The Steel Guitar Forum

Whelp, that was easy! Adjusting the poles did the trick, thanks for the help!

Hi all, been a minute since I posted, but I am now the proud owner of a National New Yorker Lap steel, listed as 1939 but I think it's a 1940. Anyhow, love playing it so far, but I have a strange issue: string 5 is much louder than the other strings, and string 1 is noticeably quieter. The other str...

LOVE hermanos Gutierez, just a great vibe on all their records.

I played fingerstyle guitar before steel, and i've just never used picks. Steinar is right that picks help projection a lot in acoustic situations, and i know from experience that if you show up to a bluegrass jam with a dobro and no finger picks, the old timers will give you a hard time :lol: But i...

i was looking around the Superior Weissenborn website and they linked to this video of a player named Fernando Perez playing one of their guitars. I know nothing about him, but he can play! http://mojorootsmusic.com/Hawaiian_Medley.mov

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love the steel guitar with the swing rhythm. Keep up the good work

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Last week I was given the opportunity to perform on Netmusic, a weekly radio show on UW-Madison's student run station WSUM. It was a great time, and I was able to get the audio and post it on the interweb for your listening pleasure. The set is about 50/50 acoustic lap steel and standard acoustic. I...

i like my beard capo, although it's the only one i've used. As for the bar, conventional wisdom is just to use what works best for you. I was told by many people that the Shubb SG bar was great, but when i tried it it just didn't feel right and i went right back to my lap dawg. If the bullet bar fee...

this isn't lap steel (although i'm sure some lap steel players have done it), but Duane Allman used to make bird-like sounds by playing quick slides above the fretboad with a bottleneck slide. Example: the very end (last few seconds) of Layla by Derick and the Dominoes. ------------------ my music: ...

i agree with Steinar about Rob A's site; i can't say enough good things about it.

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I love the gypsy jazz stuff, but have only played a teeny bit on lap steel. The whole theory of it is a bit over my head. How would one go about starting to play in that style on steel?

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Fantastic! I'm glad to see a good musician getting a good instrument. I like that second song especially. Keep up the good work and enjoy that guitar!

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Douglas is the best. Thanks for sharing this Steinar

as i said on my other post where i posted the same video http://steelguitarforum.com/redface.gif , i really like Kaki's music, and i love the lap steel stuff. I do agree that the loops can get old, but i don't think she drags it on too long, and she usually plays the majority of her shows on acousti...

wow, brad posted the same thing, ignore this!

Kaki King is a very unique musician, mostly known for her innovative acoustic playing, but in the past few years she's been adding more lap steel to her live shows. Here's a video of her playing the lap steel and working the looping station: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLnCNBfGvlM I love it; i'm ...

The other day i recorded a song i had written on dobro, called reluctantly rolling. My brother decided that the song should have something extra, so i overdubbed a bass part and a little percussion, and by brother added some crazyness in the form of an intro and outro. You can hear it by going to my...

Rob's site is great; tons of tabs with some great instruction, great interviews, and this comp section are all very valuble. His newest interview is with Rob Ickes!

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i wouldn't try to put the Martin in high bass G "dobro" tuning no matter what strings you put on it. The neck isn't made for high tunings like that and will likely warp. You can easily put on a pair of medium gague acoustic strings for low bass G (low to high DGDGBD) or open D. And you can...

Welcome to the forum and to a great instrument! A couple of famous players who play without picks are Ben Harper and Kelly Joe Phelps (two of my very favorites). Harper is a rock player, Phelps more folk/blues, but both get speed and a good sound without picks. Oh, and i play without them too http:/...

if you're talking about the Bruce Springstein "Seeger sessions" album, there isn't any steel on the record. He must have added that for the live gig. P.S. the dvd included with the disk is really interesting and worth the cost of the disk. ------------------ my music: www.myspace.com/mattl...

June 24th 8:00 PM
Dunn Bros- Freight House
201 3rd Ave. S Mpls
Minneapolis, MN 55408
free
Solo show, 2 short sets featuring some acoustic lap steel.

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I just wanted to remind everyone who's in the Minneapolis area that i'll be playing a show tomorrow, Saturday June 24th, at the Freight House Dunn Bros. in Downtown Minneapolis. June 24th 8:00 PM Dunn Bros- Freight House 201 3rd Ave. S Mpls Minneapolis, MN 55408 free I'll be playing two sets with pl...

I agree with Bill as far as what I would like to see personally, but I don't know how many of those video's they'd sell (but I could be wrong). I play primarily in open D, and the only instruction out there that I could find was the Kelly Joe Phelps DVD. I'd say you should try to fill a different ne...

Thanks for the kind words guys. Ben, thanks for your thoughts, i'll try to keep melody in mind a bit more when writing solo pieces. In response to your question, i'm playing on an old acoustic of mine played with an extender nut. The guitar is a Mitchel, which was the cheapest solid top guitar on sa...