What i really liked best about this book is that the arrangements, though simplified, are real arrangements. Mel bay don helms your cheatin heart steel guitar song bookonline audio. Confessions of hanks steel guitar player by don helms and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. The don helms book is worth spending a lot of time on. Helms started his days with hank playing a fender eightstring doubleneck steel guitar. Helms was a featured musician on over 100 hank williams recordings and provided the high, piercing signature steel guitar sound on more than 100 hank williams. Don was not ready to leave alabama for louisiana, but once hank tore the roof off the grand ole opry with lovesick blues in 1949, hank convinced don to join him in nashville and the two helped make country music history. Don helms, 81, who put the twang in the hank williams songbook. Don helms was a marvelous musician, a revered steel guitarist and his association with hank williams assures his place in country music history but this book does his memory no justice.
Don helms didnt play steel guitar on every hank williams recording but he played on a lot of them, including some of the best, such as cold, cold heart, i cant help it if im. Mel bay publications digital sheet music at sheet music plus. These ten tunes are among the most popular songs sung by hank williams. Don helms your cheatin heart steel guitar song book helms, don, scott, dewitt on. Don helms wrote don helms your cheatin heart steel guitar song book, which can be purchased at a lower price at. Jul 20, 20 i just bought the don helms steel guitar songbook and was about to restring one of the necks on my stringmaster to his tuning when i had an epiphany you guys probably already realize this im sure, but it was a light bulb moment for me. Aug 17, 2008 don helms, whose piercing, forceful steel guitar helped define the sound of nearly all of hank williamss hits, and who performed and recorded with a long list of other country greats, died. Dec 31, 2016 the solo book can be played on the 6 or 8 string guitar as don never used the 7th and 8th strings in this book. Don has tabbed out all of those hits and assembled them into one book.
Includes access to online audio containing every tune and backup for each. The sound of helms precise yet bluesy steel guitar on williams recordings helped usher in a honkytonk sound that would define country music for. Eth non pedal book online at best prices in india on. Print and download don helms your cheatin heart steel guitar song book sheet music. Buy don helms your cheatin heart steel guitar song book.
In 1950, he did a little horsetrading and ended up with the gibson console grande also an 8string double neck found on so many great hits of the 1950s. Don helms and hank williams enduring musical legacy. May 29, 2015 the solo book can be played on the 6 or 8 string guitar as don never used the 7th and 8th strings in this book. Don helms steel guitar song book for e nonpedal steel guitar. The sound of helms precise yet bluesy steel guitar on williams recordings helped usher in a honkytonk sound that would define country music for years to come, the country music hall of fame. I attended a johnny cash show back in 1955 and don played some hank williams songs in the middle of the show.
He learned this tuning from boots harris, another steel guitarist from southern alabama who played with curly williams. Accompanying audio includes every tune and backup for each. Mar 29, 2010 don helms your cheatin heart steel guitar song book by don helms, 9780786682157, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Once it is downloaded to your computer, doubleclick the file to open. Each steel guitar tuning is a unique tool as an extension of your personality, but the c6th tuning. Don helms your cheatin heart steel guitar song book book. Don helms your cheatin heart steel guitar song book ebook by. Don helms, whose piercing, forceful steel guitar helped define the sound of nearly all of hank williamss hits, and who performed and. Don helms your cheatin heart steel guitar song book. All of don helms fills and solos can be played at the same frets on e9th pedal steel by using the a pedal to emulate his 3rd string.
A highly influential steel guitarist, don helms was best known for his membership of hank williams band the drifting cowboys. Having played on the original hank williams recordings, don helms clearly knew his stuff. Music notes for ebook and online audio sheet music by don helms. Donald don hugh helmsfebruary 28, 1927 august 11, 2008 was a steel guitarist best known as the steel guitar player of hank williams drifting cowboys. If you want to get the hows and whys of c6 just get the mel bay c6th book, work all the way through it, then get the others. Don helms your cheatin heart eth non pedal steel guitar tab. Helms was a featured musician on over 100 hank williams recordings and provided the high, piercing signature steel guitar sound on more than. Mar 29, 2010 the only way to play that don helms sound is to play it with his tuning, on a gibson console grand steel guitar with the correct notation from this book, the book gives you tuition on some of the great hank williams songs as don would play them, so if you are thinking of learning the steel guitar and want the don helms sound this is the book to. The solo book can be played on the 6 or 8 string guitar as don never used the 7th and 8th strings in this book. Don helms steel guitar song book e nonpedal mel bay wcd. Don helms your cheatin heart steel guitar song book by. Your cheatin heart steel guitar song book by don helms. Don helms your cheatin heart steel guitar song book ebook.
Helms actually used an e tuning, which adds the 7th d and the th c. Don played on all hank williams recordings from 1950 on that includes hey, good lookin. Your cheatin heart steel guitar song book by don helms if youre like me, youve spent many hours listening to don helms solos on hank williams records, trying to get them just right. The online audio download was recorded by don helms. Read don helms your cheatin heart steel guitar song book. Read don helms your cheatin heart steel guitar song book by dewitt scott available from rakuten kobo. This is good news for pedal steel players, as both of those notes are on the same string in e9th tuning with the a pedal.
Don helms your cheatin heart steel guitar song book don. If youre like me, youve spent many hours listening to don helms solos on hank williams records, trying to get them just right. Don helms don helms it was the beginning of a new era in. The long awaited songbook of one of the most popular players of all time. This tuning is a good one for learning don helms lap steel melodies from old hank williams records, although helms used a lap steel with legs a console steel, with two necks having eight strings each. Feb 25, 2015 provided to youtube by the orchard enterprises your cheatin heart don helms steel guitar all time favorites of the country stars. His distinctive style, with its blues inflections and characteristic. Ive been playing steel ever since that time and i actually got to talk to don about it. Don helms, 81, who put the twang in the hank williams.