Re Hank Williams tune and the USA forum

[Basil Henriques]

The recording (on this forum) of a Hank Williams tune reminded me of this post in the USA SGF where EVERYONE and his dog submitted a version of the same song..
http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=111747

I could be fun to do here on this forum..
Firstly we should select a common tune and take it from there.

Alan Brookes from Oakaland CA. is visiting the UK and called 'round to bring a guitar to me (More about that later) and to jam a little.
Well, I was just playing around with CCH and he said I should post the noodling on the forum, so, here is my noodling at it, warts and all.
(I'll probably take a serious stab at it next week)

Firstly I tried to disguise the melody by adding extra notes, but not subtracting any of the original melody ones, then I played the melody as chords, then from the hula vamp onwards, the melody in open and close harmony with the occasional chord.
The first and second part is the Fender 1000 and THEN the resurrected long scale Fender Stringmaster Mk1 Twin, twice through, Then the 1000 again..

The Semi Hawaiian Way


Also for good measure a version in Hank's key and tempo on my Emmons..
1970 Emmons-D10

The equipment in use for this :-
1953 Fender Stringmaster Mk1 D-8
1963 Fender 1000 (9 pedals)
1970 Emmons D-10 (was 9X4) now 4X3
Hilton Vol Pedal
Peavey Nashville 112 via its own "DI" to logic Pro 8 on a G5 twin 2.5Ghz
Tribotone Bar (The 10 string one)

Rounded off with a complete lack of attention to the details of playing !! I was experimenting with ToonTrack's EZ Drummer and all the new plugins from Universal Audio..

In Hanks version it's an 18 bar sequence whereas on the Don Helms video on YouTube, Don plays it as 17 bars, so I made it an even 16 and completely missed out the extra bar of 4 halfway through, and the extra bar of 1 at the end of each cycle.


Since then I've progressed to a Mac Pro with eight cores, Logic 9 and MUCH more. Not so sure about the playing having progressed though, too much time spent waffling and not enough practise (what is enough practise?)

[Basil Henriques]

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