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Topic: tuning question??? |
Stephen Gambrell
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Over there
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Posted 16 Jan 2005 3:37 pm |
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| Does anybody know if Robert Randolph tunes straight up? Or does he "sweeten" the thirds? |
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Rick Schmidt
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Prescott AZ, USA
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Posted 16 Jan 2005 5:37 pm
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| Not to be too negative about Robert(I like him for the most part), but the last time I saw him on ACL he was drifting so bad and his vibrato was so wild, that whatever tuning method he might've used could be given a bad rap. |
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David Doggett
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Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 16 Jan 2005 8:12 pm
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| Um, Rick may be right. Robert plays pretty wild. I'd be more interested in how Chuck Cambell tunes. He plays much more precisely, and invented the extended E7 tuning Robert uses. |
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David Doggett
From:
Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 17 Jan 2005 10:57 am
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Of course Robert is presently much more successful outside his church than Chuck is right now. The wildness may have something to do with that. Maybe perfection is not all it's cracked up to be.  |
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Bobby Lee
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Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 17 Jan 2005 1:24 pm
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In the E7th tuning, the smoothness of the major chord is disrupted by the G#-D tritone. Even in JI, this interval has a disturbing, unresolved quality. There are no less than 3 different b7 notes in JI, and none of them is right on the ET note.
Think about their music, and ask yourself where in it you would hear a big difference between JI and ET. The Sacred Steel style is mostly about rhythmic energy and melodic expression. You don't hear a lot of slow, sustaining triads where the fine tuning would be a sizable component of the overall sound.
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