The Steel Guitar Forum

Tim if you get that one done send me a copy please. Thanks.

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I think this will be wonderful. Buddy is a master just like JOhn Hughy and Hal Rug was why? not play what they want to polay. I have played Zum since 1981. With my third guitar was a beginner then in 1992 I went to a 12 string Universal Zum. Cause of the price and it easier to carry. Then in 2001 I ...

If i was you I"d go for it. I played at a show here in Missouri for three years and the main instruments where Banjo and Steel We did country and blue grass. Blue grass is a hard music to play on the steel. But I loved it.And so did the boss. I always played bluegrass on the steel cause i loved...

I still think the Nashville Number system no matter what it is called. Is the best and fastest system to learn licks and and lead ins and leads. Cause it at least gives us a clue of what every one in the band is doing. ANd it does give the producers some kind of idea what they got to work with. Caus...

Yea it is anywhere from 12 to 18 months. It depends a lot on his schedule. I am not talking for Bruce either, but you never know when He might have a cancelation on a steel when he does it just moves the orders up and he gets it to you quicker. but believe me yes The wait is well worth it. Once you ...

I have always used a soft touch on the slow ballads and i have also learned to fast pick at a soft touch. But one time in St Louis at the steel convention. I seen Bruce Bouton there doing a photo shoot. He was playing some of that fast blue grass stuff on a Emmons guitar back then. The way he was pi...

In this thing tony you realy got it right on this one. I think that fast pickers break strings more than slow pickers do. I am a soft picker for some reason i have learned to speed pick and not hammer the strings yet I need to learn how to do that. I keep Zum steel strings on my guitars both of them...

I don't know what it is but i think you do bond with a certain steel guitar. I have played Zum steel all the way since about 1983. My first being a stage one that I sent back and had Bruce put a fourth knee lever on. Then I went to a 12 string universal and played it since 1992, I still have that gu...

I have a Zum Universal that is 18 years old and a Double 10 Zum that is 6 years old and they play as good as if they where new. If not I guarantee Bruce will work on them and fix them as good as they was. Zumsteel is the best guitar i Have played, and the pros play them too. If not it wouldn't take ...

People there is a lot more in this Diminish playing in that to me. this is a world of its own. WHen i fall into a chromatic run on the C6th I have found if you take a diminish7th using the 5+6 plus the Knee lever that raises the A to Bb. starting at the 8th string you can constantly use chromatics m...

I like to use the X lever in a lot of ways. Besides using it as a ninth chord two frets back. by using the combination of strings 1 ,2 and 5 at the first fret you are playing a C chord. Then when you hit the X knee lever that gives you a Eminor or a Cmajor 7th chord then coming on down you can use s...

Thanks for the replies for this i have a few good ideas now of what to try. But there is already to many pills i have to buy do to the cancer. I told my oncologyst about the problem but he said i will just have to try and build the muscles back on my own. SO i am going to try the quinine I never new...

I been fighting cancer and I had a stroke about two years ago. But I have still been playing my steel at home. Either between the stroke or playing my steel to much. My left hand after a while is starting to lock up on me. My Thumb curls under like I am holding my bar and wont cramp out of that posi...

I use both necks on my guitar a lot, The one above realy said right when he said remember the C6th is not only used for western swing. Once you get use to the standard tuning and learn the chords on there. Like friend of mine said the C6th almost plays itself so good luck http://steelguitarforum.com...

I don't no if it is still available but about 81 when i was first changing over to pedal steel from Guitar. Paul franklin , I believe it was had a tape course out on just the C pedal. I don't realy get where people say they use the A+B combination more than the B+C combination. Almost every course o...

At a show last night here in Missouri I seen a great Banjo Player play that old traditional song Sleigh Ride. I would like to try that one on steel I was wondering if anyone could post the chords on here on the forum. Or could someone post the tab to the song if they have it. I would sure appreciate...

I think Mickey D is write. If it is written in Jimmey Crawfords style of tablutare. The book has a picture of Ken Albert sitting at his steel on about the 2nd or 3rd page of the book. That is one of the few books i have found on the C6th neck that explains all the Scales on it and not as much Chord ...

I'd say i would practice on my right hand and bar control. I would work a lot on blocking fast licks. You can learn a lot of fast licks in no time by practicing with the right hand and bar movement.

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Gene my opinion is just like yours there is so many ways you can do things that sound exactly the same that people don't relize how wonderful sites are like this to help people learn to do things in different ways.That is why there is so many steel conventions to. What i mean is that I played the st...

There is so much i do with these diminish chords that I just like to have fun with them. But the trick is to know When to return to the normal playing. I call the dim chords the in- between chords cause i experiment so much with them that i put them inbetween everything i want to add a lot of spice ...

When i was young it was my desire to be like people that where my heros.But When i started i new i could never be a Paul Franklin or a Tom Brumley. But I tried my best to do there licks the things they did on records. But I guess since i have turned 52 this year I learned I could never pick just lik...

People I have had a Zum Universal since 1991 and i quite counting the jobs after about 200 and that guitar still is my main practice guitar and it almost never falls out of tune. I also got a Double 10 that i play out when i can play out now due to my cancer but i think i can safely say i have play ...

To me there isn't much difference between country/rock licks and Country licks. I guess you could say the only difference is that the C/R licks have more use of the blues notes in them and also make a little more use of the chromatic runs. On pedal steel to get them C/R licks you have a bit more bar...

I never realy understand why people try to identify people by there tone. Just like Gary Morris picked a lot on George Straits albums not seeing the album to me that sounds like Buddy Emmons then i hear gary Morris on the new song of Dirks Bentlys hey that is ralph Mooney. But no that is Gary Morris...

On my Zum steels i go to the local Westlakes and get a siliconic oil called Tri-Flo. That was what Bruce Zumsteg of Zumsteel recomended for his steels. I ahve used the same kind of oil on my Zums since 1990 and I haven't had any trouble with my steels oiling them about once twice a year. -----------...