The British Steelies Society

Hi all,

Here is my arrangement of Sweet Dreams, such a beautiful song!



Best regards,

Mathew Jut

You're absolutely right, Mathew. That is a beautiful song, and that was a beautiful arrangement of it


PS- have you gone and jumped the broomstick? If so, congratulations

You had an ideal opportunity there (for 1 1/2 minutes) to use fills in between the melody, which after all is what most steel playing is, but you did nothing ????

That's when you should be experimenting, seeing if you can come up with something off the top of your head, you'll get all the gigs when you can do that, cos singers like it when steel players play in the gaps (and not when they're singing), and singers call the shots

Sorry for the harshness of my last post, I do come across as being a bit blunt sometimes.

Here's some fills to demonstrate what I mean, albeit the fiddle doesn't leave much room for steel fills

https://picosong.com/wKUJJ

Lovely stuff Richard
And, sage advice. Constructive criticism is a good thing.

Very nice Instrumental Matthew!!
I like your style.

Danny Mitchell wrote:Lovely stuff Richard
And, sage advice. Constructive criticism is a good thing.

Of course constructive criticism is a good thing.

Much better than being booed off stage whilst having bottles lobbed at ya!

Zebedee wrote:You had an ideal opportunity there (for 1 1/2 minutes) to use fills in between the melody, which after all is what most steel playing is, but you did nothing ????

That's when you should be experimenting, seeing if you can come up with something off the top of your head, you'll get all the gigs when you can do that, cos singers like it when steel players play in the gaps (and not when they're singing), and singers call the shots

I see what you were saying, but I did not fill in because it was an instrumental. If it was a song with a singer, you are correct then you need to fill in the gaps. So in my situation it wasn't needed because otherwise I would play over another instruments which is not the intention. In my opinion, especially with an instrumental, less is more.

Danny Mitchell wrote:You're absolutely right, Mathew. That is a beautiful song, and that was a beautiful arrangement of it


PS- have you gone and jumped the broomstick? If so, congratulations

Thank you sir, not yet. It is a kind of a friendship ring we can say ha!

Barry wrote:Very nice Instrumental Matthew!!
I like your style.

Thank you Barry!

steveman747 wrote:

Danny Mitchell wrote:Lovely stuff Richard
And, sage advice. Constructive criticism is a good thing.

Of course constructive criticism is a good thing.

Much better than being booed off stage whilst having bottles lobbed at ya!

True story!