{"id":608,"date":"2011-01-27T13:25:30","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T17:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikeneer.com\/lapsteelin\/?p=608"},"modified":"2023-10-20T23:19:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T03:19:49","slug":"buddy-emmons-gentle-on-my-mind-solo-transcription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"Buddy Emmons &#8220;Gentle On My Mind&#8221; solo transcription"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-0128288170403191\";\n\/* leaderboard (t &amp; i) *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1964260248\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 728;\ngoogle_ad_height = 90;\n\/\/--><br \/>\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\"><br \/>\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Someone on the Steel Guitar Forum posted a link to this great solo by Buddy Emmons on John Hartford&#8217;s &#8220;Gentle On My Mind.&#8221; I&#8217;d never heard it before, but it knocked me out, so I sat down with it and transcribed it before bed. Took me an hour or so&#8211;it&#8217;s mostly just eighth notes, which makes it a little easier.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it is a C6 pedal steel performance, but I transcribed it for C6 with a re-entrant D 1st string, which is what I believe is Buddy&#8217;s tuning, so it is D E C A G E C A F C (high to low). There is nothing played below the 8th string and I couldn&#8217;t detect any pedals, although they may be there, I just don&#8217;t know what they do. The few notes on the 1st string could easily be moved to the E string, so if you are playing C6 (E high) you can pull it off (a little harder, though).<\/p>\n<p>Here is the solo:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gentle.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gentle On My Mind solo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here is the transcription:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gentle1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2669\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gentle1-792x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"970\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gentle1-792x1024.jpeg 792w, http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gentle1-232x300.jpeg 232w, http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gentle1-768x993.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gentle1-1188x1536.jpeg 1188w, http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gentle1.jpeg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gentle2.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2668\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gentle2-792x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"970\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gentle2-792x1024.jpeg 792w, http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gentle2-232x300.jpeg 232w, http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gentle2-768x993.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gentle2-1188x1536.jpeg 1188w, http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gentle2.jpeg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-0128288170403191\";\n\/* leaderboard (t &amp; i) *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1964260248\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 728;\ngoogle_ad_height = 90;\n\/\/--><br \/>\n<\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gentle3.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2667\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gentle3-792x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"970\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gentle3-792x1024.jpeg 792w, http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gentle3-232x300.jpeg 232w, http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gentle3-768x993.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gentle3-1188x1536.jpeg 1188w, http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gentle3.jpeg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\"><br \/>\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone on the Steel Guitar Forum posted a link to this great solo by Buddy Emmons on John Hartford&#8217;s &#8220;Gentle On My Mind.&#8221; I&#8217;d never heard it before, but it knocked me out, so I sat down with it and transcribed it before bed. Took me an hour or so&#8211;it&#8217;s mostly just eighth notes, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2670,"href":"http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/2670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lapsteelin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}