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I am trying to learn this one and I found this video! I love the tone on the reso. He has got just a little breakup and really sounds a lot like Dunn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w6Sgj9JtrQ

I feel like if I can master this song, it should open some doors in my playing. I probably need to focus on something a little simpler!

The late Stacy Phillips did a smashing hot rendition of Taking Off on dobro......he has it tabbed out in his first book......


https://www.alibris.com/search/books/is ... lsrc=aw.ds

Taking Off - Stacy Phillips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9whJkp7gcZg

Thanks Howard. I actually got that book recently because I heard it had this song in it. I also got the second book. All I have done is skim through them, but they seem very well done. I have been playing in 8 string A6 only, and I want to try to apply some of the ideas in the books to that tuning since they share the same intervals. This song imparticular seems like a good vehicle to learn some basic jazz improv skills. To play through changes like this, I am finding you have to choose your path very carefully and keep economy of movement a priority. In the video I posted, you can see the melody is played almost entirely in a 5 fret box.

These sound like the same changes to Rose Room.

Thanks Jouni, I knew I'd heard this before. Do we know who composed the original?

Bob Dunn

Jim Kaznosky wrote:These sound like the same changes to Rose Room.

Funny cause I'm working on that one on guitar. Trying to get my my jazzman terminology right here, but I think they call it a VI-ii-V-I.

Is that Mark Rubin? Haven't seen him around since the Rockabilly days in the late 90s with Kevin Smith, slappin the old dog house