim |
Rory has had a pedal steel for some
years. It is an Ernie Ball.
It is a right-handed steel and Rory
is left-handed. You likely know that
Rory plays other right-handed fretted
instruments by simply 'flipping' them
'head for toe' . . Not quite that easy
with a pedal steel.
Rory hasn't played on it in recent years
and it stays at his home in South Dakota.
~Rw |
Oh well, I guess I'll have to be satisfied with all those other instruments he plays so well (and in his own unique way) -- another musical genius.
- Slim
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Chromatic Harmonica, Guitar, and Pedal Steel (Williams U12 Series 700, Emmons lap)
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T. C. Furlong
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Lake County, Illinois, USA
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Posted 15 Sep 2020 8:54 am
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| Jacob Collier is a musical genius - no doubt... I suspect he will have a mountain to climb getting pedal steel technique to the point where he's able to make music on it at the same level he does everything else. Other non-steel guitar greats have attempted learning pedal steel and fallen short. But man I hope Jacob nails it! |
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Joe Goldmark
From:
San Francisco, CA 94131
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Posted 16 Sep 2020 9:24 am
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| I'm with T.C. Many have been intrigued and learned steel to the point where they realized how much they don't know...With everything else Jacob does, I don't see him getting the technique down to become a top player. However, I'm sure he'll be able to make some good music. |
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Paul Pederson
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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