The Steel Guitar Forum

Yeah, Jim and Jim! Looking forward to hanging with you both.

Jean-Sebastien, unfortunately I just heard that they won't be streaming any of the sessions this year.

Paul and Loren, sorry you won't be able to make it this time around.

Jim, I'm not sure about Jeremy, but I'm planning on bringing an 8 string steel. That said, the material will definitely be playable on any common 6 string tuning.

Hello non-pedalers (and all other forms of string players), Registration is still open for this year's Red Hot Strings Workshop in beautiful Port Townsend, WA (May 17-21, 2023). THE Jeremy Wakefield, who needs no introduction, will be teaching two classes on steel guitar and the amazing Dave Biller ...

Hello non-pedalers (and all other forms of string players), Registration is still open for this year's Red Hot Strings Workshop in beautiful Port Townsend, WA (May 17-21, 2023). THE Jeremy Wakefield, who needs no introduction, will be teaching two classes on steel guitar and the amazing Dave Biller ...

Thanks for sharing, Andy and for the kind words fellas! It was a real treat to be involved in a project with some of my favorite musicians out here on the west coast. And for anyone keeping score, I used my Clinesmith frypan for this one.

Please close. I've decided to gift it to my brother-in-law.

Open to reasonable, or even unreasonable, offers.

Selling my c. 2007 Wechter-Sheerhorn squareneck resonator. Maple-laminate model. Gig bag included. I'm the original owner. I never got very far with bluegrass, so sadly it's spent most of its life in the case. Time to find it a better home. There are two small dings on the left side of the guitar an...

Wow. Hopefully recordings of him playing steel turn up. I'd love to hear what he sounded like.

I'm so glad you can join, Peter. Looking forward to playing with you! Lloyd, hopefully the organizers will let you audit the classes at a later date. I'm hoping they'll let me watch Tyler's tenor banjo courses too. I recently picked up a Tubaphone Style M and really want to learn to play the thing. ...

It's not too late to sign up for the Red Hot Strings Workshop in Port Townsend, WA (May 25 -29, 2022). It's the brain-child of guitarist, Matt Munisteri, and is one of the few (only?) workshops dedicated to Hot Jazz instruction across the rich and diverse string traditions of guitar, banjo, mandolin...

Hi non-pedalers, It's not too late to sign up for the Red Hot Strings Workshop in Port Townsend, WA (May 25 -29, 2022). It's the brain-child of guitarist, Matt Munisteri, and is one of the few (only?) workshops dedicated to Hot Jazz instruction across the rich and diverse string traditions of guitar...

While I'm firm believer that playing and singing along with records, transcribing, and spending time on and off the bandstand with other (hopefully stronger) musicians is the way, I've learned a lot from David Berkman's books... https://www.davidberkman.com/books And if you enjoy it, studying as muc...

What a sound. Gorgeous playing, Bill.

This is such sad news. My sincere condolences to all his close friends on the forum. Rest in peace, Mike.

Unreal, Bill. In my next life, I'd like to learn this tuning.

Just downloaded my copy! You always have such a fresh and personal approach to music. I'm very much looking forward to listening to this, Mike. Congratulations on the album!

Hi all, I just received the final schedule from the organizers. Fortunately, all the workshops, panels, and staff performances will be recorded. So if you register, you can log on and access the footage through the end of the year. Here's a preview of some of the solos (Lester Young and Harry "...

Jules rules! I hadn't heard this one before. Thanks for hipping me to this, Nic.

Hi all, here's a preview of two solos I'll be covering next month for an online course on Joaquin Murphey and Noel Boggs for Centrum's Red Hot Strings Workshop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmH0EpIYDzs These are two of my all-time favorite solos by Murph and Boggs. And since they're playing over ...

Here's a preview of two solos I'll be covering next month for an online course on Joaquin Murphey and Noel Boggs for Centrum's Red Hot Strings Workshop that might interest some of you non-pedalers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmH0EpIYDzs These are two of my all-time favorite solos by Murph and B...

Thanks for sharing, Mike. I really enjoyed this. I love Chris Crocco's playing with George Garzone and it's cool to hear him with you.

Thanks for sharing, Andy! I might have to steal your outro. Sounds great on this tuning.

Just pre-ordered a copy. Amazing playing. Your solo is wonderfully coherent and I really enjoyed the contrast with the flute. By the way, who is that? Monster player with endless ideas.

For Valentine’s Day, I wanted to share with you all my arrangement of Carl Kress’, “Love Song”. https://youtu.be/r4xiK4Nzxp4 It was a fun challenge to try and adapt Kress’ 5ths tuning to a steel tuned mostly in 3rds. It forced me to jump around way more than I’m used to, but also opened ...