a mini microtonal lap steel cadenza

back in the early '90s when i was working in a music store and teaching guitar, i had a lot of downtime to try instruments i normally wouldn't come across or couldn't afford.
One of these was a cheap lap steel and after a bit of experimenting with open micro-tunings and different playing techniques, i found out that if you dragged the rounded edge of the bullet slide over the surface of the strings you could achieve all manner of bizarre and seemingly virtuosic arpeggios------>FWiW, the weight of the slide (the heavier the better), the tension of the strings (the tighter the better) and the tone (the more distorted, monophonic, and harmonically scooped the better), make a big difference in the sparkliness and the extraterrestrial fluidity .
On guitar, this technique is often called "sweep-picking" where the pick is operated in a kind of linked rest-stoke fashion by picking only down-strokes across adjacent strings that are (ostensibly) higher in pitch (how about closer to your feet than your face), and using only up-stokes on adjacent strings that are (again, ostensibly) lower in pitch, or more generically, closer to your face that they are to your feet.
The beauty of this hyper, faux sweep-picking on lap steel is that it's entirely as microtonal as you can either hear (and/or) imagine (and/or) execute. With a high gain and sloped EQ, you can achieve a pretty astonishing degree of fluidity and control....and ,fWiW (nothing), this kind of thing used to always bring guitarists shopping in the store flying around the corner to see what the hell was that being played on a guitar.....well, surprise ,surprise:

http://tinyurl.com/dkv6bp

That's a pretty cool sound!

- Dave

dasdasdva wrote:
> back in the early '90s when i was working in a music store and teaching guitar, i had a lot of downtime to try instruments i normally wouldn't come across or couldn't afford.
> One of these was a cheap lap steel and after a bit of experimenting with open micro-tunings and different playing techniques, i found out that if you dragged the rounded edge of the bullet slide over the surface of the strings you could achieve all manner of bizarre and seemingly virtuosic arpeggios------>FWiW, the weight of the slide (the heavier the better), the tension of the strings (the tighter the better) and the tone (the more distorted, monophonic, and harmonically scooped the better), make a big difference in the sparkliness and the extraterrestrial fluidity .
> On guitar, this technique is often called "sweep-picking" where the pick is operated in a kind of linked rest-stoke fashion by picking only down-strokes across adjacent strings that are (ostensibly) higher in pitch (how about closer to your feet than your face), and using only up-stokes on adjacent strings that are (again, ostensibly) lower in pitch, or more generically, closer to your face that they are to your feet.
> The beauty of this hyper, faux sweep-picking on lap steel is that it's entirely as microtonal as you can either hear (and/or) imagine (and/or) execute. With a high gain and sloped EQ, you can achieve a pretty astonishing degree of fluidity and control....and ,fWiW (nothing), this kind of thing used to always bring guitarists shopping in the store flying around the corner to see what the hell was that being played on a guitar.....well, surprise ,surprise:
> > http://tinyurl.com/dkv6bp

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thanks for the listen and taking the time to comment Dave
yeah,it's a pretty cool kind of hyped-up and as micro-as-you-wanna-be Morse code-like sound
limited, yes. but really quite a useful color to have on the palette too

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Dave Seidel <dave@...> wrote:
>
> That's a pretty cool sound!
>
> - Dave
>
> dasdasdva wrote:
> > back in the early '90s when i was working in a music store and teaching guitar, i had a lot of downtime to try instruments i normally wouldn't come across or couldn't afford.
> > One of these was a cheap lap steel and after a bit of experimenting with open micro-tunings and different playing techniques, i found out that if you dragged the rounded edge of the bullet slide over the surface of the strings you could achieve all manner of bizarre and seemingly virtuosic arpeggios------>FWiW, the weight of the slide (the heavier the better), the tension of the strings (the tighter the better) and the tone (the more distorted, monophonic, and harmonically scooped the better), make a big difference in the sparkliness and the extraterrestrial fluidity .
> > On guitar, this technique is often called "sweep-picking" where the pick is operated in a kind of linked rest-stoke fashion by picking only down-strokes across adjacent strings that are (ostensibly) higher in pitch (how about closer to your feet than your face), and using only up-stokes on adjacent strings that are (again, ostensibly) lower in pitch, or more generically, closer to your face that they are to your feet.
> > The beauty of this hyper, faux sweep-picking on lap steel is that it's entirely as microtonal as you can either hear (and/or) imagine (and/or) execute. With a high gain and sloped EQ, you can achieve a pretty astonishing degree of fluidity and control....and ,fWiW (nothing), this kind of thing used to always bring guitarists shopping in the store flying around the corner to see what the hell was that being played on a guitar.....well, surprise ,surprise:
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/dkv6bp
>
> --
> ~DaveSeidel = [
> http://mysterybear.net,
> http://daveseidel.tumblr.com,
> http://twitter.com/DaveSeidel
> ];
>

I like it too - it sounds like crazy arps.

Could I use it as a sound sample in something?

Thanks,

chris

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 4:08 PM, dasdasdva <dasdasdva@...> wrote:

> thanks for the listen and taking the time to comment Dave
> yeah,it's a pretty cool kind of hyped-up and as micro-as-you-wanna-be Morse
> code-like sound
> limited, yes. but really quite a useful color to have on the palette too
>
> --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com <MakeMicroMusic%40yahoogroups.com>,
> Dave Seidel <dave@...> wrote:
> >
> > That's a pretty cool sound!
> >
> > - Dave
> >
> > dasdasdva wrote:
> > >
>

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sure, anything you'd like chris
let me know if you use it though as i'd like to hear what became of it
--------->also, have piles of this and related materials, so if interested, contact me off-line and we'll talk collab/shop etc.
thanks for the listen,daniel
--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Chris Vaisvil <chrisvaisvil@...> wrote:
>
> I like it too - it sounds like crazy arps.
>
> Could I use it as a sound sample in something?
>
> Thanks,
>
> chris
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 4:08 PM, dasdasdva <dasdasdva@...> wrote:
>
> > thanks for the listen and taking the time to comment Dave
> > yeah,it's a pretty cool kind of hyped-up and as micro-as-you-wanna-be Morse
> > code-like sound
> > limited, yes. but really quite a useful color to have on the palette too
> >
> > --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com <MakeMicroMusic%40yahoogroups.com>,
> > Dave Seidel <dave@> wrote:
> > >
> > > That's a pretty cool sound!
> > >
> > > - Dave
> > >
> > > dasdasdva wrote:
> > > >
> >
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>