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Topic: Steve Kimock GP article on "Just" tuning. |
John Lockney
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New Market, Maryland, USA
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Posted 2 Jan 2006 8:29 am |
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The December, 2005 issue of "Guitar Player" magazine has a great interview with Steve Kimock on "Just" tuning and how to play in tune. (free on-line for two months)
http://www.guitarplayer.com/story.asp?sectioncode=7&storycode=11780
The tablature contains some shocking examples to contrast the true harmonic note against the actual fret placement.
The article includes a picture of him playing a Fender ("Stringmaster" ?) lap steel.
[This message was edited by John Lockney on 02 January 2006 at 08:30 AM.] |
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Gary Boyett
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Colorado/ Lives in Arizona
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Posted 2 Jan 2006 10:43 am
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Steve has many different steels. I have seen him playing a stringmaster most of the time. I think it just depends on his mood.
There is no doubt that the guy can play. He wanders into some pretty strange territory sometimes that only he knows where it goes. I like most of his stuff though.
I got to meet him when he was in Denver last year. My son made him a few bars and he came by the house to pick them up. I must say that he really knows his stuff. He also knows his steel guitar history.
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Keith Cordell
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San Diego
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Posted 2 Jan 2006 12:02 pm
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| Steve is a great guitar player, I had never heard of him until last year he bought a Fender Vol/tone pedal from me, we ended up spending hours on the phone talking about tunings, influences, and theory. Great guy. |
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 3 Jan 2006 4:58 am
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I read that article in the magazine, I can't seen to cancel my subscription after 30 years though it is largely an industry puff-rag these days. (Do they ever review a guitar they hate?) The thing that struck me about the article, which is about playing a fretted guitar in tune with itself, is that if you bend two notes up to be in tune with one other, then you have three notes out of tune with the rest of your backing, instead of one. It may be good for solo blues or in certain contexts where you've only got bass and drums backing you, but like a steel player in a band with keyboards, ET is often what you're stuck with.
Kimock talks about flatting a note by pushing the string towards the bridge, but I've never been able to make that work, even with a scalloped fretboard - my fingertips are some weird sort of slippery cartilage by now, and when I push hard enough to grab the string to push it forward, it's already sharping upward. |
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Keith Cordell
From:
San Diego
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Posted 3 Jan 2006 5:47 am
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| I agree with your assessment of GP David; I don't trust any of their reviews, having been burned on more than one piece of gear they wrote up as the best thing since sliced bread, but some of the instruction material is useful. I think the Kimock article serves the purpose of giving me some new things to try out even if my poor muscular control and technique make them unlikely for me. That's why I still read that stuff, I'm willing to try anything once, and sometimes it leads me to a totally unintended result; some of the instructional stuff from the Jerry Donahue lessons is like that. |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 3 Jan 2006 7:44 am
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I have never subscribed to GP. Just looking
at the guys on the cover is enough to scare
ME off.  |
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Mark Lind-Hanson
From:
Menlo Park, California, USA
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Posted 6 Jan 2006 12:45 pm
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hey- I have never subscribed to GP EITHER! I had one of their first (if not tTHE first issue) with the Who-
but I found them to be just what the guy above said- an industry-puff rag- their entire history.
It was always enough just to borrow it if it had anybody interesting inside.
Maybe I knew more at age 11 than I do today>>>???
Instincts...
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Bobby Lee
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Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 6 Jan 2006 5:08 pm
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| There's a Great web page there about Steve and how he feels about steel guitar. |
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