Showing posts with label slide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label slide. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Friday, August 3, 2012
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Cool Tool - The Lap Steel - Part Two
C G D Em
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Monday, July 30, 2012
Cool Tool - The Lap Steel - Part One
Intro to the Lap Steel.
Some great Lap Steel players...
Music by Ry Cooder - Ry Cooder
Pull up Some Dust and Sit Down - Ry Cooder
The Ry Cooder Anthology - Ry Cooder
El Rayo-X - David Lindley (Jackson Brown's slide player)
Very Greasy - David Lindley
Music by Ry Cooder - Ry Cooder
Pull up Some Dust and Sit Down - Ry Cooder
The Ry Cooder Anthology - Ry Cooder
El Rayo-X - David Lindley (Jackson Brown's slide player)
Very Greasy - David Lindley
Monday, June 11, 2012
Cheap Guitar God - Stella
Made by the Oscar Schmidt Company originally. Played by Leadbelly and Charlie Patton. Doc Watson and Kurt Cobain started on Stellas.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Reading in the Studio
Just last week I got called for a quick session for a short film (10 minutes). Quick is my specialty. Between lower budgets and greater numbers of wannabe directors makes for many opportunities for the musician who can get things done in a timely manner.
Below is the lone chart for the session. A very simple melody in 3/4. But here's the rub: there was no click, it was suppose to be played free but in a call and response to a sparse vocal. So 120bpm was just a rough guide tempo. The composer wanted this melody on slide. And wanted options to pepper throughout the movie. First on acoustic with a slide, then on dobro with a slide and lastly on mandolin with a slide (that was my idea).
The first thing I did was memorize the melody. It's kind of difficult to play slide while staring at a chart. I like to lock in my pitches visually, as well as with the aid of a clip on tuner - Intellitouch Tuner
The acoustic was in standard tuning, EADGBE. The dobro however was in open G, DGDGBD. And the Mandolin was in standard tuning, standard for a mandolin, GDAE. So the melody laid differently on each instrument. The composer wanted everything with lots of feeling and slide noise. Then we did passes on each instrument of just making random noises. All done in less than an hour so we had time to go to In-N-Out for lunch!
So get out your slide and read though this one!
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Cool Tool - Tremoloa
This cool tool is from the Manufacturers Advertising Company in Jersey City, New Jersey. Yet it's a Hawaiian instrument in it's use.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
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