The Steel Guitar Forum

I would like to get a black one and a white one, standard size 7/8 bar. I will be in Dallas on Saturday and will stop by!

I am brand new, and don't even have my guitar yet. But I am going on Friday to take in the beginner E9 session and spend the day meeting folks and getting to know who they are. Right now the only person I might recognize on sight is Derek Puckett, who is building my awesome guitar. Gotta start somew...

Pete, thanks for that link! I saved the charts for E9 to disk, then uploaded the 24" x 36" one to Office Max for printing. Tomorrow I will have a laminated foam-backed poster to put nearby while I learn. It came out to $85 with tax but worth it for the time it will save me later. I also ch...

Thanks guys! Like Ryan, I too am in the process of getting an initial accessories kit together. So far I have a Dunlop 7/8 bar, several thumb picks and a decent set of finger picks, a spare set of strings, a Walker seat, a couple of cables and tuners (but not the Peterson Strobo with sweetened tunin...

I am only writing here because I am also new to pedal steel. I have one coming soon. Since I have only played 6-string electric guitar and sometimes bass guitar, I have no expertise whatsoever, but I wonder whether, in the beginning, one can control volume somewhat simply with pick dynamics? Pick li...

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I don't know how many times I played his "Wired" album when I was a teen trying to learn guitar. Well, I am still learning so maybe I will play it some more. Beck was truly unique in style.

Thinking back to my earliest memories of hearing the steel guitar... I would guess that about up till 7th grade, I did not really pay much attention to individual instruments, just the whole song. But then I got an 8-track player and two tapes. I played them each night till I fell asleep. One of the...

I got my new TM Twin a few weeks ago. I like it just fine. As I said in my review on Sweetwater's website, this Twin does what a Twin is known to do, and it does sound like a typical Twin (fat, meaty tone) although it may not sound exactly like anyone's particular Twin. There have been many variatio...

That makes me even more happy to be getting the Clay Alden!! Thanks for the info, I was not aware of that difference!

Tim, glad to help out! FYI, I have heard somewhere that Clay Alden pickups will be used in the new Emmons ReSound65 line. The Emmons website does not say who is making their pickups but they do say they will be wound to 15K ohms, like many of the old Emmons and Sho-buds were. Also, I noticed that MS...

Also look here: https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=376722&highlight=clay+alden I am getting a Clay Alden single coil in my new guitar. He is regarded as top notch maker of single coil pickups and will wind one to whatever ohms you specify. The link goes to a post from Derek Puckett,...

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I prefer manual-shift cars. I also ride motorcycles, and since I got a motorcycle well before getting a car, I took shifting gears for granted. I can switch back and forth from one (motorcycle) to the other (manual-shift car) without thinking about anything other than where I want to go, even though...

Great News: Steve Palousek may have some time to fit me in once I get my guitar. That would be just awesome if he can swing it. I don't know what his schedule might look like 6-8 months out; Donna says he stays pretty busy but may be able to take me on. Internet will not work for me; my internet her...

Ken, do you find enough use for your Franklin pedal to justify having it? I ordered my guitar with the pedal but since I don't play yet and you have this pedal, I am taking this opportunity to ask.

My guitar will have that pedal. I am getting an Emmons setup so I guess it will be adjacent to the A pedal? I will ask Derek, as he is the one building my guitar. I just wondered whether there was some overall preference for where to put it.

Is the Franklin pedal normally used as a "zero" pedal or is it used as a p4? If either one, which do players generally prefer?

I am also a new player with no PSG yet. I just ordered a Rittenberry 4x4, thinking along the lines of not having to upgrade it later. If I never have another PSG, this one will take me just as far as my talent will allow me to go. One and done. Plus, I know that the mechanics of playing a pro-level ...

Dave, thanks! I would consider myself an autodidact. I am good at finding what I need when I need it. I think the thing I need more than anything else is an understanding of music theory, at least the basics. I have a couple books on that topic, and while waiting for my steel guitar to be built I pl...

George, thanks! I will try to do that! Hopefully I will get to know some of them. I do need to start building my social network of musicians of all types. I did this in my younger years - so I just need to do it again. And since I am retired, it will be easier to do as my time is my own now.

Tom, Joe Wright is amazing! And he plays the exact way Newman says NOT to play!! So, what works for Newman is clearly not what works for Wright. So once I get my steel, I will try both ways and see which feels comfortable and natural for me. I bookmarked the "32 Moves" site so I can do tho...

Tomas, I totally agree that being a skilled player does not confer teaching ability. Teaching is its own skill set and is not easily mastered. It is an art form itself, with its own rules and structures, and is a separate thing entirely from playing.

The past couple days I have been bookmarking the Steel Picking channel. And Troy Brenningmeyer's videos. But only the ones Troy does for pedal steel. I like his charts and I think those will help out a great deal for knowing where all the chords are. There are so many good channels. I am just gettin...

Thanks guys! I searched around youtube and found some popular instruction videos and I think I can say I must have seen at least a half dozen practice techniques to drill on just with the open strings like chord inversions (which I think means string groupings on the same chord?), pick blocking, str...