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There's a tune on BR549's Backyard Beat CD called "You're Never Nice to Me" and it's got a nifty lapsteel riff that runs throughout the song. Sounds simple....
I'm thinking that the player's using a slightly modified tuning to get the minor/diminished color, and I can't frikkin' figger it out and it's driving me nuts!
Keeps on playing in my head, and it just aint comin' out my hands! Everything I try sounds wrong...
Help, Help, and more HELP!!!
-andy-

Can you whistle a few bars?

Sure....
I can hum it, whistle it, etc...
Just can't play it right....

Very helpful question by the way...
-andy-

Chris Scruggs ought to have some insights on this.

Yep, I was a-hopin' that he'd chime in.
Sure hope those guys find the dirty rotten friggers that stole their stuff...
-andy-

Andy,

Try posting on "Steel Players". BR549 steeler Donny Hinson is on there a lot.

Uh, Bob... BR549's steel player is Don HERRON. Donny Hinson is another cat, entirely.

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Andy,
Don uses a so called Splittuning on one Neck and on the other he's got a E13

And what would a split tuning be?

Thanks Herb. A mind is a terrible thing to ah,um...

Most of Donny's steel playing is E13.

Around the time "Beat Show" was recorded, his tunings where:

E13:

G# E C# B G# E D E(inside neck)

A6:

E C# A F# E C# A F#(middle neck)

D13/9:

D B A F# E C A D(outside neck)

Donny probably wouldn't remember what he played six years ago on that record, heck, he can't even remember what he played last night!

Just to make things worse, Donny told me when he recorded that record, he set up every steel he owned(that's alot) and tuned each one slightly different.

Most of that record was recorded with a metal body Rickenbacker Electro double six string.

That song has a 3 6- 2 5 bridge. He usually plays that D13/9 on those kind of progressions. If that D tuning looks a little wierd, it's just Leon's E13/9, but tuned down a step with the 7th string tuned up to a fifth instead of a third.

I'll listen to it tommorrow, and see if I can't figure out what he's up to.

C.S.

Way Cool! Thank you so much, exactly what I'm looking for.
You guys are the slickest thing since teflon.
(BR549, that is...)
-andy-
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