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moonshine" Ralph Mooney

Posted: 15 Jan 2001 10:53 am
by Tele
Hi

anyone has that one tabbed out? I'd like to have a guide at least for the intro and 1st verse. This is my favourite steel instro but I never nailed it down. Probably never will... Image must have something to do with that special Mooney tuning and pedal setup.
Any help would be highly appreciated

Andy

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Posted: 15 Jan 2001 11:58 am
by Jeff Lampert
Tele,
Send a .mp3 e-mail attachment and I'll give it a listen.


Posted: 15 Jan 2001 12:31 pm
by Tele
on its way....

Posted: 15 Jan 2001 12:40 pm
by Larry Bell
As I recall, this tune (and the Mooney style, in general) was the subject of a multi-part series of articles Jeff Newman wrote in the late 70s (?) for the PSGA Newsletter. I can't seem to find my archive of newsletters, but maybe someone else is more organized. Image


LTB

Posted: 16 Jan 2001 12:12 am
by Tele
Image

Posted: 16 Jan 2001 11:15 am
by TRAP TRULY
andy,
the whole thing is written out in an old steel guitarist magizine ,issue #5 with ralph on the cover.According to bob grossman who tabbed it,his tuning lacked the top f# and d# strings when he composed it in the 50s,so he tabbed it using an 11 string guitar.This issue is available from tom bradshaw at pedal steel guitar products. Email-bradshaw@california.com phone-925-686-0196

Posted: 22 Jan 2001 2:08 pm
by Tele
bump

Posted: 22 Jan 2001 5:46 pm
by Chris Dufrane
Tele, sorry I don't have the tab. I think if you play the song really slow on a program like goldwave and you can really hear the changes. When I tried it the strings and their changes really came into focus, but I haven't actually tried to play it yet. I hope this helps.

Chris Dufrane<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Chris Dufrane on 22 January 2001 at 05:49 PM.]</p></FONT>

Posted: 23 Jan 2001 2:16 am
by Tele
Chris,

found it and you're right, it's a bit clearer. But still not that easy for me Image

thanks
Andy

Posted: 24 Jan 2001 7:00 pm
by Jeff Lampert
Andy,
Here's the intro to the piece. Key of A. "^" = pull-off (hop the bar off the fret.} It's not much, but it's all I can do for now. Anyone else is welcome to try some of it. It sounds quite hard and would be a feather in someone's cap to figure it out, I think.


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<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Jeff Lampert on 24 January 2001 at 07:03 PM.]</p></FONT>

Posted: 24 Jan 2001 11:31 pm
by Tele
Hi Jeff,

great, thanks so far.
Another forumite has copied the tab and it to me yesterday. This thing is really complicated...even with the tab it will take a long, long time.
Thanks for all your help fellas !!!!

Andy