moonshine" Ralph Mooney

Tele · Post by **Tele** » 15 Jan 2001 10:53 am

Hi

anyone has that one tabbed out? I'd like to have a guide at least for the intro and 1st verse. This is my favourite steel instro but I never nailed it down. Probably never will...

must have something to do with that special Mooney tuning and pedal setup.
Any help would be highly appreciated

Andy

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Jeff Lampert · Post by **Jeff Lampert** » 15 Jan 2001 11:58 am

Tele,
Send a .mp3 e-mail attachment and I'll give it a listen.

Tele · Post by **Tele** » 15 Jan 2001 12:31 pm

on its way....

Larry Bell · Post by **Larry Bell** » 15 Jan 2001 12:40 pm

As I recall, this tune (and the Mooney style, in general) was the subject of a multi-part series of articles Jeff Newman wrote in the late 70s (?) for the PSGA Newsletter. I can't seem to find my archive of newsletters, but maybe someone else is more organized.

LTB

Tele · Post by **Tele** » 16 Jan 2001 12:12 am

TRAP TRULY · Post by **TRAP TRULY** » 16 Jan 2001 11:15 am

andy,
the whole thing is written out in an old steel guitarist magizine ,issue #5 with ralph on the cover.According to bob grossman who tabbed it,his tuning lacked the top f# and d# strings when he composed it in the 50s,so he tabbed it using an 11 string guitar.This issue is available from tom bradshaw at pedal steel guitar products. Email-bradshaw@california.com phone-925-686-0196

Tele · Post by **Tele** » 22 Jan 2001 2:08 pm

bump

Chris Dufrane · Post by **Chris Dufrane** » 22 Jan 2001 5:46 pm

Tele, sorry I don't have the tab. I think if you play the song really slow on a program like goldwave and you can really hear the changes. When I tried it the strings and their changes really came into focus, but I haven't actually tried to play it yet. I hope this helps.

Chris Dufrane[This message was edited by Chris Dufrane on 22 January 2001 at 05:49 PM.]

Tele · Post by **Tele** » 23 Jan 2001 2:16 am

Chris,

found it and you're right, it's a bit clearer. But still not that easy for me

thanks
Andy

Jeff Lampert · Post by **Jeff Lampert** » 24 Jan 2001 7:00 pm

Andy,
Here's the intro to the piece. Key of A. "^" = pull-off (hop the bar off the fret.} It's not much, but it's all I can do for now. Anyone else is welcome to try some of it. It sounds quite hard and would be a feather in someone's cap to figure it out, I think.

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[This message was edited by Jeff Lampert on 24 January 2001 at 07:03 PM.]

Tele · Post by **Tele** » 24 Jan 2001 11:31 pm

Hi Jeff,

great, thanks so far.
Another forumite has copied the tab and it to me yesterday. This thing is really complicated...even with the tab it will take a long, long time.
Thanks for all your help fellas !!!!

Andy