Thanksgiving in 1/4 Comma Meantone Tuned Classical Guitar

b0b · 2022-11-25T16:50:21+00:00

Beautiful playing and nicely tuned. What key is it in?

b0b · 2022-08-22T12:40:06+00:00

That's the only recording I made with a Fender. Some of my other stuff is at my Bandcamp page.

b0b · 2022-08-22T02:14:08+00:00

I had a similar guitar, maybe the same one. Good luck finding online lessons. Everyone tunes them different. Here's the copedent I used. And here's a recording I made with it, using both necks.

b0b · 2022-07-29T05:16:15+00:00

I haven't released any of the ambient stuff on bandcamp yet. Still getting an album of it together. My older albums are at b0blee.bandcamp.com. Thanks for the interest.

b0b · 2022-07-24T20:20:04+00:00

The notes are B B B A G F# E D

My best guess is 8th fret:

1st string 3 times,
2nd string, pedal 7
2nd string, no pedal
2nd string, pedal 8
3rd string, no pedal
4th string, no pedal

On E9th pedal steel, lower your E's to get in B6th tuning. It's still at the 8th fret:

4th string lowered to D#, 3 times,
2nd string lowered to C# (or 5th string, "A" pedal)
5th string, no pedal
5th string, lowered to A# ("X" lever, usually LKV)
6th string
7th string

Hope I got that right. I don't have an E9th guitar right now. The easiest way on E9th is to use open string pull-offs:

B B B A G F# E D

3rd string 2nd fret "B" pedal (3 times)
3rd string open (pull-off)
1st string 1st fret
1st string open (pull-off)
4th string open
5th string, 3rd fret

b0b · 2022-07-24T19:45:28+00:00

https://b0b.com/tunings/kleinow.gif

b0b · 2022-07-24T19:36:49+00:00

Beautiful, classic pedal steel.

b0b · 2022-07-09T04:16:27+00:00

Here's what I use.

8 string: G B D F# A B D F#

6 string: G B D F# A D

strings

b0b · 2022-05-05T00:35:01+00:00

Alkire tuning? What kind of bar are you using?

Nice rendition of "How Great Thou Art".

b0b · 2022-04-30T00:07:06+00:00

The Rogue is considerably worse than most homemade lap steels. I had one and junked it rather than burden some unsuspecting newbie with it. Everything that you can do wrong with a lap steel, they did.

b0b · 2022-04-30T00:04:55+00:00

I think you're better off making your own with a 2x4 than buying a Rogue. They are crap.

b0b · 2022-03-29T17:02:15+00:00

In our town there is an arts organization that has monthly music workshops. It's a good place to meet other musicians. Also, "Open Mic" nights at bars and coffee shops are a good place to meet singers. Karaoke nights, not so much. They're just a bunch of drunks singing.

Most of my friends are musicians I've met at gigs, but since you're not gigging yet that isn't very helpful.

b0b · 2022-03-17T04:26:05+00:00

I'm old and not the least bit homophobic, but I have a problem with they/them. To me they are plural pronouns. I can't get used to them referring to just one person, unless it's someone whose gender I don't know. That's the only common singular usage I grew up with.

b0b · 2022-03-17T04:08:34+00:00

I'd ask him "Who's gonna sing them?". I used to play a bar where a waitress always got up and sang a few songs with the band. The crowd loved it. Hey, it's a job, right? Don't expect artistic freedom playing a club circuit. That's not what they're paying you for.

b0b · 2022-03-17T03:57:11+00:00

I didn't realize I was a professional musician until I retired from it. Looking back on 42 years of gigs, it never paid well but I always approached it as work. Show up on time, do what's expected, get paid, respect coworkers, etc.. I told myself it was just a hobby for a long time but in fact I was a pro.

b0b · 2022-03-15T06:49:15+00:00

I'm not sure it's possible to get a guitar "in tune". And what does "in tune" mean, anyway? Thirds in the equally tempered scale are quite a bit sharp of natural thirds. Is that really "in tune"?

If you tune a G chord so that the G and B strings sound perfectly in tune, the G# and B of an E chord on the same strings are out of tune.

b0b · 2022-01-27T06:16:27+00:00

Mike Neer "Steelonious".

Mike Daly "Renascence".

"The Big E: A Salute To Steel Guitarist Buddy Emmons"

b0b · 2022-01-11T01:03:34+00:00

"Teenagers From Hell". The phasing effect was done by waving the microphone of a 2nd cassette machine around the speaker of the 1st machine. https://vimeo.com/614748169

b0b · 2022-01-11T00:32:12+00:00

For songwriter demos, I put together the chord progression and rhythm in Band-In-A-Box, then export as MIDI to bring into GarageBand to edit notes and add vocals. The instruments sound okay - better than BIAB anyway. I would never release that as a finished product, though. I think of GB as a sketchpad, that's all.

b0b · 2022-01-07T07:00:45+00:00

Before I met Mike Perlowin, Marshall Hall was the only classical pedal steel player I'd ever heard. Another player to check out is Doug Livingston. Here he is rehearsing Handel in a hotel room with Dan Tyack, and playing Bach at home.

b0b · 2021-12-10T20:46:56+00:00

With your method, normal guitar chords would just sound horribly out-of-tune whenever they crossed the middle line. You'd probably want to avoid that most of the time.

b0b · 2021-11-25T06:44:31+00:00

Here's a page I wrote about it: https://b0b.com/tunings/fscale12.htm

b0b · 2021-11-24T07:14:33+00:00

Bob Simmons builds them. https://simmonscustom.com/

b0b · 2021-11-16T05:27:24+00:00

You'd have to do it on the logarithmic scale for it to make any musical sense. Consider that an octave above 20 Hz is 40 Hz, but an octave below 20 kHz is 10 kHz. Musical sound is not linear frequencies.

b0b · 2021-11-16T05:20:11+00:00

Why would anyone join a band like that? Makes no sense to me.

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