The Steel Guitar Forum

technique is the core of everything you play, nothing is more important. Some things are just as important such as ear training and the ability to transfer what you hear or imagine to what you play. Good taste and a sense of humor are also essential...

I resisted it for a while too but you'll get a clearer note with picks. I'm working my way through Jeff Newman's "Right Hand Alpha" video and it's really helping me adjust.

let me say that Adam's statement would be, at the very least, controversial. Agreed. I'll revise to say that having spent about 20 minutes with a AxeFX and owning an HD500, Eleven and several plug-ins it is my personal opinion that the Pod HD series sounds best. This is of course a subjective measu...

I just picked up the Line6 POD HD500 and I love it. The amp models are a vast improvement over the X3 or anything else out there (AxeFX, Eleven, etc.) I've been experimenting with modelers and laptops onstage for almost a decade and this is far and away the best sounding unit yet. It's the first tim...

I didn't answer the poll because there wasn't a third option: Don't have the chops or knowledge to hang with you guys, but would love to come out as a spectator!

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How do you get to Carnegie Hall, or perhaps the Grand Ole Opry? The great Cellist Pablo Cassals once remarked that in his old age he was still playing the same exercises he learned as a boy. I studied for several years with the sarodist Ali Akbar Khan and his message was the same, that practice and ...

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Thanks for all the advice everyone. I'll start checking all that stuff out.

howdy, I've been playing steel off and on for a few years but I'm trying to finally get serious about it. My music collection doesn't have much steel in it and what I do have seems pretty inaccessible for a beginner. I was hoping people could recommend some of "Pedal Steel's Greatest Hits"...