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| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] What do you Pedal Steel players do??? | | Date: | Friday, July 6, 2007 16:38:54 (-0400) | | From: | Eugene <U14 @....org>
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| In reply to: | Message 7068 (written by don.hergert) |
I never play all of the strings on my PSG's or Dobro at the same time (I cringe
thinking of hearing those chords).
PSG players do use slants sometimes so not all of what we play is done with
pedals & knee levers.
It is true that the PSG's tend to have more strings. My primary PSG is a 14
string E9/B6 Universal tuning while my primary Dobro only has 10-strings. I do
use a larger bar for playing this PSG; a custom bar from bulletbars.com in fact.
For Dobro I pretty much use an SP-2 bar.
But comparing the PSG to a Dobro is somewhat akin to comparing a mandocello to a
12-string guitar; they have similarities but they are far from alike. When I sit
down at my PSG I seldom use hammer-on/pull-off style single note playing; I can
play lush chords and ornament them by slurring one or more notes within those
chords. On the Dobro we have to bend strings behind the bar for this effect.
I use a bullet bar for PSG but for playing Reso-guitar I (primarily) use a bar
which can grasped between the middle-finger and thumb (my first bar was a Stevens
steel) which makes the hammer-on/pull-off techniques far easier to accomplish.
The chord combinations available on the PSG are no more mind boggling than what
we can play on a Dobro with some slight retuning. For example take a standard
GACEGACE tuning and retune to G A C E G G# C D#; and your chord-options grow
dramatically. But in reality the music we play and our tunings/retunings should
be guided by the music we are playing and not the other way around.
Regards
-- Eugene
At 7/5/2007 11:00 AM, you wrote:
>Duhhh
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>It just hit me that those of you who play Pedal Steel have more strings than I do on my Dobro. Do you have longer slides? Or do you just not try to hit all the strings at the same time ever?
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>Man, the combinations of slant chord patterns on your guitars is mind boggling!
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>Best,
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>-- Don
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