I remember when Jimmy started playing this song at the convention. Scotty ran up on the stage, grabbed a chair, and sat down next to Jimmy, right in front of everybody. He wasn’t going to miss a lick for no one! Jimmy Days playing was just genius. I always marveled at the way he would play a phase to where you thought he had wrung every note out of it that was humanly possible, then he’d slide that bar and pull a knee lever and make you pee your pants while you wondered where the h*ll did that come from. I’m breaking my neck to learn this one. Thanks so much for sharing!
Hey, Beemer! Thanks for watching and for the comment! I remember going to the convention with my dad in its heyday and all of my heroes were there including Jimmy Day. Good memories and thanks for sharing your story! I may try to post more Jimmy Day type videos in the future. My family owned a music store and Jimmy Day actually stopped by and performed a seminar one time. My dad was a steel player and we always carried a lot of steels and would try to promote the steel at the store. Thanks again and hope that this video can help you out. Keep picking!
Now this is a real pearl Padre Aaron. Great insight into sophisticated string and pedal usage on this great George Jones classic! The steel guitar was invented in the late 1800's by a Hawaiian kid name of Joseph Kekuku who coming home from a guitar lesson saw a railroad spike and wondered how it would sound on top of the strings. He fashoned a bullet bar in metal shop, raised the height of the nut and woodshedded for two years I believe with an open G tuning and overnight became an icon. Then I guess Bud Isaacs came along somewhere in the 50's and invented pedals. It certainly has come a long way and along with it more confusion! Ha, ha. Thanks as always for your assistance in clarifying how these tunes are pulled off. Johnny Pal
Johnny Pal thanks so much for your post! It is good to hear from you and glad you liked my take on the great Jimmy Day. My dad played and started out on non pedal guitars in the 40's. He used to tell the story on drilling holes in the guitars he had running a close hanger over the string and using that for a pedal set up. Guys did not have access to players other than records and did not know how they were getting those cool sound i.e. Bud Isaac. Also the old guitars did not have rollers and pulled over a sharp nut . Talk about string breakage ouch! Any way thanks again . Aaron
Now that pops my cork, a clothes hanger pull down. Bud must have explained to some inventive tinkerer what he wanted and voila the rods/pedals set up. Mahalo and looking forward to reviewing more of your material. Really appreciate it.
Sorry for the late reply Padre Aaron. That story about close hangers over a sharp nut for a pedal set up is a hoot. That's a real pearl, thanks so much. With you and Mickey Adams the popularity of the PS I hope is guaranteed. But I'll tell ya, whenever I learn songs from an instructional video my knowledge of what chords are being produced by the E to F or E to Eb is NIL. So I rely on pure feet/lever memory without an understanding what "chords" these guys are producing. It would help my retention and understanding of the PS if I knew what I wuz doin. However I can't find any instructional videos on the Tube explaining what chords these levers/pedals produce. I think that would be the cherry on top of the cake if someone could do a short treatise on these mystery pedals. We all know the A pedal produces a 6th and a minor and that B produces a suspension and that BC produces minors. But speaking for myself, I ain't so clear on the E thang! Mahalo for listening to my jeremiad (oops, did I use that word? ha ha). Johnny Pal
Another good song have you ever thought about doing some Hag songs. Thank You for taking your time to post these great teaching videos as I can only imagine it's got to take a lot of your time.
Hey again, Don! Glad that you enjoyed this video as well! I got to open up for Merle Haggard once with a gospel group that I was playing with. We didn't hang out or anything, ha ha, but it was an interesting and cool experience. I may look into doing some more tutorials, but I am still working out how I may go about them. Like you said, these videos take a lot of time and effort to make-especially the songs. In the future I may look into doing these on commission as private lessons or something similar. The time it took to make this video, edit, record, etc. was around four and a half to five hours just for this one song. So, I would love to do more, but I do not know how realistic it will be to continue making videos like this (at least frequently). But, I will definitely consider it, though! Thanks again for watching, Don, and keep picking!
You do an outstay job in your instructing of the steel guitar one question do us use an reverb on your amp I have a fender steel king if you have any suggestions
Thanks for the nice feedback! Glad you like the lessons. I am using a Peavy Pro Fex for my effects and reverb so I do not use any reverb on my amp. I have not had a chance to play a Fender steel king. I do have a Fender amp that I sometimes use and when I use it without the pro fex I generally run the reverb at 3 are 4. I have a video on my gear if you would like to check it out. Thanks, Aaron.
Great stuff. I'm new to pedal and just became a subscriber to your channel. Unless otherwise mentioned, are you typically playing in E9? I still haven't figured out if every double neck has the E9 on "top/front" and C6 on " bottom/back".....probably basic knowledge. Thanks!
Thanks for the nice comments and for subscribing! Most double neck guitar will have the E9th on top. I am not sure of the history of this or if there is an advantage to this set up.I guess as the instrument evolved we ended up with this configuration. Thanks for checking us out and keep picking! Aaron
Thanks so much for the reply. I didn't think I'd get a reply but hoped at least a subscriber would let me know about the tuning per neck. Looking forward to digging into your video lessons and wish you much success. You can avoid a majority of the novice questions like mine as long as you take those 5 seconds here and there to mention things you might take for granted (like tuning....). Just a little UA-cam advice from someone who spends a lot of time here. And I try to screen the comments as much as possible for answers before asking such basic questions.....thank you again!!!
Great tutorial. Thanks again for all your work from across the pond in the UK.
Tony, thanks for the kind words and glad to help.
Keep Picking!
Aaron
Thanks a lot great teaching and steel playing
Thanks, Jc! I really appreciate the great feedback!
Keep picking!
I remember when Jimmy started playing this song at the convention. Scotty ran up on the stage, grabbed a chair, and sat down next to Jimmy, right in front of everybody. He wasn’t going to miss a lick for no one!
Jimmy Days playing was just genius. I always marveled at the way he would play a phase to where you thought he had wrung every note out of it that was humanly possible, then he’d slide that bar and pull a knee lever and make you pee your pants while you wondered where the h*ll did that come from.
I’m breaking my neck to learn this one. Thanks so much for sharing!
Hey, Beemer! Thanks for watching and for the comment! I remember going to the convention with my dad in its heyday and all of my heroes were there including Jimmy Day. Good memories and thanks for sharing your story! I may try to post more Jimmy Day type videos in the future.
My family owned a music store and Jimmy Day actually stopped by and performed a seminar one time. My dad was a steel player and we always carried a lot of steels and would try to promote the steel at the store.
Thanks again and hope that this video can help you out. Keep picking!
Now this is a real pearl Padre Aaron. Great insight into sophisticated string and pedal usage on this great George Jones classic! The steel guitar was invented in the late 1800's by a Hawaiian kid name of Joseph Kekuku who coming home from a guitar lesson saw a railroad spike and wondered how it would sound on top of the strings. He fashoned a bullet bar in metal shop, raised the height of the nut and woodshedded for two years I believe with an open G tuning and overnight became an icon. Then I guess Bud Isaacs came along somewhere in the 50's and invented pedals. It certainly has come a long way and along with it more confusion! Ha, ha. Thanks as always for your assistance in clarifying how these tunes are pulled off. Johnny Pal
Johnny Pal thanks so much for your post! It is good to hear from you and glad you liked my take on the great Jimmy Day. My dad played and started out on non pedal guitars in the 40's. He used to tell the story on drilling holes in the guitars he had running a close hanger over the string and using that for a pedal set up. Guys did not have access to players other than records and did not know how they were getting those cool sound i.e. Bud Isaac. Also the old guitars did not have rollers and pulled over a sharp nut . Talk about string breakage ouch! Any way thanks again . Aaron
That's an eye opener, a clothes hanger, ha, ha. Bud really set the woods on fire with them pedals. Thanks again, Johnny
Now that pops my cork, a clothes hanger pull down. Bud must have explained to some inventive tinkerer what he wanted and voila the rods/pedals set up. Mahalo and looking forward to reviewing more of your material. Really appreciate it.
Sorry for the late reply Padre Aaron. That story about close hangers over a sharp nut for a pedal set up is a hoot. That's a real pearl, thanks so much. With you and Mickey Adams the popularity of the PS I hope is guaranteed.
But I'll tell ya, whenever I learn songs from an instructional video my knowledge of what chords are being produced by the E to F or E to Eb is NIL. So I rely on pure feet/lever memory without an understanding what "chords" these guys are producing. It would help my retention and understanding of the PS if I knew what I wuz doin. However I can't find any instructional videos on the Tube explaining what chords these levers/pedals produce. I think that would be the cherry on top of the cake if someone could do a short treatise on these mystery pedals. We all know the A pedal produces a 6th and a minor and that B produces a suspension and that BC produces minors. But speaking for myself, I ain't so clear on the E thang! Mahalo for listening to my jeremiad (oops, did I use that word? ha ha). Johnny Pal
Thanks for the suggestion and for your nice posts!
Another good song have you ever thought about doing some Hag songs. Thank You for taking your time to post these great teaching videos as I can only imagine it's got to take a lot of your time.
Hey again, Don! Glad that you enjoyed this video as well!
I got to open up for Merle Haggard once with a gospel group that I was playing with. We didn't hang out or anything, ha ha, but it was an interesting and cool experience.
I may look into doing some more tutorials, but I am still working out how I may go about them. Like you said, these videos take a lot of time and effort to make-especially the songs. In the future I may look into doing these on commission as private lessons or something similar. The time it took to make this video, edit, record, etc. was around four and a half to five hours just for this one song. So, I would love to do more, but I do not know how realistic it will be to continue making videos like this (at least frequently). But, I will definitely consider it, though!
Thanks again for watching, Don, and keep picking!
You do an outstay job in your instructing of the steel guitar one question do us use an reverb on your amp I have a fender steel king if you have any suggestions
Thanks for the nice feedback! Glad you like the lessons. I am using a Peavy Pro Fex for my effects and reverb so I do not use any reverb on my amp. I have not had a chance to play a Fender steel king. I do have a Fender amp that I sometimes use and when I use it without the pro fex I generally run the reverb at 3 are 4. I have a video on my gear if you would like to check it out.
Thanks, Aaron.
Great tutorials. Would like to hear intro to "Would You Catch A Falling Star" by John Anderson.
Lonnie, glad you liked it. I will put your idea on our request list and try and work it up at a later date.
Thanks! Aaron
Great stuff. I'm new to pedal and just became a subscriber to your channel. Unless otherwise mentioned, are you typically playing in E9? I still haven't figured out if every double neck has the E9 on "top/front" and C6 on " bottom/back".....probably basic knowledge. Thanks!
Thanks for the nice comments and for subscribing! Most double neck guitar will have the E9th on top. I am not sure of the history of this or if there is an advantage to this set up.I guess as the instrument evolved we ended up with this configuration.
Thanks for checking us out and keep picking! Aaron
Thanks so much for the reply. I didn't think I'd get a reply but hoped at least a subscriber would let me know about the tuning per neck. Looking forward to digging into your video lessons and wish you much success. You can avoid a majority of the novice questions like mine as long as you take those 5 seconds here and there to mention things you might take for granted (like tuning....). Just a little UA-cam advice from someone who spends a lot of time here. And I try to screen the comments as much as possible for answers before asking such basic questions.....thank you again!!!
Thanks for the suggestions and hope that these videos will help you out!
Thanks for checking out the videos and keep picking,
Aaron
Thanks!