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<font color="red">THE CHRISTMAS SONG <font color="black">E9 TUNING, D= lower E to D#, F= raise E to F

click to hear the melody MIDI file, piano plays the steel part. (BIAB)

click for Rhythm Track MIDI file

click for the BIAB file You need the BIAB program on your computer for this.

click for the TablEdit file You need the TablEdit music composing program on your computer for this.

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<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Doug Beaumier on 07 December 2006 at 05:17 AM.]</p></FONT>

Thanks for that Doug!
I'm going to give that a whirl!

It'll give me something to keep me ammused on those christmas evenings to come.

Thank you ever so much for the tab. I appreciate all the tabs you have for us.
Phil

I'm glad that you guys like the tab... thanks! Happy Holidays to all forum members.

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Thanks Doug! I love having standard notation as well as tab.

Doug, thanks so much for giving us that great tab for the X-mas song. I learned most of it last night and just ordered your new tab book on line. Just hope my wife doesn't report me as a missing person when I lock myself up in my music room when it gets here!
JE:-)>

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Emmons D10PP 8/4 -75'
Emmons SD-12PP 3/4
Zum SD-12 5/5 - 91'
75'Session 400
06 Nashville 1000
06'Nashville 112 x 2
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Thank you Jim, I appreciate it. I received your order and I will ship the book to you immediately. There are 10 Christmas songs in the book. Enjoy!

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Doug -

Great arrangement, thank you for sharing this. I will share this with my family Christmas day.

Hi Doug,
Many thanks for your time and effort to prduce the xmas song with tab & standard notation.

Having the standard notation helps not only with timing but give one a better grasp of basic phrasing......
Frank.
Carter S 10
Fergus On Can

Thanks Frank, Mark, and others. Yes, the notes are very helpful. Even if a player does not know the pitch of the notes he can see the time value of the notes. The tablature And the notes together pretty much cover it all.

There has been a lot of discussion on this forum in past years about notation as applied to the pedal steel guitar. Most PSG players agree that because there are so many locations on the fretboard to play the exact same note, reading notes for pedal steel is extremely difficult. Unlike a piano... middle C can be played in many locations, different strings, different frets, with or without pedals, with or without levers, etc. Some notes can be played in about 15 different locations.

So I start by learning a melody on the first 5 frets or so, and then I play that same melody in another position, higher frets, experiment with different harmonies, different voicings, always keeping the melody note at the top of the voicing.

Lloyd Green once described this process of putting together an arrangement. He said he looks for the smoothest way to play a phrase. That about says it all! There are many ways to play the same thing on steel, but we're all looking for the smoothest way IMHO.

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Thanks Doug - another great arrangement. I played White Christmas and God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen at a Christmas party last night and they were a smash hit.
Merry Christmas.

That's great Bob! Merry Christmas to you and all Forum members.

Ordered my copy on Fri and it's here on Monday! Thanks for the great service and all this nice new tab to work on!
JE:-)>

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Emmons D10PP 8/4 -75'
Emmons SD-12PP 3/4
Zum SD-12 5/5 - 91'
75'Session 400
06 Nashville 1000
06'Nashville 112 x 2
w/Knob-Guard

Thanks Jim, I'm glad you like it!

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