And I thought getting my intonation together was..

And I thought getting my intonation together was.. tough on a fretless....

#1 Ed DeGenaro

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Posted 07 January 2006 - 08:47 AM

Got me a lap steel today and it's way more difficult for me than dealing with fretless...
My first try... http://www.eddegenar...audio/laped.mp3

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Posted 07 January 2006 - 09:30 AM

Ed DeGenaro, on Jan 7 2006, 08:47 AM, said:

Got me a lap steel today and it's way more difficult for me than dealing with fretless...
My first try... http://www.eddegenar...audio/laped.mp3
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Sounds like you are coming at the lap steel from the regular guitar direction. Take a sideways look.

J

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Posted 07 January 2006 - 09:40 AM

jahloon, on Jan 7 2006, 09:30 AM, said:

Ed DeGenaro, on Jan 7 2006, 08:47 AM, said:

Got me a lap steel today and it's way more difficult for me than dealing with fretless...
My first try... http://www.eddegenar...audio/laped.mp3
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Sounds like you are coming at the lap steel from the regular guitar direction. Take a sideways look.

J
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How? I come at everything from the guitar, that's what I know. But that was also the headache figuring whee the notes are on an open tuning.

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Posted 07 January 2006 - 10:04 AM

Ed DeGenaro, on Jan 7 2006, 09:40 AM, said:

jahloon, on Jan 7 2006, 09:30 AM, said:

Ed DeGenaro, on Jan 7 2006, 08:47 AM, said:

Got me a lap steel today and it's way more difficult for me than dealing with fretless...
My first try... http://www.eddegenar...audio/laped.mp3
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Sounds like you are coming at the lap steel from the regular guitar direction. Take a sideways look.

J
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How? I come at everything from the guitar, that's what I know. But that was also the headache figuring whee the notes are on an open tuning.
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Well, you know it much better than me, if you hadn't told us I wouldn't have twigged a lapsteel. The sideways bit was to hit it from a lap player's style.

Oh, and wear a Hawaian shirt too. :ninja:

Play the blues guitar with your soul, but play the fretless guitar with your spirit.

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Posted 07 January 2006 - 05:35 PM

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My first try... [url="http://www.eddegenaro.com/audio/laped.mp3"]http://www.eddegenaro.com/audio/laped.mp3[/url]
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Sounds like you are coming at the lap steel from the regular guitar direction. Take a sideways look.

J
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How? I come at everything from the guitar, that's what I know. But that was also the headache figuring whee the notes are on an open tuning.
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Well, you know it much better than me, if you hadn't told us I wouldn't have twigged a lapsteel. The sideways bit was to hit it from a lap player's style.

Oh, and wear a Hawaian shirt too.

J
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I'm still trying to figure out how to hold the bar!!! :ninja:

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Posted 07 January 2006 - 07:33 PM

I've been messing with lap steel for a couple of years now. I play BLUES ya know :ninja:

. Open G and D are my favorites. Pretty easy to get that "down-home-stomp" style. As for leads, I'm not tryin' to shred on the thing...

Listen to Robert Randolph (pedal steel) for ideas, Jerry Douglas (dobro) for ideas and the guy who plays the hawaian shit on Spongebob Squarepants is Amazing!!! Now those guys can SHRED.

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Holy Crap!!! Who could forget the great Junior Brown with his home-made "guit-steel"?? This man is simply amazing!!

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Posted 07 January 2006 - 09:11 PM

El Padrino, on Jan 7 2006, 07:33 PM, said:

I've been messing with lap steel for a couple of years now. I play BLUES ya know :ninja:

How can you forget the Campbell brothers!?!?! :ninja:

So far it's in open E and that I'm not digging. I think I try fagbad...uhem I mean dadgad next.

But the idea is to not make it sound like a lap steel.

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Posted 07 January 2006 - 10:14 PM

I can't believe I have an easier time on fretless...

http://www.eddegenar...udio/freted.mp3

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Posted 08 January 2006 - 12:41 AM

And speaking of abuse...
Total abomination...Taylor T5 into a Flexi...and doubled with a Marimba sound...

http://www.eddegenar...udio/tfived.mp3

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Posted 11 January 2006 - 08:02 AM

ed,

the freted.MP3 is cool!

you used an ebow?

your lapsteel is also good i think.

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Posted 11 January 2006 - 03:02 PM

ogami, on Jan 11 2006, 08:02 AM, said:

ed,

the freted.MP3 is cool!

you used an ebow?

your lapsteel is also good i think.
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Sustainiac actually, I started using one about 3 weeks ago when Steve Kimock had me do a set with him and I had to compete with his lap steels sustain. WHich also got me curious in steel.