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Location: St. Louis Mo. | One of my favorite Ovation guitar moments caught on film was from a Doobie Brothers concert from the 1980's. Patrick Simmons and another guitar player picked up their Ovations and played" Slack Key sequeol rag" . What a beautiful song! I have never worked it out and of course I have searched the web for tab of it with no luck. I even found an early tab book from the studio album but it was written out wrong. Anyone out there no how to play this? I would love to learn this piece. If not,due yourself a favor and hunt down this concert. Thanks |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | Do you mean "Slat Key Soquel Rag"? |
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Location: St. Louis Mo. | Yes I do. I have seen the title written a few different ways . I know that Patrick Simmons said that the album has it mispelled. I have been searching for a while and I belive it is in open G. If you know anything about please let me know.
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | I'm no expert, but Hawaiin players had "Slack Key" tuning that had some good sounds, I suspect what you mention has some relationship to that. |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | Found one:
http://gemmbooks.com/c/search.pl?sid=361249930&key=57430&ss=BOOKS&disp_ad_format_mode=0&artist=DOOBIE+BROTHERS&title=STAMPEDE |
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Location: St. Louis Mo. | BruDev, Thanks for hunting,I'm afraid thats the same book I already have. It has the song in tab,but they have it in drop d tuning and capoed up the neck. I will have to dig it out and look at it again. I know that when the Doobies play it they don't use capos. Thanks again for helping out. |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | On some of their other songs they use double drop d tuning (both high and low e dropped), Patrick Simmons used it on "Black Water". Maybe that's the tuning. |
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Location: St. Louis Mo. | I will check it out. My guitar is due out of the shop this week.(Fingers crossed) I think I need to just buckle down and listen to the cd with some headphones and get busy. Thanks for all the tips everyone. |
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Location: NJ | I know when we play "Black Water" at gigs I fingerpick it in Double Drop-D (but bring your A string down to G and you're in Open G, so they're pretty similar). What album (forgive me, - "CD"!) is this song on? |
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Location: St. Louis Mo. | Cliff- The album is "Stampede" and I think G tuning is what I am going to try first.The song has two guitars at once and really is nice. Try and catch the old concert video. |
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Help with Doobie Bros. song