Pick Me Up On Your Way Down

Dave Birkett · Post by **Dave Birkett** » 29 Mar 2002 2:23 pm

Ricky, I love your tab to this tune on Rebel's page. Do you know who the player is? How did he manage the 1/2 step drop or raise in 1958? Have you tried tabbing the wonderful fills behind the two choruses? It almost sounds like a C6.
Thanks,
Dave

Ricky Davis · Post by **Ricky Davis** » 30 Mar 2002 3:19 am

Hey thanks Dave but I tabbed it wrong. That was Jimmy Day that played on that cut.
Back then; I tabbed it to where it was easier for a player(myself included) to play and just wasn't a stickler for tabbing exactly the way the player played it; mainly because many players do not play like that and might pass it by cause it was too difficult to sound right.
Jimmy Day did a slant and here is how it was really was played on that one part.
<pre>
3._____________________________
4._7___9___11__11~~~10__11~~~~7
5._7a__9a__10a_10a~~9a__10a~~~7a
6._7___9___9___9~~~~8___9~~~~~7
7._____________________________
</pre>
But thanks for the nice words anyway and one day I'll go back in and fix some of the tab that I did, that made it easier to play; and tab it the way these great steel players played it......"there's just a few like that"....Mainly Ralph Mooney(cause nobody playes his copedant); Lloyd Green(cause nobody can guess which strings he is playing and would never even imagine the ones he is really playing; Jimmy day&Weldon along with Lloyd.....didn't lower their 4th stirng and just behoves folks to play like that.......But all the tab plays fine.
Ricky

Dave Birkett · Post by **Dave Birkett** » 30 Mar 2002 9:10 am

Thanks, Ricky. You're a gentleman and a scholar, literally.

Don Walters · Post by **Don Walters** » 2 Apr 2002 6:32 pm

Hey, Ricky! I learned to do it like the following

<pre>
3._________7___7~~~~6___7______
4._7___9___7___7~~~~6___7____7_
5._7a__9a__7v__7v~~~6v__7v___7a
6._7___9_____________________7_
7._____________________________
</pre>

The "v" is my LKV which lowers string 5 a 1/2 tone. I don't get the "slide down" effect but the it's much easier for an amateur like me than the slant.[This message was edited by Don Walters on 02 April 2002 at 06:32 PM.]

Ricky Davis · Post by **Ricky Davis** » 3 Apr 2002 12:24 am

Cool Don; that is actually the way I played it when I had that lever on my Emmons. But now I play it the way Jimmy played it on the Bud...which is a slightly wider string spacing than most pedal steels and it is easier to slant.
I acually have several ways to play the same 9th chord; depending on which pedal steel I'm playing.....ah.....ha.
Ricky