Share a lick ????

[Will C]

I missed out a note - sorry. Should be 11B on string 6 just before the last chord, the C7.

[sam conomo]

Do you sometimes find a lick thats just too nice to keep all to yourself??? Then Share the Bugger!!!
I will start with this one IMHO one of the prettiest I have ever managed to steal from the great Bobby Black....first listen to this track and you will hear it at 2.07
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGsq1K7f_yc
OK now go to your15th fret pedals down and lower your 2nd string a half tone pick strings (two at a time) 3 and 4 then1 and2 then 4 and5 change your chord shape to E on the 15th fret =(A pedal and raise the E`s) and play the same strings releasing the A pedal on the way down.......... AS Bernard would say.....Boooootiful!!!

hey john, i wasn,t able to see the video ,the australian goverment have allowed some blocking to go on.
sam from downunder

[Will C]

I've been looking at "Michelle" again, and I'm kicking myself. That lick i put on page 5 can be done much more smoothly and simply. The first three chords are based around fret 9, strings 4/5/6. The bass note starting on 6 walks down via the 7th string, if you have that setup on your steel.

Here's a better way: Stay on the 11th fret for those first three cohords, not the 9th. Put A&B pedals in, use strings 5/6/7 - the bass note "walk-down" starts on the 7th string, then it goes 8(raise E's), 8(no levers), 8(lower E's) - and then so on as per the rest of the tab.

Voila - no bar movement in the middle, no struggle to mute that one string (7) that otherwise spoils the sound. This works much better. You are still playing an Fm chord, but it appears in an unfamiliar place. It's really a G#6th, but musically they are the same.

This "bass walkdown" under a minor chord appears quite often, e.g. in "Something" also by the Beatles (I don't want to leave her now...) and in "Blue Skies" which I spotted here on YouTube by steelguitar3 on a lovely 8-string Sierra C6 lap steel:



Once you get your head round an idea like this it's amazing how often it seems to crop up!

[STEDDIE EDDIE]

Wonderful 'bar' work, those lap steelers could show us pedal steelers a thing or two,

[Paul Brennan]

Well, you know Lloyd Green started off as a lap steeler. Have you ever watched him play? He uses slants all the time. His instrument is not festooned with knee levers dangling in befuddling confusion. He doesn't need them with the kind of bar control he developed as a kid.

[Basil Henriques]

Just to interject (as is my wont) just to point out that:_

You are still playing an Fm chord, but it appears in an unfamiliar place. It's really a G#6th, but musically they are the same.

is not tecnically correct. It SHOULD read "it's really an Ab6th, but musically they're the same."
EXCEPT that Ab6th (G#6th) in its correct form would be the same as Fm7th..

(Just trying to keep the bar up)

[Will C]

Thanks Basil, I wondered if anyone would suggest that one - although most of us couldn't even *spell* "enharmonic" - and fewer care.. )

[Will C]

This thread has faltered a little lately, I thought I'd contribute something I've been looking at recently, from "Someone had to teach you", recorded among others by the lovely and much missed Dawn Sears with the Time Jumpers. This little snippet is from Wade Hayes' version, sorry, I don't know who the steelie was. This is as for the standard 10-string setup.

SOMEONE HAD TO TEACH YOU
Steel intro


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You don't hear this one often, but the lick illustrates the I - IV - V - I nature of the intro turnaround perfectly. Hope it's of some help. Sorry about the text formatting. I tried to do it in Courier - a single space font - but the system doesn't allow it.

[allan cook]

Hi
I wonder if anyone could help me with the following licks on Toby Keiths version of Truck Drivin Man?

C lick at 0.47 secs
G to D at 1.25 to 1.29 secs and
the lick at 2.03 to 2.05.
They are doing my brain in!



Thanks in anticipation!!
Phil

[JohnDavisStringsHere]

Phil, don't even go there..... Just listen to the Commander and the great Bobby Black he really nails the sucker and I think it may have been an Emmons "Black Rock" (student model)