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Nice lap steelin'

PostPosted: Tue Oct 20, 2015 3:21 pm
by David Hartley

Re: Nice lap steelin'

PostPosted: Tue Oct 20, 2015 3:42 pm
by Barry
Base and doubling as a drummer, never seen that before.

Re: Nice lap steelin'

PostPosted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 7:06 pm
by JohnDavisStringsHere
I quite like this one

but anything that guy does sounds great to me....... If I could get him to demo my 1953 D8 Stringmaster ..reckon it would be sold and gone >>>>>>>>>>>

:guitar: :guitar: :guitar:

Re: Nice lap steelin'

PostPosted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 10:50 pm
by Danny Mitchell
Fantastic! Loved that. BooWah. Well filmed,too. You really see his technique classy technique.
Thanks for posting

Re: Nice lap steelin'

PostPosted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 2:09 pm
by Danny Mitchell
Could any of the Lap community tell me what tunings he's using,please?

I really love this, and the brush on the double bass works a treat,I've witnessed the polyrythmic Tommy Emanuel using this, his guitar looked like it had been through the wars.

Re: Nice lap steelin'

PostPosted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 7:36 pm
by JeffM
He uses the same tunings as the great Kayton Roberts

F13
F
D
A
F
G
Eb
C
F

C6th+A7
E
C
A
G
E
C#
A
A (Low bass)


Re: Nice lap steelin'

PostPosted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 11:43 pm
by Danny Mitchell
Wow! Great post Jeff! And thank you kindly for the comprehensive info.

Re: Nice lap steelin'

PostPosted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 8:20 am
by JeffM
I should point out (in case you didn't notice) that Kayton has tuned the high E on his C6/A7 down a semitone for that tune.

Also interesting to hear him using that bass A string around the 17 second mark.

Re: Nice lap steelin'

PostPosted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 8:43 am
by Danny Mitchell
Ha, ha, no, that subtlety slipped by me! So that gives Kayton a diminished triad and I (did) notice that he bends the string behind the bar. Fascinating. I've seen Bob Adams pull that move on psg.

Thanks again for the further insight.

Re: Nice lap steelin'

PostPosted: Sat Oct 24, 2015 11:20 pm
by mick hearn
He is a fantastic player. Good learning curve to convert from youtube and slow down for some of his runs. He also retains that old early sound.