At the risk of offending a real pedal steel player, the track I MIDIed some pedal steel notes into is here:
http://bordogni.info/2013/08/volume-1-14/ Please don't shoot me for insulting all the real P.S. players out there. I was just having a little fun. But I'd appreciate any comments from a real player as to whether you think this is anywhere close to what a real player might do.
To me, it sounds OK. To a real player it probably sounds cartoonish.
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On edit, let me provide some background. The concept behind that website is to take these famous practice etudes, composed 150 years ago, and set them to accompaniments in a variety of styles to make them more fun to practice. As soon as I played the melody for that particular one, I knew it had to be country. A trombonist colleague of mine wrote today
Knowing that I'm allergic to country music, I took a chance, thinking it might be a joke, and clicked on it. O My God! that is Awfull!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now I've got to wash my ears out with some Charlie Parker.
I'm not sure if that means I was completely successful or if I failed. But I am glad I was able to irritate him a little. And for the record, I don't change a single note that Bordogni wrote, so I'd like to think that if he were alive today, he'd be happy to be jamming with a great country band with real pedal steel players and everything. :)
Back in the day, I did a bit of recording for local bands, adding horn sections to their tunes. There was one guy, and I can't recall his name now, who was an amazing P.S. player. I loved to just watch him. That can be such a creative instrument. Sometimes he would do French Horn pads with his P.S. and I swear I couldn't tell them from the real thing.