The Steel Guitar Forum

Greetings, So I pre-ordered the new Vox Night Train Head (15w/7.5w) and realized I know nothing about choosing proper cabinet. Hopefully I can get a bit of general education on the below options as well as recommendation(s). Lots of choices out there: inexpensive / moderate / and high price models.....

thanks for the suggestion Rich. b0b can indeed put together a set for me. I didn't know that was option available...

Now I can do all my strings as sets via b0b!

I'm giving a go with the Don Helms E6 tuning (and songbook from the b0b). I searched the forum and read some threads on this - my conclusion is to go with what Rick Alexander has on his site under "tunings." 12-15-18-22-24-30. This lap is 22.5 scale. So I went to JustStrings and didn't see...

In the "for what it's worth file" Top 10 highest-grossing tour of 2008 in North America: Madonna - $105 million Celine Dion - $94 million Eagles - $73.4 million Kenny Chesney - $72.2 million Bon Jovi - $70.4 million Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - $69.3 million Neil Diamond - $...

I get a lot of the differences between the two but... What you call "Old/Real/Classic (ORC) Country" - Did that start with Hank, Sr. or before that or after that? Then everything was going along fine until the New Country sound hit... So when did the shift to New Country happen? Was it aro...

I realize that you probably don't get "play Freebird" at country and swing shows, but there must be equivalent tunes in C&W. What always gets requested at your shows that you dread playing (tired/overplayed/etc) but play anyway to please the audience? "Hey, play __________________...

Edward, I enjoy your postings and hope you do produce those courses, I would be most interested. Maybe it's easier to choose a tuning if your a dedicated player of just one genre/style of music. If you like country, rock, and jazz then it's far too easy, at least for me, to become unfocused and into...

Mine: Basics at my level, of course. 1)I'm pleased with my pick blocking success, stuggling with palm blocking so I need to focus harder there. 2)Keep up theory lessons. Actually ended up having great success going to a piano teacher for theory. 3) Watch certain You-tub videos and DVD courses once a...

there is something way too addictive about tuning threads. Like rubbernecking on the road when someone is pulled over by the police or fresh brownies out of the oven. Just gotta check it out.... For noob players -myself in that camp, it's oh so easy to be swayed to change/abandon discipline of stick...

Hey welcome back Keith. Nice to hear from you again.

that I never caught the end of. Did you see it? It took place in the waiting room of some enormous recording studio. The were six benches and all of sudden legendary guitarist started appearing, Waiting room benches were filled as such: 1: Page, Clapton, Hendrix 2. Emmons, Byrd, Helms 3. Blind Willi...

Thanks Terry, I'm doing the same as you describe, perhaps with less successful results. It's frustrating for me when certain licks sound so accessible and then bam, can't fimd 'em anywhere on the fretboard. It feels like watching a young child with one of those Playskool stools - round peg into roun...

Hi guys, Thanks for this great suggestion in a previous post. However, for the life of me, I can't even get close to the slide parts. Maybe it's the tone that's throwing me off or I'm just an idiot, but either way I can't seem to get this one at all. Would you be willing to share tips or I'm most wi...

I guess I've never really understood "mids" to the extent I should. Now, playing just lap, I'm more into hearing every note: its tonal characteristics and how does it fit with the last note I played and the note I'm going to play next. So, mids. I read/hear about how a certain guitar's swe...

Thanks everyone - excellent suggestions! (and stuff I wouldn't have thought of...) It's tricky (for me) because I'm still working through the "you're not playing a regular electric guitar" phase so I'm finding out what works and what doesn't, song adaptation-wise, on my lap. Mark: both, bu...

Amazing what you can find doing searches on this forum... I just spend the good part of an hour reading "Did Hippies Hurt or Help American Music?: 15 pages of responses! Just beat out the "Ever play with Go-Go Girls" thread. Anyway, the hippie thread got me into 60's and 70s mindset: ...

Paul,

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Allen Melbert Steel Guitars

Thanks guys (extra thanks Brad)! 1) Sorry for the screwed up post. Couldn't tab and obviously using the space bar doesn't work. Guess consecutive periods would have been the ticket. 2) GET OUT! 3 and 4 + steps of tightening! Yikes - I didn't know that type tension could be done without mass explosio...

Hey Bill, Mike, Roy: Sometimes I get confused when trying to understand the up or down to get certain tunings and Leavitt is one of those: Would you please help me with this? Comparing regular guitar tuning to six string Leavitt: Regular Git Leavitt Tune String Gauge e d down/loosen 1 step ? B c up/...

Anyone that has played with this tuning please comment but I hope Roy, Mike, and Bill H give their input. What are limitation(s) or downside(s) to the Leavitt tuning? I've heard Mike's and Bill's and Roy's stuff and they are top of the game - I'd guess they could make barb wire over a stovepipe soun...

What do you recommend for tunings for showtunes (Irving Berlin / Cole Porter / Rogers-Hammerstein / etc)?

Not sure how to classify this music - jazz or big band or what so I went with "showtunes."

Leavitt tuning?

Thanks!

Bill,

Your playing is always so good, and interesting.

Why you don't have a CD out - I don't understand...I'd buy it in a heartbeat!

Would you go? For example(s): SE Region could be held outside Atlanta or Midwest outside Chicago (even Bloomington or Champaign) or Texas Region oustide Dallas, NE maybe an hour outside NYC, etc. Would you go if something were within "x" driving hours, or probably not. What would be your &...

George - thanks and nice work on that. Are you muting on those trills? (if so, would it it be your bar hand - index finger doing it?)

e.g. guitar, but I'm thinking more like a harmonica on a slow blues tune - response to a vocal "call" I don't know if there is certain bar/vibrato technique or other way to get that effect. Perhaps manipulate with a delay or other pedal as well? Anybody given it a go or maybe it just doesn...